Another Statement Of The Obvious

How long will this continue? This is very old news, but yet they just keep firing away at it. Is there any intelligent people left that does know how badly the Iraq situation was handled? If there are, please, just leave them under their rock, we do not need them out and [...]

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Obama and Patriotism

Stanley Crouch writes in the NY Daily News on this subject.
The most interesting, even thrilling and inspiring thing about what Barack Obama has done to American political discourse is to redefine patriotism. He has taken the definition beyond the familiar body of platitudes that the phoniest of our conservative broadcast journalists and talk show hosts [...]

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ConEd Workers Ready For Strike

This report from the pages of the New York Daily News:
Con Edison ushered workers out of some power plants early Sunday when a strike deadline passed with no deal, even as heated labor talks continued, the union says.
“They had already started the process at about 12:05 [a.m.] of escorting our people off Con Ed properties,” [...]

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Wesley Clark Slams McCain

Retired U.S. Gen. Wesley Clark, a supporter of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, on Sunday questioned whether Sen. John McCain’s military experience qualified him to be commander-in-chief.
The dust-up began with Clark’s appearance Sunday on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” where moderator Bob Schieffer asked him about his interview with the Huffington Post earlier this month.
In the [...]

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Professor’s Classroom

Monday….Monday…So good to me……(cannot you just hear the Mamas And Papas singing in the background?)
Another Monday…another quiz…….Today’s quiz is from the American Civil War days……
General Order #38 which made it an offense to criticize the government over the war and was used to arrest a former US Congressman from Ohio, who in 1863 said that [...]

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What About The Alternative Minimum Tax?

Congress is finishing work begun in 2006 to remedy an unintended consequence of the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT)–the treatment of a form of employee compensation called incentive stock options (ISOs).
The House of Representatives passed legislation in May 2008 as part of the Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act of 2008 (HR 6049) fully restoring the [...]

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Looking For A Martian Brother

Scientists have discovered that Martian soil is rich in nutrients.
NASA researchers want to determine whether the planet could support, or ever has supported, life. The nutrients are among a few positive indicators they have gleaned since the Phoenix Mars Lander began collecting and testing soil samples last month. Early findings, including ice crystals [...]

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What Is This Election’s Industrial Policy?

Every year there is an election the Parties come up with a way to fight the deficit and one of those techniques is an Industrial policy for long term growth. Can you guess what it is in this election cycle? Sure you can, just think about it. Want another clue? It is the policy that [...]

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The perils of honesty in politics

The perils of honesty in politics – Los Angeles Times
Honesty in politics….thinking….is that not an oxymoron?

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An Ice Free North Pole?

The potential landmark thaw – the first time in human history the pole would be ice-free – is a stark sign of global warming, according to an article Friday on the web site of the The Independent, a London newspaper.
There is no land at the North Pole, but as long as anyone has looked, it [...]

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