Jack Abramoff was at Tucker Carlson’s last night promoting his new book. Our Ryan Reilly was there.
Justice Department wants to criminalize the violation of online “terms of service” and “terms of use” agreements.
In his unfailing piety, Newt Gingrich in 2008, fresh off his paid gig for Freddie Mac, went on Fox News and counseled John McCain to demand that Obama “give back all the money that Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae gave to you.”
Then a week later he urged John McCain to exploit “the close ties Chris Dodd, Barack Obama and Barney Frank have to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.”
Again, this just after Newt had wrapped up an eight-year consulting stint with Freddie Mac that paid him $1.6 million.
Herman Cain hasn’t even been sworn in yet. But Congress is already insisting that Pizza is a vegetable.
The real news in Bloomberg’s new reporting on Newt Gingrich’s time as a consultant for Freddie Mac isn’t how much he made — though that’s pretty precious — but that Freddie Mac sources from that time period say Newt was not, as he claimed, warning them about the housing bubble or the dangers of their business model. Nor, it should be added, was Newt advising them, as he most preposterously claimed, as a historian. In fact, his role was, in part, to protect the mortgage giants from more regulation by the Republican-controlled House.
Newt now seems to be backing away from his claim in last week’s debate that he warned them about the housing bubble. He’s also now calling the advice he gave “strategic” rather than historical. Read More
Remember that $300,000 that Newt Gingrich was paid to consult for Freddie Mac? Turns out it was $1.6 million.
This is an amazing statistic, though admittedly you’ve got to be a bit of a computer geek to appreciate it and also probably have to have been around for the 1990s. But here’s the number. Only 56.81% of visits to TPM (November 2011) come from devices or computers using the windows operating system.
For points of reference that number was 75% in Nov.2007. And it’s fallen steadily each year since. By most standards that’s a pretty precipitous drop. Read More
Occupy DC protestors tonight took over the headquarters of Brookfield Properties, the owners own Zuccotti Park. Here’s the video.