Margaret Carlson is either lazy or a liar. On CNN's "Capitol Gang" the Time magazine columnist made the outrageous claim that, though Enron did not get bailed out, they got everything they wanted up to that point. A few minutes later Robert Novak corrected her. If you missed it, I already went through what Enron […]
An article in today's Washington Post says that Secretary of State Colin Powell is urging the president to classify the captured Taliban and al Qaeda prisoners as "prisoners of war." The al Qaeda and Taliban fighters that are being held in Afghanistan and Camp X-Ray are currently classified (accurately) as "unlawful combatants." They earned this […]
Degrading the language: On Foxnews this morning, a former Enron employee/investor claimed that she was a victim of "corporate terrorism." Let's reserve the use of the term terrorism for acts that physically maim or kill people. Tacking terrorism onto the Enron failure is silly. Also, let's please not use Enron as a verb.