One year ago this month, I opined about taxpayers footing the bill for several college football bowl games. Today, I decided to revisit the college football bowl scene and find out who’s sponsoring this year’s post-season gridiron clashes. [Note: I brought this back to the front page of this blog after it was cross-posted Christmas [...]
Entries from December 2009
Bowl Game Sponsorships Receive Second Look Amidst Year of Bank Bailouts and TARP Loans
December 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Illinois Republican: Terrorists Should Stay at GITMO
December 16th, 2009 · 3 Comments
A piece published yesterday in the Peoria Journal-Star does a good job of highlighting the debate that took place between two Illinois Congressmen — Rep. Aaron Schock (R-Peoria) and Rep. Phil Hare (D-Rock Island) — on MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews Tuesday. Watch the video above to understand how screwed up the thinking of people [...]
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‘Banana Ben’ Bernanke TIME’s ’2009 Person of Year’
December 16th, 2009 · No Comments
The issue of TIME scheduled to hit newsstands Friday is described in a news release today as the “most anticipated issue of the year.” Why? Because it features Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on the cover as the magazine’s “2009 Person of the Year.” Come again? Why on earth would the folks at TIME select [...]
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Gore Dodges Questions About Climate Change
December 15th, 2009 · No Comments
In a post four days ago, I reported on the uncooperative manner in which Stanford University Professor Stephen Schneider received questions about climate change from Irish filmmaker Phelim McAleer’s during a news conference in Copenhagen. Today, it appears the producer of the documentary “Not Evil, Just Wrong” has had a second noteworthy encounter with an [...]
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Parents of Army Officer Share Christmas Message
December 15th, 2009 · 1 Comment
EDITOR’S NOTE: Below is the text of an e-mail received today from Scott and Vicki Behenna regarding their son, Michael, the Army officer whose case I’ve highlighted in nearly a dozen posts since June. Click here to read those posts. Merry Christmas to the many friends and supporters of Michael, An update about Michael is [...]
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Uncle Jay Explains the News: Dec. 14, 2009
December 14th, 2009 · No Comments
“Reconcile” came to mind as Uncle Jay’s word of the week as it relates to Tiger Woods, the Nobel Peace Prize and other topics on the latest episode of “Uncle Jay Explains the News.” This week, Uncle Jay explains how Woods is trying “to get along better and work things out” by reconciling with his [...]
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Thanks for the Memories, Bob Hope
December 13th, 2009 · No Comments
The “Bob Hope Christmas Special” from 1967, captured in the video above, reminds me of the many December evenings I spent during my 1960s childhood, watching the late legend of an actor-comedian and a cast of popular figures — including his orchestra, Les Brown and his Band of Renown — entertain the troops during the [...]
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