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Why Did Huntsman Sue Hexion Over Their Proposed Takeover?

Can Huntsman Corporation stay in the Apollo Management picture?
 
I was worried when Apollo execs speak up their minds and turned to Huntsman family members to assist them in the private equity fund's
proposed acquisition of the Texas-based chemical company.
 
In the words of Leon Black, the founder of Apollo: Back out!
 
Call it "one of the most inadequate takeovers in corporate America."
 
Apollo's Black is back on Feb.9, when a courtroom hearing split between the Apollo team and representatives from Huntsman testify the
PE firm's decision to rule out concessions concerning Apollo's Hexion Specialty Chemicals subsidary's planned buyout of the publicly held
family company. For Apollo/Hexion, the former Borden Chemical, Black and his equity managers convinced Huntsman execs and reps to
eventually buy out a company whose specialty chemical compounds are used in a variety of products in many vast industries.
 
On http://www.huntsman.com, a press release from Apollo's Black revealed the controversy concerning the Huntsman buyout and how it
may have an upsetting effect over the company's common stock price.
 
Whew!
 
Can anyone save Huntsman soon? Or possibly ever?
 
The http://www.factcheckerssquad.blogspot.com blog will reveal the factual evidence affecting the Apollo/Huntsman merger agreement...
and how this buyout of equals can put the Huntsman family in peril.
 
"If you're Apollo, and have a management team in Huntsman during the trial, should Huntsman employees attempt to block Hexion's pending acquisition of the entire company in their quest to turn the chemicals giant around?"
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Citi Cutting 20,000 workers

There go 20,000-plus Citigroup workers ending their careers.
 
The Citigroup press release was published Friday at http://www.citi.com as it scales back more than a quarter of their workforce and close unprofitable branch office locations world wide.
 
For a potential list of the Citi branches in your territory, log on to http://www.citi.com.
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Mike Gallagher on the Fence

Mike Gallagher wants you to help the troops return to the U.S. - and allow others to leave put for good post-combat!
 
I dare you to follow Gallagher at http://www.mikeonline.com and support Gallagher's Army, a nonprofit org dedicated to fighting terror in the Middle Eastern nations at least for the time being. Your contribution to Gallagher's Army will finance future combat missions in veteran
radio broadcast Mike Gallagher's quest to fend off terrorists, anti-terrorism experts and Iraqi interrogators - DUH!
 
Meanwhile, I have posted a full episode of The Mike Gallagher Show in streaming audio at http://www.patrioticgun.blogtownhall.com. This 2-hour edition of TMGS features FOX News Channel personalities Chris Wallace and Gov. Mike Huckabee, as well as another
Life Changing Moment from Gallagher himself.
 
On the Web:
 
 
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Mark Cuban: Entrepreneur or Insider Trading Victim?

The Dallas Mavericks. HDNet. 2929 Productions. Magnolia Pictures. Insider trading?
 
Mark Cuban was one of the few casualities of corporate America and Hollywood cutting themselves loose - and, for that purpose, how can he be accused of insider trading in the first place?
 
More about Cuban's trading controversies from http://www.nytimes.com.
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Glenn Beck's Radio Days

Glenn Beck has been a force in conservative political talk radio, with his roots strecthing back to the late 1970s, when he became one of
music radio's most talented disc jockeys (DJs).
 
Today, Beck is still at the forefront of political talk radio now that FOX News Channel has signed him to a multiyear pact in which he'll preside over his own hourlong talk/debate series in 2009. Beck will continue to emcee his self-titled radio talk show syndicated by Clear
Channel's Premiere Radio Networks through 2012. Visit http://www.premiereradionetworks.com.
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According to Bill Bennett...

Confrontation is the best weapon against conservative public policy reform.
 
Why do we keep the Middle East out of military terror?
 
 
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The Michael Medved Show

I dare you to listen to Michael Medved and hear what conservatives have been missing.
 
Today's edition of The Michael Medved Show is from Monday, November 10.
 
To buy Mr. Medved's latest book, Right Turns, go to http://www.simonsays.com.
 
Wikipedia entry on the host of The Michael Medved Show: http://www.wikipedia.org
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Around the Horn: The Great Washington Debate

Another sign of life in Washington, as President-Elect Obama prepares for better deliberation when he steps in the Oval Office in January. To me, Obama will defend all areas of government in the post-George W. Bush era as Congress takes futher steps to rebuild America in a
turbulent age when gubernatorial censorship is currently created by farce and not by force of encouragement in the best sense of finding new ways to propose and apprehend public policy reform in a conservative rally on Capitol Hill.
 
Welcome to Around the Horn: The Great Washington Debate - The Show of Conservative Banter, a parody of ESPN's Around the Horn.
 
Imagine Michael Medved, Bill Kristol, Bill O'Reilly, Charlie Rose and Hugh Hewitt instead of Woody Paige and Max Kellerman debating over the top issues Congress has to offend and how the conservative political empire works. However, ATHTGWD may be just what the President offered, allegedly.
 
Zap conservative public reform at your own risk. Around the Horn: The Great Washington Debate isn't just sports talk anymore - it's the political debate of a lifetime.
 
Only when you just have to go to the election booth when it comes to nominating a President. My rule of thumb is: Never know a White House conservative lawmaker you never met - or haven't get time to speak to him or her over the confrontation concerning Congress in the twenty-first century. Funny, you don't have to debate over the gubernatorial, criminal, racial and deliberate realm of whoever defends
the Blue States, the Red States and the liberal public policy lawmakers having trouble defending freedom in America.
 
Around the Horn: The Great Washington Debate interrogates and answers the response from four top Washington insiders who vie for confronting over political and environmental concerns and drug addiction.
 
To me, ATHTGWD is no laughing matter... not!
 
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The Fact Checker Patrol official homepage and blog:
 
http://www.factcheckerpatrol.hyperionbooks.com (currently under construction for February 2010)
 
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Osgood's Words of Wisdom from January-October 2008

Hear The Osgood File with Charles Osgood at http://www.klbbradio.com.
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Don't Tell Joe the Plumber!

Take public policy in your hands.
 
Confront on the issues concerning all areas of government.
 
Face the truth and defend freedom.
 
Apprehend certain forms of liberal and conservative political censorship in a rally of equals.
 
And, one more form of conservative inaction concerning Congress: Don't tell Joe the Plumber. Tell Barack H. Obama what's going on in the Red States!
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Why Did Huntsman Sue Hexion Over Their Proposed Takeover?

I have posted a couple of articles from The New York Times concerning Hexion Specialty Chemicals' proposed hostile takeover of rival chemical manufacturer Huntsman.
 
 
 
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