Filed at 11:25 pm, Saturday February 28th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Another head+desk moment:
The biggest consumer, Utah, averaged 5.47 adult content subscriptions per 1000 home broadband users; Montana bought the least with 1.92 per 1000. “The differences here are not so stark,” [Harvard Business School’s Benjamin] Edelman says.
Number 10 on the list was West Virginia at 2.94 subscriptions per 1000, while number 41, Michigan, averaged 2.32.
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Filed at 11:04 am, Thursday February 26th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
The Chicago Sun-Times:
The son of embattled Sen. Roland Burris is a federal tax deadbeat who landed a $75,000-a-year state job under former Gov. Rod Blagojevich five months ago, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.
Blagojevich’s administration hired Roland W. Burris II as a senior counsel for the state’s housing authority Sept. 10 — about six weeks after […]
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Filed at 10:50 am, Wednesday February 25th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Not technically a State of the Union, but certainly a tone-setter.
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Filed at 12:27 am, Tuesday February 24th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
I don’t think I’ve seen a headline anything remotely similar to this in about seven or eight years. And we didn’t even have to get attacked this time.
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Filed at 10:01 am, Sunday February 22nd 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Yet another reason why President Obama’s vow to shut down the illegal Guantanamo Bay internment camp is so important: the Washington Post this morning reports of a case where a formerly mild Taliban detainee who fired his gun only once had been transformed into a vicious killer by the time of his release from the […]
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Filed at 10:45 am, Thursday February 19th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
I hear a lot of complaining, both from the left and the right about what Obama’s stimulus package contains or doesn’t contain. And I hear a lot of people calling this sort of thing totally unprecedented. I think it’s important to remember a bit of history at times like this because it’s not like this […]
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Filed at 7:15 am, Tuesday February 17th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Noted without comment:
Bristol Palin, the 18-year-old daughter of Sarah Palin whose pregnancy during the presidential campaign made headlines, taped an interview for Greta Van Susteren’s “On The Record” on Monday night.
Both Bristol, appearing with her 2-month old baby Tripp for the first time, and her mother expressed skepticism about abstinence-only programs which her mother backed […]
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Filed at 9:09 am, Monday February 16th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
Roland Burris makes Harry Reid cry.
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Filed at 9:07 am, Friday February 13th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
With both Judd Gregg and Bill Richardson having withdrawn their nominations, whoever will be tapped next for the job of Obama’s Commerce Secretary will probably give the matter some pause. This is especially ironic because the job these days is considered largely a ceremonial post with little real power over policy.
This situation is not unprecedented […]
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Filed at 10:21 am, Thursday February 12th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
This is a real forehead+desk moment:
On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter say they do not believe in the theory, and another 36% don’t have an opinion either way. These […]
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Filed at 12:35 am, Wednesday February 11th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
The Financial Times trolls:
Has Barack Obama’s presidency already failed? In normal times, this would be a ludicrous question. But these are not normal times.
… Whatever. It’s still a ludicrous question. Come on, fellas.
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Filed at 10:58 pm, Sunday February 08th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
The red line is the 2001 recession, the blue line is the 1990 recession, and the green line is the current recession.
… And yet all the Republicans on Capitol Hill want to do is cut crucial early educational programs for poor kids and complain about condoms.
(Stolen from OpenLeft.)
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Filed at 4:48 pm, Saturday February 07th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
This is rather messy:
Michael S. Steele, the newly elected chairman of the Republican National Committee, arranged for his [failed] 2006 Senate campaign to pay a defunct company run by his sister for services that were never performed, his finance chairman from that campaign has told federal prosecutors.
Federal agents in recent days contacted Steele’s sister, a […]
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Filed at 7:59 am, Friday February 06th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
So if Congress confirms Obama’s proposed Secretary of Commerce, Republican Senator Judd Gregg, it will put me in kind of an odd position.
Like Gregg, I’m from New Hampshire, but I live in Chicago for college. Which means that I will have had two senators replaced by governors in the span of a few months (Roland […]
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Filed at 10:02 am, Thursday February 05th 2009
by Arlen Parsa
This, surprisingly, hasn’t gotten much coverage, but SCHIP? Awesome:
President Barack Obama sees expansion of government health insurance to millions of lower-income children as a first step of several to come in providing coverage for all Americans.
Ending a two-year effort by Democrats, Obama signed legislation Wednesday that will allow about 7 million children to continue […]
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