Can we trade Obama/McCain for Her Majesty/Mitt?
A few people echoing my thoughts about the debate exactly, via Kleinheider: Both Robert and Robin Duncan said that, as they looked at the stage in Nashville during the televised debate, they had an...
View ArticleReform the economy? Give us a break!
So says John Stossel, who lays into PEBO for his recent alarmist comments on the economy. Stossel worries that history will repeat itself with Obama’s economic recovery plan as the soon-to-be-president...
View ArticleSlow movement on endowment loss figures
Just got some word back from the administration on the endowment, an issue Katherine covered extensively yesterday (she even got a hefty mention/quote in the Tennessean). It’s not much, and it makes a...
View ArticleMore on endowment, VSG election results
InsideVandy.com has a couple new stories up on these issues. First, the endowment. Apparently, Provost Richard McCarty is claiming the Tennessean misquoted him in this story. McCarty’s calling it...
View ArticleJonah Goldberg on the House Republican vote on the stimulus
From his column on NRO, I wanted to Twitter it, but the quote is too long. Enjoy. There is a role for government in our current predicament. I even favor a stimulus, albeit via the tax code so as to...
View ArticleEndowment loss not as bad as Tennessean reporter said
InsideVandy.com has the story from Vanderbilt News Service. Apparently, the endowment has lost 16.5 percent, a little more than half a billion dollars. It did a lot better than the average for other...
View ArticleSpecter haunts GOP with stimulus support
The senior senator from Pennsylvania and perpetual gadfly of the GOP has an annoyingly dull and unconvincing op-ed in the Washington Post today explaining his vote on the stimulus. The first sentence...
View ArticleOn Obama, Chicago, and the Great Economic Crisis
Remember when the left shrieked and howled about George W. Bush spending so much time at his ranch in Crawford? Yes, yes, they shrieked and howled about everything he did/said/thought about, but his...
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