Oct 6 2010

A Fund Manager’s Message Beyond the ‘Piñata’

Anthony Scaramucci, the hedge fund manager of SkyBridge Capital, made headlines last month when he asked President Obama on television when he was going to “stop whacking Wall Street like a piñata.” Since then, Mr. Scaramucci has become the piñata, taking hits in the media for his apparent naiveté from the comedian Jon Stewart and [...]


Sep 16 2010

Beyond the Primaries: How Much Impact Will the Tea Party Have Now?

While the primary season has ended with many upsets involving candidates supported by Tea Party activists, the question now is whether the movement will have anywhere near the same impact on the general electorate beyond whether the candidates they supported do well or not on Election Day. A CBS News/New York Times poll conducted Sept. [...]


Jul 24 2010

Ground Zero Mosque: The Battle Beyond Palin

NEW YORK — Sarah Palin has made the Ground Zero mosque famous in “red America” with her tweets to New Yorkers, asking them to stop its construction near the site where some 3,000 victims died horribly on 9/11 at the hands of Islamic terrorists. But here in the city where it happened we’ve been wrestling [...]


Jul 10 2010

‘Beyond the Killing Fields’: Why Journalism Is in a ‘State of Chaos’

Five Politics Daily staffers — Carl Cannon, Melinda Henneberger, Walter Shapiro, David Wood and James Grady — are joining in an online discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg about politics and the press as seen through the prism of his new book, “Beyond the Killing Fields.” Here is Schanberg’s response [...]