Marc Comtois
Didja hear about the netroot capo who had to settle with the SEC? Matt Drudge (of course) broke the story that, according to the NY Times, MyDD.com blogger Jerome Armstrong is paying close to $30,000 in fines to the Securities and Exchange Commission because he promoted the stock of a company on his blog and…
Yeah, Jon Stewart has honed his knives at the expense of many a conservative…but here he takes a stab at some liberal hypocrites. Via Watthead.
Believe it or not, there has never been a movie made about Calvin Coolidge. [Cue laughtrack.] OK, that is ENTIRELY believable. Over at Spinning Clio I post about a new documentary that looks at the presidency of “Cool Cal” and attempts to revise some of the impressions we have about him. In short, it is…
I heard about this on the radio this morning, and blogger Extreme Mortman (h/t) also caught it: Asked whether, if he were president now, he’d honor Barry Bonds in the White House, Obama said: “First of all he’s still got to hit one more. .. He hasn’t done it yet, so we’ll answer the question…
Only the “reality-based” community could come up with this: …a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form a labor union they hope will help them receive health insurance, conduct collective bargaining or even set professional standards. … “I think people have just gotten to the point where people outside…
The ProJo’s Mike Stanton helps to narrow the focus on the Beacon imbroglio to the Senator Sheldon Whitehouse’s involvement: The report also focused on efforts by Beacon’s then-CEO, Joseph A. Solomon, to solicit campaign contributions for Whitehouse’s Senate campaign. From May 27, 2005, to June 30, 2005, the report says, 14 Beacon employees, board members…
The State DBR (Department of Business Regulation) has released it’s own report (300+ pages) concerning the Beacon Mutual scandal (before the Governor shook it all up). As the ProJo 7to7 blog summarizes: Here are some of the report’s specific findings, according to the DBR: — Certain employers related to board members and other favored employers…
David Mittell: Like marijuana and hanging, casino gambling is against the law in Massachusetts. Yet by the power they invested in themselves, the 2,387 obliged the town and its officials to bear witness in favor of the $1 billion casino; and within moments selectmen signed a 21-page agreement binding themselves to do so. I know…
Both Andrew and Mac have pointed to the NY Times piece by Brookings Institute’s Michael O’Hanlon and Kenneth Pollack that claims progress is being made in Iraq. As Mac stated, it is important because of who is saying that things are looking up: “two severe critics of the Bush administration’s management of the war.” Afraid…
I was blissfully away on vacation for two weeks (where I was again reminded that most people don’t really care about politics, btw) but was greeted by this politics-as-usual bit in today’s ProJo Political Scene column: To fill the long-vacant position of director of e-government and information technology in his office, Secretary of State A.…