“Lisa A. Kline, 47, a Manhattan mother of three, is the wardrobe consultant who made an Alaska hockey mom-turned-governor named Sarah Palin into chic vice-presidential material.” Lisa tells the real story behind what was known on the campaign trail as “Wardrobegate.”
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The Big O, Oprah that is, has decided to end her 25 year run as queen of daytime talk. In September of 2011, the ratings powerhouse that is “The Oprah Winfrey Show” will fade into the sunset of TV history. Where will Tom Cruise be able to insanely jump on a couch if not Oprah?
This Saturday evening, the Senate faces it’s first tough vote on Harry Reid’s version of Obamacare. With no room for dissent, the Democrats hope to garner the needed 60 votes to push the bill to the floor. Can the GOP and Moderate Dems stop them?
Families of the 9/11 victims and the people of New York are about to relive the terror of 2001 all over again. The mother of a victim said this week after talking to AG Holder, “We’d like to close a chapter on this book at some point, but they keep opening this wound and rubbing our faces in it.”
Ten years after 9/11, old wounds will be re-opened with the trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York, but KSM has been given a platform, “from which to proclaim the glory of jihad and the criminality of infidel America.”
Hispanic lawmakers are blaming Rahm Emanuel for efforts to prohibit illegal aliens from being part of the President’s health care reform plan. This might spell trouble for the White House on the Hill and at the ballot box.
“China is ‘passive’ on the value of the U.S. dollar, central bank Governor Zhou Xiaochuan said, signaling that policy makers aren’t yet prepared to loosen controls on the yuan.” Zhou: “We just watch the game. Regardless who wins or loses, the issue of whether the winner or loser benefits the spectator doesn’t arise.”
“Episodes in both houses of Congress exposed the raw nerves of lawmakers flooded with stories of unemployment and economic hardship back home [and] underscored the stiff headwinds that the administration faces as it pushes to enact sweeping changes to the financial regulatory system while also trying to create jobs for ordinary Americans.”
Today will be an interesting one: “Political frustration over the rescue of Wall Street and high unemployment erupted in the House Thursday, with one committee threatening to impose tighter scrutiny on the Federal Reserve and another trading verbal insults with Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.”
“The Senate bill needs sixty votes to proceed to a floor debate, and Mr. Reid is expected to call a vote later this week, perhaps Saturday if not sooner. If the tally gets to sixty, that would open perhaps the most critical period of legislative action on American health care since Congress created Medicare.”
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POLITICS
- Reid’s Massive Health Care Mess
- Jobs: An Economic Problem or a Political Problem?
- Nine Reasons Why the New York City Terror Trials are a Bad Idea
- Is America Becoming More Like China?
- Obamacare vs. the American Entrepreneur
- The Losing Side
- Prosperity and Capitalism After the Berlin Wall
- Is Joe Klein Nuts?
- Democrats Divided on Abortion and Health Care
- Berlin at 20: Neither Impossible Nor Inevitable
MARKET
- Negative Interest Rates, Fed Audits, and Geithner in the Dock
- Retail, Ben Bernanke, and Auditing the Fed
- China, Prosperity, and the Berlin Wall
- Christopher Dodd’s Big Regulation Push
- GDP Grows, Consumer Spending Plummets on the Eve of the Holiday Season
- Is the Recession Over? And AIG’s 100 Cent Payoff
- George Soros’s War on the Free Market
- The Executive Pay Crackdown and Too Big to Fail Policy Explained
- Hank Paulson’s Secret Goldman Sachs Meeting
- The New Home-Buyers’ Big Tax Credit Fraud
BLOGS
- Obama Steals Football from Children in NFL PSA
- I Realize That People May Be Tired Of Me Pointing This Out . . .
- Bribery
- Surprise! (Trade Policy Edition)
- Health Care “Reform” Will Cost Us
- Lindsey Graham Devastates Eric Holder
- Sino-American Communiqué Failures
- 2012’s Republican Dark Horses
- “It Was Hard Not To Feel A Bit Nostalgic For The Days When Grown-Ups Were In Charge”
- I Know This News Is Going To Shock You . . .
EDGE
- Four Seasons of Awesome: Urbaniak on Venture Bros
- The Invention of Lying and Religion
- Gold For Oil and Son of Cash For Clunkers
- Polanski and the Crux of Art and Excess
- Tarantino: Hollywood’s Most Righteous Gentile
- Those Cursed Mets and the Book of Fred
- Why Michael Bay Is So Incredibly Awesome
- Goodell, Vick, and the Unforgiveable Crimes of the NFL
- Baseball’s Big Problem: Bill James on Steroids
- Public Enemies: Michael Mann’s Moral Relativism
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