Give an inch, and they try to take it all
The Washington Post has a disturbing report this morning that talks about a plan under consideration by the Obama administration to give Treasury the unprecendented authority “to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies”:
Article search
Tonight while I was searching my archives for something I had written about before I came across a brief post I wrote about a James Taranto article on how the media had gone from being “watchdogs” under Bush to now being lapdogs for Obama. Unfortunately, I neglected to include the link to Taranto’s column in my post, and I have tried several different ways to find it tonight via Google – with no luck.
Is the media honeymoon over for Barack Obama?
Judging by the daily presser earlier today, it appears that maybe a few mainstream journos are recovering from ObamaFevah. Not nearly enough, but it’s a start.
24 – 10pm til 11pm open thread
No more “the world will end if we don’t do something now” greenie advertisements during 24 … please!
Newspapers folding all across the country
CNN reports on the sad state of affairs at many newspaper outlets throughout the country: