The man who helped found the Apple computer company with former CEO Steve Jobs in 1976 spoke rather highly of his former partner in an interview this week with Bloomberg. Ultimately, he called him “the greatest technical leader we’ve seen in our lifetime.” Jobs stepped aside as CEO on Wednesday…

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Conservative economist Ben Stein said Monday that he would eat Bill O’Reilly’s shoe if the Fox News host could prove raising taxes on millionaires actually hurts the economy. O’Reilly began his “Talking Points” segment by asserting that the economy was better off when President Barack Obama was on vacation. “You…

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MSNBC host Ed Schultz cited an Associated Press report on Monday that stated Congressional Republicans wanted to raise taxes on nearly 50 percent of Americans. Although Republicans fought hard to extend the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans, they said they do not approve of extending the payroll tax…

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American historian Bruce Bartlett, who worked as an aide to President Ronald Reagan and as a Treasury official for President George H.W. Bush, doesn’t have a lot of respect for Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s intellect. “Rick Perry said the Fed is treasonous,” CNN’s Christine Romans told Bartlett Friday during…

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Real estate mogul Donald Trump said Monday that he would be willing to pay a higher tax rate but most oil companies would not because they are not patriotic. “Warren Buffet made another splash with his op-ed in The New York Times, saying it’s just not right that he, a…

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Washington Post columnist Ezra Klein said Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) comments about Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were “extraordinarily ignorant.” “If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do with him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down…

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Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz is disgusted by the political gridlock in Washington, D.C., and he’s fighting back by calling for corporations and individuals to boycott all campaign donations. In an email to employees (PDF), Schultz expressed his frustrations with Congress. The response was so great that 50 business…

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Current TV president David Bohrman wants to transform his channel into a 24-hour liberal news network. “[Current owners] Al Gore and Joel Hyatt got the brilliant idea to go and try to hire Keith [Olbermann],” Bohrman told CNN’s Howard Kurtz Sunday. “They did, and discovered lightning.” “And all of a…

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University at Buffalo law professor Mark Bartholomew questions whether courts have gone too far in allowing celebrities to sue others for the use or even the implication of their names, images or voices. This special legal privilege is known as the “right of publicity.” “If you want to say, ‘Oh,…

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MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell referred to the Standard & Poor’s credit-rating agency as a “confederacy of dunces” and called the leaders of the company, John Chambers and David Beers, “the most incompetent analyzers of debt in history.” S&P lowered the U.S. long-term sovereign debt rating from AAA to AA+ on…

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