Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enrichi

How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union BossesBOOK FORUMTuesday, January 12, 201012:00 PM (Luncheon to Follow)Featuring the author, Timothy P. Carney, Lobbying Editor, Washington Examiner; with comments by Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy

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Ripple: Ray Carney talks to Richard Metzger

While The GSpot takes a holiday, Ray Carney provides us with a Ripple to take it's place this week. James Curcio supplies a special behind the scenes look at MTW in two weeks and then The GSpot returns January 22nd, 2010. Have a safe and happy holiday (if that's how you choose to spend it) and enjoy.

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Meat Free Monday-Ex-Beetle Sir Paul McCartney and daughter D

Ex-Beetle Sir Paul McCartney and daughters Mary and Designer Stella McCarney launched Meat Free Monday at St. James' Park in London on June 15, 2009. Can you believe it? Eco Hustler was not invited, but at least they invited Yoko Ono. I guess they had Yoko there to represent the non-white population of this multi-cultural world.

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John McCain calls Time Magazine Reports "Jerks"

John McCain, when he was stil a media darling, affectionately called reporters "little jerks." But for Time's James Carney and Michael Scherer, he actually meant it, according to campaign manager Rick Davis. National Review editor Rich Lowry pulled out some nuggets from an upcoming post-mortem on the McCain campaign.

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McCain: Iraq Is ‘A Peaceful And Stable Country Now’

Today, Time Magazine published an interview with Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) that it conducted aboard McCain’s campaign airplane. Reporters James Carney and Michael Scherer described McCain as “prickly” and “at times, abrasive” during the course of the interview.Carney and Scherer noted to McCain that the Iraqi government is calling for a deadline

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This Day In History

Lend-Lease Act: was signed into law by FDR, providing aid in the form of equipment, food and weapons to the Allies during WWII (1941)

Quote of the day

"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."

by Gabriel García Márquez