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March 2013

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 4 Comments

“Buy when everyone else is selling.” From Warren Buffett on down, it’s a time tested approach to investing. It doesn’t mean purchase anything that comes along, or overpay, but it’s a contrarian approach to the madness of markets which tend to drive valuations to extremes for...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 12, 2013 3 Comments

Mendacious Max Beyond Iron Dome Max Fisher, the blogger for the Washington Post who publicized the picture of Jihad Mishrawi has now responded to a new United Nations report that concluded that the rocket that killed Mishrawi's son was likely fired by Hamas. Originally he was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 12, 2013 5 Comments

 A recent comment from an old post, Why America Should Care: Tom Joad March 11, 2013 at 6:53 PM I used to support native American causes. I never will again. The one really bright hope we have in the US congress you are attacking over something TOTALLY frivolous....

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 14 Comments

Maybe. As much as I would like to brag that we are so important we were targeted by top-tier hackers, which would prove that we matter to someone, no such luck. This was a self-inflicted wound. In the process of starting the process of making it...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 10 Comments

Via Times of Israel: A Saudi newspaper says a ministerial committee is looking into formally dropping public beheading as a method of execution in the oil-rich kingdom. Saudi Arabia is the only country in the world where a death sentence results in beheading in a public square. The...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 2 Comments

Hispolitica has been launched by Javier Manjarres, who runs the great Shark Tank blog in Florida, as announced today: I’m proud to announce the re-launch of Hispolitica.  Hispolitica brings a balanced journalistic approach to the issues and concerns of Hispanics in light of their increasing influence in the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 11, 2013 27 Comments

She will be the progressive cause of 2014.  She will raise tens of millions of dollars from Hollywood and the netroots.  The media will adore her. Snarky ads like this one run the risk of backfiring because they will allow her to play victim while trivializing...

Posted by David Gerstman on March 11, 2013 5 Comments

1) More fallout over the Samira Ibrahim selection Robert Mackey has established himself as an anti-Israel activist. Following last week's revelation that Egyptian activist Samira Ibrahim had been making antisemitic and anti-American comments, Mackey was back in business. He asked, Samuel Tadros, the scholar who had uncovered...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 12 Comments

Been traveling for a couple of days. What did I miss? Updates: Noticed this, by someone who is a blogger at a major online publication's blog section, presumably gets paid for it and gets eyeballs from the publication's readership, and therefore can say things such as: Personally I have...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 10, 2013 5 Comments

Chinese bureaucrats are under increased pressure to support Chinese-made car brands instead of the preferred luxury brands such as Audi, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz. Advertising Age reports: The combined market share for Chinese sedans and compact cars fell to a four-year low of 28% in 2012, according...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 10, 2013 4 Comments

Hi Professor, Apologies for not sending more frequently, but this one was too good to pass up. She's proud, but I'm ashamed...

Posted by Anne Segal on March 09, 2013 16 Comments

A series of graphs demonstrate just how disastrous the Obama (failed) Recovery has been for our country, made all the more stark when compared to prior post-war "recoveries." Jacob Goldstein writes on the NPR blog that while this first chart, produced by the blog Calculated Risk,...

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