AT&T Profits Mean We Must Be In A Recession
AT&T this morning reports an increase in quarterly profit. From the Reuters story: AT&T’s first-quarter profit rose to $3.46 billion, or 57 cents per share, from $2.85 billion, or 45 cents a share in the same quarter a year earlier. The positive report...Republican 3rd District Convention (Iowa)
Thanks to Bithead for holding down the fort this weekend! My schedule was crazy and having a quality guest like Bit fill in for me is like going to McDonald’s, ordering a Big Mac and getting Prime Rib! Go visit him at BitsBlog. Needless to say, I’ve got a...It’s been a pleasure….
A tip of Bits Ballcap to Art Smith, for letting me sit in for a couple days, while he tended to other matters. Hope I’ve managed to give you something new to think about. I’ll be back, I’m quite sure. Meanwhile, of course, you can find me, along with...Sadr, doing Iran’s bidding, but for how long?
Karl at Protein Wisdom: With the Iraqi Army defeating Moqtada al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army in Basra, the L.A. Times has moved on to tell its readers how terrible things might get in Najaf. Buried in the middle of the piece, however, is a bit about the battle for Basra: This...
The Writer’s strike; An example of Unions
Over at OTB, James has noted that TV watching just isn’t the same. He notes an AdAge article: Just because your favorite dramas and comedies are back on the air after the writers strike doesn’t mean you’re necessarily watching them. A preliminary look at...You mean my tank of gas isn’t dear departed Dino?
Says Billy Beck: “Yet in recent years Russia has quietly become the world’s top producer of oil, in part by drilling wells as deep as 40,000 feet — far below the graveyards of T-Rex and his Mesozoic buddies.” No matter what else about this...The balance act
Limbaugh likes to say on his radio program, that he IS balance for the liberal press. And in many ways, he’s quite right. So an interesting angle on this shows up today in an article by John Harris and Jim Vandiehei at The Politico: My, oh my, but weren’t...A serious lack of understanding of things military
John Hawkins over at Right Wing News has an interesting interview up with Will Breazeale, who is an Iraqi vet running for Congress. In the interview, Breazeale tells an interesting story regarding Harry Reid and Barbara Boxer; “I was a protocol officer for a 3...The Debate Over The Debate
Frankly, there’s very few members of the mainstream media that I have a lot of confidence in. It is odd, however, to see so much caterwauling amongst the members of the press over Wednesday night’s debate. But it seems like it wasn’t much of a...Stay in Touch
