Just how far will home prices drop? Well, back when J.P. Morgan Chase swallowed up the collapsing Washington Mutual bank, they needed to figure that out. Here are their projections from September 2008: Under their worst case scenario , unemployment would hit 8 percent, and home prices nationwide would decline by 37 percent from the

We’re never going to have an atheist president, are we?Besides the one we have now, I mean. OH YES.The Freedom From Religion Foundation, a Wisconsin-based church-state watchdog group, claimed the engravings are unconstitutional and would exclude the 15% of Americans who identify themselves as non-religious…Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C

If you thought Harry Alford had decided to forgive and forget the treatment he received from Barbara Boxer, think again.  The chairman of the National Black Chamber of Commerce told John Ziegler on his KGIL radio show that the Senator treated him like “some ignorant jigaboo up there,” and flat-out called her a racist

The sentence I never thought I’d write: Republican chieftains have a fee-vah and the only prescription is more Sarahcuda!A solid majority of Democratic Insiders said Palin would be more of a liability [59/38], while a smaller majority of Republicans [53/42] thought she would be an asset.The GOP responses were probably the most intriguing because

By way of acknowledging that some folks might prefer some reasonable alternative to shouting neener neener neener you're teh stupit from the safety of their blogs - that there might be some who prefer a reasonable reflection on events of the day @2003 - I offer this option as a good start: We are awash in how-to manuals on stability

Some days I understand why Tom Lehrer gave up on political satire.  It’s impossible to satirize politicians as effectively as they do themselves.  Politico reports that Larry Summers, the chair of Barack Obama’s economic council, has a rather peculiar metric to measure the administration’s success on economic policy:

Okay - let's have a contest : who did the best job of predicting how many dead Americans would result from the Iraq war? Got no dog in the hunt myself, I tend to see war as unpredictable, understood the concept of "long war", wasn't blogging at the time, and knew that I (and friends of mine) - whether the answer was 10, 100,

The rotten American Conservative Union/David Keene pay-for-play scandal underscores a point I’ve made over and over and over again:The GOP can’t attack the Democrat culture of corruption (my new book comes out July 27) until it cleans its own house first.The John Ensign mess keeps getting worse.Stubborn, selfish,

The Senate has forced out the most controversial of the provisions in the Employee Free Choice Act as a means of finding enough votes to avoid a filibuster.   Moderate Democrats insisted on removing language in The Bill Formerly Known As Card Check that allowed unions to avoid a secret-ballot election in organizing efforts from the EFCA before it