Malanga: The Dancing With the Stars Market

March 26, 2009

For most of her adult life my wife has made her living as a professional dance competitor, instructor, competition judge, and dance studio owner. It was a profession and an industry that largely flew beneath most people’s radar screen, and it was economically cyclic, to say the least. Dance lessons were often the first discretionary […]

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Obama's Auto Task Force has Incoming Recommendations: More Loans

March 26, 2009

Task force to oppose bankruptcy for GM and Chrysler, support more open-ended loans. “With almost no experience in the car business, the team’s dozen core members have undergone a crash course in the myriad woes plaguing the U.S. auto industry.” We assume the use of the word “crash” is just a slip of the tongue.

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Frum: Environmental Groups Must Stop Dawdling and Support Nuclear Power

March 26, 2009

David Frum’s suggestions aren’t always based on accurate diagnoses of situations at hand – but on the debate over green energy, he speaks truth. “If conservatives can learn to live with a tax on coal, then environmentalists can learn to live with nuclear power. Devotion to renewables is not energy policy. It is fantasy.”

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Former CNN Anchor Joins The Onion: Fake News More Popular, Less Scary Than Real News

March 26, 2009

Former CNN anchor Bobbie Battista takes over an online anchor job with ONN, The Onion News Network. Batista had recently criticized her former employer for cutting back on actual reporting, particularly internationally – but with the current downturn in old media, it isn’t long until you’ll be streaming SyFy Presents: Dan Rather’s Battlestar Galactica Hour.

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Is the End Near for the Almighty Dollar?

March 26, 2009

Randall Forsyth writes: “Americans should realize that the nation’s most successful export isn’t Coke or Boeing airliners or Microsoft software or even Hollywood films. It’s the dollar, which is accepted around the world as a store of value.” But will America’s creditors make this an issue and ignore the risks that entails? G-20 beckons.

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York: Obama Surrendered His Agenda in Press Conference

March 25, 2009

At his news conference Tuesday night, President Obama stressed the four most important goals he hopes to accomplish this year: health care reform, energy legislation, education reform, and deficit reduction. But by the end of the hour-long session with the White House press corps, Obama had retreated on three of the four. On energy, he […]

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Gerson: A Killer Forces a Choice in Darfur

March 25, 2009

For years, the Sudanese regime, headed by President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, has acted the part of a terrorist gang, holding millions of refugees in Darfur camps hostage and warning the world not to make any sudden or aggressive moves. Now the world faces a question: What do we do when the captors begin killing their […]

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Amnesty: Thousands of Immigrants Held in Violation of International Law

March 25, 2009

A comprehensive report issued by Amnesty International USA Wednesday finds that tens of thousands of immigrants are being held in detention in the United States – many in violation of international law. Conducted by Amnesty researchers based on interviews over the course of a year with immigration lawyers and judges, asylum seekers, government officials and […]

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The Power of Rebranding: "Global War on Terror" Renamed to Clunkier, Stupider Title

March 25, 2009

The Obama administration appears to be backing away from the phrase “global war on terror,” a signature rhetorical legacy of its predecessor. In a memo e-mailed this week to Pentagon staff members, the Defense Department’s office of security review noted that “this administration prefers to avoid using the term ‘Long War’ or ‘Global War on […]

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Fournier: What Kind of Politician Brings a Teleprompter to a Presser?

March 25, 2009

WASHINGTON – What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference? A careful one. President Barack Obama took no chances in his second prime-time news conference, reading a prepared statement in which he took both sides of the AIG bonus brouhaha and asked an anxious nation for its patience.

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