JC Penney Jumps on News George Soros Is Shareholder

Associated Press via CNBC 25 Apr 2013

Shares of beleaguered retailer JC Penney rose more than 7 percent in aftermarket trading on Thursday after billionaire financier George Soros disclosed a 7.9 percent stake in the company.

Soros disclosed he owns about 17.4 million shares of the Plano, Texas, department store operator in a filing with […]

Lindsey Graham Gives Away the Game

Erick Erickson RedState 12/22/2010

There has been a lot of speculation this week about why the GOP rolled over in the Senate on virtually every issue. From Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’s repeal to START to you name it — the GOP became the party of capitulation. So much so that even Lindsey Graham is blasting […]

Rasmussen: Feingold now trailing by 7 in Wisconsin

Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 9/17/2010

After winning his primary to gain the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Russ Feingold, businessman and newcomer Ron Johnson also got a bump in the polls. The latest Rasmussen survey puts him ahead of the incumbent by seven, 51/44. But as with all surveys conducted in the immediate aftermath of a […]

VP Biden tells one of ‘the little people’: Stop being a ’smartass’

James Richardson Skepticians 6/27/2010

Vice President Joe Biden was caught on camera calling a Glendale, Wisconsin custard shop manager a “smartass” after the man asked the White House lower his taxes.

Biden visited Kopps Frozen Custard, a popular Milwaukee-area restaurant the vice president mistook for an ice cream parlor, to chat with employees and […]

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