Some InTrade political bettors with intestinal fortitude stand to make a fortune on Tuesday — or at least a high rate of return — if, indeed, Mitt Romney wins the Sunshine State primary. The Dublin-based predictions market gives Mitt Romney a 97.1% chance of winning the Florida Primary — up from somewhere in the 30’s just 10 or […]
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Real(ly) Clear History
Some years ago, a newspaper began publishing in Pennsylvania called Old News. It is now available exclusively online. Old News provides exactly what its name suggest, old news. Each month, it focuses on a few historical stories and tells them as if they are new and breaking. Great idea. Today I noticed for the first […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, George Will
“Time is not Newt Gingrich’s friend because the more time he has the more he talks. And the more he talks the more he says things, as he just here this morning, he said that I would love to be civil, but I’m running against a maniacal liar. Now, that’s pretty strong language. I don’t […]
Read the rest of this entry »Hollywood-ed History
http://youtu.be/CJQcGpRUPKE “This land was made for war. “As glass resists the bite of vitriol, so this hard and calcined earth rejects the battles’ hot, corrosive impact. “Here is no nubile, girlish land. No green and virginal countryside for war to violate. This land is hard, inviolable.” So reads Sir Lawrence Olivier in the opening moments […]
Read the rest of this entry »Twitter Suicide?
Very interesting commentary here by Mark Gibbs of Forbes on Twitter’s decision to start censoring content in some countries. Gibbs thinks it’s suicidal for Twitter. We’ll see…
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, President Obama
I like the quote below from President Obama’s interview last night with ABC’s Diane Sawyer. It’s the kind of quote people in my profession always advise clients not to make. Words like these become fodder for an opponent’s television ads. But Americans like to see humility in their leaders, so I think this one is a net […]
Read the rest of this entry »Biden Strikes Again
http://youtu.be/gzuGFyMM5h8 No he didn’t… Kind of reminds you of … http://youtu.be/OIT3jUrNTX0
Read the rest of this entry »Dole on Gingrich
“If [Newt] Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.” — […]
Read the rest of this entry »Quote of the Day, Carolyn Ryan, NY Times
“The photo suggests- vividly – if you drink soda, you lose your leg. Turned out city-not diabetes-sawed off guy’s leg.” — New York Times Metro Editor Carolyn Ryan in a Twitter exchange with senior advisory to Mayor Bloomberg, Howard Wolfson. The New York City Health Department was caught by The New York Times photo-shopping a leg […]
Read the rest of this entry »Prediction: Romney Locks It Up by Michigan
“Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” I’m wrong at least half the time, at least when it comes to Newt Gingrich. I’ve left him for dead on this blog for a solid six months, but the guy keeps coming, like a figure out of “Night of […]
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