The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live from 7-8 Easter. As usual, Dave Schuler will co-host. We’ll be joined by Right Wing Nut House‘s Rick Moran to talk about his recent article, “If Reagan Tolerated GOP Moderates, Why Can’t Today’s Conservatives?” and the news of the week, including [...]

Our special Thursday edition of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live from 7-8 Easter. As usual, Dave Schuler will co-host.  Steve Verdon will do his best to join us.  The Chrysler bankruptcy, swine flu, and probably some other topics will be discussed. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls [...]

Owing to scheduling conflicts, the next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live from 7-8 Eastern THURSDAY instead of the customary Wednesday. As usual, Dave Schuler will co-host.  We have yet to book a guest, so topics are flexible. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. As usual, Dave Schuler will co-host. We’ll be joined tonight by Bernard Finel, a senior fellow at the American Security Project and blogger at his eponymous site and elsewhere. We’ll talk about the torture memos, Russia’s Near [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. As usual, Dave Schuler will co-host.  We’ll be joined tonight by Raymond Pritchett, who blogs under the pseudonym Galrahn at Information Dissemination and the United States Naval Institute Blog.  We’ll talk about the Somali pirates, the state [...]

There’ve been a number of blog posts over the last couple days accusing President Obama of fecklessness, cowardice, and being out-toughed by the French with regard to his handling of the Somali pirate situation. Fairness compels me to point out that the current spate of piracy in the Gulf of Aden and East Africa began [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will join me to talk about the news of the week. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. You can play the show, subscribe to its feed, or share it [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and (maybe) Steve Verdon will join me to talk about Obama’s ultimatum to the auto companies, the G20 summit, and various other issues. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. [...]

“Capitalism isn’t about having the biggest bottom line for the current quarter.  Capitalism is about individuals busting their asses to maximize value for shareholders.  Sometimes you have to look at the bigger picture in order to reap the biggest returns. Not all rewards are short term.” – Mark Cuban That’s the bottom line of a [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and Steve Verdon will join me to talk about the Geithner Plan, the AIG bonus brouhaha, the ongoing financial mess and various other issues. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) [...]

Steven Taylor makes a point I made on Wednesday’s edition of OTB Radio (“AIG Bonus Brouhaha“) about why seemingly minor matters resonate with the public while major issues often don’t. [W]hile broad and complicated policy may not fully register in the minds of the public, a smaller, specific and easier to understand action can capture [...]

Conor Clarke agrees with me that taxing AIG bonuses amounts to an unconstitutional bill of attainder (although I think non-criminal legislation doesn’t technically qualify).   Clarke takes the additional step of interviewing Laurence Tribe, one of the country’s foremost legal minds, on the subject and gets the preliminary answer that, “It would not be terribly difficult [...]

A few weeks ago on OTB Radio, Dave Schuler predicted that Timothy Geithner would be out as Treasury Secretary by the end of the year.  At the rate he’s going, he might not last to summer. It’s bad enough his every public appearance causes the Dow to plummet.  Now, he’s been openly contradicted by his [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will join me to talk about the AIG bonus brouhaha, the ongoing financial mess, the meaning of words, and various other issues. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. You [...]

H. Rodgin Cohen, “the leading candidate for Deputy Treasury Secretary, has withdrawn from consideration,” George Stephanoupoulous reports.  He adds, “Cohen had risen to the top after the withdrawal last week of expected deputy treasury secretary pick Annette Nazareth.” Something’s wrong with this picture. To be sure, Cohen wasn’t technically an appointee.   Still, as Glenn Reynolds [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and Steve Verdon will join me to talk about President Obama’s difficulties with political appointments, the ongoing financial mess, and various other issues. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will join me to talk about the revolt of the Obamacons, the drop in the Dow, and the fact that the global financial crisis is, well, global. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your [...]

Taegan Goddard passes on a Bloomberg report that President Obama has thus far brought eleven Harvard professors to join his administration, “the most since the Kennedy White House.”  This isn’t surprising, really.  Obama’s a technocrat and enlisting top level college professors, who must be “the best and the brightest,” is natural. The problem, as Dave [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will co-host and Steve Verdon will try to join us to talk about the the stimulus, auto bailouts, and related issues.  We’ll also toss in some domestic politics, like the Roland Burris mess, and foreign [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will co-host and we’ll be joined by our special guest Tufts University political scientist and ForeignPolicy.com blogger Dan Drezner to talk about the financial crisis, the stimulus, and related issues. Please join us. We’ll also [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and Steve Verdon will join me to talk about the Obama adminstration’s attempt to put its stamp on American foreign policy (Gitmo, renditions, Afghanistan, al-Arabiya), the continuing worsening of the U.S. economy (corporate layoffs), and [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will join me  on the first full day of the Obama presidency to discuss the changing of the guard in Washington as well as developments in Afghanistan and information security that went largely unnoticed in [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will join me to discuss the strangeness that is presidential inaugural season, the consumer model for higher education, and the stimulus package that didn’t stimulate. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at [...]

George Will has a column in today’s WaPo, “Making Congress Moot,” making a point that I’ve been making about the Bush administration’s dubious use of TARP funds to bail out the auto companies. Congress’s marginalization was brutally underscored when, after lawmakers did not authorize $14 billion for General Motors and Chrysler, the executive branch said, [...]

It’s safe to say that the arrest of Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich on corruption charges is inconvenient for President-Elect Barack Obama.  NYT yesterday ran a longish piece headlined “Scandal is an Early Test for Obama Team.” Exactly what role he or his team played will be a focus of intense scrutiny in the weeks to [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and (maybe) Alex Knapp will join me to discuss the Rod Blagojevich scandal, the fallout from the Mumbai terrorist attacks, and whatever other topics we meander into. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and Steve Verdon will join me to discuss Barack Obama’s cabinet choices, the continuing economic meltdown, and whatever other topics we meander into. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. [...]

Aside from the issue of the wisdom of appointing Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, which I’ve discussed previously, there’s also the issue of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which states, “No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the [...]

Kathleen Parker is getting quite a response to her WaPo piece “Giving Up on God.” As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit. Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D. I’m bathing in holy water as I type. To be more specific, the [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and I will discuss the election results, do our post-mortem, and otherwise ramble on about the campaign that was. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. You can play the [...]

A new poll claims that a whopping 14 percent of likely voters think they may still change their minds in the five days remaining before the election. One in seven, or 14 percent, can’t decide or back a candidate but might switch, according to an Associated Press-Yahoo! News poll of likely voters released Friday. Who [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. I’ll be joined tonight by Dave Schuler and Alex Knapp will join me as we make our election predictions and otherwise ramble on about the election and whatever else comes up. Please join us. We’ll also be [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be my co-host and we’ll be joined tonight by the lovely and talented Megan McArdle. We’ll talk about tonight’s debate, the campaign in general, the continuing fallout in the financial sector, and related matters. [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and Alex Knapp will join me tonight to talk about the debates, the campaign in general, the continuing fallout in the financial sector, and related matters. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls [...]

Sarah Palin went from being almost completely unknown outside of her home state of Alaska to wildly popular hockey mom to national laughingstock in less than a month. Tonight, all eyes will be on her in what is sure to be the most watched vice presidential debate in history. A new ABC-Washington Post poll, featured [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will co-host with me tonight. We’ll have as our special guest Megan McArdle, the world’s tallest female econoblogger. We’ll be talking, again, about the mess in the financial markets, the various bailout plans, the presidential [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will co-host with me tonight. We’ll have as our special guest Stephen Bainbridge, a UCLA business law professor, expert on corporate governance, and proprietor of the Professor Bainbridge Punditry blog. Steve Verdon also hopes to [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be hosting tonight in my absence.  Joining him will be The Moderate Voice‘s Jazz Shaw.  They haven’t told me what they’re talking about but I’d be surprised if the mess in the financial markets [...]

The Obama campaign launched a new ad yesterday, “Still,” which mocks John McCain for being out of touch because, among other things, he “doesn’t know how to use a computer” and “can’t send an email.” The Charge: McCain Computer Illiterate The key ‘graph in its entirety: Things have changed in the last 26 years, but [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be joining me tonight to talk about the presidential campaign, foreign policy, and goodness knows what else. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. You can play the show, [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be joining me tonight, along with special guest Bill Dyer of BeldarBlog, to talk about Sarah Palin, the Republican Convention, and maybe some other stuff. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and (tentatively) Steve Verdon will be joining me tonight to discuss the Democratic convention, the campaign in general, and whatever tangents we wander off into. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be joining me tonight, perhaps along with Alex Knapp,  to talk about the crisis in Georgia, the veepstakes, and the presidential race as it stands heading into the conventions. Please join us. We’ll also [...]

John McCain is taking advantage of Barack Obama’s “foreign vacation” in Hawaii and using the crisis in Georgia to showcase his foreign policy prowess. He’s dispatched his minions, Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, to Georgia.  TPM’s Greg Sargent figures, The idea is to showcase himself as a man of action during a time of international [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be joining me tonight to talk about the crisis in Georgia and, time permitting, other topics in the news. Please join us. We’ll also be taking your calls at (646) 716-7030. You can play [...]

Israel is taking steps to prepare for a military strike against Iran, Steve Gutkin reports for the AP. Israel is building up its strike capabilities amid growing anxiety over Iran’s nuclear ambitions and appears confident that a military attack would cripple Tehran’s atomic program, even if it can’t destroy it. Such talk could be more [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be joining me tonight to talk about recent events in the news.  Domestic policy, foreign policy, and non-policy issues are fair game. Likely topics: The Hamdan verdict Joey Cheeks’ visa woes. There’s an election [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler, Dodd Harris, and (tentatively) Alex Knapp will be joining me tonight to talk about recent events in the news.   Likely topics: Obama’s overseas trip The Couric interviews with Obama and McCain Is the Surge working?  [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler will be joining me tonight to talk about recent events in the news.  Possible topics include: The New Yorker cover flap McCain and Obama’s evolving Iraq and Afghanistan plans Freddie and Fannie bailout Alternative energy [...]

The next episode of OTB Radio, our BlogTalkRadio program, will record and air live tonight from 7-8 Eastern. Dave Schuler and Alex Knapp will be joining me tonight to talk about recent events in the news.  Possible topics include: Should Americans learn other languages? McCain’s odd sense of humor Is forced voluntarism slavery or just [...]