pundit

A pundit is one who offers their opinion on a particular subject of which they have considerable knowledge. Punditry can apply to politics, social issues, sports, or any other issue. Pundits analyze facts and publish their opinions in order to facilitate discussion of important issues.

On the blogosphere, punditry is widespread. Pundits are common sources of news for many web surfers. This can be both good and bad: while many pundits are eminently qualified in their fields, others are lacking credentials or other proof of their special knowledge of their chosen subject. In the realm of politics, the leading pundits are evenly divided between Republican and Democratic viewpoints. This can be troublesome in American politics, where the line between conservative and liberal is so deeply drawn as to resemble an unbridgeable gap.

While political analysis is always subjective, some complain that strongly conservative and strongly liberal pundits tend to go too far, contributing to the development of increasingly divisive cultural and intellectual spheres. Nonetheless, punditry-based websites are hugely popular, indicating that highly opinionated analysis is simply more interesting to read than neutral reporting.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “pundit”

• Farah Khan, Kitu at Sunita Kumar’s art exhibition

  
  Bollywood Bytes — Authority: 164
  Farah Khan, Queenie Dhody, Sharmilla Khanna, Zeba Kohli, Veena Malhotra, Sunita Kumar, Pria Kataria Puri, Rima Jain, Hasina Jethmalani, Devaunshi Mehta, Geeta Pundit, Kitu Gidwani at Sunita Kumar_s art exhibition in Jehangir on 25th Nov 2009.
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• Your Abbreviated Thanksgiving Pundit Round-up

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Happy and safe Thanksgiving. Get your safe and effective H1N1 vaccine when its available.   Gail Collins on the Obama Turkey pardon:   The turkey-pardoning is supposed to be a long-running national tradition, but it officially only goes back to George (the Good One) Bush and 1989. Since Thanksgiving is a ...
  22 hours ago

• Another V Sign: Sharp Upturn in Consumer Spending

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 652
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: As a supply-sider, consumer spending is not one of the things that I pay a lot of attention to. Spending is the by-product of production, so its better to know whether jobs are increasing or likely to increase, and whether people are working harder and/or more productively, than ...
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• Charles Darwin Has Been Sighted In Pune

  
  Reporting on a Revolution — Authority: 483
  Its been 150 years - November 24th 1859 - that Darwins book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life was published. The British Library on Fergusson College Road, Pune, has a poster exhibit on the theory of evolution. There are 14 poster ...
  1 day ago

• 26/11 – just another date….

  
  POV — Authority: 110
  November has been an eventful month in terms of remembrances. So much so that i have forgotten half the things that we are supposed to remember.  The most noise however, was for Nehru’s & then Indra Gandhi’s  birth anniversary, the Babri Masjid Demolition – thanks to the tabling of the Liberhan committee ...
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• Capital Spending Has Yet to Get Off the Ground

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 652
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: New orders for capital goods, the "seed corn" for future productivity gains, fell in October, and so far this year they are up only modestly (5.5%) from the low of earlier this year. It would appear that businesses are not in a rush to invest their rising profits. The ...
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• Remembering 26/11 – the Mumbai Terror Attacks

  
  A wide angle view of India — Authority: 414
  Tomorrow is the first death anniversary of those who died in the Mumbai Terror Attacks. A reader sent me this video , produced and directed by award-winning filmmaker Dan Reed which I thought worth posting here. Clicking on the link will take you to the video. Reed has done a brilliant job. Without saying it in so ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Your pre-Thanksgiving opinion sale, now with incredible bargains on foreign and domestic issues, and even a few offerings of facts (in short supply right now, but manufacture is ramping up.) Note that even with health reform, theres still things to be thankful for (keep reading.) Olivia Judson : Yesterday, ...
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• Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Your one stop pundit shop. Eugene Robinson , on guidelines for medical testing, says:  The uproar over the on-again, off-again guidelines on when women should have mammograms is proof of the blindingly obvious: Health-care reform that actually controls costs -- rather than just pretending to do so -- ...
  3 days ago

• The Indian government’s green channel for the corrupt

  
  A wide angle view of India — Authority: 414
  The government of India allows corruption. How else could it have become the scourge that it has today? The Prime Minister may be thinking of removing a happy clause in the law, happy for the thieves that is. A clause supposedly put there to protect public servants from wrongful harassment which blatantly helps ...
  3 days ago

• Frank Rich Plays Race Card on Palin Fans

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 174
  Frank Rich is one political pundit who takes Levi Johnston’s empty threats against his former future mother-in-law Sarah Palin seriously. Though to most observers Johnston’s threats sound like false bravado, Rich’s Sunday hit piece on Sarah Palins hit book suggested the former VP candidate is scared of what family ...
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• Are Fed MBS Purchases Really Holding Mortgage Rates Down?

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 652
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: This chart from Bloomberg shows the option-adjusted spread (OAS) on current coupon Ginnie Mae MBS, as calculated by Merrill Lynch ( BAC ). Spreads peaked about a year ago, just after the Fed began its quantitative easing program which ended up more than doubling the monetary ...
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• Mortgage Valuation: How Much Is Due to Fed Purchases?

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 652
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: This chart from Bloomberg shows the option-adjusted spread (OAS) on current coupon Ginnie Mae MBS, as calculated by Merrill Lynch. Spreads peaked about a year ago, just after the Fed began its quantitative easing program which ended up more than doubling the monetary base. ...
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• More Foreclosure Sales, Please

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 652
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: With the surge in sales activity, the number of unsold homes on the market is falling rapidly. Recovery skeptics keep arguing that there is a second "wave" of foreclose properties that is set to hit the market sometime in the next several months. Banks are said to be ...
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• Rising Gold, Flat Dollar Indicate Spread of Inflation Threat

  
  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page — Authority: 652
  Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Im a fan of keeping things in perspective. Theres been lots of attention recently on the decline in the dollar and the rising price of gold, with the Feds easy money providing the common denominator. But as this chart shows, the dollar has been flat for the past month, ...
  3 days ago

• (VIDEO) Jim Hoft, Dana Loesch, John Loudon Speak At The Show Me Institute’s Blogging Conference

  
  Founding Bloggers — Authority: 580
  At least one of your Founding Bloggers attended the Show Me Institute’s Blogging Conference in St. Louis this last weekend. We did a little bit of filming there, and below are three clips from a panel made up of a few prominent St. Louis bloggers. The first clip is of Jim Hoft from Gateway Pundit. He compares ...
  3 days ago

• Strange world, strange jobs

  
  Mr. Topp and the Big Bad Blog — Authority: 131
  We live in a strange world, and as a result there are plenty of strange jobs out there. Over the past couple of weeks, I have seen a couple of these thanks to the blogosphere web-o-net thingy that I read on a daily basis. This has prompted me to search for more. What started it all? The need for a Grateful Dead ...
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• Journalistic Ethics and Illegally Acquired Documents

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 675
  Ed Driscoll , Jonathan Adler and Glenn Reynolds take the New York Times and other mainstream outlets to task for their decision to not republish the stolen emails from climate scientists on the grounds that they were illegally obtained and written with the expectation of being kept private.  After all, these ...
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• Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 806
  Monday punditry, so lets dive in on conservatism, health care and the economy. Ross Douthat : For now, no Republican leader projects a similar level of seriousness. Late in the Bush years, it was easy to dismiss conservatism as brain-dead. Among policy thinkers, that isn’t true anymore: the advent of ...
  3 days ago

• Blogging To Resume Shortly

  
  Founding Bloggers — Authority: 580
  This might be the longest we have gone without posting since Founding Bloggers launched over a year ago. The reason this blog fell off of a productivity cliff is because at least one of your Founding Bloggers was invited by Jim Hoft and the Show Me Institute to attend their blog function in St. Louis over the ...
  4 days ago

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