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Public Policy Polling for Daily Kos & SEIU. 12/8-12. Registered voters. MoE ±3.1% Q: Would you support or oppose extending the federal unemployment insurance program though the end of 2012 so that 6 million out-of-work Americans can continue to receive benefits? Support: 53 Oppose: 33 Not sure: 14 This is one of those cases where [...]

Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog. Barton Biggs, managing partner and co-founder of Traxis Partners, talks about Europe’s debt crisis and the outlook for stocks. Source: Bloomberg, December 12, 2011. Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards [...]

Democratic senators want to know the “science” that says this is way too hard to understand Last week, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the unprecedented and unexpected decision to overrule the Food and Drug Administration’s recommendation to make Plan B, the morning after pill, available over the counter to girls and women [...]

Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog. This post is a guest contribution by Jacob Nell of Morgan Stanley. Earlier this year we looked at the reasons for and implications of Russia’s elevated level of capital outflows and developed three scenarios for 2011. In our base case, [...]

Tar sands extraction in Alberta (Caterpillar) The Republicans simply want to poke Barack Obama in the eye. They’ve been at this since January 2009. And they’re at it again today, as Joan McCarter has amply illustrated. Among the goodies they plunked into the Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act is a requirement that [...]

That’s the latest ad by embattled Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who clearly assumes he’s facing a recall election early next year. In the ad, some random dude identified as a “business owner” says: Governor Walker is a friend of small business, he recognizes that 70 percent of the jobs created in this country and this [...]

Article written by Prieur du Plessis, editor of the Investment Postcards from Cape Town blog. Source: Matt, The Telegraph, December 11, 2011. Did you enjoy this post? If so, click here to subscribe to updates to Investment Postcards from Cape Town by e-mail. Laugh out Loud: Naughty eurozone countries … was first posted on December [...]

Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich square off in Saturday’s debate on ABC   Public Policy Polling (PDF). 12/11-13. Iowa Republicans. ±4.2%. (12/3-5 results) Gingrich: 22 (27) Paul: 21 (18) Romney: 16 (16) Bachmann: 11 (13) Perry: 9 (9) Santorum: 8 (6) Huntsman: 5 (4) Johnson: 1 (1) The big news is that Newt Gingrich’s support [...]

This one definitely does not go into the “how to persuade people that your cause is right” file. Obama For America’s latest attempt to beg people to contribute $3 to enter a drawing for a dinner with POTUS and FLOTUS has a pathetic, insufferable, punkish and privacy-invading twist, wherein you get the opportunity to tell [...]