Daily Archives: March 17th, 2009 «

 

Time Magazine

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Bestsellers during a recession? Canned goods, condoms, and OTC female contraceptives

 

DMN

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Texas Senate approves bill requiring voter ID at polls

 

Fox News

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ACORN to Play Role in 2010 Census

 

AFP

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Canadians throw shoes to protest Bush effigy

 

Remember Caterpillar?

Posted by: ST on March 17, 2009 at 8:48 pm » 5 Comments

Last month on a campaign stimulus package promotion stop in East Peoria, Illinios, President Obama – while standing alongside Caterpiller CEO Jim Owens – claimed that “if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.” Unfortunately for him, Owens contradicted Obama when he [...]

 

Moscow Times

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Kremlin: Hey, how about a global currency?

 

Capital Commerce

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Yes, the Community Reinvestment Act Really Did Help Cause the Housing Crisis

 

The outrage over the AIG “outrage”

Posted by: ST on March 17, 2009 at 6:45 pm » 3 Comments

As if your blood wasn’t boiling enough over this issue, Jim VandeHei at The Politico promises to make it rise even more with this one: President Barack Obama and everyone else in Washington is in a sprint for the microphones to express outrage at the big bonuses for the knuckleheads who screwed up American International [...]

 

Must-read of the day

Posted by: ST on March 17, 2009 at 12:35 pm » 7 Comments

Ed Morrissey on “The futile arrogance of [Obama's] AIG outrage”: The nasty little secret at the center of all the outrage is that the Obama administration could have stopped the bonuses by simply stopping the bailout. They could have forced AIG into bankruptcy, which would have voided the company’s contractual compensation obligations. Instead, the Obama [...]

 

Richard Cohen

Posted by: ST on March 17, 2009 at 12:30 pm » Comments Off

Don’t Blame Jim Cramer