Has Google grown evil after all?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Has Google grown evil after all? Google’s motto is ‘Don’t be evil.’ But is it possible for any company whose name is a verb… not to be evil? The regulators at the FTC have launched an investigation to find out. The problem is Google doesn’t just do searches anymore…Google provides […]15 years ago
How are those debt talks going?
Listen: Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: How are those debt talks going? Tell us, news media, how those high level negotiations on the debt crisis going? “The House Republican leader Eric Cantor says he won’t come to the negotiations,” said one report. “The Vice President signaled the talks are temporarily suspended,” said another. And yet […]15 years ago
Illegal celebrity poker
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Illegal celebrity poker It turns out that from 2006 until the recession hit in 2009, a high-stakes poker ring was operating at various homes and hotels around Los Angeles, and among the participants, according to TMZ — the star of Spiderman: “Tobey Maguire is tangled in a web of scandal.” […]15 years ago
Will Washington State be the first state to legalize just-for-fun marijuana?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Will Washington State be the first state to legalize just-for-fun marijuana? Some states have decriminalized marijuana, or allowed medical marijuana, but Washington State could become the first state to legalize just-for-fun marijuana. They’ve been out there for years, these pot legalizers, but now they’re starting to attract mainstream supporters. And […]15 years ago
The real smoker shock
Dave Ross Commentary - Listen: The real smoker shock
IF you haven't YET seen the FDA's new in-your-face anti-smoking labels, you will pretty soon: there's a man with smoke coming out of his tracheotomy, a healthy lung side-by-side with a diseased lung, a close-up of a cancerous mouth, and a corpse with the medical examiner's stitches running down his torso.
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A-Blog-A-Lypse over comedian Reggie Brown’s Obama impersonation
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: A-Blog-A-Lypse over comedian Reggie Brown’s Obama impression There was an internet A-Blog-A-Lypse over the weekend over comedian Reggie Brown’s appearance at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans… Reggie a born Obama impersonator: “You know, my mother’s white, my father’s black,” said Brown. …and he got up in front of […]15 years ago
What will Anthony Weiner do now?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: What will Weiner do now? All that’s left of the Anthony Weiner story is to speculate on his future… and whether whatever treatment he’s getting will work. He’s got to be pretty down right now after that raucus news conference, but I have an idea that might give him hope… […]15 years ago
Who said what’s going on in Libya is a war?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Who said what’s going on in Libya is a war? We just got finished learning a big lesson. It’s bad to evade the truth: “This was me doing a dumb thing, and doing it repeatedly and then lying about it,” said Rep. Anthony Weiner. Well .. the War Powers Act […]15 years ago
We’re going to have to cut Vancouver hockey fans some slack
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: We’re going to have to cut Vancouver hockey fans some slack We’re simply witnessing human nature. You must remember — hockey, like all sports, is war by other means: “Vancouver’s a world class city, and we put ourselves out like this, really, who are these kids running around?” said one […]15 years ago
When candidates get stupid
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: When candidates get stupid They arrive in my e-mail after every political debate — the FACT CHECKS. Lists of the candidates factual screw-ups. Like Michelle Bachmann saying Obamacare will kill 800,000 jobs, or Mitt Romney claiming Massachusetts didn’t raise taxes to pay for Romneycare. And all these fact checks have […]15 years ago
Enslaved and Loving It
All the Republican candidates agree that the economy must be deregulated and de-taxed, and that will bring the jobs and prosperity back. I’m prepared to believe that. The Bush tax cuts have been great. Obama’s payroll tax relief — also great. But the link between economic freedom and prosperity is unfortunately not clear. Like the […]15 years ago
Was there a savior in the GOP debate?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Was there a savior in the GOP debate? Was there anyone on that debate stage last night with the secret to bringing the jobs back? How about the one non-politician, talk host and former Godfather Pizza CEO Herman Cain… “It’s like a train on the tracks with no engine, and […]15 years ago
Divorce parties? Would you accept an invite?
By MyNorthwest.com staff Jack White and Karen Elson are calling it quits on their six-year marriage and they’re celebrating with a party. The party in Nashville, a statement from their rep to People.com says, is to “re-affirm the friendship and celebrate the past and future with close friends and family.” The couple has two children, […]15 years ago
Sorry Congressman Weiner, nothing more interesting than you happened all weekend
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Sorry Congressman Weiner, nothing more interesting than you happened all weekend Sorry Congressman Weiner – nothing more interesting than you happened over the weekend. In fact you even got a headline for something you DIDN’T do: “The communication was through twitter and it was all above board, there was nothing […]15 years ago
How long do we wait for the free market?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: How long do we wait for the free market? Judging from the economic news this week, it appears that the most important issue facing the nation is not lewd torso tweets: “Until we see a sustained period of stronger job creation, we cannot consider the recovery to be truly established,” […]15 years ago
I will miss the Newt Gingrich campaign
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: I will miss the Newt Gingrich campaign It’s not often a Presidential candidate’s entire staff just up and and quits. But it’s happened to Newt Gingrich. And I think a lot of commentators are feeling very sad today. We remember last March during the Libya debate when he went on […]15 years ago
I Know — Let’s Try Tax Cuts!
Latest Republican candidate Tim Pawlenty opened his campaign with a promise of further tax cuts to spur job growth. even Barack Obama is talking about another tax cut. But seriously — how long do we give this experiment to work? I’ve enjoyed the extra money, but I have to admit, I haven’t created any new […]15 years ago
Final picture of Weiner practically tweeted itself
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Final picture of Weiner practically tweeted itself [Bonus: Dave Ross original jingle ‘Your Tweetin’ Heart’] It’s all out there now. Andrew Breitbart, who broke the Anthony Weiner story, never intended to publish that last picture, he was merely showing it to a couple of radio hosts on his cell phone. […]15 years ago
Another day, another promise from someone running for president
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Another day, another promise from someone running for president “We should eliminate altogether the capital gains tax, the interest income tax, the dividends tax, and the death tax.” That’s former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty saying his plan will unleash the free market, bring back the jobs, grow the economy at […]15 years ago
Sarah Palin was sort of right about Paul Revere
Dave Ross Commentary - Listen: Sarah Palin was sort of right about Paul Revere Did Paul Revere warn the British? "He who warned the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms," said Palin.
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Sarah Was Actually Sort Of Correct
Sarah Palin’s Magical History tour took her to Massachusetts where she told a reporter that Paul Revere “warned the British” — even though everyone knows his job was to alert the Adams, Hancock, and the patriot militia so they could protect their ammunition stores. And yet, incoherent as her answer was, Revere’s own statement bails […]15 years ago
What’s your sexual batting average?
In Seattle a judge has ruled that the gay softball world series can keep its rule limiting the number of straight players on each team.15 years ago
How much money is $14.3 trillion?
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: How much money is $14.3 trillion? All of this talk about the national debt ceiling has us drowning in examples of how much money $14.3 trillion is. For example, as a stack of thousand dollar bills, it would reach 900 miles. Or, if you spent a dollar a second, $14.3 […]15 years ago
Free market to the rescue
Dave Ross Commentary – Listen: Free market to the rescue It’s clear by now that the stimulus wasn’t enough, and the housing incentives didn’t work, which means that what we’re left with now… is what many politicians have been hoping for … the free market. That’s what will have to rescue us from the double […]15 years ago
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