by Robert Waldmann (stolen wholesale from his website by someone) Media Matters by Jamison Foser Foser has a devastating critique of, well the interpretation of a PEJ study. He says that the press (Howard Kurtz of course) has accepted the claim that coverage was biased in favor of Obama, based on the clear liberal bias […]

Op ed by reader GregLifted from comments cactus style Recovery vehicle? Who knows. I know this, whatever it is won’t work. This systemic failure was baked into the cake years ago. It was unsustainable form the start. The only question was how long will it last. I laughed out loud yesterday when I heard an […]

by reader coberly DANCING AROUND ON ONE NAIL Here is why we never get anywhere: Try to ignore the “substance” (such as it is) and follow the logic. It is from a recent thread; names have been omitted in an imperfect attempt to concentrate on the logic and not personalities. BEGIN THREADA: You say, “Nationalize […]

Change.gov is the website set up for President-elect Obama to offer up weekly videotaped ‘address the nation’ style communications. Courtesy of Mudflats, which has been another interesting phenomenon of the internet for community building and sources of information worldwide. The first is of course on the economy.

Sent by reader CoRev Though he’d been on a mission all day and was about to drop, Mike Yon just called from Iraq to let me know that the war is over, and we’ve won. Whatever it is that is left of violence, there isn’t combat. Roughly half of the men in the unit of […]

by rdan NaturalNews: A report by the Florida Medical Examiners Commission has concluded that prescription drugs have outstripped illegal drugs as a cause of death. An analysis of 168,900 autopsies conducted in Florida in 2007 found that three times as many people were killed by legal drugs as by cocaine, heroin and all methamphetamines put […]

by Save the Rustbelt A Big 3 update What I Learned Over Morning Coffee in Michigan….. My original theory was this: 1) Big 3 file Chapter 11, 2) Big parts suppliers file and some shutdown Now I may have to revise this theory to: 1) Big parts suppliers collapse for lack of credit 2) Some […]

by cactus Is Obama Starting Poorly? One of the things that worried me about Obama was that he (like McCain) supported the ridiculous bail-out bill. As I noted when it passed, it wasn’t going to work, and the net effect would be this: shady, undeserving characters will be enriched, young versions of the idiots who […]

by reader Noni Mousa Gotta hide it better than that, NYT — “Judge Rules Against White House in E-Mail Case” New York Times Technology section? Yeah, that’s the place to slip in a seriously important political story. More In Technology * Judge Rules Against White House in E-Mail Case * Midway Games Reports Loss * […]