January 28th, 2012
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Highlights from Conference Call W/ RNC Chairman Priebus & MIGOP Chairman Schostak
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus: “For years, the Michigan GOP has been a very serious Republican party in this country, always in the top 5 parties in the country concerning organization and money and knowledge and how to win and connect the dots on the ground and we’re going to need that because Michigan is going [...]
ICYMI: President Obama Campaigns in Michigan
“GOP’s Priebus: Remember Obama’s Record on Economy Today” By: Reince Priebus January 27, 2012 Excerpts from the Detroit News: “Michigan is the final stop on President Obama’s cross-country, five-state tour. Setting aside his presidential duties, he’s back to what he really loves: campaigning. “But if Obama takes some time away from politicking at the [...]
Tech at Night: Google causes a privacy stir, Twitter causes a censorship stir, Grassley continues to fight
So, Google is integrating its websites more. As a result, some privacy settings will apply network-wide, and one site will be able to use data from another site. People are flipping out, naturally. People have been giving Google this data for ages. People have known that Google was watching them, and yet they chose to [...]
Daily Links – January 27, 2012
Today is January 27th. On this date in 1756, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg, Austria, thereby laying the ground work for Falco to top the charts 230 years later. (Which I’m sure was his reasoning in being born.) Today is also the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet forces. I would [...]
Nothing’s Shocking
It is a sad commentary on the state of our world that stories like this one (warning, .pdf) (via the Population Research Institute) barely shock us anymore. The gist of the story is as follows: a Massachusetts woman, identified in court pleadings only as Mary Moe, is pregnant with her third child. She aborted her [...]
$16.4 Trillion in Debt By End of Year
So this is what the “age of budget austerity” looks like? Yesterday, the Senate voted against a measure to disapprove of Obama’s request for an additional $1.2 trillion of debt. Every Democrat (except for Ben Nelson and Joe Manchin) voted against the resolution. Consequently, pursuant to the Budget Control Act (the “debt ceiling deal”), Obama [...]
Is There No Longer a Shared “American Way of Life”?
Download audio here Download Podcast | iTunes | Podcast Feed On today’s edition of Coffee and Markets, Brad Jackson and Ben Domenech are joined by Francis Cianfrocca to discuss the Fed’s interest rate announcement, the divided cultural experiences of America’s upper and lower class, and whether or not “the American way of life” still exists. [...]
