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Archive for August, 2009

Obama Taps Bernanke For Second Term

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Business, Credit Crisis, Economics, Politics

For a guy on vacation, President Obama continues to make a lot news:
OAK BLUFFS, Mass., Aug. 25 — President Obama on Tuesday renominated Ben Bernanke for another term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, citing “his background, his temperament, his courage, and his creativity” as reasons he should continue in the nation’s most powerful economic [...]

Russ Feingold Predicts: No Health Care Bill Before December, If Ever

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Politics

Wisconsin Senator Russ Feingold isn’t optimistic about the prospects for health care reform:
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold told a large crowd gathered for a listening session in Iron County last week there would likely be no health care bill before the end of the year – and perhaps not at all.
It was an assessment Feingold said [...]

White House Revises Deficit Forecast, Sees Recession Lasting Through 2010

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Credit Crisis, Economics, Politics

There was a plethora of bad news from the White House this morning:
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) — U.S. unemployment will surge to 10 percent this year and the budget deficit will widen to $1.5 trillion next year, reflecting a “deeper recession” than previously expected, White House budget chief Peter Orszag said.
The Office of Management and Budget [...]

Col Gadhafi And Keith Richards: Separated At Birth ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Celebrities, In The News

Libyan Leader Col. Muammar al-Gadhafi:

Rolling Stone Keith Richards:

I’m just sayin’

Pete Rose, 20 Years Later

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Baseball, Sports

It was twenty years ago that Pete Rose was officially banned from baseball for gambling:

(CNN) — It’s one of the great ironies in all of sports: Pro baseball’s career hitting leader is not in baseball’s Hall of Fame.
On Monday, 20 years to the day Pete Rose signed an agreement with Major League Baseball banning him [...]

Poll Confirms People Continue To Hate Lawyers

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Legal

A new Gallup poll confirms that lawyers remain near the bottom when it comes to public respect:

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr posits the reasons why this might be the case:
[M]y sense is that the low public regard for lawyers has some origins that are justified and others that are less so. On one [...]

Gadhafi To Camp In The Garden State

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Dumbasses, Foreign Affairs, In The News, Politics

This has to qualify as the strangest story I’ve read in awhile:
(CNN) — In just a few short weeks, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach could wake up at his home in Englewood, New Jersey, with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi camped a few feet from his front lawn.
The authoritarian ruler of Libya is rumored to be planning to [...]

Scottish Justice Minister Speaks On Release Of Lockerbie Murderer

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under In The News, War On Terror

The man who made the decision to release the only man convicted of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 spoke today regarding his decision:
LONDON, Aug. 24 — Under sharp questioning from legislative critics, the Scottish justice secretary on Monday defended his decision to free the man convicted of the Lockerbie airliner bombing, declaring that [...]

Giuliani For Governor

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under 2010 Elections, Politics, Rudy Giuliani

It’s beginning to look very likely that Rudy Giuliani will make a run at the New York Governor’s Mansion next year:
ALBANY — Nineteen months after ending his disastrous run for the presidency, Rudolph W. Giuliani is clearing a path for a possible race for governor in 2010, believing public anger at an ineffectual Albany and [...]

The Great Swine Flu Pandemic Of 2009 ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Health, In The News, Swine Flu

With flu season almost upon us, we’re getting all kinds of alarming/alarmist reports about the H1N1 virus and the public health impact it could end up having:
WASHINGTON (CNN) — The H1N1 flu virus could cause up to 90,000 U.S. deaths, mainly among children and young adults, if it resurges this fall as expected, according to [...]

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