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The Costa Rica stupidity continues – Bloombama News Service has now joined the chorus of media stupidity. http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=as29boo9FyVQ On the positive side, at least they did some original research about Costa Rica’s medical system, and attempted to contact Rush. First … Continue reading →

Barry Soetoro in Indonesia. The UK’s Daily Mail adds in more details about Barack Obama’s childhood in Indonesia. One little detail it mentions is that his mother did work for the U.S. Embassy, teaching English. Probably appropiate at this point … Continue reading →

“Marxism in Christian clothing” – no, that’s not Glenn Beck, it’s the phrase used by Rick Warren back in 2008. Unless you’ve read his books (Purpose Driven Life) or attend his Saddleback Church, you’re most likely to remember him as … Continue reading →

USB 3.0 is here – it can theoretically transfer 5 Gb/sec if the device can keep up – that’s around 500 MB/sec… or using the old rule of thumb of 2kB=1 page of text… 250,000 printed pages per second. In … Continue reading →

Kansas City Star punks itself – the McClatchy owned newspaper published an article about Glenn Beck’s wife and the Census based largely on”her” paranoid writings on a Myspace page. Glenn pointed out today this is a fake Myspace account… A … Continue reading →

Federalism – it’s an argument as old as the country. Is the United States government a central government created by the several States to handle only those things that only a central government can do (protect the country, resolve disputes … Continue reading →

Do non-Hawaiians have a “tangible interest” in seeing President Obama’s birth certificate? The state legislature is considering passing a law telling “birthers” to just give it up http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100317/D9EG7MBO0.html which of course just reinforces that someone is hiding something.

Blockbuster considering filing Chapter 11 – between NetFlix, Satellite TV and movies on demand, the quaint idea of going to a physical store to rent a DVD has run its course – not to mention that movies are an obvious … Continue reading →

It’s March Madness…. stations will be carrying basketball games for the rest of the month – stations that didn’t carry regular season games. If a stream seems to be down in the evening or the weekends, and is also down … Continue reading →

All 57 states will save 3000% on health care. Someone should ask President Obama to speel potatoe.

Was Woody (Woodrow Wilson) Guthrie a Marxist or maybe even a Communist? Or is Glenn Beck an out of control paranoid McCarthy wannabe? Let’s check in with PBS PBS Profile on Woody Guthrie The most direct mention is that Woody … Continue reading →

When Cable TV companies want to carry TV stations, they have to pay TV stations to use their intellectual property. If the NAB opposes paying “taxes” on using music, why do they support cable TV paying a “tax” to carry … Continue reading →

Citadel gets right to cancel “programming deals”. The Bankruptcy judge has given Citadel the green light to tear up its contracts for programming, like the one with Clear Channel and Sean Hannity. Whether Clear Channel will renegotiate the contracts or … Continue reading →

Radio Derb – combine sarcasm, a sense of irony, conservative politics and dry British humo[u]r and you have Radio Derb, a production of National Review Online. Well worth the time to listen and ponder.

Here come higher interest rates… Still not “high”, but when the market thinks the flood of free dollars for lending is gone, momentum can build quickly. Keep your eyes on LIBOR – that’s the only one that matters.