"The economy is the main issue in the election," writes Post blogger reckless G, "and would fare better in the first year of a McCain presidency, even though Obama would best manage the economy and holds the lead in the presidential race. Are these economists schizophrenic? How accurate are economic projections anyway? Where do economists get the statistics to base their projections on?... If indeed 'it’s the economy, stupid,' then Obama is danger of becoming the first black candidate to fail in a bid for the presidency. Still an achievement, but not quite what Obama supporters are hoping for. Especially those who have promised a steak dinner to some of us who believe McCain will be our next president."
"Ok, Hugh," writes Post blogger Mitch Mulhall in comment #11, "Hitchens goes all George Plimpton on the subject of waterboarding and you're willing to dismiss it...."
What's the point of blogging? Post Blogger Mitch Mulhall asked. First reckless G had the answer and now another blogger comes to the fore. “E’hem, Mitch," wrote Post blogger Irish Kit O'Carra in comment #6. "Shall I quote you from your response to me on April 30th when I questioned why anyone would care about my blogs from the Oregon Coast? You wrote: [Aren't you setting your expectations, e'hem, lower than you should?] We, as bloggers, give a crap about what we write ourselves. The least we can do is give a crap about what others are writing when we aren't. Otherwise, where would AP be?"
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According to a majority of economists at U.S. banks and research groups polled by Reuters; “The economy has supplanted the Iraq war as the main issue in the November presidential election between Arizona Sen. McCain and Illinois Sen. Obama” and “The U.S. stock market would fare better in the first year after a victory by Republican presidential candidate John McCain than by his Democratic rival Barack Obama.” This despite the fact that “The poll also found that Obama held a 7-point lead over McCain in the presidential race, and had a small edge on the question of who would best manage the economy.”
Continue Reading July 23rd, 2008
The Con Man begins with a dissertation and dissection of Barack Obama's sojourn to the Middle East, then comes back in hour two with an interview with Stanford neurosurgeon Dr. Jim Doty, a Dalai Lama believer making the connection between the mind...and compassion and altruism.
Click here for the complete "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for July 21, 2008.
July 22nd, 2008
Today, after 20 years with the last three presidents, Americans watch their most precious value erode into meaninglessness. Does U.S. citizenship mean anything to this president, our Congress, our governors and our mayors of major cities.
After 9/11 decimated our national security blanket, our borders needed closing. Our immigration laws and visas needed immediate tightening as most of the bombers hailed from Saudi Arabia. All of them lied on their applications without fear of inspection. Yet, current policy allows endless immigration by Saudi nationals as well as many others from the Middle East. Has anything changed? Not!
Continue Reading July 21st, 2008
Multiculturalism proves a deadly mix of racism, social incongruity, irreconcilable ethnic groups and the fabricated presumption that everybody loves everybody else.
Continue Reading July 10th, 2008
The Con Man welcomes Judith Cross from Aspen Death Camp and Rob Leventhal from the Double-Diamond Camp. Then he moves the discussion to energy policy and the Iraqi government's insistence that the United States get the puck out of Iraq.
Click here for "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Tuesday July 8, 2008.
July 8th, 2008
by Kim Moore
We are all the future of The Aspen Club & Spa and we are all the future of Aspen.
That’s because as we look beyond tourism, real estate and construction, we look toward a future of sustainability and healthy living — an opportunity to combine local vitality with economic survival.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane to get a sense of this Aspen institution known as The Aspen Club & Spa.
Continue Reading July 8th, 2008
The Con Man welcomes the premier rock 'n' roll photographer Lynn Goldsmith, then segues into a discussion of Thomas Friedman, and a visit by the Cancer Babes from the Pathfinders survivors group.
Click here for the complete "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Monday July 7, 2008.
July 7th, 2008
Just today, I heard somewhere on one of the news channels that doctors are advocating that kids as young as 7 start taking cholesterol-reducing meds and that parents should start getting their kid's cholesterol levels checked by the age of 2!
I took care of my disabled mom during the last 10 years of her life. Her main problems were arthritis and heart disease. While doing my duty as a caretaker, I did a lot of research on how to help her. I found the "Life Extension Foundation" to be my most valuable resource on different nutritional remedies and the latest research on various illnesses and/or longevity. I/we were using things like shark cartilage, melatonin and glucosamine long before the general public even knew such things existed.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2008
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen—and why the hell not?
He wore the mantle lightly at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in part because he married into the gazillionaire Buxbaum family, who have so far given tens of millions of dollars to the town, with the latest dollop a $25 million downpayment for a spanky campus at the Aspen Music Festival and School. But Friedman’s wallop at the podium has all but nothing to do with Bucksbaum bucks, and everything to do with his prescient ability to package the zeitgeist with the tidiness of a juice box—the kind that comes with its own self-piercing straw.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2008
"America is losing its national identity through mass immigration, legal and illegal… creating 'transnationals' that never fully assimilate into our American society. "
~ Mark Krikorian
Continue Reading July 3rd, 2008
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