A crowd assembles at Union station in Kansas City to hear Turk’s announcement. On Monday, Dec.12, 2011, Jacob Turk held a press conference in front of supporters at Union Station in Kansas City to announce his candidacy for Congress in Missouri’s 5th district. This is his fourth attempt at unseating Emanuel “Spittlegate” Cleaver, after coming [...]

The dollar has waxed and waned against the Euro over the past couple of years, with one Euro currently costing about $1.34 in U. S. dollars. That generally being the case, we’re used to seeing companies shell out a lot of money for executives who live abroad. However, the  PRE 14A that TE Connectivity Ltd. (TEL) [...]

This is the beginning of open borders. It’s the trial balloon to see how we react — or if we even notice. With a straight face, the federal government is telling us unmanned border crossings will “upgrade security.” To have truly open borders, you’d only need a half dozen more of these crossings to let [...]

Forrest Jehlik, a research engineer at Argonne National Laboratory’s Advanced Powertrain Research Facility, speaking at the IMIS Safety & Technical Conference in Indianapolis: Almost everybody has a smart phone these days and we change them every couple of years. New stuff comes along and changes arrive so quickly today. Racing is competing against video game [...]

I’ve always been inclined to like the guy – but no more.  No more. I can’t see how any right-minded, self-respecting Republican can  have anything to do with Glenn Beck at this point. The Right Scoop: Glenn Beck: I’d consider Ron Paul as third party over Newt Gingrich Glenn Beck said this morning on his [...]

Recently, I’ve been spending an increased amount of time studying investing psychology and that is bringing up several questions. Yesterday, I was reading about intuition and how it influences the ways that we act. I started wondering about what role (if any) intuition plays in my trading, especially the long & short technology picks but [...]

vassalos Vasilis Vassalos How 60 Min. Wasted Its Interview with Obama-The Atlantic http://bit.ly/vXmmnd “Why oh why can’t we have a better press corps” dept @delong 50 minutes ago rote_fahne Mark @delong re AEI: whenever you think a right wing org has hit bottom, they will prove you wrong. 2 hours ago rootless_e rootless Lyndon Johnson’s [...]

Daily Kos: Newt Gingrich: Hospital divorce story is a lie, except that it isn’t: GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich (oh how I love typing that!) is fighting hard to negate much of the baggage that will bedevil him over the coming year. Like the story of how he accosted his first wife with divorce matters [...]

Aaron Carroll on the difference between the Democratic presidential candidates of 2008–themselves interested in and facing an electorate interested in policy–and the Republican presidential candidates of 2012–who are not: Health care reform and the primary: this ain’t 2007: Senator John Edwards released a detailed plan in a 12-page booklet in early 2007…. Senator Obama offered [...]

Jim Henley thinks that Nick Clegg drew the wrong conclusions from his time spent as an intern at the Nation: Oh Right – Needs a Title § Unqualified Offerings: Brad DeLong was implicitly puzzled last week why British Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg sticks in coalition with the Tories, ensuring the continuation of “expansionary austerity” policies [...]