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The one thing everyone from Jim Wallis to John McCain seem to agree on is that rampant greed is a main cause of the financial collapse. I don’t buy it. I’m not saying greed is good, just that greed is. It’s a constant. It’s part of human character and I find no evidence that the…

I was fearing I’d have to soon turn in my pundit license after I’d predicted a couple of weeks ago that Palin’s faith would scare enough Florida Jews to put that state back in play. Ever since I made that prediction, McCain’s margin seemed to be growing in Florida rather than declining. I thought, ruh…

It looks like undecided evangelicals have decided — for McCain. The latest Pew poll has John McCain’s lead among evangelicals (77%-23%) almost identical to George Bush’s election-day margin over John Kerry in 2004 (78%-21%). In June, Pew had McCain with 65% and Obama with 25%. In other words, Obama has stayed the same, but the…

On the wall in my office is a going-away present from when I left Newsweek — seven cover stories I wrote in the late 1980s and early nineties. Someone walked into my office yesterday and noticed something I hadn’t, the eerie familiarity of two covers from 1990: Bonfire of the S&Ls: How much will You…
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