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The New York Times today reports that the wizards of Wall Street, long a major source of cash for the Democratic Party, are drifting Republican. Exhibit A is a gentleman named Paul Singer:
Mr. Singer, professorial and soft-spoken, used a gathering of business and government leaders at the conservative Manhattan Institute to lash out at
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Democrats have reacted to Tea Party-fueled Senate bids from the likes of Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Ken Buck and now Joe Miller with a simple message: Republicans are “too extreme.” Uncertain if the anti-Bush mantra of recent cycles still resonates and disconcerted by a serious enthusiasm gap, Democrats have fixated on persuading voters …
Among the stops on Obama’s itinerary when he visits New Orleans to commemorate the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is a speech the president is scheduled to give at Xavier University, a Catholic school in New Orleans. You may remember that the last time Obama spoke at a Catholic university–giving the commencement address at Notre …
Elsewhere on time.com, I have a short walk-up story about tomorrow’s Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial. You can read it here.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, who has been promoted as a model of effective Republican governance, has been faced this week with a clerical error that prevented New Jersey from being in the running for a Race to the Top grant of $400 million. The governor had initially defended his education commissioner Bret Schundler, saying that …
Our colleague John Curran over at the Curious Capitalist does some close reading of the Fed chairman’s speech in Jackson Hole following today’s tepid growth numbers:
With that less-bad-news-is good-news as a backdrop, Bernanke spoke of the Fed’s policy options in a sluggish world with low interest rates, miniscule inflation and a major
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–Second quarter growth is revised down to a crawling 1.6% annual rate.
–Fed Chair Bernanke is set to speak at 10 am ET in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
—Krugman: “This isn’t a recovery, in any sense that matters.” He writes Team Obama is “sugar-coating economic reality” and “evading responsibility.”
–Doomsayer Nouriel Roubini …
From TIME’s White House Photo blog.
The buzz this week is about a 43-year-old Fairbanks lawyer who seems to have knocked Senator Lisa Murkowski out of the Alaskan Republican primary for U.S. Senate. So, who is Joe Miller? Right now, he’s not talking to journalists, so it’s hard to tell but here’s what I’ve managed to gather about him:
The bearded self-described …
You know they’re really in trouble when John Boehner starts cribbing from their notes on how to call out the Obama administration.
The Congressional Budget Office said in a recent letter that repealing the parts of the Affordable Care Act, including changes to Medicare, Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program, would increase the deficit by $455 billion. The CBO released the figure this week in a letter responding to a request from Republican Sen. Mike …
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Over at the National Review, Clifford D. May takes the mainstream media, including Time, to task for rolling over for the “terrorists” on the Cordoba Center mosque in downtown Manhattan. He does cite our poll which had 46% of Americans thinking that Muslims were more likely than others religionists to act violently:
Goodness, why would
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Speaking of Bobby Bright, he’s taken the same tack as Sandlin in his latest campaign ad.
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Researching a piece I’m doing on Bright’s race, I came across this quote, from Bright’s Republican opponent, Martha Roby: “Our congressman voted for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. How …
