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Archive for February, 2009

General Motors’ Bad Year

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under Auto Industry, Business, Economics

Not surprisingly, General Motors topped off 2008 with some really bad numbers:
DETROIT — The automaker General Motors said Thursday that its cash reserves were down to razor-thin $14 billion at the end of 2008, a year when the industry’s worst sales slump in decades nearly forced the company into bankruptcy before the federal government gave [...]

What Do You Mean The Era Of Big Government Is “Back” ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under Auto Industry, Congress, Credit Crisis, Economics, George W Bush, Politics, Republicans

House GOP Leader John Bohner had this to say after President Obama’s speech Tuesday:
Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) declared a return to “the era of big government” the day after President Obama’s first formal address to Congress.
“From everything I’ve seen, it looks like the era of big government spending is back,” he told reporters at [...]

The Fight Against The D.C. Vote Bill

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under D.C. Vote Bill, U.S. Constitution, Washington DC

It may in the end be quixotic, but the opponents of the bill to give the District of Columbia a vote in Congress are certainly putting up a fight:
Opponents of a bill that would award the District its first seat in the House of Representatives fought back yesterday with a blitz of amendments in the [...]

Time To Throw Joe The Plumber Under The Bus

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under General

Patrick Ruffini has a great piece at The Next Right about what the Joe The Plumber phenomenon says about the state of the Republican Party:
If you want to get a sense of how unserious and ungrounded most Americans think the Republican Party is, look no further than how conservatives elevate Joe the Plumber as a [...]

It’s The Ron And Ben Show !

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under General

Once again, it’s time for Ron Paul to take on Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke:

Money quote:
“What Would It Take For You To Admit You Were Wrong?”
Heh.

GOP Planning A Shift In Strategy ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under Politics, Republicans

In yesterday’s Examiner, Byron York reports that a Republican strategist has talked to him about a major shift in Republican strategy:
The Republican leadership in the House has concluded that in the stimulus debate, the GOP succeeded in dominating a number of news cycles but failed to score any points on actual policy. That, the [...]

Cato Scholars Respond To Obama’s Address To Congress

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Economics, Politics

Several scholars from The Cato Institute including Chris Edwards, Jim Harper, Gene Healy, Neal McCluskey, David Rittgers, John Samples and Michael D. Tanner discuss the details of President Obama’s speech:

H/T: Cato @ Liberty

The Babe Settles In To His New Home

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, February 26th, 2009. Filed under Baseball, New York Yankees, Sports

With opening day approaching, the final touches are being put on the new Yankee Stadium:
NEW YORK (WPIX) — Consider it a change of address for The Babe, from the “House That Ruth Built” to “The House That George (Steinbrenner) Built.” Babe Ruth’s monument has been officially moved from the old Yankee Stadium to Monument Park [...]

Obama’s Speech Pulls 52 Million Viewers

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, February 25th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Politics

It looks like a lot of people were paying attention to the President last night:
More than 52 million people watched President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress in prime time on Tuesday, according to Nielsen Media Research.
The TV audience, pegged at 52.4 million by Nielsen, does not include out-of-home or online viewers. [...]

Birds Do It, Bees Do It, Even Educated Fleas Do It

by Doug Mataconis @ Wednesday, February 25th, 2009. Filed under Science

And, apparently, so did prehistoric fish:
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — The fossilized remains of two pregnant fish indicate that sex as we know it – fertilization of eggs inside a female – took place as much as 30 million years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Thursday.
Scientists from Australia and Britain studying 380 million-year-old fossils of [...]

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