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• Summer reading assignment: "Reckless Endangerment" ... by gimleteye

  On a transatlantic flight I read the new nonfiction book on the origins of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression: "Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon" by Gretchen Morgenson of the NY Times. It is a story that [...]
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• More on Marco Rubio: "insider" or "outsider"? by gimleteye

  There were a number of interesting comments on yesterday's post about Marco Rubio and my assertion that The New York Times made a significant error in quoting The American Spectator, that Rubio was pushed away by party insiders from running for the US Senate in 2010.
  
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• City of Miami: no accountability, anywhere ... by gimleteye

  Chuck Rabin's report in The Miami Herald has a couple of interesting points worth noting: "When Miami’s Chief Financial Officer Larry Spring resigned last week, he left with a hefty payout that included $61,824 in severance approved by now-departed City Manager Tony Crapp Jr. – a" [...]
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• Best Quote On The Mayoral Election in the Miami Herald Today. By Geniusofdespair

  
  
  ...The negative campaigns of our leaders prove that we are dealing with political swashbucklers who are champions of word-mongering. Daniel Shoer Roth
  
  Political swashbucklers...so polite yet infused with the image of swords lashing out words in a duel to the death.
  
  Another [...]
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