Remember how the press reported the economy’s uptick back in the second quarter of 2008 during the Bush administration?

As we noted at the time, the reports were universal – this growth was all due to the temporary tax rebates that Mr. Bush had mailed out. And, if anything, it just showed that the recession was going to be even worse.

From a despondent Reuters:

Economy grows at soft pace

Thu Jul 31, 2008

By Glenn Somerville

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A picture might be worth a thousand words, but not necessarily an endorsement when its with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

New York’s Republican mayor isn’t backing Rob Astorino for county executive — even though the Republican touted the endorsement during a debate Wednesday and campaign literature.

Astorino had the picture to prove it.

Bloomberg and Astorino met last month and had a substantive discussion, though there was aSource: Politics on the Hudson RSS Feed

My contacts on Capitol Hill won’t point the finger at who’s screwing up the health care/insurance reform bill. They want to put all the blame on the Republicans, of course, but with a filibuster-proof, 60-member Democratic majority in the Senate, that’s pretty tough. Then there’s the meme that Ben Nelson and Blanche Lincoln– perhaps Lieberman, Landrieu and Baucus to boot– who will join the Republican filibuster and kill the reform bill and not even let it get to the floor for an upSource: DownWithTyranny! RSS Feed

RedState Morning Briefing
For October 26, 2009 1. White House attacks worry moderate Democrats

2. Forget Fox: White House vs Treasury Department

3. Scozzafava Declares Herself Part of Abramoff Wing of GOP: Funnels Campaign Cash to Family

4. One Trillion, Four Hundred Twenty Billion Dollars

5. Carbon Credits for Condoms

6. You, Me, and New York 23

7. News Flash: Obama Sucks At His Job

8. Liberal Fascism: Chapter 2

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In my latest post for Andrew Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, I take a closer look at the Serve.gov initiative and explain how it will influence the way Europe looks at the U.S. and, especially, Obama.

Last week, Big Hollywood broke the news that the Entertainment Industry Foundation (EIF) has proved eager to obey the orders of President Obama. Instead of following the American president’s Serve.gov initiative critically, 60 network television programs (including news programs) haveSource: PoliGazette RSS Feed

From CNN:

In this Wednesday, July 29, 2009 file photo, federal agents raid a medical supply store in Houston. Organized crime’s new target: Medicare and Medicaid

By Allan Chernoff, Sr. Correspondent and Sheila Steffen, Sr. Producer

October 22, 2009

Experienced in running drug, prostitution and gambling rings, crime groups of various ethnicities and nationalities are learning it’s safer and potentially more profitable to file fraudulent claims with theSource: Sweetness Light RSS Feed

It’s not just in China that Obama-Mao iconography is a big hit.

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Washington DC Souvenir Headquarters

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Denver photojournalist El Marco took these photos. To see others go HERE.

Wild Thing’s comment………

Ini the book “Mao” by Jung Chang, they estimate he hisSource: Theodore’s World RSS Feed

Bloomberg | Bloomberg is reporting State Revenue Falls Most Since 1963 on Incomes, Sales. U.S. state tax collections tumbled the most in almost half a century in the second quarter as the economic recession curbed levies on incomes and sales.
The 16.6 percent plunge was the biggest since at least 1963, the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government said today. For the 12 months to June 30, the fiscal year for most states, revenue declined 8.2 percent, or $63 billion, about twice whatSource: subrealism RSS Feed