Category: Culture Of Corruption

Right after the great Enron scandal, Congress passed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which imposed all kinds of new reporting requirements on corporations and put the CEOs on the hook personally …

At least, I hope he’s dead. And not out of any sense of malice — it’s just that what is going on at CBS would surely kill ol’ Gunga …

Last Friday night, the Justice Department pulled the time-honored tactic of the “Friday night document dump.” This is a standard ploy of the scandal-wracked; release a huge amount of …

The scandal du jour to emerge from the Obama administration is news that apparently the Drug Enforcement Agency has been running a long-term operation involving Mexican drug cartels. Note …

I’ve often quoted Stalin’s aphorism that “sometimes quantity has a quality all its own.” It’s a profound truism, having value in a variety of areas. But recent political “scandals” …

This weekend saw the collapse of Herman Cain’s presidential campaign. And it’s incumbent on us to put down for the record just what happened, before the fabulists get their …

Remember a little while ago, when James O’Keefe expose’s on ACORN led to so much bad press, Congress actually passed a law forbidding any government funding for ACORN, its …

News Flash: Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA) just announced he will not seek a 17th term in Congress, saying that 32 years of totally screwing up the country, the economy, …

If you follow investment and financial news, you are no doubt aware of the bankruptcy of MF Global, a powerful futures brokerage.   Before its bankruptcy, MF Global was …

In all the arguments about the banking collapse and the housing meltdown and all that mess, one point keeps coming up: pretty much everyone agrees that it all went …