WSJ: Tax Me If You Can We’re constantly told that taxes don’t matter to business and investors, but listen to that noted supply-side economist, Alec Baldwin. The actor recently rebuked New York Governor David Paterson for threatening to try to help close the state’s $7 billion budget deficit by canceling a 35% tax credit for [...]
The Hill: Spokesman: Rendell did urge Specter to go Dem By Aaron Blake Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell’s (D) office on Monday confirmed the governor’s recent comments that he has tried to get Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) to switch parties and run as a Democrat. After Rendell said in a news station interview that he, Vice [...]
FOX Business: Rally Aborted on Falling Bank Stocks by Dunstan Prial Bank stocks faded midday Monday and with them the broader stock market, killing any chance at keeping alive a four-day rally. Today’s Markets The Dow Jones industrial average fell 7.01, or 0.10%, to 7216.97. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 2.66, or 0.35%, [...]
FOX: “Stubborn.” “Out of touch.” “Incapable of understanding” the economic crisis. That’s how Barack Obama and his presidential campaign team described John McCain last year when the Republican candidate famously said “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.” But now President Obama and his advisers are adopting similar rhetoric as they try to build public [...]
Give Us The Money Back. Politico: Obama: Block AIG bonuses By MIKE ALLEN & EAMON JAVERS Harnessing public outrage over lavish bonuses for bailed-out executives at insurance giant AIG, President Obama said Monday that he will “pursue every single legal avenue to block these bonuses and make the American taxpayers whole.†Obama made his forceful [...]
ABC News: Dramatic Advances Sweep Iraq, Boosting Support for Democracy ABC News/BBC/NHK National Survey of Iraq ANALYSIS by GARY LANGER Dramatic advances in public attitudes are sweeping Iraq, with declining violence, rising economic well-being and improved services lifting optimism, fueling confidence in public institutions and bolstering support for democracy. The gains in the latest ABC [...]
The White House’s Pettiness War. Liberal media watchdog begins anti-CNBC drive NEW YORK – Some critics are seizing on comedian Jon Stewart’s attacks of CNBC to launch an online petition drive urging the network to be tougher on Wall Street leaders. The liberal media watchdog Media Matters for America and some economists are behind the [...]
Previous post here. Telegraph UK: Barack Obama told: help Pakistan or risk a repeat of 9/11 in America or Britain Barack Obama, the US president, is to be told that to avoid a repeat of the devastating 9/11 attacks on America or Britain he must dramatically step up aid to Pakistan. By Tim Shipman A [...]
Not sure, but I believe our buddy Kurt T.I. was at this one: WLWT: Thousands Rally Downtown Against Government Spending CINCINNATI — Thousands of Tri-State residents gathered Sunday on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati to voice their opposition to government spending bills recently signed by President Barack Obama. The group called itself the Cincinnati Tea [...]
See Andrew’s last Friday night “Real Time” appearance here. Wa Times: by Andrew Breitbart Pretty much everyone I respect in media and politics recommended I not go on HBO’s “Real Time With Bill Maher.” But on Friday night, I defied that wisdom and had the time of my life. I sparred with Mr. Maher, Georgetown [...]
Pitchers and catchers report … to the State. El Nuevo Herald: Isolation and mystery surround the Cuban team BY LUIS E. RANGEL / EL NUEVO HERALD SAN DIEGO (translated) Like an inaccessible island, that was the Cuban team before and after their first game of the second round on U.S. soil. The veil of mystery [...]
Anybody else recall certain republican Congress members insisting after the first bank bailout that there was no monitoring or watch-dogging going on as to how those who received the bailout money was spending it? BTW, AIG had these bonuses pre-planned before the bailout … Congress, if they were “smart” would have looked into that and [...]
FOX Sports: Police say an Iraqi soccer player has been shot dead just as he was about to kick what could have been the tying goal in a weekend game south of Baghdad. Police Maj. Muthanna Khalid says a striker from the Buhairat amateur team was facing only the goalie during a Sunday match in [...]
Spectator UK: Why are our state-owned banks asking customers about their politicial affiliations? by Fraser Nelson Some tip-offs are so awful that you almost hope they are untrue. When I was told by Geoff Robbins, a computer consultant, that he had been asked about his political connections before opening an account with the state-controlled Royal [...]
H/T MsUnderestimated captions: Here we go again. Geraldo talks about the border, but says that it would be an absolute waste to send the National Guard down there. And shock of all shocks, Weasley Clark agrees with him. Have neither of these idiots been watching TV lately? Beheadings, 6,000 murders LAST YEAR alone south of [...]
