Yesterday’s big sell off wasn’t due to the recent down-grading of the U.S. credit rating. Sure it played a very minor part in it, but if you look at the markets yesterday there is something very interesting the sticks out. Investors still rushed to buy treasury bonds, which drove the 10 year interest rate below […]
Sad, but not shocking: A group of teenagers in western New York has been accused of harassing members of a mosque by yelling obscenities and insults during evening prayers for Ramadan, sideswiping a worshiper with a vehicle and firing a shotgun outside, the authorities said Tuesday. The teenagers were cornered by members of the mosque, […]
I’ve been reading more on that Gallup poll from yesterday that shows more Americans now supporting health care reform than opposing it. For a refresher, here’s the results: What’s interesting is the headline accompanying this poll: By Slim Margin, Americans Support Healthcare Bill’s Passage I don’t really remember pollsters considering a 9% margin “slim”. Perhaps […]
In an article talking about Tuesday’s race, the Boston Globe decides to talk to one single “liberal blogger” to gauge the feel of the entire blogosphere: Liberal blogs are loaded with complaints about Obama and demands that the president move to the left. During the campaign, “they energized enthusiasm among people who were really jazzed […]
Fred Barnes, writing from his undisclosed la-la land location, is arguing that Paul Kirk won’t be able to vote after Tuesday. His argument: But in the days after the election, it is Kirk’s status that matters, not Brown’s. Massachusetts law says that an appointed senator remains in office “until election and qualification of the person […]
The Washington Post is reporting that it is: Democratic political committees have seen a decline in their fundraising fortunes this year, a result of complacency among their rank-and-file donors and a de facto boycott by many of their wealthiest givers, who have been put off by the party’s harsh rhetoric about big business. The trend […]
If they do then tomorrow the Republican House leadership must denounce and censor Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina who decided to shout “you lie” to the President tonight. I can not remember something like this happening in recent history when a sitting president addressed a joint session of Congress. This guy has no shown […]
This video has been making the rounds on the internet. Yes Sarah Palin makes George W. Bush look like a Rhodes Scholar. That is scary enough, but there is something much more telling in this video: Carl Cameron says the he wishes he could have said this before the election, but it was all “put […]
First we get this story from 9:19 am this morning: South Korea’s defense minister said Thursday that Seoul believes North Korea’s missile launch is not imminent despite concern in the region that the communist nation would test-fire a long-range missile. “It is our judgment that a launch is not imminent,” Defense Minister Yoon Kwang-ung told […]
Here are some interesting tidbits from this New York Times article: All but one of the 44 Senate Democrats — Ben Nelson of Nebraska — have voiced opposition to the measure, as have some moderate Republicans, a result that would kill the measure for the year. Remember this vote requires 2/3rds of the Senate to […]