And it’s a wrap. Both Democratic incumbents hold on tonight in the Wisconsin recall elections.
Two Democratic incumbent state senators are up in recall elections tonight. The polls close in about 20 minutes and we’ll have live election results for you here.
Well, not exactly. But an S&P equity analyst is suggesting investors unload Google stock after its (proposed) purchase of Motorola’s patent library.
Word comes today that the Pentagon is considering phasing out the military pension system and replacing it with a 401k style retirement plan. I find it sort of amazing that such a thing is even being considered and I really doubt such a thing will ever come to pass.
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Whole Foods exposed paving the way for domination of USA by Sharia.
Benjy Sarlin noted earlier that Perry’s fusillade against Fed Chair Ben Bernanke puts Mitt Romney in a treacherous spot. He’s close to high finance in general and has been conspicuously unwilling to join the general chorus of criticism of Bernanke from the right. But there’s another dimension of this feud. Read More
I’m hoping to write a bit more about this shortly. But for now I’d just like to flag what strikes me as one of the more interesting developments out of Gov. Rick Perry’s entry into the campaign. And that’s the reemergence with a passion of the culture war. But with a difference. In recent decades ‘culture war’ politics has been deeply sexual in character. Gays, abortion, out of control women, etc. But Perry’s — overwhelmingly deployed now against Romney — seems light on the sexual side. It’s much more farm-bred, military-serving, patriotic, anti-Wall Street, maybe anti-city in general.
Real man with his boots on the ranch up against the archetypal girlie-man (okay, a bit sexualized) in the form of Mitt Romney.
A new poll suggests Wisconsin voters are souring on the idea of recalling Gov. Scott Walker (R). And a successful campaign for Walker’s ouster may rest on recruiting former Sen. Russ Feingold as the Democratic contender.