Morning class and yes, it is another Monday–a Blue Monday–and yes–there is a quiz today. With the election approaching I thought I would give a test on past actions by the Congress.
What was the informal cooperation of Repubs and Southern Dems of both houses of Congress, which worked during the adminstrations of Eisenhower, Truman and [...]
Archive for July 7th, 2008
Professor’s Classroom
Posted in History, Politics, tagged Classroom, Education, Historical Events on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today In Labor History
Posted in History, Labor, tagged Historical Events, Unions, Workers on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
07 July
Mary Harris “Mother” Jones begins “The March of the Mill Children”, when, accompanied part of the way by children, she walked from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt’s home on Long Island to protest the plight of child laborers. One of her demands: reduce the childrens’ work week to 55 hours – 1903
Some 500,000 people [...]
Candidates And Their Answers To The Fuel Problem
Posted in News, tagged Gas Prices, McCain, Nationalization, Obama, Oil Industry, Positions on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Just like every other social problem confronting working people—from home foreclosures, to the massive loss of jobs, the growth of social equality and the danger of war—capitalist political parties around the world have no solution for the staggering rise in fuel prices, whether they call themselves, conservative, labor, Green or socialist. Instead, they all agree [...]
Candidates And The Other War
Posted in Foreign policy, News, Politics, tagged Afghanistan, McCain, NATO, Obama, War on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Barack Obama and John McCain are proposing sharply different strategies to seize the initiative from a resurgent Taliban and Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, positions that underscore the two leading presidential candidates’ competing visions of how to wage the war on terrorism.
If elected, Obama says, he would immediately withdraw thousands of ground troops from Iraq and [...]
Candidates And Energy
Posted in Energy, News, Politics, tagged Drilling, Issues, McCain, Obama, Oil, Oil Companies on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I found this chart in the Detroit Free Press and wanted to post it to help my readers understand where their candidate may be on the issue energy–at least for now. These two flip and flop more than a fish out of water.
BARACK OBAMA
ISSUE
JOHN McCAIN
Send out stimulus checks of $300 per family
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What he’d do [...]
The “Obamacans”
Posted in News, Politics, tagged candidates, Obama, Obamacans on 7 July, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The “Obamacans” that Sen. Barack Obama used to joke about – Republican apostates who whispered their support for his candidacy – have morphed into a new phenomenon, or syndrome, as detractors like to call it: the Obamacons.
These are conservatives who have publicly endorsed the presumptive Democratic nominee, dissidents from the brain trust of think tanks, [...]
“McCain Lacks Judgement” Sez Kerry
Posted in News, Politics, tagged Experience, Judgment, McCain on 7 July, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Senator John F. Kerry said yesterday that John McCain doesn’t have the judgment to be president.
“John McCain . . . has proven that he has been wrong about every judgment he’s made about the war. Wrong about the Iraqis paying for the reconstruction, wrong about whether or not the oil would pay for it, wrong [...]
