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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Washington Examiner: Opinion Digest for Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Examiner Editorial: If Obama wins, brace for a suicide dive off fiscal cliff

"Quite simply, the U.S. is the closest shark to the boat right now." That comment, from investment strategist Russ Koesterich to the...
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York: With week to go, Team Romney is upbeat about Ohio

Byron York

Jason Gloeckner, of Galena, Ohio, never told his wife, Jean, that he voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Never, that is, until a few days...
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Romney employs Obama tactics on autos. Obama cries foul.

Timothy P. Carney

The single biggest theme of President Obama’s reelection campaign has been a misleading attack-and-brag regarding the auto bailouts....
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No, Mitt Romney does not want to abolish FEMA

Conn Carroll

Ryan Grim, formerly of the Marijuana Policy Project, has a hit piece at The Huffington Post today accusing Mitt Romney of wanting to...
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Who's a racist?

Cal Thomas

On MSNBC's Ed Schultz program Friday night, the former chief of staff for Colin Powell, retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, said, of...
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Obama, Romney should have debated more substantive questions

Gregory Kane

What was up with Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his Mr. Nice Guy act during that third and final debate with...
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Straight talk ahead of Election Day

Hugh Hewitt

Denver's "Wings Over the Rockies" air museum was the site for a gathering of 2,500 hard-core political junkies Saturday afternoon. Karl...
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BELTWAY CONFIDENTIAL
Photo: Ground Zero construction site flooded in New York City
Congress, not Obama, has power to change election day
Supporter to Michelle Obama: ‘Will you marry me?’
White House ignores question about Obama moving Election Day
Romney employs Obama tactics on autos. Obama cries foul.

EDITORIALS
Examiner Editorial: If Obama wins, brace for a suicide dive off fiscal cliff
Examiner Editorial: Benghazi is not about politics, it's about the truth
Examiner Editorial: The Obama economic stagnation continues
Examiner Editorial: Ryan outlines conservative approach to poverty
Examiner Editorial: Mitt Romney is the clear choice for troubled times

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Is the media piling on Romney? September 26, 2012 by Kevin E. Dayhoff

Is the media piling on Romney?

http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5361

Howard Kurtz, the host of the weekly CNN program Reliable Sources, tweeted last Sunday: “I'm at CNN and about to ask whether the media are piling on Romney.”

Well, duh. Is a school bus yellow? Of course, the media is piling on Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor.

We are currently a witness to history. We are spectators to a presidential election this November that still has all the hallmarks of potentially being stolen by the media. We are witnessing a coup d’état by the elite-progressive press, if you will.

“The weird ecstasy of the media-political complex at the Democratic Party convention in Charlotte last month was the first sign that its attachment to President Barack Obama, always fawning, had become morbid,” wrote Michael Knox Beran in National Review Online on September 17.

“How Republics Fall” – The Fourth Estate’s degrading hero worship trivializes an election” – was called to my attention by political writer Steve Berryman. It is an erudite, but scathing, review of the media’s active participation in the presidential campaign.

“In spite of the anemic economy and a real unemployment rate above 11 percent, the high priests of pontificating liberalism were giddy with euphoria. The Democrats ‘put on a nearly flawless convention,’ Paul Begala opined, and it was soon all but incontrovertibly established that, come November, the president — beautiful, magical, and lovable as he was — would vanquish his boring opponent.”

And then there is a story about overt media bias witnessed by Maryland State Sen. Joe Getty (R., Carroll/Baltimore) at the Republican National Convention in Tampa. Senator Getty communicated his first-person witness to blatant media bias at a pre-election breakfast September 20, in Westminster… http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5361

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Monday, June 25, 2012

Mitt Romney’s vice presidential selection… gets curiouser and curiouser…

Presumptive GOP presidential candidate Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s vice presidential selection…

It all gets curiouser and curiouser… Here’s what I wrote on April 4, 2012: http://www.thetentacle.com/ShowArticle.cfm?mydocid=5018 April 4, 2012 Four is the loneliest number by Kevin E. Dayhoff. After former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney’s likely primary victories in Tuesday’s contests in Maryland, Washington, DC, and Wisconsin, look for establishment Republicans to start looking for a running mate and the establishment media to focus its attention on getting President Barack Obama re-elected…

Then again… http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/06/marco-rubio-not-being-vetted-to-be-mitt-romneys-running-mate/ … or http://www.politico.com/blogs/politico-live/2012/06/rubio-wont-talk-about-vp-prospects-127108.html ... whatever?

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Friday, April 27, 2012

Venture Capitalist Forced To Defend Only Making 31,200% Return

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2012/04/venture-capitalist-forced-to-defend.html

As a venture capitalist who really-really understood it when CODY WILLARD wrote the following for the Wall Street Journal’s Market Watch – “The Cody Word”:

“So Web Bubble 2.0 is at a place where journalists and pundits and people who have never written huge venture capital checks and seen it evaporate less than a year later (note: I have) are criticizing someone who has just turned a quarter of a million into three quarters of a hundred million…”

Mr. Cody’s piece, “How to profit on this Apple stock bubble” - http://blogs.marketwatch.com/cody/2012/04/25/how-to-profit-on-this-tech-bubble/ - is an interesting read…

On top of the whole newly minted national discussion on venture capitalists that at times has caused my head to spin and spew pea soup through my nose…

“Apparently I’m supposed to be angrier over what former Massachusetts Governor and venture capitalist Mitt Romney does with his money than what President Barack Obama does with mine…”

Venture Capitalist Forced To Defend Only Making 31,200% Return

How to profit on this Apple stock bubble

April 25, 2012 COMMENTARY By CODY WILLARD

I saw something recently that blew my mind and I need to share with you. A venture capitalist having to defend making a 31,200% return — in two years.

Seriously, read this post from Ben Horowitz, Netscape founder Marc Andreeseen’s investing partner. They were seed investors in Instagram, recently sold for $1 billion to Facebook… http://blogs.marketwatch.com/cody/2012/04/25/how-to-profit-on-this-tech-bubble/

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Mr. Horowitz goes on to layout an ethical dilemma that prevented his fund from participating in a follow-on round (sidebar: if you’re getting your MBA right now, I require that you read this). But here’s the point I want to make:

When someone is attacked for turning $250,000 into ‘only’ $78 million, we are in an enormous bubble.

Hat Tip: Venture Capitalist Forced To Defend Only Making 31,200% Return http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/26/venture-capitalist-forced_n_1455132.html?ref=topbar

Labels: Bus Econ, Bus Econ 2012, Bus Econ Apple, Bus Econ Venture Capitalists, Business Econ Hedge Funds, Facebook, People Romney Mitt

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Saturday, March 03, 2012

Romney’s luck - The Washington Post By Charles Krauthammer

Romney’s luck - The Washington Post: By Charles Krauthammer, Published: March 1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romneys-luck/2012/03/01/gIQAodiZlR_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

It’s been a wild ride, but the story line of the Republican race remains remarkably simple and constant: It’s Mitt Romney and the perishable pretenders.

Five have come and gone, if you count the Donald’s aborted proto-candidacy. And now the sixth and most plausibly presidential challenger just had his moment — and blew it in Michigan.

It’s no use arguing that Rick Santorum won nearly as many Michigan delegates as Romney. He lost the state. Wasn’t Santorum claiming a great victory just three weeks ago when he shockingly swept Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado — without a single convention delegate being selected? ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romneys-luck/2012/03/01/gIQAodiZlR_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions

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Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Sarasota Patch: Romney Wins Florida GOP Primary

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Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Most in poll think Romney will clinch GOP nomination - The Washington Post

Most in poll think Romney will clinch GOP nomination - The Washington Post:

Washington Post: Most in poll think Romney will clinch GOP nomination

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-in-poll-think-romney-will-clinch-gop-nomination/2012/01/16/gIQAOUxW4P_story.html

By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen, Published: January 17

Mitt Romney holds a strong lead nationally in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, with a 2 to 1 advantage over his closest competitors, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Romney won the first two contests in the nominating process, and none of the other candidates has been able to demonstrate the broad, sustained support among the party’s conservative base that would translate into a successful challenge. An overwhelming majority of Republicans predict that he will be President Obama’s opponent in November.

The poll highlights the significance of Saturday’s primary in South Carolina … http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/most-in-poll-think-romney-will-clinch-gop-nomination/2012/01/16/gIQAOUxW4P_story.html

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Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Reuters Morning Digest: Romney unscathed from debate attacks and more

Reuters Morning Digest: Romney unscathed from debate attacks and more

Romney unscathed from debate attacks

MYRTLE BEACH, South Carolina (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopefuls attacked Mitt Romney's record in business and government on Monday and challenged him to release his tax returns, but the front-runner emerged largely unscathed from a South Carolina debate. | Full Article

Explosions used in hunt for 29 missing on Italian liner

January 17, 2012 04:25 AM ET

GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) - Rescue squads used controlled explosions on Tuesday to enter a stricken Italian cruise liner in the increasingly despairing hunt for survivors as authorities almost doubled their estimate of the number missing on the huge vessel to 29 people. | Full Article

Stock index futures signal strong gains

January 17, 2012 05:40 AM ET

(Reuters) - Stock index futures pointed to a higher open on Wall Street on Tuesday following a long holiday weekend, with futures for the S&P 500 up 1.01 percent, Dow Jones futures up 0.95 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures up 1.1 percent at 1027 GMT. | Full Article

U.S. online piracy bill headed for major makeover

January 16, 2012 05:23 PM ET

(Reuters) - U.S. legislation aimed at curbing online piracy, which had appeared to be on a fast track for approval by Congress, appears likely to be scaled back or jettisoned entirely in the wake of critical comments over the weekend from the White House, people familiar with the matter said. | Full Article

Russian military says spacecraft debris falls in ocean

January 15, 2012 04:26 PM ET

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Pieces of a failed Russian Mars probe plummeted into the Pacific Ocean far off the Chilean coast Sunday, Russian news agencies cited a military official as saying. | Full Article

Patriots and Ravens set for classic gridiron clash

January 16, 2012 06:38 PM ET

(Reuters) - While the NFC divisional playoffs provided two surprises, action in the AFC went according to script as the New England Patriots and Baltimore Ravens will square off in a battle of the top two seeds for a ticket to the Super Bowl. | Full Article

Silent film "The Artist" leads BAFTA nominations

January 17, 2012 04:51 AM ET

LONDON (Reuters) - Silent movie "The Artist" made itself heard on the awards circuit on Tuesday, leading the field with 12 BAFTA nominations. | Full Article

Colombia rebels selling cows as drug money drops: Santos

January 16, 2012 04:58 PM ET

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Monday the country's largest rebel group was increasingly selling its cattle to finance South America's longest-running insurgency as income from trafficking cocaine drops. | Full Article

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Friday, January 13, 2012

MRC Alert: NBC Touts Gordon Gekko Impersonator Greeting Romney in South Carolina

Tracking Liberal Media Bias Since 1996
Friday January 13, 2012 @ 01:25 PM ET

1. NBC Touts Gordon Gekko Impersonator Greeting Romney in South Carolina
In a report for Thursday's NBC Today, correspondent Peter Alexander promoted attacks on Mitt Romney: "There's been no let-up in the barrage of criticism over Romney's record as the former head of Bain Capital." Alexander pointed out: "This Gordon Gekko impersonator greeted Romney's arrival in South Carolina." A scene from the movie "Wall Street" was played with actor Michael Douglas depicting the corrupt Gekko and uttering the famous line: "Greed, for lack of a better word, is good." The impersonator following Romney, dressed in a suit with a name tag reading "Gordon Gekko" and chomping on a cigar, repeated the line for NBC's camera.

2. CBS's King Goes Gaga Over Obama Family; No Questions About Lavish Expenses
Gayle King made it clear that she is in the tank for the Obama campaign on Thursday's CBS This Morning, specifically vouching that Michelle Obama apparently is "passionate," and that the First Lady is "looking forward to returning for another four years. They're going to work very hard to make that happen." King continued tossing softballs at her admitted friend, at one point gushing, "Do you ever just sort of marvel at your life?" She completely omitted asking her guest about controversial aspects of her time in the White House, such as Mrs. Obama's travel expenses, or how the First Lady wore $540 designer sneakers as she fed the poor in Washington, DC in 2009.

3. NBC's Brokaw Hypes GOP 'Jihad' Against Romney; Confuses Mitt and George 3 Times
Appearing on Thursday's NBC Today, special correspondent Tom Brokaw touted GOP presidential candidates attacking Mitt Romney's business experience at Bain Capital: "It's the Republican Party equivalent of a jihad....the real danger for the Republicans is that it will deeply divide the party at a time when they want it to be united." While promoting the Republican infighting, Brokaw repeatedly confused Mitt Romney with his father and former Michigan Governor George Romney: "[Senator Jim DeMint said] George Romney is going to win this primary in South Carolina....They're going hard after George Romney....George Romney seems to be holding his own and the momentum continues for him..." At one point, co-host Ann Curry corrected him: "Mitt Romney." Brokaw explained: "His father was George Romney, that's my generational slip."

4. Matthews Preposterously Claims Obama Added 'Only 13 People' to Federal Workforce [UPDATED: Matthews Re-Records Audio]
On Thursday's Hardball, Chris Matthews preposterously insisted that Barack Obama added "only 13" people to the federal workforce in 2009 and that the total number of individuals working for the U.S. government (as of 2010) was 4,443. Two hours later, in the otherwise identical 7 PM EST re-play, MSNBC inserted a new graphic and a new audio overlay in which Matthews corrected his incompetence without noting any change from his first broadcast: Video below features both versions. In the 5 PM EST hour, Matthews claimed “the federal workforce totaled forty-four hundred and thirty people in 2009 when Obama took office. In 2010, a year later, the number increased to forty-four forty-three people – a difference of only thirteen people.” In the re-do, Matthews realized “the federal workforce totaled four million, four hundred and thirty thousand in 2009...”

5. Washington Post Veteran Disparages Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin as 'Right-Wing Nutjobs' with 'Wacky Conspiracy Theories'
Another bit of evidence emerged Thursday about how deeply ingrained anti-conservative hatred is inside America’s newspapers, even amongst those who don’t cover politics. John Kelly, a Washington Post lifestyle columnist inside the “Metro” section best-known for raising money for Children’s National Medical Center and Sunday “Answer Man” columns about DC-area history, used the passing of a local radio legend to disparage syndicated radio hosts as “right-wing nutjobs unspooling their wacky conspiracy theories.” The gratuitous slam came in a short item marking the passing of Bill Trumbull, half of the “Trumbull & Core” afternoon radio show of light-banter and pop music carried by WMAL-AM (630) from 1976 to 1996.

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Speaker Newt Gingrich has become an unhinged post turtle January 13, 2012 by Kevin Dayhoff

Speaker Newt Gingrich is an unhinged post turtle

January 13, 2012 by Kevin Dayhoff http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2012/01/speaker-newt-gingrich-has-become.html

The narrative of the attacks upon the presidential candidacy of Gov. Mitt Romney by Gov. Rick Perry, Speaker Newt Gingrich, and the Democratic Party is just plain nuts.

Although I never found the candidacy of Gov. Perry sustainable; I at one time, gave serious consideration to the idea of Speaker Gingrich assuming the responsibilities of the Oval Office. That ship has passed. And that’s sad…

For the balance of the 2012 presidential campaign and perhaps for the rest of his career, Speaker Gingrich is a post turtle…

Between the malicious and irresponsible attacks upon Gov. Romney and the distinct possibility of a Ron Paul third party run for president, the re-election of President Barack Obama is all but a cinch.

Like many, I vote the economy and national security. Anyone who levels specious attacks upon Gov. Romney about his role in venture capitalism and private equity demonstrates a basic lack of knowledge of how our economy works and how jobs are created – and thus, they disqualify themselves to assume the role of the presidency or have any place in national leadership.

As I have written before – and as recently as last Wednesday in The Tentacle, “Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire, the Republican Party and The King of Hearts:”

“By the time you read this, we will all be analyzing the electability of Gov. Mitt Romney and pondering how badly the Republicans will look as they snatch defeat, in the November elections, from the jaws of victory.

“To paraphrase the colorful words of a liberal colleague, who after carefully watching the debates and the political silliness of the Iowa caucuses remarked irreverently, at this point President Obama could kill a puppy on TV and still win the election.

“Especially since President Obama still has the complete support of the traditional left-leaning major media that will work hard to make sure he gets a second term, so as to justify its unabashed and shameful full-throttle support of the machine-made candidate of 2008.

“It has been said that the highest statistical probability of failure is within sight of success. Only with Republicans, they usually can’t wait and work hard at eating their own long before the finish line.

“To paraphrase President Lyndon B. Johnson, the only difference between cannibals and Republicans is that cannibals only eat their enemies.”

My view is apparently shared by many, including, JAMES TARANTO - BEST OF THE WEB TODAY: Barack Hussein Gingrich

JANUARY 10, 2012

Barack Hussein Gingrich - He's desperate, he's angry, and he's doing Romney a favor.

By JAMES TARANTO

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204124204577152971109729132.html

Humiliated in Iowa, a desperate and angry Newt Gingrich is taking the offensive against Mitt Romney, whom he accuses of "looting companies when he headed the Bain Capital investment firm," reports NationalJournal.com, and "conservative interests are pushing back":

"Newt Gingrich's attacks on Mitt Romney's record at Bain Capital are disgusting," Club for Growth President Chris Chocola said in a statement Monday night. "There are a number of issues for Mitt Romney's Republican opponents to attack him for, but attacking him for making investments in companies to create a profit for his investors is just wrong.''

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh said Gingrich "is using the language of the left.''

The National Review weighed in on Gingrich's line of attack this morning, calling it "foolish and destructive.'' Former New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg joined the anti-Gingrich bandwagon in an interview with MSNBC's Chuck Todd. "We are a market economy,'' he said. Added Rep. Frank Gunta, sitting to his left: "I don't think (these attacks) belong in a Republican primary.'' … http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204124204577152971109729132.html

[20120110 Taranto Barack Hussein Gingrich][ 20120113-Gingrich-unhinged] [20120113-20030809-d-Gingric] http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2012/01/speaker-newt-gingrich-has-become.html Labels: Dayhoff Art, Dayhoff Art political, Elections 2012 presidential, People Gingrich-Newt, People Romney Mitt, Politics Republican Conservatism Speaker Newt Gingrich has become an unhinged post turtle January 13, 2012 by Kevin Dayhoff

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Thursday, January 12, 2012

Don Surber The Daily Mail: Why Republicans oppose capitalism

Why Republicans oppose capitalism

January 11, 2012 by Don Surber http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/49429

The attacks on Mitt Romney for making a buck are interesting. I think I know why. It has less to do with partisan politics and more to do with ignorance. Republican rivals — Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry — have little experience in the private sector, just like the Occupy crowd or the Obama administration — and that ignorance shows.

Mitt headed a company — Bain Capital — that invested in companies. In some cases, it did some turnaround management. In other words, Bain Capital provided the money that provided the jobs. Bain Capital was highly successful under Mitt Romney’s leadership and remains so today. This company engages in some high-risk, high-reward investments. According to a “scathing” report in the Wall Street Journal, 78% of the companies that Bain invested in were still doing business 8 years after Bain first entered the picture.

92% of the time Bain Capital either made money or broke even. Considering the high stakes, that is an achievement.

From the Wall Street Journal report:

Marc Wolpow, a former Bain Capital executive, said the frequency of trouble did indeed stem largely from the firm’s strategy early on of investing in smaller, troubled firms it hoped to turn around.

“I don’t think you can hold Mitt out as a great investor per se,” Mr. Wolpow said, “but he was an excellent CEO of an investment firm, and the results speak for themselves.”

Mr. Romney, previously a Bain & Co. consultant, became the first leader of Bain Capital when it was founded in 1984. He left in early 1999 to take charge of the financially faltering 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Olympics.

His Bain tenure ... http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/49429

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