Most of today’s news has been occupied by the Times story, which reported that a gaggle of Romney supporters were prepping a big ad campaign to toss Reverend Wright and everything but the kitchen sink at President Obama. Since then virtually everyone involved has either denied involvement or is insisting that it was just an idea and not one that they’d ever planned to go ahead with.
But there’s a bigger story here. And the key is the strategist’s claim, quoted in the Times, that the plan would “do exactly what John McCain would not let us do.” Read More
We got so many great emails of book recommendations, I haven’t been able to get through all of them yet. Please keep them coming and I’ll report back on the great finds soon.
The George Zimmerman legal defense fund has fallen on hard times.
Documents released Thursday show police investigators initially concluded that Martin’s killing was ‘ultimately avoidable’ and recommended charges of manslaughter.
Who is Joe Ricketts? The latest mogul fixin’ to go to war against President Obama?
The first-ever mission to send a private commercial spacecraft to the International Space Station launches Saturday. Check out the Dragon.
You a big banker worried that Jamie Dimon’s JP Morgan debacle is going to blow open the dam holding back the floodwaters of reform? One of the top reformers in DC says there’s little chance of that.
Famed former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling in recent years became a very public champion of conservative “small-government” politics.
He also launched a video game production company that two years ago set up shop in Rhode Island thanks to $75 million in state guaranteed loans.
Well, business isn’t going so well, and this month Schilling’s company 38 Studios missed a $1.1 million payment to the state. He’s now asking for more taxpayer help.
The Facebook IPO gave CNBC a chance today to relive the good ol’ days of dotcom hysteria. We condense all of it into 100 sober, calm, reflective seconds … PANIC!