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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volker appeared on the Charlie Rose show last evening to discuss the recent actions to bailout Bear Stearns. Volker points out that the actions were unprecedente d and he cautions that doing so may be an argument for greater regulation of investment houses like Stearns.
Volker’s ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Reading over a fluff piece on CNN about preferences of beer vs. wine drinkers for political candidates, I came across this:
Overall, 28 percent of all Americans say they prefer beer to wine and 31 percent say they would rather have a glass of wine than a bottle of brew. (The ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
Tags: Iraq War Blogswarm, Five years of War, Cost of Iraq War
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Today’s speech on race by Senator Barack Obama was noteworthy. The media is abuzz with glowing proclamation s. Some have said that the Obama speech was the most important speech on race in the forty years since the death of Martin Luther King.
While pondering the many positive observations , what ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Amidst the backdrop of protests happening around the globe, George Bush is scheduled to again spout his usual fear laden diatribe to drum up more support for his grand “democracy spreading” experiment in Iraq. Really, however you like to slice it, OBL couldn’t ask for a better person to ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
This book by Howard Zinn is packed with fascinating information. If you want to know what really happened — blemishes and all — this book offers an unabridged no-holds-bar red history of our country, starting in 1492.
The only reason I even know about the book is because of a column ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Tags: General, Candidate Blogs, Barack Obama, BIO, Election News, Blogs & Politics, 2008 elections
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Race. Like it or not, race is still an issue in America. Generations after the civil rights marches, and more than a century since the Civil War, race is still an issue in America. And no matter how far we push the conflicts of race to the corners of our ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Bonus point for naming the band who sang it without using ”the google”…
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Tags: Barack Obama, BIO, 2008 elections, 2008 Presidential Election, barack obama, campaign, DarylCagel, hillary clinton, Spin
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Monday, March 17th, 2008
Found out this about Barack Obama’s mother:
Kansas was merely a way station in her childhood, wheeling westward in the slipstream of her furniture-sa lesman father. In Hawaii, she married an African student at age 18. Then she married an Indonesian, moved to Jakarta, became an anthropologi st, wrote an 800-page ...
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