Banana Wars and Chaste Cheerleaders
20 May 2012, 11:14 pm
Talking Turkey

Is Insider Trading Part Of The Fabric On Wall Street?
20 May 2012, 10:25 am
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, May 17, 2012.

'Accounting chicanery' the budget winner
11 May 2012, 9:30 pm
Accounting chicanery was the winner in returning the 2012-13 budget to surplus, the association says.

Omitting political chicanery in Berman-Sherman race? Letters to the Editor for Thursday, May 10, 2012
9 May 2012, 8:27 pm
In 2001, a safe seat was ensured for Howard Berman by his brother Michael Berman's place on the redistricting commission. While this may not be unethical in politics, it does show the taint for elections and how choice is eliminated for voters. The newspaper has a responsibility to offer the whole story and not pick candidates in part because "He's also a heck of a nice guy." -- Barbara Starr ...

Swan makes dash for surplus cash
6 May 2012, 4:10 pm
Treasurer Wayne Swan has made a last-minute dash for cash across every government department to inflate a "modest" Budget surplus he hopes will resurrect the Labor Party's political fortunes.

Shehan Karunatilaka's top 10 cricket books
4 May 2012, 5:02 pm
From Don Bradman's classic memoir to Imran Khan's musings on Sri Lankan chicanery, 10 first-class literary deliveries It isn't surprising that a sport that goes on for days, often without result, inspires this much writing. There are as many tomes on cricket as there are dot balls in a Test series. Some examine the game's history, wallow in its scandals, or bask in its Zen-like aura. Others ...

Galatasaray to Contest Turkey Match-Fixing Rules, Sabah Reports
2 May 2012, 2:52 am
Galatasaray (GSRAY) , the top contender for Turkey ’s soccer league championship this year, is planning to file a legal appeal against the Turkish Football Federation for abusing their authority in connection with a match-fixing probe, Sabah reported.

Daniel van der Weide: It’s disheartening to see fake GOP candidates
30 April 2012, 4:47 am
Dear Editor: It is both disheartening and bordering on the comical to see the Republican Party of Wisconsin stoop to chicanery by running “protest candidates.” A party that once stood for principle and indeed still has many upstanding adherents should be confident enough to let the free market principles it espouses elsewhere also go to work in the voting booth. Instead we are faced with ...

Obamacare to Cost About Twice as Much (1.76 Trillion$) Over Ten Years-More Politics...
28 April 2012, 11:43 pm
A Congressional Budget Office report on Obamacare found that it will actually cost nearly twice as much. Evidently bthere was some chicanery in the Administration's accounting whereby the program would . . .

Mailbag 4/27/12
28 April 2012, 8:16 am
True to form, Ellen Bueno resorts to her usual “verbal chicanery” (wink, wink; nudge, nudge) and blatant bullticky to present her version of reality as she perceives the wonderful world of Scott Walker’s Wisconsin.