Having praised Republican Intellectuals for their leadership in defining the the number 1 issue in the upcoming Presidential Election [in case you missed it -High Anxiety over the widespread National Decline and Washington’s incapacity at addressing the underlying issues], ye Editor expected that some Republican intellectual gaffe or three to inevitably follow. After all this […]
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The Republican Party directs often shrill attacks on so-called “intellectuals” or “Liberals”. And Republicans have a very loose definition of a liberal, probably close to “any non-engineer, non-business person with a graduate degree from any Ivy League-like School who maintains their academic or scientific relationships” [ye Editor is just kidding]. Thus, it is a surprise to
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Steve Jobs and Apple are getting headline stories about the declaration of the Post PC Era; but the reality is that Post PC era started at least 10 years ago. The catalyst has been the fact that Microsoft with its ironclad monopoly wiped out a creative ecosystem around the PC [just look at the software
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Ye Editor has been following Republican intellectuals like George Will, Charles Krauthammer, and David Brooks wondering how could they tolerate the extraordinary flip-flops and utter political nonsense emanating from the Republican Party for the last decade. Start with the Republican’s treasonous “Starve the Beast” policy and the takeover of Republican messaging by the extreme right
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In the past year, ye Editor has found himself disagreeing with MarketWatch’s John Dvorak on a number of his editorials. But on his recent disapproval of Google’s Chromebook as lacking a compelling combination of features, operational modes, and pricing – ye Editor has to say right on John. Here is the most telling arguments I’m
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Want to know why jobs are not coming back anytime soon and why Washington ignores what is being requested by the public in poll after poll? It is all a case of Supreme Court powered $dollar-votes being courted slavishly by both political parties for the upcoming Presidential Elections. Listening to the political pundits on the Sunday
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The public debate on Economic Policy is becoming more important because the US Economy is stalling out with very poor job creation and GDP growth despite nearly 4 years of unrelenting and ridiculously low interest rates plus initial huge bailouts made to the car and financial industries. Trickle Down and”Let No Big Bank Fail”
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There is a posting at Aljazeera about cyberwarfare that reads like a Clive Cussler Techno-thriller novel [try Polar Shift]. There is the intrigue and secrecy associated with hacking and the security defying exploits of hackers that make your taming of Microsoft Word’s formating ribbon look like what it is – tedious child’s play. But cyber-warfare has now
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Why is Marketwatch’s David Weidner calling Peter Diamond and Paul Krugman Sissies? Is he envious of their respective Nobel Economics Prizes or has the Partisan Congressional Rancor and Name-calling spilled over into the Financial Press? Is Marketwatch becoming the Fox News tough guy affiliate for New Corp common parent? Does David want Jon Friedman’s job
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Why is Pimco boss Bill Gross, manager of trillion dollars in assets Pimco Funds, under fire from the Wall Street Journal? The WSJ published a report today which examines in great detail how Bill Gross lost over $3billion on Lehman Brothers bonds going bankrupt in September 2008 tripping off the Financial meltdown which the US is still
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In the movie On the Waterfront, the story turns on Mickey’s lament – “I couldda been a contendah”. In the bowels of Apple’s Cupertino development center, the same lament could be made by Apple’s Mac development team. Last year, Mac sales grew by 28% despite having to heft a 100% price premium against PCs for
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Why be the Republican Presidential Candidate in 2012? The prospect is daunting given at best the titular power but the more likely fractious power accorded to the 2012 Republican Presidential candidate. It is definitely not fear of President Obama who has flunked Economics 101 by accepting ” Trickle Down, Rescue the Financial System first and
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Benjamin Netanyahu [also known as Bibi] may have won a Pyrhhic victory in his well received address to the US Congress. But come September at the United Nations when a vote in the General Assembly may arise on admission of Palestine as a member country with borders adhering to the pre-1967 lines – the Ship
During the Financial crisis, a consistent complaint has been that the Federal Financial regulators have proved to be no match for Wall Street Manipulators. The two primary cases cited are the Madoff scandal missed by the SEC despite 3-4 clear advisories from whistle blowers and the Mortgage Meltdown ignored by many of the 17 Federal
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Paul Krugman of the NYTimes gives the almost sordid history of manufacturing jobs in the US over the past decade. Making Things In America, manufacturing, used to be one of the strengths of America. Here are the current trends: The story so far: In the 1990s, U.S. manufacturing employment was more or less steady. After
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David Brooks at the NYTimes has said about unlimited campaign funding and lobbying allowed by the Supreme Court in January 2010 – “What?, Me, Worry?” [ye Editor paraphrases only slightly]. But in describing the gridlock over climate change and broader legislation, Felix Salmon at Reuters describes the consequences of the Supreme Court’s sheer blundering judicial
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Perhaps it is fitting that on the anniversary of the Flash Crash on the NYSE last May when the Dow Jones Index fell by nearly 1000 points, the markets got a reminder of how speculation still rules the roost. The day before oil prices fell by 10%, silver by another 8%, and commodity prices across
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There is a tsunami of mindless pap that permeates the Media Beacon – call it the Shrill Shills. These dual edge headlines perched atop every story are designed to capture attention for 15 seconds or however long it takes to imbibe 140 characters of mass communications. But the shills are craving more than attention these
Birthers do not believe that Barack Obama was born in the USA. Despite the birth certificate and the notification of birth in several Honolulu newpapers. Over 50% of Republicans believe the Birther myth while only 33% of Republicans definitely acknowledge that Obama was born in the US. This is the topic of much analysis including the
Global Warming is unpopular because it says that humans at 6.9 billion and counting are responsible for global weather processes. Global Warming occurs primarily due to the release of CO2 and other gases into the upper atmosphere to levels that gradually raise the temperature around the world and lead to more radical and disruptive weather
Being deliberately irrational has become the modus operandi for the GOP as the party of Political Conservatives. However, in recent months, the conservative norms have taken ever more extreme forms including the deliberately irrational or mendacious. Take the latter and Republican Senator John Kyl of Arizona who declared in the Senate that 90% of Planned
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President Obama has been as disconcerting for Democrats as he has been judged as outrageous by Republicans. Look at major events over the past 2 years: 1)No Justice Department investigations of the Republican Administration for broad malfeasance particularly in the areas of abuse of power in the lead up to, pursuit of the Iraq War and handling
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Update: April 22, 2011. After massive shootings of 70++ demonstrators today, Syria Live is back to being truly live on Aljazeera. Syrian PM Assad and the Syrian government warned that demonstrations would be subject to arms fire – and did it. This is a Rubicon crossing. Tribal influences may be coming into play – see
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Android and therefore Linux is finally emerging as a major PC operating system. Tablets like Motorola Xoom, Motorola Atrix, Samsung Galaxy Tab and Samsung Galaxy 10.1 tablets already put Linux/Android in a more active role on tablets while Android has just taken top position in the smartphones market. But the clincher will be the emergence
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Watching Meet the Press on NBC the last two Sundays, I found the Moral Amnesia of guests Representative Paul Ryan and Senator Mike Lee, both Tea party members, so astonishing and morally vacuous. Here are two champions of Deficit Cutting who speak with almost complete amnesia about how the deficits were amassed – they are
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Who said this? …Republicans should understand that when self-described conservatives such as Malzberg [or Trump]voice question-rants like the one above and Republicans do not recoil from them, the conservative party is indirectly injured. As it is directly when Newt Gingrich, who seems to be theatrically tiptoeing toward a presidential candidacy, speculates about Obama having a “Kenyan,
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The WSJ Opinion is predictable – Alan J Reynolds says that taxing the rich won’t work at helping to reduce the huge $14trillion US Deficit. Alan cites the fact that even when tax rates for the rich go up, tax revenue do not increase measurably [and Businessweek supplies the answer to that little puzzle –
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If anything should have been learned from the Financial Meltdown of 2007-2009,it is a childhood lesson that your Mom repeated count less times – playing with fire and other things techie you don’t completely understand…. oops make that derivatives and other complex seccurities while under the influence of extremely high leverage can be very detrimental
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WYSIPS-What You See Is PhotoVoltaic Source is a French start-up which apparently has a major breakthrough for solar power to electronic devices. The lenticular skin is transparent but generates serious power for directly charging mobile electronics like smartphones, GPS systems, etc. Because the film is not only transparent but also very thin and highly flexible it can
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IBD-Investors Business Daily is the chamber of commerce of business daily newspapers. It caters to small and upcoming businesses – the Russell 2000 companies. This is not a bad marketplace to be in today as the need to change and grow new companies becomes the norm in the business world. Also the IBD offers some
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Taketh5th has just covered the several recall petitions for Wisonsin GOP Senators and Representatives that is going forward after the legislature removed government unions rihts to negotiate. Now the recall movement is taking on another target, The US Supreme Court. Two districts in Wisconsin have approved referenda that call for amending the US Constitution to
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Maybe its the dire economic and political news, but this years April Fool jokes and spoofs on the Web appear to be vintage quality. And that is a high Testament to Foolishness because despite the Web’s seeming pervasiveness , only one Web-originated April Fools prank has cracked the the top 30 in the list of
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