Is New York the Next Detroit?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 5th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Is New York the Next Detroit?
Megan McArdle, Bloomberg
How the FBI Could Get in Your Computer
Kevin Poulsen, Wired
Love, Lies, Luxury Goods and a Governor
Margaret Carlson, Bloomberg
Romance, designer gowns, lavish parties, fast cars, private jets and lakeside mansions.The federal trial of former Governor Bob McDonnell of Virginia and his first lady on corruption charges features all that and more. If you’re headed to the beach, the transcript makes for riveting reading. You’ll discover how the couple is trying to explain that Virginia businessman Jonnie Williams gave them $165,000 in loans and gifts because the governor’s wife, Maureen, had a crush on him and that the governor knew nothing about it. “Another man,” attorney William Burck argued, was able to “invade…
Democrats Seize on Social Issues as Attitudes Shift
John Harwood, NYT
WASHINGTON — Facing re-election, Gov. Scott Walker, Republican of Wisconsin, no longer talks about stopping same-sex marriage. “It’s those on the left that are pushing” the issue, he says.Ed Gillespie, the Republican Senate candidate in Virginia, argued that Senator Mark Warner, the Democratic incumbent, was “making up my views” when Mr. Warner accused him of seeking to overturn abortion rights and ban some forms of contraception. In fact, Mr. Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, said in a recent debate, he wants contraceptives…
Obamacare: More They Know, Less They Like
Byron York, DC Examiner
Democrats have long believed Obamacare would become more popular once it was fully in place and Americans got a chance to see it up close. So why is Obamacare less popular now than a few months ago? Because it is fully in place and Americans have had a chance to see it up close.
