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Every Friday we get our newly appointed “Obituarian” Josh Eisenberg on the phone with us to inform us on which important figures...
Yahoo wants to buy Hulu now too. They’re going on an “I lost 50 pounds” shopping spree.
As someone who played a lot of games on Yahooligans as a...
Fast & Furious 6, by Chris Morgan. 2013.
Necessary? Abso-fucking-lutley.
Good news: The Senate finally confirmed Sri Srinivasan to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit — but there’s more to do.
For the past week, the White House has dealt with investigations into the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, IRS targeting of tax-exempt conservative groups, and controversy over the Justice Department seizing AP records. The trio of scandals seem to have had little effect on the public’s feelings about President Barack Obama in new polling.
- 65% of voters believe that President Obama has a mandate to raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans after being reelected last month. That includes 45 percent of the Republicans surveyed as well.
- 64% of voters believe that President Obama also has a mandate top protect programs like Medicare and Social Security during his next term. Considering Senate Republicans are now relying on filibusters of their own proposals related to the “fiscal cliff,” something tells us that Speaker Boehner was probably correct in telling House Republicans not to make holiday plans this year. source
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The full-page ad in yesterday’s Washington Post cites a Public Policy Polling study as a source. It also appeared in today’s Wall Street Journal and in MediaWeek. pic via
brooklymutt’s numbers guy refuted Public Policy Polling model in a post from last week. check it out here.