CA: eBay's Whitman Outlines Political Views

February 11, 2009

A day after launching her campaign for governor, former EBay Chief Executive Meg Whitman on Tuesday unveiled a sharply conservative approach to California’s fiscal crisis and offered a fusillade of positions on other issues that are likely to complicate her run for office in 2010.

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Vatican Gives Thumbs Up to Evolution

February 11, 2009

The Vatican has admitted that Charles Darwin was on the right track when he claimed that Man descended from apes. A leading official declared yesterday that Darwin’s theory of evolution was compatible with Christian faith, and could even be traced to St Augustine and St Thomas Aquinas.

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Sin City Lashes Back at POTUS

February 11, 2009

Oscar Goodman, the colorful mayor of Las Vegas, is outraged over comments President Obama made about his city, and has demanded that the president pay him an apology.

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Wall Street Doesn't Buy It: "This is the Shock and Ugh Plan."

February 11, 2009

The Market doesn’t buy Geithner’s plan, not one bit. Breakdown: Politics played a huge role in the decisionmaking, and after deciding not to consult with the outgoing Paulson team, the “Obama team spent weeks wrestling with many of the same issues that bedeviled Mr. Paulson’s efforts, including how to deal with bad assets.”

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Because They Hate Shepard Smith and Want Him to Fail

February 11, 2009

Esquire profiles Shep, and it’s surprisingly fascinating. They recognize that the success of Fox News is “rooted in local news, in tabloid news, in rebels who like working for the Man, in anchors and executives who have been number one year after year” … and yet still think of themselves as underdogs.

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A 21st Century Sex Scandal

February 11, 2009

The mayor of Portland first denies, gets elected, then admits to having sex with an aide 25 years his junior. Complicating factor: he’s gay. Further complicating factor: the aide was underage. But Portland can’t decide if keeping him means they have a double standard, or getting rid of him would make them look like bigots.

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Hentoff on the Political Costs of Criticizing Jihadists

February 11, 2009

Controversial Dutch representative and jihadist critic Geert Wilders has offended more than a few people in his time. Now it’s gone far enough that he’s been banned from entering the United Kingdom. Nat Hentoff outlines how the United Nations has forced the UK and other nations to bow to extreme political correctness.

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India: If Pakistan has Anything to Say, Say it Now

February 11, 2009

This is worse than it looks. India is basically moving this to the last chance stage, stung by the evaluation by RAND that they can’t stop terrorism. The current government’s under pressure to prove the contrary. This would be a very good time for POTUS to show he can bring quiet to the world.

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Who's Afraid of the Relentless Jake Tapper?

February 11, 2009

ABC’s Jake Tapper emerged as a powerful thorn in then-candidate Obama’s side during the campaign season – but he was outnumbered by celebrity journalists. Now that the glossy mags are mostly gone, he’s staking his claim to the Gregory/Donaldson/Hume role of chief antagonist in the new White House Press Corps.

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Obama's New NSC: The Committee to Run the World

February 11, 2009

Ret. Gen. James L. Jones declares that Obama’s new NSC will be “dramatically different,” speaking of “enhanced power and government-wide coordinating authority across a larger group of federal agencies” maintaining national security, vowing eliminate back channels, coordinate bureaucracies, make everyone happy and efficient. It’s fun to play pretend.

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