Politics on the Hudson (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senate Minority Leader Malcolm Smith, left, said this morning that “it was stupid” to joke with lobbyists last week in Ulster County that his Democratic conference is like an IPO and that lobbyists should invest now to get in cheap before Democrats win the majority. He also joked with them that Sen. Jeff Klein, D-Bronx, is [...]
ClearysNoteBook (Free subscription) | 08/17/2008
Smith, JEAN T. (nee Moldenhauer), age 71 of Deptford, NJ died Friday, August 15, 2008. Born in Philadelphia, she was a graduate of West Catholic High .School and went back to Gloucester County College to...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Here's Quin, and the incomparable Greg P.--the media blog should be on your reading list everyday--passes along this: 'The DNC has launched a new website called, TheNextCheney.com to cover McCain's possible VP picks. Fred Smith is on the DNC list fwiw.' And other e-mails: 1) Rich--He's a terribly successful executive who backed promise ('When it absolutely, positively has to get there overnight') with...
Jezebel (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
A documentary that was 11 years in the making, Patti Smith: Dream of Life focuses on the poster girl for the protopunk scene as she attempts to revive her musical career. Directed and filmed in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The music of Patti Smith slaps you in the face with its energy, audacity, and fearlessness. Its raw intensity of uncharted punk, the incantatory ritual poetry of her lyrics, and Smith's lone wolf, damning presence reminiscent of mid-'60s Dylan all fuse into an atom bomb explosion of incendiary rock and transcendent poetry, a true icon of rock, or, as Smith ruefully remarks in Steven Sebring's reverent...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
WASHINGTON, July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a statement from Change to Win Chair Anna Burger regarding recent speculation that union-busting FedEx CEO Fred Smith is on presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain's short list for vice-presidential picks: "Recent reports that FedEx CEO Fred Smith is being considered by John McCain as a potential vice-presidential pick are beyond...
AFL-CIO Weblog (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
The biggest parlor game among journalists and politicos this summer has been guessing who the presidential candidates will pick as their running mates. Fred Smith emerged as one possible running mate, a selection floated by Sen. John McCain ’s campaign that reveals McCain’s disturbing disregard for workers. Marc Ambinder, a political journalist, reported that McCain campaign sources have been dropping...
ziomal.biz (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
The FedEx chairman is a potential vice presidential pick for John McCain.
The Right Coast (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
I second Professor Rappaport's motion below. The Paul Gigot piece he links to is a must read. He's a little footnote on the Fannie and Fred corruption. When the government wastes millions of dollars, I can find it amusing. When...
Hecklerspray (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
You want success? Try playing exactly the same yammering, flab-faced huckster character in every film you star in. It seems to work for Vince Vaughn, because he's just been named as Forbes' most valuable actor. For every dollar that Vince Vaughn was paid for Dodgeball, The Break-Up and Wedding Crashers, he pulled in $14.71 of gross income for his studios. That's impressive stuff, and Vince Vaughn should...
Defamer (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
It's that time of year again, when Hollywood's biggest stars harvest their multiplex crops, drop the hammer on their mums and size up their places among Forbes's annual list of highest-paid movie...
OpenMarket (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
The near-collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac may have taken the markets and the financial media by surprise, but is something that CEI schlolars have been warning about for more than a decade. In testimony in 2000 before the U.S. House of Representatives, CEI President Fred Smith issued this caution on the two government-sponsored enterprises: [...]
The Landry Hat (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
The Landry Hat has launched a full investigation into Fred Brito’s claim that he has purchased at auction Troy Aikman’s 1993 Super Bowl ring. Mr. Brito obviously doesn’t know what I do for a living, and quite frankly, that’s OK. The investigation won’t end until I can prove he has the ring, and box seats to [...]
naked capitalism (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008 | Business
The time has come to announce the formation of the Banana Republic Club. Membership is open, with the sole requirement being that nominees correctly discern behaviors in advanced economies that resemble those of corrupt developing countries, which for sake of convenience are referred to as banana republics. Members are eligible to receive a Carmen Miranda hat, although they are not required to wear...
The War on Guns (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
You can do as Smith wants—let them do it, whatever it is, and then call a qualified professional. Or you can shoot the sons of bitches. Thing is, Fred , you can't. Not living in Mexico. Here's the bloviating fool he dissects, though, and as usual, he does it with the unique wit and skill that makes him a writer deserving of much wider appreciation. [Via Ron W ]
