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At a flail-and-wail House hearing last month, California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters melted down in front of big banking CEOs. "Raise your hand! Raise your hand!" she shrieked as she harangued the executives on their business practices and management of federal bailout money. Sneering at the "captains of the universe," whom she refused to address by name ("You, Bank of America!"), Waters excoriated the corporate heads for their greed. "All of my political life," Waters bragged, "I have been in disagreement with the banking and mostly financial services community because of practices that I have believed to be not in...

Maxine Waters Ethics Trial Canceled Posted by Brian Montopoli Leave Comment One day after it recommended censure for veteran Democrat Charles Rangel of New York, the bipartisan House ethics committee has canceled the Nov. 29th trial for California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters. The committee said new material has come to light that has prompted a decision to send the Waters case back to the initial subcommittee that first looked into it, according to CBS Radio News Capitol Hill Correspondent Bob Fuss. That four-member subcommittee will now reexamine the evidence against Waters. Waters has been accused of improperly attempting to steer...

OneUnited misses sixth straight fed dividend paymentMore woes for Boston bank By Jessica Van Sack Saturday, August 14, 2010 - Added 3 hours ago The Hub-based bank at the center of the ethics investigation into U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters will skip another dividend payment to the Treasury, opening the door for federal regulators to name a member to its board of directors. The lender’s chairman and chief executive officer, Kevin L. Cohee, told the Herald yesterday that the bank, which received a $12 million cash infusion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program in 2008, is focused on raising capital and...

As chairman and chief executive of OneUnited Bank, Kevin L. Cohee has sought to build a company that is about more than just money. He promoted the bank, now at the center of a House ethics case against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), as a uniquely responsible investor in impoverished minority communities and urged prospective clients to live modestly. Customers ought to focus on "real connections, real relationships," Cohee urges in a recording on the bank's Web site. Avoid "people who want to be with you based on the things that you have." "Do you really need a Mercedes-Benz?" he asks....

Prof. (Emeritus) Michael Montgomery has done a fine job of showing that Scottish English, imported primarily by the Scotch-Irish (Ulster Scots or Scots-Irish, if you prefer), had a greater impact on the Appalachian English dialect than did the tongues of Southern England, which predominated in the coastal colonial settlements. In his essay "How Scotch-Irish Is Your English? -- The Ulster Heritage of East Tennessee Speech" Montgomery discusses the rise and fall of two such words, "cracker" and "cohee" . . .