Friday, March 16, 2012
Bank of America: Too Crooked to Fail | Politics News | Rolling Stone - Matt Taibbi - At least Bank of America got its name right. The ultimate Too Big to Fail bank really is America, a hypergluttonous ward of the state whose limitless fraud and criminal conspiracies we'll all be paying for until the end of time. Did you hear about the plot to rig global interest rates? The $137 million fine for bilking needy schools and cities? The ingenious plan to suck multiple fees out of the unemployment checks of jobless workers?
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Divided on the Right - NYTimes.com - Editorial - Just a few weeks ago, it seemed implausible that the Republican nomination fight would not be resolved by the August convention. But Rick Santorum’s primary victories in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday make that a real, if still distant, possibility. If the convention becomes as disorderly as the primaries, it will reflect a party consumed by anger and frustration, led around by its most extreme base, and lacking any sense of forward direction.
America’s Biggest Marijuana Ring: Black Tuna Tells All - The Daily Beast - Robert Platshorn got 64 years as America’s biggest weed smuggler. Now he says the case was mostly hype—and, in exclusive interviews, the government agrees. Tony Dokoupil reports.
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