Politics
Even on the 67th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, FDR’s legacy is still being hotly debated. Another president whose administration was defined by their response to an attack on the homeland, President Bush, is in his final days and giving “exit interviews” to the likes of ABC’s Charlie Gibson. What is his legacy as he leaves […]
From the always excellent Crossing Wall Street, Total Democratic Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,407,082 Total Republican Presidential Votes Since 1932: 745,297,123 Total Third-Party Presidential Votes Since 1932: 66,061,486 How’s that for parity? That’s a difference of 109,959 votes out of over 1.5 billion cast.
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With an invitation like this from Senate Majority Leader Harry “The War Is Lost” Reid, how could I resist going to Washington DC and seeing the new Capitol Visitors Center? Here it is, the Capitol Visitors Center, all $660 million of it The smelly, unwashed masses wait for their tours to begin Directly behind the […]
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If the same thing happened for 13 straight years, would you call it a trend? An emerging consensus? How about an incredibly inconvenient truth? The data shows that not only is Global Warming not happening, but we are well into a cooling period that could last for quite some time. It is clear why the […]
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In the mail this week, my Consumer Reports 2009 Buyer’s Guide. I took a look at the auto section and a few things were clear immediately. Best of the Best 1998-2007 Acura Integra, Acura MDX, Acura RL, Acura RSX, Acura TL, Acura TSX, BMW M3, Buick Lacrosse, Honda Accord, Honda Civic, Honda Civic Hybrid, Honda […]
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Al-Qaida No. 2 insults Obama in new audio message CAIRO,Egypt (AP) – Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri insulted Barack Obama in the terror group’s first reaction to his election, calling him a demeaning racial term implying that the president-elect is a black American who does the bidding of whites. The message appeared chiefly aimed at […]
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Mark Perry at Seeking Alpha wonders aloud, Maybe the country would be better off in the long run if we let the Big Three fail, and in the process break the UAW labor monopoly, and then let Toyota, Honda (HMC) and Volkswagen (VLKAY.PK) take over the U.S. auto industry, and restore realistic, competitive, market wages […]
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