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NAB’s opening offer

So here are the details leaked so far….  as the NAB creates its fantasy of what it thinks a perfomance royalty deal would look like. 1)  Requirement that all Mobile phones be required to have an FM receiver   (Copyright … Continue reading →

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It’s P.R. day today at the NAB

P.R. as in Performance Royalty.   All of the major radio executives in the United States are meeting today at the NAB to discuss whether to cut a deal with the record labels on the so-called “Performance Tax”.   Today, “over the air” radio … Continue reading →

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Using food as a political weapon

On January 4, 1980, in response to the Soviet Union invasion in Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter imposed a ban on exports of grain to Russia.  [Heritage Foundation article].  President Carter was still mired down unable to free the U.S. hostages … Continue reading →

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Tracking Me, Tracking You

The Wall Street Journal looked a few days ago about just how pervasive cross-site web tracking has become. They took a “clean” system and visited the top 50 web sites and then looked very carefully to see how many “beacons” … Continue reading →

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Divine providence vs Manifest Destiny

So would anyone support the idea of moving Glenn Beck from Political Opinion to Religious Teaching? Glenn is going multiple hours without taking a call, playing to the cameras (“take a look at this”, “is that camera 4 behind me?”) … Continue reading →

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What color are dead people?

Okay, that’s an odd question – but we’re talking government here. The current FCC Commission is obsessed with race and gender and a couple weeks ago rolled out more detailed forms requiring station owners to declare what their Race is … Continue reading →

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Bloombama: 42,000 new jobs (or is it?)

The “spin” continues…. ADP’s payroll report – which has more credibility because it measures actual people with jobs – has been spun by Bloomberg by saying jobs rose 42,000 Above Estimates. The truth is that in July, employment dropped by … Continue reading →

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Gun Control in Connecticut

By now, you probably have heard about the 9 dead people in a beer distribution warehouse near Hartford Connecticut. Here are the facts. 34 year old Omar Thomas had worked there for about 2 years and just was promoted to be … Continue reading →

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Critical Windows Patch

Microsoft just “pushed” an “out of cycle” patch of a CRITICAL update that you’ll want to install ASAP. If you don’t allow Windows Update to automatically apply updates, please do a manual update now. This flaw in Windows is not … Continue reading →

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That was fast!

Yesterday, Glenn Beck looked into his crystal ball – and predicted that Lebanon and Israel would have a military confrontation that would grow into a wider conflict. Stu and Pat tried to pin him into putting a time boundary around … Continue reading →

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“Repeal Obamacare” – Part 2

I doubt the owner of WorldNet Daily is genuinely this stupid. WND: Repeal Obamacare this session? To repeat my prior message, “Anyone who tells you they are going to repeal ObamaCare before 2012 is lying”. President Obama is not going … Continue reading →

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Carlos Slim and the NY Times

This week, every major publication in New York – except the NY Times – ran a story about Carlos Slim, one of the richest men in the world buying the only townhouse left on 5th Avenue for around $44 million. … Continue reading →

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How profitable is radio?

Cumulus Media just reported their quarterly earnings – this year is a little less chaotic than a few recent years – advertising by the Census and BP have made things better than they might have been, and political spending is … Continue reading →

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Freedom of “Worship”

Glenn Beck’s second hour today focused on President Obama redefining “Freedom of Religion” as “Freedom of Worship”, which curiously was the term used in the Soviet Union’s Constitution. The difference was that in the Soviet Union, you were allowed to … Continue reading →

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The BP End Game

Now that the BP well seems to be under control, there are three different approaches that are being floated… #1) Resume the oil flow – this seems to be the idea that the litigation lawyers and government bureaucrats favor. To … Continue reading →

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