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Archive for August, 2009

Even Mario Cuomo Thinks Obama Has Done Too Much, Too Soon

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

Man, when a Democratic President loses Mario Cuomo, they’ve really done badly:

H/T: The Radio Equalizer

The United States Is Borrowing $ 5 Billion Per Day Just To Stay Afloat

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

Stephen Moore brings the bad news:

CIA Releases Documents That Cheney Claimed Would Vindicate Torture

by Doug Mataconis @ Tuesday, August 25th, 2009. Filed under Dick Cheney, Homeland Security, Politics, War On Terror

The CIA has released the documents that former Vice-President Cheney said would vindicate the Bush Administration’s decision to allow so-called “enhanced interrogation” of al Qaeda suspects:
The CIA released the documents today that former Vice President Dick Cheney requested earlier this year in an attempt to prove his assertion that using enhanced interrogation techniques on terror [...]

Are We Better Off Now Than We Were 25 Years Ago ?

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 24th, 2009. Filed under Freedom of Speech, History, Individual Liberty, Politics, Privacy, Property Rights, War On Drugs

Via Leslie Carbone comes this video of Ronald Regan’s acceptance speech at the 1984 Republican National Convention:

In 1980 we asked the people of America, “Are you better off than you were 4 years ago?” Well, the people answered then by choosing us to bring about a change. We have every reason now, 4 years later, [...]

Life Imitates A Brad Paisley Song

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 24th, 2009. Filed under In The News

The average gamer is 35, male, and overweight:
When you think of a hard-core gamer, do you picture a teenage boy battling his friends in World of Warcraft?Think again.
The average gamer, far from being a teen, actually is a 35-year-old man who is overweight, aggressive, introverted and… often depressed, according to a report out this week [...]

Michael Jackson’s Death Ruled A Homicide

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 24th, 2009. Filed under Celebrities, In The News

This will probably turn out to be one of the biggest criminal cases Los Angeles has seen since the OJ Simpson case:
HOUSTON – The Los Angeles County coroner ruled Michael Jackson’s death a homicide, a law enforcement official told the Associated Press on Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the findings have [...]

CIA Report Reveals More Evidence Of Detainee Abuse

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 24th, 2009. Filed under Homeland Security, Politics, War On Terror

A just-released internal CIA report reveals more instances of abuse of War on Terror detainees that seems to have clearly crossed the line to outright torture:
The Obama administration on Monday released additional portions of a long-classified CIA report on the agency’s interrogation of high-level Qaeda detainees. The document contains new allegations of detainee abuse at [...]

CIA Director Threatens To Resign Over Torture Investigation

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 24th, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Homeland Security, Politics, War On Terror

All is not well in the Obama Administration:
A “profanity-laced screaming match” at the White House involving CIA Director Leon Panetta, and the expected release today of another damning internal investigation, has administration officials worrying about the direction of its newly-appoint intelligence team, current and former senior intelligence officials tell ABC News.com.
Amid reports that Panetta had [...]

Chart Of The Day

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 24th, 2009. Filed under Economics

Source:
The size of your pay packet may be important, but so is its purchasing power. Helpfully, a UBS report published this week offers a handy guide to how long it takes a worker on the average net wage to earn the price of a Big Mac in 73 cities. Fast-food junkies are best off in [...]

The Truth About Those Infant Mortality Rates

by Doug Mataconis @ Monday, August 24th, 2009. Filed under Health Care Reform, Politics

I’ve seen many advocates of government-run health care cite the fact that American infant mortality rates are lower higher than they are in other parts of the world where the health care system is under complete, or effectively complete, state control. To them, it seems, this correlation is itself a sufficient argument in favor of [...]

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