Day July 14, 2005

From today’s Crime Blotter, er, "Business Section"

Buzz-cut Bernie blubbers as judgment day comes A Crime So Large It Changed the Law Sentence’s message: Crime doesn’t payCEO of North America’s largest equipment renter mum on SEC investigationBank of America agrees to refunds for elderly investorsCompany made $600…

Make Global Warming History

From The East African It is puzzling that there is no mass movement on environmental degradation in the West similar to the whole “Make Poverty History” thing.  The rich world is said to emit half of the planet’s carbon dioxide…

The non-denial denial

Rove told reporter of Plame’s role but didn’t name her, attorney says. That is technically true, he identified her as the wife of Charles Wilson, and not by her name. This ploy was known in the Nixon days as the…

Arnold oinking at the money trough

Schwarzenegger paid 8 mil in conflict of interest Two days before he was sworn into office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger accepted a consulting job paying an estimated $8 million over five years to “further the business objectives” of a national publisher…