Geithner Questioned on Tax Returns WASHINGTON — Timothy F. Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for Treasury secretary, failed to pay more than $34,000 in federal taxes over several years early this decade, and also faces questions about the employment papers of a former household employee, suddenly complicating what had seemed to be an easy confirmation [...]
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Pajamas Media has done a ton of great things since their launch. Sending Joe Wurzelbacher, aka Joe the Plumber, to Gaza as a “reporter” was not one of them. Yesterday, Joe the Plumber embarrassed himself, and Pajamas when he had this to say from Gaza, I’ll be honest with you. I don’t think journalists should [...]
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With all of this Global Warming in the air, I thought last night was a perfect night for a fire. I went downstairs to grab some old newspaper and a few headlines jumped right off the page. It could have been yesterday’s paper, but it wasn’t. It was the Boston Sunday Globe, April 15, 2001, [...]
The agony comes courtesy of the slow motion train wreck that is Roger Clemens retirement, Grand jury to consider Roger Clemens perjury evidence A federal grand jury will begin hearing evidence as soon as Tuesday in Washington about whether Roger Clemens lied under oath before Congress last February when he vehemently denied using anabolic steroids [...]
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Bruce McQuain from QandO joined us once again for Someone You Should Know, our weekly tribute to the troops. Bruce is a veteran of the Vietnam war and spent 28 years in the U.S. Army. He brings a perspective and understanding to these stories that we could never match. Tonight Bruce told us about Cpl. [...]
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Jon Henke from The Next Right returned to Pundit Review Radio tonight for a discussion about what Republicans should do with the Obama stimulus proposal in the short term (it’s a trap), and what they need to do longer term to come back. We also discussed the next generation of GOP leaders and whether or [...]
According to Morningstar, best CEO in 2008 was Warren Buffett. Way to go out on a limb! Investors can learn a lot from studying Buffett’s actions, but his decisions to stay on the sidelines are also notable. Indeed, he steered Berkshire Hathaway from many of the temptations that have caused competitors to crash and burn [...]
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