Dig it! Dr. Housing Bubble’s “Shadow Inventory Amegeddon” is a very slick piece
Dig it! Dr. Housing Bubble’s “Shadow Inventory Amegeddon” is a very slick piece vince flaherty Dig it. This link is to a very, very, slick piece. The whole article and its charts, right down to the...
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New Perry ad: “Creating jobs”
Plus, Pethokoukis runs the numbers on Perry’s economic plan. Rick Perry has decided to focus on job creation in his new ad, a 30-second TV spot that will get hefty play in Iowa, where polling shows...
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NBC’s David Gregory: GOP has no “Grand Wizard” to force out Cain; Update:...
I’m sure he meant this guy … right? Well, that makes sense. After all, the political party of the Ku Klux Klan wasn’t the Republicans, was it? Click the image to watch: Ann Curry, NBC News: “He’s...
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Quotes of the day
Second look. “The chattering class that left Gingrich for dead months ago is now talking of a revival. Although his poll numbers have ticked up, it’s unclear whether Republican voters will cooperate...
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Does the Right own the Occupy narrative?
And did Bloomberg do the Occupiers a favor today? How would the national news media have reacted had Rick Santelli publicly warned that the Tea Party had run off the rails so badly that it was helping...
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PR experts: Occupy movement a self-defeating disaster
“The whole world is watching. And it’s generally repulsed.” The Occupy Movement succeeded early in seizing a media narrative, a feat that public-relations experts know is hardly easy to achieve....
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What killed the supercommittee?
Hubris. As the so-called “supercommittee” on deficit reduction admits defeat later today, the rush is on to pin the blame on the donkey … or the elephant … or anything other than the exercise itself....
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The strange ad attacking “career politician” Mitt Romney from … the DNC?
Glass houses, stones … some disassembly required. Cheer up, Republicans. The DNC wants you to know that it’s not just the GOP that screws up on campaign strategy and messaging. The DNC’s “Rapid...
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DNC chair: Unemployment didn’t go up under Obama!
Reality-based. Denial — it ain’t just a river in Egypt. Appearing on Fox News this morning, DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz insisted that unemployment didn’t go up in Barack Obama’s term of office,...
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Gingrich: Why yes, I’d team up with Santorum to take down Romney
The biggest loser? Most people would agree that Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney scored political-narrative and strategic wins in the final results of the Iowa caucuses last night. Santorum’s stirring...
View ArticleWhite Paper | In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners
In or Out of Mortgage Trouble? A Study of Bankrupt Homeowners INTRODUCTION For decades, homeowners have populated the bankruptcy system in significant numbers. Today’s prevalent narrative features a...
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Final polls show Romney with comfortable lead in Florida
Pick your poison. It’s interesting to see how much the narrative has changed in the nine days since Newt Gingrich scored a double-digit victory in South Carolina. At that time, the big story was...
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Contraception mandate: MSM stuck in “narrative capture”?
Blind now leading the sighted? On retrieving my paper copy of the Wall Street Journal this morning, I saw the discouraging headline: Obama Retreats on Contraception My first thought was, “Surely the...
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The Ed Morrissey Show: Andrew Malcolm
3 pm ET! Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), my friend Andrew Malcolm joins us as always on today’s TEMS at 3 pm ET! The Prince of Twitter and I will discuss the ups and downs of the Republican...
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Jesse Jackson: It’s an honor to be a food-stamp president
Reclaiming the narrative. Pretty much from the minute Newt Gingrich branded President Barack Obama “the best food-stamp president in American history,” I’ve wondered why liberals didn’t immediately...
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Why Democrats’ political ploys shouldn’t stop Republicans from standing up...
Brazen. In an obvious attempt to advance the “Republican war on women” narrative, Democrats have picked a fight with their congressional opponents over the reauthorization of the Violence Against...
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Kelly Ayotte: Romney will close the gender gap in the general
It’s still about the economy? New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte pushed back this morning against the growing narrative that Mitt Romney will lose the female vote in November: Speaking on...
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Dick Morris: Dem gender gap claims are bogus!
Exploding the myth. It seems like every poll tells the same story: “Big lead with women gives Obama an edge on Romney.” Republicans are losing women, the narrative goes. OK, so women are more likely...
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Uh oh: Obama 47, Romney 42, Gary Johnson 6
Independence. Via BuzzFeed. Dude, I’m nervous. I know what you’re thinking: The damned libertarians are going to blow it by pulling a Nader on Romney. Is that what the data says, though? That 11...
View ArticleAbigail Field | Setting the Record Straight: The Housing Bubble Lie
Setting the Record Straight: The Housing Bubble Lie By: Abigail Caplovitz Field Let’s get something straight: we did not have a housing “bubble”, in the usual sense of the word. The mainstream...
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Mitt Romney: You know if Barack Obama governed a little more like Bill...
Heh. Romney’s delivery on this still needs a little work, but I think he might be on to something with this line of attack. The Obama team would probably love it if Romney called either the President...
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Dueling ads: “A Better Day” vs “Romney economics”
Speaking of not working … The presidential campaigns bring us two new spots today as the weekend approaches and the two candidates attempt to set the narrative. Let’s take a look at the challenger’s...
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House GOP: This Solyndra investigation is like “pulling teeth”
The stonewalling continues. I like that Solyndra has shown staying power in the political narrative — the whole boondoggle should be as common-knowledge as possible. As the flagship failure of the...
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House GOP: Want more jobs? How ’bout we quit stalling on energy production?
“Everybody booms in the process.” Preach it! For the time being, President Obama has moved away from energy as the campaign theme du jour, especially as gas prices have calmed down. It therefore warms...
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Obamateurism of the Day
Don’t be late, dahling. Yesterday, the Romney campaign took their Democratic counterparts to school. Team Obama released their May fundraising numbers early, hoping to get a boost in the media with...
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Former RNC chair to Matthews: “You’re a good sycophant” for Obama’s narrative
“Why are we talking about George Bush?” Heh. “Give me the profound differences between the presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, and former President George W. Bush when it comes to economic policy?”...
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Rush Limbaugh: How did Brian Ross’s tea-party “scoop” about Aurora make it on...
“They didn’t care whether it was true or not.” Via the Daily Rushbo, belated reaction to the media’s latest attempt to bash a square peg into a round narrative hole. Over at Slate, Dave Weigel says...
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Aurora victim’s brother to MSNBC host: Why, no, I don’t want to talk about...
“If somebody wants to do harm to somebody, they’re going to find a way to do it.” Via Greg Hengler, we’re late to this but it’s still a must-post, simply because it’s one of the great narrative...
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Palin on Cheney’s VP comments: You’ve bought the media’s false narrative...
Antiestablishment. Via Mediaite, an obligatory rejoinder to Cheney’s dig at her over the weekend. The reference to “misfiring” is, I trust, no accident. The irony of this flap is that I’m not sure his...
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