Holden On

Can Holden Thorp escape being sacked by an all-out Rams Club blitz?   Even worse, he’s catching hell both ways: from people mad he fired Butch Davis and from people mad he didn’t fire Davis earlier.   No good deed goes unpunished.   Here’s the story I hear: Davis’ firing was Thorp’s doing, not new…

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Moody’s and the Meltdown

Barney Frank may be more liberal than Harry Reid or Obama combined but he doesn’t mind marching right into the lion’s den at Fox News and taking on any anchorman in sight.   The other day in an interview Neil Cavuto put Frank on the spot, asking if the Democrats’ brinksmanship on the debt ceiling…

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Chickens**t

Front-page headlines and much gnashing of teeth greeted the news that a Ukrainian billionaire pulled the plug on the jobs of 1,000 North Carolina chicken plant workers last week.   But the stories missed the irony that a TAPster caught:   “If, instead, a Ukrainian billionaire announced he was building poultry processing plants in central…

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The Glass Debt Ceiling

A TAPster passes along a link raising the question: What if Congress was more than 13 percent women?   A NPR commentator is quoted as saying: “In experiments, when men feel there are lots of other men around, they tend to pose more, they tend to talk tough, they become shortsighted, they take bigger bets.…

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Super Power

If reincarnation is real, I want to come back as a credit-rating agency. They apparently are the most powerful beings on the planet.     They even forced Congress to act!

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Is the Center Right?

If both Tea Party Republicans and Democratic liberals don’t like the debt deal, does that make it a good deal for America?   There is a line of thinking today that what is missing in politics is a “vital center” – those supposed wise men and women who find the right answer to our problems…

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Two Facts about the Debt Ceiling Deal

It’s pretty hard to sort through all the facts and figures and the rhetoric and posturing about the latest debt ceiling deal – but two facts seem clear.   President Obama, Speaker Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid all say the latest agreement will raise the debt ceiling $2.4 trillion in exchange for $2.5 trillion…

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