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Archive for October, 2009

Ron Paul: Everybody Wants A Sound Economy, But Nobody Talks About A Sound Dollar

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 23rd, 2009. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Ron Paul

On NY-23, The Tea Parties, And The Fact That All Politics Is Local

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 23rd, 2009. Filed under Congress, Newt Gingrich, Political Parties, Politicos & Pundits, Politics, Republicans, Sarah Palin

Politico’s Alex Isenstadt notes that a special election in upstate New York is turning into an early test of whether the Tea Party movement will have any political staying power:
Tea party activists from across the nation are rallying around the House special election in upstate New York, viewing it as the first electoral test of [...]

The White House Is Obsessed With Fox News

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 23rd, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Media, Politics

That’s really the only conclusion you can come to when you read something like this:
Speaking privately at the White House on Monday with a group of mostly liberal columnists and commentators, including Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich and Bob Herbert of The New York Times, Mr. Obama himself [...]

Whole Foods And Health Care

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 23rd, 2009. Filed under Business, Economics, Health Care Reform, Politics

An interesting piece from Reason.tv about the Whole Foods health care debate:

The “Who Lost Virginia” Blame Game Begins For Democrats

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 23rd, 2009. Filed under 2009 Governor's Race, Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds, Virginia, Virginia Politics

There are still ten days of campaigning left in the Virginia Governor’s race, but the knives are already coming out on the Democratic side:
Sensing that victory in the race for Virginia governor is slipping away, Democrats at the national level are laying the groundwork to blame a loss in a key swing state on a [...]

Don’t Count On Ever Getting The TARP Money Back

by Doug Mataconis @ Friday, October 23rd, 2009. Filed under Credit Crisis, Economics, Politics

So says the TARP watchdog appointed by the Treasury Department:
A Treasury Department watchdog is warning that a key $700 billion bailout program has damaged the government’s credibility, won’t earn taxpayers all their money back and has done little to change a culture of recklessness on Wall Street.
“The American people’s belief that the funds went into [...]

White House Tries To Exclude Fox News From White House Press Pool

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 22nd, 2009. Filed under Barack Obama, Freedom of Speech, Individual Liberty, Politics

The Obama White House’s war against Fox News Channel is getting more irrational and dangerous:
So this administration had what passes for a brainstorm among that group: now that they’ve made it clear that they disapprove of one particular news network, why, there would be nothing stopping them from stepping up their attempts to marginalize said [...]

India Sends A Message To The West: We Will Not Sacrifice Prosperity Over “Climate Change”

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 22nd, 2009. Filed under Foreign Affairs, India, Politics

The prospects for a climate change treaty coming out of December’s Copenhagen Summit just got slimmer:
(AP) Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Thursday that the world’s poor nations will not sacrifice their development in negotiations for a new climate change deal.
The issue of how to share the burden of fighting global warming has divided [...]

Poll: Americans Trust Free Markets Over Government On Health Care

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 22nd, 2009. Filed under Health Care Reform, Individual Liberty, Politics

According to the latest Rasmussen poll:
Sixty-five percent (65%) of voters nationwide say laws should be changed so that health insurance companies are subject to anti-trust regulations. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 12% disagree, while 23% are not sure.
Anti-trust laws are intended to prevent companies and other business entities from working [...]

Panel To NASA: Skip The Moon

by Doug Mataconis @ Thursday, October 22nd, 2009. Tags:
Filed under Science, Space Exploration

A Presidential panel is recommending that NASA change it’s space exploration plans and skip a return to the Moon for other goals:
WASHINGTON – NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent U.S. panel has told the White House.
NASA has picked the wrong destination [...]

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