Unsuprisingly, Sinclair stations are losing advertisers. Interestingly, the advertisers say that emails and calls from consumers were not the reason they decided to pull the ads – they did it on their own initiative. I suspect that the value of this in-kind political donation that the managers of Sinclair are making to the Bush campaign […]

Buried at the bottom of this story on the higher trade deficit, we get this tidbit: A coalition of textile groups asked the administration Tuesday to limit imports of textiles from China, timing the filing of its case to force the administration to make a preliminary ruling by Nov. 1, the day before the election. […]

Bush-Cheney ’04 is floating some spin with the title Kerry’s Economic Proposals Fall Short Of The President’s Achievements. Read for a good laugh as it is incredibly weak. But I suspect Sperling has seen this as I got it from the Kerry camp via email. How dumb does Bush-Cheney think the American people are?

From last night’s debate: SCHIEFFER: Mr. President, what do you say to someone in this country who has lost his job to someone overseas who‘s being paid a fraction of what that job paid here in the United States? BUSH: I‘d say, Bob, I‘ve got policies to continue to grow our economy and create the […]

How do we know Karl Rove realized Kerry won debate #1? The misrepresentation of “global test”? How do we know Karl Rove realized Kerry won debate #3? He got Lynn Cheney to attack Kerry for allegedly attacking Mary Cheney. I hope we can agree on two things: (1) Using kids as political pawns is wrong; […]

So how did the fact-checkers do this time? As far as content goes, not bad; but there is a continued unwillingness to point out that some mistakes are much bigger than others. Here are the items pointed out by the Washington Post’s fact-checking piece, titled “Attacks Misleading And Out of Context“: Kerry said the wealthy […]

This boggles the mind: Equipment which could be used in an illicit nuclear bomb program has disappeared from previously monitored sites in Iraq, and radioactively contaminated items from there have been found abroad, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has told the UN. Installations in former Iraqi president’s Saddam Hussein’s nuclear bomb program were being […]

From last night’s debate: BUSH: Health-care costs are on the rise because the consumers are not involved in the decision-making process. Most health-care costs are covered by third parties. And therefore, the actual user of health care is not the purchaser of health care. And there’s no market forces involved with health care. It’s one […]

Blogger is slow right now, but it’s coming up. – No bulge immediately visible. – Note to Kerry: lay off the ports and cargo holds. Good point, already been made. On the other hand, there might be a lot of viewers who haven’t seen the previous debates. – When Bush says “spread liberty and freedom […]

Media Matters has a list of mutual and pension funds that own $1m or more (at current prices, which are continuing to fall as news of their new Free Airtime initiative spreads.) One lesson I learned from the dot-com bust is that it’s not a good idea to invest in a company (directly, or indirectly […]