Mary Jo White, Obama’s SEC pick, used to represent Morgan Stanley. Is that a problem?

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“You don’t mess with Mary Jo,” President Obama said as he nominated Mary Jo White to head the Securities and Exchange Commission. “Mary Jo doesn’t intimidate easily and that’s important because she’s got a big job ahead of her.” Her record seems to bear this out. Among those she’s locked up, both as U.S. attorney… Read more »

Obama Picks Women from Morgan Stanley, Wal-Mart for Senior Positions

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In response to criticism from both sides of the aisle for only appointing men to cabinet positions for his second term, President Barack Obama is now considering two women for senior economic positions. He wants Ruth Porat, chief financial officer at Morgan Stanley, for Deputy Secretary of the Treasury and Wal-Mart Foundation President Sylvia Mathews Burwell for budget… Read more »

NYTimes TV Critic Alessandra Stanley Didn’t See a Single GOP Win During Debate Season

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Alessandra Stanley, "The TV Watch" columnist for the New York Times, has reviewed all four debates this election season – three presidential debates and the one vice-presidential debate — and clearly favored the Democrats in each review. While even the liberal media conceded Romney won the first debate and that Joe Biden may have blown… Read more »

Stanley Kurtz Exposes Obama’s War on the Suburbs: Ideological Key to Obama’s Past, Present, and Future

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Stanley Kurtz, who traced Barack Obama‚s left-wing political origins in Radical-in-Chief (2010), is releasing a new and powerful follow-up this week: Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities. Kurtz demonstrates that Obama’s early political goals included redistributing suburban wealth–and that he is working closely with old community organizing allies to implement… Read more »