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I spoke this morning with a friend who’s writing a piece for Wall Street 24/7 and he’s concluded, based on national data, that the recovery is underway. We both have our statistics and arguments but perhaps our main disagreement came … Continue reading →

  And it’s back in tax-friendly Newport.

Radioactive bluefin tuna makes a great media dish but there’s no “there’ there. NPR’s science editor Richard Harris, the last best reporter on government radio, weighs in with what the national press won’t tell its readers: the trace amounts of … Continue reading →

Sierra Club shifts its sights to natural gas. The object of the green movement, as I’ve argued for years, is to shut down the western world’s economy and has nothing to do with cleaner air or water. So the Sierra Club … Continue reading →

According to the New York Times, Obummer not only insists on name-by-name control over which terrorist will be dispatched to Allah, he brings his top political adviser David Axelrod into the “top secret” meetings where such things are decided. So … Continue reading →

The Obama administration is beginning to sound as discombobulated as that other Harvard personality Elizabeth Warren. Here, for instance, is Obama’s mouthpiece explaining the difference between Solyndra and Bain Capital today: Reporter: Last thing. If that’s the argument, how is that … Continue reading →

But how about her “AP” teacher who encourages this waste of time? GHS student is running around setting up garbage cans in the student center, completely unaware of the total insignificance of such recycling. If deluding a student and abetting her … Continue reading →

Chase wants yet another branch, this one next to Greenwich Library. Makes no never mind to me, but watch for the usual suspects to holler about “traffic” – it’s a Pavlovian reaction.

  Commerce Department to classify Arab-Americans as “disadvantaged minority”. 

Obama hails Bob Dylan, basketball coach and political activist as “heroes”.  MSNBC undoubtedly approves because all these guys aren’t (a) soldiers or (b) dead.

He provided so many of us so much pleasure over the years; I can’t say he was at every folk and bluegrass festival I ever attended but it seemed that way. A ripe old age, but I’m still sad to … Continue reading →

I’ve been surprised, and have mentioned it here, that most of the dead inventory between $4 and $10 million has pretty much stayed pat, refusing to acknowledge that there’s a problem with finding buyers in that price range. That’s been … Continue reading →

822 North Street reports in as sold today for $6.5 million after originally asking $8.450   a year ago. nothing surprising there but it did sell for $7.5 million in October, 2002 and according to the listing, this was “completely … Continue reading →

Nothing of note on open houses today so I’m off to attend to other matters, but here’s what little Greenwich real estate news there is, so far.   32 Carriglea in Riverside sold for $4 million. I wish this hadn’t … Continue reading →

  And ditches reporters after he completes his round. So far as I can tell, Obama, Mister “Equity for Women at Augusta” has never played golf  (or basketball) with a girl.

Tales from the tipi: Elizabeth Warren is expected to lose at least 15% of the voters at next month’s Massachusetts Democrat primary to the heretofore unknown Marisa DeFranco , forcing her into a primary in the fall. Oh, what a tangled … Continue reading →

A reader mentions Morely Safer in connection with today’s report that an MSNBC talking head dismissed the concept that  US. soldiers killed in battle are “heroes”. Safer, the reader says, once claimed that he’d act to protect US soldiers from … Continue reading →

VFW slams MSNBC host who claims he’s uncomfortable” calling dead soldiers “heroes”. “I don’t want to obviously desecrate or disrespect memory of anyone that’s fallen, he said, “and obviously there are individual circumstances in which there is genuine, tremendous heroism … Continue reading →

Just let the Old Greenwich Memorial Day parade get along without me for the second year in a row. I used to attend because it’s one of the few vestiges of  town life as I remember it growing up and … Continue reading →

Just pop (and jazz, if that’s your thing). We’ll leave out classical in the interest of putting some boundary to this. Here’s a bakers dozen, again in no particular chronological order or genre: Mary Chapin Carpenter         … Continue reading →