This is starting to get like Groundhog Day. The New York Times has another sloppy, poorly researched editorial today. This time, they take on the Bush administration on the issue of coal mines, Slapping King Coal’s Wrist The Bush administration’s accommodation of the mining industry â?? notably by packing the mine safety agencies with pro-management […]
Here is an amusing, yet depressing, Gallup headline, Republicans All Alone in Viewing the Economy as in Good Shape Independents and Democrats are quite negative PRINCETON, NJ — Americans continue to resist giving the nation’s economy positive ratings, regardless of what so-called “hard” economic indicators may show. Only about a third of Americans rate the […]
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The charades and shenanigans by insiders at Sirius Satellite is fun to watch, especially if you are NOT a shareholder. Back in January we wrote about Howard Stern’s massive stock grant and and his surprise filing to sell all 34 million of his shares (he has not sold any yet; maybe he should have, the […]
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What makes the blogosphere such a valuable resource are the subject matter experts who share their insight and experience with one and all. Professor Gary S. Becker, Graduate School of Business at The University of Chicago, takes a sober, balanced look at The Economics of the Iraq War on the fantastic Becker-Posner blog, I believe […]
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Our friend Dean Esmay was recently written up in the Detroit News, Blogger brings progress to light To Dean Esmay, 39, the war in Iraq is more than suicide bombers and sectarian strife. It’s about schools being built, small businesses being hatched, Iraqis forming friendships with Americans. To help people see what he sees, the […]
The fact is that the MSM is fully invested in our defeat in Iraq. Always have been. They work against the US at every turn, on issues big and small. They are pouring gasoline on the insurgency in Iraq and the domestic insurgency here at home. This is also available as a downloadable Podcast at […]
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On the 3rd anniversary of the start of the Iraq War, we welcomed back independent citizen journalist Michael Yon. As most of you know by now, Michael is a former Green Beret who embedded himself on the front lines with the troops for most of 2005. His reporting from the front has been compared to […]
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