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...weekend column, Dowd sought to highlight the irony of the Republicans' holding House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's feet to the fire for not opposing Republican policies on torture aggressively enough. Interesting as this line of thinking might have been, it subsequently drowned in the backwash of controversy over her almost verbatim use of a 43-word paragraph that had already appeared in a column written by Josh Marshall on the political website Talking Points Memo. (Read about how to save your newspaper...
...Will Bianchi back up his big talk? Well, a sedation movement would make some sense, given all the stresses surrounding us. "In this time of great anxiety, anything that allows you to be calm has tremendous benefit attached to it," says Pirko. "The timing might be perfect on this." So kick back, relax and crack open a purple can. Just Drank at your own risk...
...restored confidence in most of the nation's largest banks. What's more, they argue that even in good times the public bank exams make sense because they could sound the early-warning sign that was missing two years ago. A regular public vetting of the big banks' laundry might also cause some financial firms to be more cautious in the future about the types of loans they make...
Still proponents of doing the stress tests say there is an easy way to remedy that problem: do the tests again. As the economy worsens, you could apply more adverse economic conditions to see if the banks hold up. If the economy improves, revised stress tests might also tell you when it is time for the government to pull back the federal assistance it has lent the banks...
...former illegal worker in the U.S., I must say I found your article "Undocumented and Undeterred" about immigration compelling [April 27]. It is true we are living in difficult times and on occasion this might trigger a hunt for scapegoats to blame for the economic crisis. But in the end, the only thing that will get us out of this mess is to pull together - legal and illegal, American and non-American. This is a global problem, and massive deportation will only make things worse. Where do you think these deported immigrants will find jobs? Maybe with the drug gangs...