Posts Tagged ‘princeton’
September 10th, 2010 | No Comments
This email has been making the rounds according to snopes: This is a heads up regarding Progressive Auto Insurance. You know who they are. They’re the ones with the clever television ads featuring the perky brunette actress all dressed in white. What you might not know is that the chairman of Progressive is Peter Lewis, [...]
Tags: aclu, ACORN, america coming together, armand hammer, bias, boycott, case western reserve, guggenheim, insurance, moveon, occidental petroleum, peter lewis, princeton, Progressive, SEIU, snopes, soros
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I’m not allowed to put her entire thesis here, but some parts I can. And: Through its own internal feuding, then, the SP exhausted itself forever and further reduced labor radicalism in New York to the position of marginality and insignificance from which it has never recovered. The story is a sad but also [...]
Tags: elena, kagan, local, new york, princeton, socialism, socialism in new york city, to the final conflict
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President Obama has decided the unemployment situation is bad. He has a point. It’s now as bad as it was when Reagan fixed Carter’s mess. So, he decided to have a get-together with minds that he thinks will fix the problem. Now, in my relatively simple world, the best way to cure unemployment is to [...]
Tags: Alan Blinder, Andrew Livens, AT&T, Bob Iger, boeing, Brian Roberts, carter, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Coalition for the Green Bank, Columbia, Comcast, disney, dow, Dow Corning, employment, EPI, Eric Schmidt, Federal Express, forum, Frederick Smith, Google, Green for All, James McNerney, jobs, Larry Mishel, maker, paul krugman, pay to play, Peter Solmssen, Phaedra Ellis Lamkins, princeton, private, public, Qwest, Randall Stevenson, reagan, Reed Hundt, sector, Siemens, Stephanie Burns, Surya Mohapatra, taker, tarp, unemployment, white house
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Today we’ll start one of the most annoying processes in politics I can think of. Nominating a Supreme Court justice will bring us a week of guaranteed partisan political bickering and posturing. No ifs, ands, or butts. Guaranteed. Now, I don’t have that much of an issue with that aspect of it. I just won’t [...]
Tags: bias, bigot, confirmation, discrimination, feindstein, gender, harry reid, latina, o'connor, princeton, Racism, racist, sandra day, sonia, sotomayor, title vii, woman, yale
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From Reuters: U.S. Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur came to a House committee hearing on Thursday prepared to ask U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson tough questions about his involvement in the subprime mortgage crisis. Unfortunately, she was questioning the chairman of the Federal Reserve. The Ohio Democrat, at a House of Representatives Budget Committee hearing, said she [...]
Tags: bernanke, goldman-sachs, Idiot of the day, kaptur, lending, marcy, paulson, princeton, subprime
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