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Posted at 11:58pm on Apr. 28, 2008 Is Rush a Billionaire?
By ElliotE5
Is Rush Limbaugh a billionaire? Wealthier perhaps than Oprah, said last year by Forbes magazine to have been worth $1.3 billion.
Press reports have it that Rush's last contract was renewed in 2001 for a total of about $360 million to 2009. That would plausibly be the amount paid by Clear Channel Radio to keep him in the noon to 3 pm time slot in the firm's vast portfolio of radio stations.
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Posted at 12:12am on Apr. 26, 2008 Another Democrat Sex Scandal
By ElliotE5
There was another Democrat sex scandal this week, leading an Ohio state representative to resign.
Rep. Matt Barrett was giving a civics lecture to a high school class recently when the memory stick from which he was drawing illustrations for the talk put up the picture of a naked woman.
Barrett resigned Thursday after facing pressure from the chamber minority leader.
"It's not a Democratic scandal," the minority leader said. "It's a Matt Barrett scandal.
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Posted at 3:45pm on Mar. 23, 2008 Harvard students who've served in Iraq
By ElliotE5
The Harvard Crimson has a surprisingly well written feature on its students' experiences serving in Iraq. A sample:
It was September 2005. As most Harvard students donned sweatshirts and hurried to their first classes of the year, Tayla C. Havice ’10 was searching female Iraqis for weapons at a military checkpoint on the outskirts of Fallujah clad in full desert camouflage (flack jacket and two firearms included).
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Posted at 12:13am on Mar. 17, 2008 So Bear Stearns has failed. So what is the Conservative message?
By ElliotE5
I have followed the Red State discussions re Bear Stearns, which are nothing if not informative. What has been missing: a cogent plan for the country. The financial panic which has been generally categorized as the 'sub-prime problem' has worked, to date, solely to the advantage of the Democrat party.
So, now that Bear has fallen, the Federal Reserve System has taken in several tens of billions of assets (which may well work out; we just don't know) and the brokerage industry has dodged a very large bullet, what should we stand for?
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Posted at 12:01am on Mar. 14, 2008 Missing from the Spitzer statement: A Higher Authority
By ElliotE5
It's about a day and a half now since the man who shares my first name resigned as governor of New York. I listened to the resignation speech as it was given.
Something about it has been gnawing at me ever since. In the speech, Spitzer talks of atonement, asks for forgiveness from his family, his supporters, the people of New York.
The word, "atonement" led me to expect that the governor would beseech He who breathed life into him for foregiveness. Yet nowhere in the statement, which I reproduce here, is there any acknowledgement of a Higher Power in his or anyone's life.
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Posted at 5:17pm on Mar. 10, 2008 Jackie Mason on Obama: Would you pick a doctor that way?
By ElliotE5
Here is Jackie Mason on Obama. Would you look for a guy who's tall and handsome, or would you look for a guy who knows something about medicine...
A guy who has a few fancy words about medicine or one who's got a record of fixing hearts....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR4Ea8EQoG0
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Posted at 9:52am on Mar. 8, 2008 Beginning to Face Down Renegade Mortgage Brokers
By ElliotE5
The Bush administration has decided to go after Countrywide Financial Corp. (CFC), whose captive bank owes the Federal Home Loan Bank System at least $50 billion.
My only reservation in this regard is that GWB hasn't seized the 'bully pulpit' to put into context what is wrong in the market for subprime and prime mortgages and what it is doing about it. It is all a nebulous problem which hangs out there, all to the advantage of Democrat politicians.
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Posted at 4:10pm on Mar. 5, 2008 The Crimson Responds as Harvard Students Get Taste of Inflation
By ElliotE5
Consider two colleges. One caters to a regional, religious, upwardly mobile student body. The other serves a national, even international, group of young people, economically and intellectually privileged.
Both of them charge what they can for room and 'board'. Both of them begin to face increases in the costs of what their food service programs offer students.
The ways in which these two institutions price, and deal with the menus they offer give us all a snapshot of the difference between free economies, and ones in which those who 'know better' are supposed to make lifestyle decisions for those who don't. Guess which side Harvard Crimson editors come down on?
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Posted at 8:56am on Mar. 3, 2008 Harvard students getting a taste of price controls
By ElliotE5
Harvard students are getting a 'taste' of price controls, and they don't like it.
The problem: Harvard's food service allows students to eat whatever quantity of whatever is on the menus for a flat fee. Many other universities charge per portion.
“They used to have different kinds of pasta,” said Anthony J. Carlson ’09, “but now they have one kind of pasta and always have brown rice. Are we supposed to put the pasta sauce on the rice?”
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Posted at 11:58pm on Jan. 30, 2008 John McCain: Liberal Democrat's Dream
By ElliotE5
Later this year, I will turn 60 years old. I dont think that in all of those years I have read an opinion piece on paper or on line that I have ever disagreed with more than the following.
In this evening's Jerusalem Post is a column by Larry Derfner. I almost don't know where to begin. Rather, I will let him begin:
This week Mitt Romney warned Republicans in Florida - in vain, as it turned out - that if John McCain were elected president, he would lead America on "a liberal Democratic course." Now that statement, I think, says more about Romney and the intellectual dishonesty of political campaigns than it does about McCain, but still, for liberal Democrats like myself who support the Republican from Arizona, it's an encouraging sign.
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