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The Chinese government had an interesting exchange with our President this week about US debt. John Hinderaker summarized it: Of course, what the Chinese are worried about is not that the United States government will default on its bonds. That obviously won’t happen. The Chinese concern, now being expressed openly for the first time, is [...]
Tom Smith gets it right: But isn’t it obvious? This is not about whether Cramer picks stocks well or not or has a good crystal ball. It is about the fact the Cramer dared to criticize Obama harshly and effectively from his very prominent pulpit. Mad Money has a huge audience, and Cramer went off [...]
I was tagged with this at Facebook, with the following instructions: Think of 20 albums, CDs or LPs that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life; Music that affected you. Then when you finish, tag 20 others (or more), including me. Make sure you copy and paste this part so they [...]
Today’s WSJ has an article, by a pair of bipartisan professional, pollsters, about Obama’s slipping poll numbers. A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries. The reason for this decline most likely [...]
This was a very straightforward, enjoyable episode, made up of three parts: (1) introduce and test the new team member, (2) Betsy’s television interview about her abduction and rescue, and (3) a mission to find and kill the man who killed Hector, which also gives us the first chance to see the new member in [...]
Interesting thought experiment from one of Rand Simberg’s commenters: I bet if the entire Obama Administration and Democratic Congressional Leadership were sentenced to hang on December 1, 2009, if the stock market were not above 9000 and unemployment were not below 7%, they would become raging tax-cutting pro-business libertarians overnight. That is, I don’t believe [...]
President Obama and his supporters sometimes refer to their theory or practice of diplomacy as “smart power.” Presumably it is meant to convey a willingness to advance America’s interests using America’s economic, political, and military power, in a smart way. It is also an indirect but clear slap at their predecessors, who presumably — we [...]
I’m not very interested in the whole Michael Steele/Rush Limbaugh dustup. I’m bored by Republican party infighting, and I’m neither a Limbaugh fan or a critic. But Matthew Archbold put together a nice collection of examples in which the media has clearly been working off of Democratic talking points: NY Times: now that Limbaugh has [...]
Michael Williams at Master of None believes he is being audited and persecuted by the Obama administration and the IRS because he launched a site mocking tax cheat and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner. I normally don’t quote blog posts in full but this one is different: Today I received a letter from the IRS that [...]
I’m a bit out of it. I didn’t even know that U2 was due to release a new album until after it was released. I just went to iTunes and saw the deluxe version for $17.99 and the regular for $3.99. Then I went to Amazon and discovered that the digital download is only $3.99. [...]
