Let the critics debate who is the hottest TV host–Obrien, or Letterman, or Leno or whomever. The fact is, the Emmy for best talk show guest (host?) clearly goes to Barack Obama whose day time job is President of the United States.
This was the week of wall to wall Barack Obama saturation coverage…He was on [...]

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This is not encouraging news: Both the Federal Reserve and the Treasury are reportedly getting set to formulate new rules aimed at  making banks “rein in practices that made multimillionaires out of many financial executives,” as the New York Times puts it in a page one story Saturday.
On the surface, that sounds good.  Till you [...]

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It’s been a year.
A year since the global financial system seemingly (and, largely, actually) had a meltdown.
The U.S. government came to the rescue…or, rather, American taxpayers did.
But things worked out far better for many financial institutions than they did for the rest of us.
A few of the “too big to fail” banks were kept from [...]

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You gotta give Barack Obama this: the man gives a good speech.
Rightly or wrongly, his address tonight before a rare joint session of Congress was billed as a sort of make or break moment for his presidency.
Maybe it was; probably it wasn’t.
More to the point, he did a reasonably decent job in trying to explain [...]

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Barack Obama talks a good game…but will he have the balls Wednesday night to say to Congressional Republicans: If you don’t like the Democratic health reform bills, tough! You’re a minority party currently run by a bunch of loons that was voted out of office, so what you say doesn’t really matter at this point?
In [...]

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Here’s what it comes down to:  If Barack Obama really believed all the rhetoric of his presidential campaign….and all of his positions….then he is a traitor to his own beliefs. If, on the other hand, he didn’t believe all the rhetoric of his presidential campaign, then he is a traitor to his earliest, most fervent [...]

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