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Analysis: Where was the downtown rally? Obama’s Madison visit a hallmark of his mild presidency By JOHN NICHOLS Analysis: Where was the downtown rally? Obama's Madison visit a hallmark of his mild presidencyOne year ago Tuesday, Barack Obama redefined American electioneering to such an extent that it was possible to believe that the success of his transformational campaign would lead to a transformational presidency.Who Killed California?
by Troy Senik http://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/who-killed-california My apologies for having nothing originally in this post. The text was here but didn't show up. Apparently this article is too long to be printed here, at about 11 pages. It is nevertheless worth reading, unless, as someone has already done, you have made your mind up what to believe before reading.The Frank Marshall Davis Network in Hawaii
By Andrew Walden July 29, 2008 In a July 14 news release the “Honolulu Community Media Council” (HCMC) denounces Accuracy In Media and the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review for “shoddy journalism and smear tactics.” HCMC, headed by Chris Conybeare of the University of Hawaii, “finds” that “there is no substance to the claim” that “Frank Marshall Davis was a lifelong Communist and a mentor to (presidential candidate Barack) Obama.” Conybeare may be hoping that nobody else knowing the post-WW II history of Hawaii is willing to talk. Davis, it turns out, was just one member of a network whose works continue to exert influence to this day. Connecting the Dots A faculty member of the UH-West Oahu Center for Labor Education and Research (CLEAR), Conybeare is producer of a many-part PBS series on the history of labor organizing in Hawaii, focusing on the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU).Camille Paglia ans. letters on Obama, talk radio, gay rights, abortion.
Bow-ow-ow: Obama's painful missteps Let the new president grow into the job -- but he'd better do it fast! Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality By Camille Paglia Dear Camille, In your column, you say, "President Obama has been ill-served by his advisors and staff." The primary job requirement of a good senior executive is the ability to judge character and ability, in order to be able to select people to whom responsibilities may be safely delegated.Leaving Michigan Behind: Eight-year population exodus staggers state
=============================================================================== Leaving Michigan Behind: Eight-year population exodus staggers state Outflow of skilled, educated workers crimps Michigan's recovery Ron French and Mike Wilkinson / The Detroit News Joe LaCross drives American cars. Always has. Born and raised in the blue-collar suburbs of Detroit, this son of a welder wouldn't dream of rolling past his autoworker neighbors in a Toyota.NYT: In McCain’s Uphill Battle, Winning Is an Option
In McCain’s Uphill Battle, Winning Is an Option By ADAM NAGOURNEY October 24, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24mccain.html?em MIAMI — Senator John McCain woke Thursday morning to what has become a fairly common greeting in these tough last weeks of his campaign. A raft of polls showing him well behind. Early post-mortems on his candidacy.How the votes are counted in NJ elections
How the votes are counted in NJ elections By GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press Writer Published: Saturday, November 01, 2008 http://www.njelections.org/ MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. The vote counting across New Jersey will actually begin not long after polls open at 6 a.m. Tuesday.A few shattered myths - who really voted this year?
Public Post Last night, Karl Rove mentioned some interesting numbers... while the media want us to think Obama won by a landslide (and in the electoral college, he did) when you look at popular vote you see that Obama's 52% was:- 1.3 points higher than Bush in 2004
- 3.5 points higher than Gore in 2000
- 3 points higher than Clinton in 1996
Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria
February 23rd, 2009 12:52 am (Works and Days) Some Reflections in the Times of Hysteria Imagine… Had anyone said a few months ago that the federal government would step in to provide a trillion dollars to subsidize gasoline—to bring it down to $1.85 a gallon nationwide from prices that were exceeding $4 a gallon—we would have had a national debate. And yet as quietly as the Iraq war cooled down and was ignored, so too we think nothing of the hundreds of billions of dollars saved in reduced energy costs. For the average driver who puts 15,000 miles on his car per year, the annual savings (depending on regional prices, miles per gallon, and the amount and type of miles driven) could reach $1500-2000.Accounting for California’s Suicide
Accounting for California’s Suicide A weird sort of utopian mindset. By Victor Davis Hanson What went wrong in California? I think we can all agree on at least three observations.
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