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Video: “We’ve always been, and always will be, a AAA country”
Denial. Ed and Tina have both written about this so here’s the vid in case you missed it. The key bit comes at 6:15. It’s a fine bipartisan bloggy tradition to goof on the president when he looks...
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Oh, Just Stop!
Many have chided the financial press for the need to write entirely speculative articles about the prior day's market movements. But at least the financial press can be (somewhat) forgiven for their...
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Ahmadinejad at the UN: Too bad Bin Laden can’t tell us why U.S. airspace was...
Plus: The obligatory diplomatic walk-out! Admittedly, this guy ranting at the UN about 9/11 and America’s crimes doesn’t strictly qualify as “news,” but I’ve blogged this speech every year since the...
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Obamateurism of the Day
And our mamas are sooooo fat, too … As Keith Koffler reminds us, American politics have had a long tradition of officeholders not criticizing the President while he’s overseas, albeit a tradition that...
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Do we need to see tax returns from Romney or Gingrich?
Class-warfare voyeurism. Full transparency, or class-warfare voyeurism? In my column for The Fiscal Times today, I take the contrarian position that Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich shouldn’t disclose...
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Romney: I don’t have to release my tax returns just because my dad started...
A better defense? As Ed wrote in his recap of last night’s debate, Mitt Romney’s repeated mishandling of questions about his tax returns is a problem for the former Massachusetts governor. He...
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Quotes of the day
Victory or defeat? However painful it was to read the headline “Obamacare Stands” on Drudge yesterday, Chief Justice Roberts made the right call. Roberts’s opinion, far from being an act of cowardice...
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Just super. PRI making a comeback in Mexico?
The not so good old days. As if Mexico didn’t have enough to worry about these days. (And, by association, the United States as well.) Mexicans go to the polls this weekend to select new leaders, and...
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Sen. Whitehouse Questions Expose a Kinder, Gentler and possibly more...
During a Senate Budget Committee meeting, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island went straight at Treasury Secretary Geithner over Treasury’s abysmal track record and unquestionable...
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Mandelman’s Monthly Museletter – Version 12.0
Okay, well I’m back from my Spring vacation, a tradition I started only last year but plan to maintain, and I’m fresh off a wonderful week of watching Hawaii beat the feathers out of the banking lobby...
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