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CPAC 2012: Sheriff Babeu on Eric Holder: “The Man Has No Shame”
J. Christian Adams, a former U.S. Justice Department official, and author of the best seller, Injustice: Exposing the Racial Agenda of the Obama Justice Department, served as moderator for the panel entitled: “Obama vs. The Constitution: How a Harvard Law Graduate President is Shredding the Constitution.” Panelists included former Attorney General Ed Meese, who now [...]
Continue reading...CPAC, Day 2
11 February 2012 – 12:21 am PST
Moses Moses Moses, RS McCain, Joy McCann (Little Miss Attila, Conservatory) at the Blog Bash, Friday night. About 250 bloggers attended the blog bash, this year. Blogger of the Year – John Sexton of Verum Serum (I taught him everything he knows): Someone asked Rick Santorum if he thought Obama’s health care “compromise” was going [...]
Continue reading...Florida firefighters take on Ralph Lauren…
11 February 2012 – 12:21 am PST
Over the years, we’ve picked on Ralph Lauren (RL) a bit as we’ve found various examples of excess in the company’s filings. (See here for a car valued at $67,500 that was transferred to Ralph Lauren’s brother). And that’s just one example. Pretty much every one of their proxies has had a few pearls worth [...]
Continue reading...CPAC Panel: Breitbart and Citizens United Unveil “Occupy Unmasked”
11 February 2012 – 12:21 am PST
Thursday afternoon I attended a blogger briefing hosted by Citizens United with David Bossie, Andrew Breitbart, Stephen Bannon, Brandon Darby, and Lee Stranahan, on their latest project, a soon to be released film on the Occupy movement they’ve entitled, Occupy Unmasked. Website here. Part One: Part Two: Part Three: This is how they began their [...]
Continue reading...Felix Salmon on Obama Economic Policy
11 February 2012 – 12:21 am PST
Felix Salmon: Where Obama’s economic policy went wrong: In one of his biggest errors as economic advisor to the president, Larry Summers told Barack Obama that “It is easier to add down the road to insufficient fiscal stimulus than to subtract from excessive fiscal stimulus. We can if necessary take further steps.” He was absolutely [...]
Continue reading...Paul Krugman vs. David Brooks
11 February 2012 – 12:21 am PST
Paul engages in a battle of wits with what appears to be a remarkably poorly-armed man: The One Percent Versus the Twenty Percent: The good folks at EPI are upset by my colleague David Brooks’s claims that the gap between the top 20 and the bottom 30, not the gap between the top 1 and [...]
Continue reading...Brad Johnson: Just When You Think Republicans Could Not Get Any More Detached from Reality…
11 February 2012 – 12:20 am PST
…along comes Rick Santorum. Brad Johnson: Conspiracy Theorist Sweeps Tuesday’s GOP Presidential Battles: Conspiracy theorist Rick Santorum swept Tuesday’s Republican presidential battles, winning the sparsely attended Colorado and Minnesota caucuses and non-binding Missouri primary on a platform anchored by his denial of global warming. “I for one never bought the hoax,” Santorum said at the [...]
Continue reading...Daniel Gross: The Strange Controversy Over Chrysler’s Ad
11 February 2012 – 12:20 am PST
Just when you think the Republicans cannot lose any more touch with reality… Dan gross: The Strange Controversy Over Chrysler’s Ad: There were plenty of objectionable ads during the Super Bowl…. So it’s surprising that the biggest controversy has been generated by Clint Eastwood’s spot for Chrysler. The ad, “It’s Half-Time in America,” told a [...]
Continue reading...Businessweek Opinions-of-Shape-of-Earth-Differ Journamalism: Paul Krugman Edition
11 February 2012 – 12:20 am PST
Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps? Paul Krugman sends us to Businessweek: Paul Krugman vs. the World. And he comments: Two Minutes Hate: From BusinessWeek. Enjoy…. It would… have been nice if BusinessWeek had noticed that I have, of course, been right in all these arguments. But then when it comes [...]
Continue reading...Adam Kotsko on Why the Self-Immolation of the Catholic Bishops
11 February 2012 – 12:20 am PST
Adam Kotsko: Why is birth control the Catholic Church’s last stand? « An und für sich: To many observers, the Catholic hierarchy’s opposition to birth control seems nonsensical — they might as well oppose ice cream. It seems like a win-win: the liberals are happy that women get reproductive freedom, but meanwhile if you’re anti-abortion, [...]
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11 February 2012 – 12:21 am PST
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