I could get into a whole thing about the absurdity of Obama winning the peace prize…only, by now, you’ve probably heard all the jokes. Not sure I could really add anything meaningful to the debate. Which means probably better sending a Tweet since I don’t really have much to say on this at this point.
Having [...]

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A President of the United States commits more ground troops to a foreign war and contemplates sending even more; he backs a position that may hinder the passage of an effective federal shield law for reporters to protect confidential sources; his administration increasingly seems to take the side of obliqueness rather than transparency.
Sounds like a Republican president, [...]

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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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