hotair.com - 11/26/2008
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It’s Peter Schiff, Cassandra of the collapse , sounding off on Bloomberg TV over the weekend. [...] Read the rest »
yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 11/29/2008
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org —
Robert Rubin speaks up for himself : “Nobody
was prepared for this,” Mr. Rubin said in an...
interview. He cited former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan as another example of someone whose reputation has been unfairly damaged by the ...
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Nobody Could Have Predicted…
eschatonblog.com - 12/3/2008
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eschatonblog.com —
That the Crawford "ranch" was just a campaign
prop. First Lady Laura Bush and President George W....
Bush are moving back to Dallas when the president’s term expires in January, the Associated Press is reporting. The AP says the first lady’s press ...
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Nobody Could Have Predicted
eschatonblog.com - 12/3/2008
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eschatonblog.com —
In fact, plenty of people did. Still, it's
very wrong to hurt the feelings of our elite...
overlords by suggesting that they have some responsibility for, well, anything. It makes them very sad. And the sadness of very rich people is something which ...
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Nobody Could Have Predicted
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... Jim Geraghty notices some gnashing of teeth on the left.
Michael Yon writes that the Iraq war is over.
Without missing a shot, a corporal tallies 20 kills, as 30 U.S. Marines defeat 250 insurgents in Afghanistan.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco blocked a major offshore drilling effort.
Mitt Romney v. Jennifer Granholm on the auto bailouts.
Peter Schiff, who predicted the recession, is a bear on the bailouts and Obama. ...
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