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Now we are expected to believe that Bernie Madoff, once a star of the one-percenters, could run the kind of elaborate Ponzi scheme he did and steal billions under the nose of the SEC, but not know how many sleeping pills he and his wife needed to take themselves out. Like he finally forgot how to count. Apparently Madoff and his wife Ruth, who failed spectacularly at killing themselves, apparently now intend to kill the rest of us telling their pathetic story. Somehow a thief and rat like Bernie Madoff is still treated as if he should be in beer...

Sometimes it seems the Dolans run Madison Square Garden better than the Democrats run their party. Start with Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who has already done the impossible in this primary campaign: make politicians in Florida look smarter than he is. Dean and the rest of the party bosses are talking in earnest about "do-overs" in Florida and Michigan. The Democrats want to run the country and expected to run the country after two straight presidential elections they let George Bush and Dick Cheney and Karl Rove take from them like they were taking their lunch...

Maybe it is a 10-minute drive back up Lake Shore Drive from Barack Obama's red-brick home at Hyde Park Blvd. and S. Greenwood to the south end of Grant Park. That's where he spoke at a rally seen around the world on the night he was elected President, and when the people who voted for him believed he was going to change the country. Now, on a morning nearly three years later, it is quiet on Hyde Park Blvd., a Secret Service van parked in front of the house and Secret Service signs posted around the neighborhood, and metal barriers...

The Republican candidates for President may not pose much of a threat to Barack Obama. The very best Halloween parade this year would feature all the Republicans trying to get their party’s presidential nomination. At a time of debt and joblessness and so often hopelessness in this country, in a Foreclosure America where the President seems better at raising money than making very much for Americans, the question on Barack Obama ought to be this. How can he possibly win a second term? Only the way things are going with the Republicans, right up to Halloween 2011, and only a...