WARNING: A Certain Diarist is a FRAUD. Have you been had?

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Tuesday July 28, 2009 · 12:02 PM PDT

2009/07/28 · 12:02

Two weeks ago, a Kos diarist by the name of Tom Sykes took issue with a post I made about the hedge fund industry. He then proceeded to trash me, by name, in a post he wrote slamming Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne, who runs an investigative blog called Deep Capture.

Over the past few years, Deep Capture has published numerous reports on the the improprieties that some hedge funds have engaged in, such as naked short selling and blatant stock manipulation. Deep Capture has also exposed a number of journalists who shill for a network of hedge funds, pumping reports that these hedge funds are trading on and trashing their critics.

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Thursday July 16, 2009 · 7:46 AM PDT

2009/07/16 · 07:46

The White House sent a bill to Congress today that would finally require that hedge funds are regulated - to an extent. And now Reuters reports that hedge funds, which have forever resisted any form of meaningful regulation, really want to be regulated.

Now we know why the industry contributed nearly four times as much money to federal candidates as they did last cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics:

'Cause that's what industries do when they want more oversight....

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Wednesday June 24, 2009 · 8:28 AM PDT

2009/06/24 · 08:28

Republicans are making a comeback! So declares Politico! Mark today on your calendar as the day that voters officially forgave the Republican Party for intentionally polarizing the electorate, presenting the same failed ideas as new ones, and for eight long years of hell.

Forget that polls show that fewer Americans than ever identify themselves as Republicans:

The state of the Republican Party remains grim. Just 22 percent of those surveyed identified themselves as Republicans, near April's decades-long low point. Thirty-six percent said they have a favorable impression of the GOP, and 56 percent said they have an unfavorable impression.

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Friday June 19, 2009 · 11:24 AM PDT

2009/06/19 · 11:24

The conservative media and blogosphere think they have an explosive story on their hands. President Obama illegally fired a whistleblower for investigating Obama's friend and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson, conservatives charge. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) wants to investigate the "murky" details of Obama's reasons for firing Gerald Walpin, Inspector General of the Corporation for National and Community Service.

But here are the cold-hard facts:

President Obama did not "illegally" fire Walpin. To fire an IG, according to the Inspector General Reform Act of 2008, the president must inform Congress 30 days before terminating the IG's employment as well as provide Congress with a reason for doing so.

Obama suspended Walpin with pay and informed him that he would be terminated after 30 days. Obama wrote Congress to inform them of this decision and supplied his reasoning for doing so. Congress does not get to grade this reason, they just have to read it. The 'liberal media' has largely ignored this fact.

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Monday May 04, 2009 · 7:56 PM PDT

2009/05/04 · 19:56

The media is in the process of wholly distorting a politician's comments, just because it's been a while. If you watch cable news or read Politico, you'll hear that, over the weekend in a CNN interview, future 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney demeaned Gov. Sarah Palin as being attractive but not really influential. Which, if he said that, would be accurate. But that's not what he said.

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Monday April 13, 2009 · 1:53 AM PDT

2009/04/13 · 01:53

The big news on Sunday was that the Capt. Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama, taken captive by Somali pirates on Wednesday, had been rescued unharmed by the U.S. Navy. Three of his captors were shot by snipers, and one was taken into U.S. custody.

After celebrating the rescue performed by the U.S. Navy, RedState bloggers declared the rescue represented a failure for President Obama.

RedState blogger Jeff Emanuel wrote:

"What should have been a standoff lasting only hours -- as long as it took the USS Bainbridge and its team of NSWC operators to steam to the location -- became an embarrassing four-day-and-counting standoff between a rag-tag handful of criminals with rifles and a U.S. Navy warship."

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Sunday March 08, 2009 · 2:08 PM PDT

2009/03/08 · 14:08

Somehow, amidst the TV's talking about Rush Limbaugh this week, I didn't hear that General Electric (the GE) is in deep shit.

Joe Nocera, who impressed on the Daily Show's Wednesday episode which featured an epic indictment of CNBC, thoroughly explains GE's current situation and how it came to be.

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Sunday March 01, 2009 · 3:24 PM PST

2009/03/01 · 15:24

Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel suggested today that Rush Limbaugh is the brain of the GOP. On the contrary, I would argue that Limbaugh represents the heart of the Republican Party. If the party does have a brain, it would be Gov. Jon Huntsman, Jr. (R-UT).

Following the Republican Party's resounding 2008 defeat, many sought to find the answers to the GOP's growing gap in voter registration and enthusiasm.

The party's brain argued the party needs to moderate and scrap its rigid ideology in order to have any chance to appeal to a younger generation of Americans which appears to be culturally different from the generations which preceded it.

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Monday February 16, 2009 · 10:23 PM PST

2009/02/16 · 22:23

Republicans are so confident that their unconditional opposition to the recently passed stimulus bill is their ticket to success that they’re already voicing opposition to the $50 billion plan to stop home foreclosures being developed by President Obama’s administration.

The GOP senses an opening to attack Obama and the Democrats on the stimulus and future legislation as spending our nation cannot afford, which is of course ironic given that the Republicans signed off on President Bush’s doubling of our national deficit.

House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-VA) previewed this line of attack today when criticized the upcoming mortage legislation on CBS today: "At some point, I think the people of this country are beginning to understand, who is going to pay for all of this?"

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Sunday February 08, 2009 · 7:04 PM PST

2009/02/08 · 19:04

Contrary to the conventional wisdom espoused by Republicans and the media, Americans want to see the stimulus bill passed.

The Senate is poised to vote on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Tuesday, according to tomorrow’s Wall Street Journal. It appears the Democrats have moved three moderate Republicans — Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), Sen. Olympia Snow (R-ME), and Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) — to support the $827 billion stimulus bill, which would give the bill the 60 “yes” votes needed to push it through the Senate quickly.

Last week, Republicans claimed that the majority of Americans disapprove of the stimulus bill, and the media backed them up by misreading polling data to generate misleading and pro-GOP headlines. (CNN: Polls show support for stimulus has slipped; CBS Poll: Support For Stimulus Falls.)

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Wednesday February 04, 2009 · 1:33 AM PST

2009/02/04 · 01:33

The Associated Press continues to badmouth President Obama. This time, Ron Fournier’s increasingly-partisan rag damns Obama with the faintest of praise. In discussing Obama’s taking responsibility for the public distraction regarding Tom Daschle’s tax issues, the AP’s Charles Babington manages to call Obama "arrogant" before the end of his second sentence:

WASHINGTON – Two weeks into his presidency, Barack Obama proved that even a clearly gifted politician cannot escape the gravitational pull of Washington forces that have humbled many of his predecessors.

The new president, seen by some as arrogant, was anything but on Tuesday.

"I screwed up," Obama said repeatedly during a series of TV interviews. "I take responsibility for this mistake."

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