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Donald Trump Could Always Just Give $5 Million to Charity. But He Won't

Billionaire media slut Donald Trump's not-so-earth-shattering announcement yesterday that he will donate $5 million to a charity of President Barack Obama's choice if the president releases his college transcripts was essentially brushed off by the White House as the shameless PR stunt that it is.Fo ... More >>

The 10 Most Corrupt Tax Loopholes

If Mitt Romney won't tell you which need to be closed, we will

Some Rich, Famous People Still Act Like They're Broke!

The wonderful thing about being wealthy is that some people want to stay that way. Or maybe they want to project the image that they're not wasteful, because that would seem creepy and inappropriate. Or they are sometimes flamboyant with their wallets, but seize a bargain when one's available, eve ... More >>

Rightbloggers Rush to Defend Mitt Romney -- The Corporate Raider, Not the Candidate

When last we left our heroes, the 2012 Republican Presidential challengers, they were inevitably folding to Mitt the Man Whose Turn It Is. Then Newt Gingrich -- or, excuse us, a Newt Gingrich Super-PAC to which he is not connected -- decided to go out swinging with a little film that portrayed Romne ... More >>

NYFF: Life is (Alexander) Payne

Rightbloggers Defend Rich Bastards from Obama's Tax Plan

If rightbloggers believe in anything, it's that taxes are bad -- especially if they're on people making over a million dollars. When it was revealed that President Obama would propose a tax on millionaires, the brethren loyally manned the barricades to defend America's rich -- e.g., Donald Trump, ... More >>

Obama to Introduce 'Buffett Rule'; Mayweather Wins Controversial Bout; Profile of Reno Air Crash Victim

​President Obama will announce his proposal for a rewrite of the U.S. tax code Monday. The major change Obama plans to make will target the wealthiest 0.3% of the country. He is reportedly calling it the "Buffett Rule" after billionaire Warren Buffett's Op-Ed in the New York Times complaining ... More >>

Republicans Call Obama Plan 'Class Warfare'; Don't Know Definition of 'Warfare'

​Tomorrow, President Obama will unveil a deficit-cutting proposal that will include a revision to the U.S. tax code. The proposed change will feature a higher tax rate for the wealthiest 0.3% of Americans, who currently pay the IRS with a $15 gift card to Sam Goody every April (estimated figur ... More >>

The Classical Talks: The Voice Interviews the Writers Behind the New Sports Site

​While the coming new sports site, The Classical, feels to us an awful lot like what people hoped Grantland would be, the writers involved tell the Voice they see it as more like a sports version of the Awl. Either way, sports are one of the topics that eat up a lot of time but remain immune t ... More >>

The Huffington Post Gets Blacker, Howard Kurtz Gets Paid as Press Clips Returns

​Press Clips has long, if intermittently, been the name of the media column at the Village Voice, years ago on paper in the hands of journalists like Sydney Schanberg and Keach Hagey, before being brought to this blog by some untamed rabble-rouser called Foster Kamer. But as a wise man once wr ... More >>

White America Has Lost Its Mind

The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion

Week in Review: Quarantine the Past

Later, dude. Photo by Rob Harvilla​In the week we threw up our hands and named all seven days after Pavement, we celebrated at the now-reunited and finally in New York band's first show at the Williamsburg Waterfront, pitied the plight of scalpers trying to get rid of their tickets, hung out w ... More >>

The Top Seven Most Surprising Revelations From Jay-Z's Roundtable Conversation With Warren Buffett and Steve Forbes

​Recently Forbes staged an event a long time coming, bringing Jay-Z and the billionaire Warren Buffett to the same table as part of something they're calling the Forbes 400 Summit. People have been speculating about this meeting for years now--some quite prophetically--and as interlocutor, the ... More >>

The Chelsea Clinton Wedding Lacked Oprah, Other Promised Famous People

​Even adults think their parents are a little lame. Sure, most grown people come to terms with their adolescent authority angst, but even little Malia and Sasha will probably never think Daddy is as ice cold as the rest of the world does. So what must Chelsea Clinton think about Bill and Hilla ... More >>

New York Times is Sadly Sexless

​What's important in a marriage? For the non-married, guesses go something like this: kids, money, sex. When long-term couples don't work out and outsiders assume simplistic reasons for the dissolution, they might bet that one, or all, of The Big 3 were to blame. Curiously, in the New York Tim ... More >>

Warren Buffett Backs Goldman Sachs, Eviscerates Peanut Brittle Bag

Here he is, eating something else.​Third richest person in the world Warren Buffett spoke in support of Goldman Sachs at a press conference on Sunday, saying that the bank didn't do anything to warrant the public fury that has ensued, and also that things are getting better, ya'll!

Warren Buffet, Really Rich Man, Defends Goldman Sachs, Really Rich Men

​If one man could be considered the most important single person to the success of the U.S. economy, there is an argument to be made for mega-billionaire Warren Buffet. (This post is not that argument.) But Buffet chose Saturday to lead the counter-backlash, coming out in favor of the embattle ... More >>

Chinese Winemakers Go High-End; Anheuser-Busch to Make More Beer with Less Water

​After years of producing cheap, bad wine, Chinese winemakers are creating high-end offerings, catering to a an increasingly affluent and sophisticated Chinese consumer. [Wall Street Journal] Christie's has announced it will auction Pablo Picasso's portrait, "The Absinthe Drinker," for betwee ... More >>

"Undiluted Maleness": Studies in Crap Presents the Hunks of Harlequin Romances!

​Forget the spicy pirates of the Fabio days! Today's lover of paperback romances demands men of today! Men as wealthy as Warren Buffet, as jet-setting as Aristotle Onassis, and as Tea-Party wholesome as Scott Brown, whose Cosmo spread is just a cowboy hat away from making a perfect cover for H ... More >>

We've Bailed out the Banks. When Do We Go After the Crooks Behind our Financial Collapse?

Barrett: All Bloomie's Rich Friends

Mayor Mogul stepped on his own tongue yesterday while explaining away the Grand Poobah confab he attended with buddies Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Ted Turner, the Rockefellers and Oprah, revealed in the Times today. "All my friends are philanthropic, or they probably wouldn't be my friends," he said ... More >>

"World's Richest" Meet in Secret, Plot New World Order or Something

Get out your tinfoil! ABC today reports a heretofore secret meeting of "America's Richest Givers", including Mayor Bloomberg, Oprah, David Rockefeller, George Soros, Ted Turner, and other illuminati, were invited by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates to a "window-lined private room" -- as opposed to one ... More >>

Rightbloggers Say: Go Galt! We'll Catch Up With You Later!

President Obama has proposed ending the Bush tax cuts in 2011, bringing the top rates from 33 percent to 36 percent and from 35 percent to 39.6 percent. The lower of these hikes would apply to individuals making over $200,000 and households making over $250,000. This is not really news, as Obama ... More >>

What Cooked the World's Economy?

It wasn't your overdue mortgage.

Why England's Pop Divas The Sugababes Put Ours to Shame

Cheesy, shameless girls abroad

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