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Fox News’ Promotion Of Tea Parties Shatters Their Credibility

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Media, Partisan Hacks, Video

I’ve been growing increasingly frustrated with Fox News lately because it’s becoming nothing more than a noise machine. Yes, I know they were laughable in the past, but at least they made an effort to appear like they were a news organization. Now there is ZERO doubt that they’re simply a mouthpiece for right wing [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 14 Comments »

Americans Trust Obama Nearly 2 To 1 Over Repubs On Economy

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Democrats, Polls, Republicans

Usually you can read numbers a couple different ways, but not when the margins are this wide… And here’s how the party IDs break out… What does it say about the GOP when they can’t even get 2/3rds of their own party to trust them on the economy? To me, this points to one thing [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 17 Comments »

Franken Gets Key Court Victory

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Law, Minnesota, Senate

And of course Coleman will appeal, but it’s looking more and more likely that we’ll be calling the former SNLer Senator Franken in the very near future. From Star Tribune: After a trial spanning nearly three months, Norm Coleman’s attempt to reverse Al Franken’s lead in the recount of the U.S. Senate election was soundly [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Chuck Todd To Get Weekend MSNBC Political Show

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Media

w00t! My personal favorite political guru is getting his own digs. From The NY Observer: The new show on MSNBC, to debut in late spring, would give Mr. Todd more experience as a political moderator and provide him with a good opportunity to develop his long-form interviewing skills. At the same time, it would give [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

Bloomberg May Run on Republican Ticket

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Bloomberg, Independents, New York City, Republicans

Never one to miss an opportunity, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg may run on the Republican ticket next mayoral election while still remaining a declared independent. Apparently, despite being an apostate to the national party, local borough GOP leaders are willing to let the still-popular mayor put his name on their line. If you’re keeping [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| No Comments »

Goldman Sachs Turns Profit, Plans To Give Back TARP Funds.

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bailouts, Banks, Money

Between Wells Fargo and this news, doesn’t anybody think that this may put a slight damper on those Tea Parties on Wednesday? From MarketWatch: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said Monday it swung to a profit in the first-quarter compared to the prior period, and announced it has commenced a public offering of $5 billion of [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Keynes Or Friedman? Bernanke Chooses Keynes…For Now

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Economy, History

A new article from Bloomberg spells out the possible scenarios we face. Obviously I side much more with the Keynes approach because of the reasons laid out here, but obviously inflation fears aren’t unfounded. Here’s more… Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is siding with John Maynard Keynes against Milton Friedman by flooding the financial [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

$5 Million For Blagojevich If Jackson Appointed?

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Bad Decisions, Illinois, Law, Money, Senate

That’s the word out today and it sounds fairly damning for Jackson because how would folks come to Blago and promise this if it wasn’t backed up by Jesse Jr.? From Chicago Sun Times: Former Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s camp was told last year that U.S. Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) would raise up to $5 [...]

April 13th, 2009 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

Happy Easter! With Video!

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Comedy, Video

I was trying to find something today that had nothing to do with Easter, and yet felt strangely appropriate. This is what I came up with… You’re welcome.

April 12th, 2009 | Permalink| 3 Comments »

Special Forces Free American Captain, Kill 3 Somali Pirates

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Military, The World

Quite a nice surprise on this holiday weekend. From ABC: A senior US official tells me that President Barack Obama approved a recommendation by Defense Secretary Bob Gates and Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Michael Mullen to dispatch special forces to the US scene on Friday. These special forces were authorized to take action “in [...]

April 12th, 2009 | Permalink| 6 Comments »
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