And not in a good way Wall Street resumed its downward trek Friday as skittish investors, unable to hold on to much optimism about the economy, drew little comfort from President Bush’s stimulus plan. Investors had already pulled back from a big early gain, with the major indexes trading mixed as Bush began to speak. […]
It looks like it is getting a boost by an increase in opium crops. Heroin for everyone! That should be the Republican motto.
It looks like Time Warner will be testing a new system for billing their broadband internet subscribers: Time Warner Cable will try selling consumers broadband service based on how much bandwidth they use, a move that could turn the home broadband pricing model in the U.S. on its head. In a trial planned for later […]
A reader writes in to TPM and highlights how Rudy was the front runner one year ago amongst Republicans and majority of the Democratic field. Today he is struggling to survive, placing it all on Florida. This is something the media doesn’t really seem to be talking about.
Bush is calling for $145 billion economic stimulus package. President Bush on Friday called for about $145 billion worth of tax relief and other incentives to stimulate a sagging economy and fend off a possible recession. He said a growth package must include tax incentives for business investment and “direct and rapid†tax relief for […]
Factual statement by Henry Waxman, but also one that comes as no surprise: e chairman of a House committee said a White House spokesman’s statements Thursday in the controversy over missing e-mail conflict with what congressional staffers were told four months ago. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., scheduled a hearing and challenged the White House to […]
But there global warming is a liberal myth The level of the Mediterranean Sea is rising rapidly and could increase by up to half a metre in the next 50 years, scientists in Spain have warned With all the warning signs we keep hearing about why isn’t global warming discussed more in the campaigns and […]
Interesting argument and mostly true, but wasn’t it McCain’s party that was responsible for most of that spending? John McCain blamed overspending by the federal government in part for the nation’s economic troubles as South Carolina voters Friday received the sobering news that the state unemployment rate had hit 6.6 percent, the largest one-month increase […]
Yup now we got our own military saying that we will be in Iraq for another ten years. Since Bush only has a year left on the job perhaps he should plan on finally doing some combat tours. Oh wait – it’s more fun to start wars than it is to actually fight them.