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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
I have noticed in the past week or so that Senator McCain, and now President Bush, are putting a priority on speaking to the psychological aspects of the current economic woes. Just this morning in a press conference, President Bush said the following about his decision to lift an executive ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
Tomorrow is the Pennsylvania primary, for which Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have been preparing for at least six weeks. Both campaigns have gotten pretty snippy at each other, and the general level of dialogue seems to have decayed with time. But that's not what I care about with respect ...
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
Following the lead in a post at Talking Points Memo, I'll reproduce an excerpt from The Trail, a blog at the Washington Post website:
Speaking to reporters in Amman, the Jordanian capital, McCain said he and two Senate colleagues traveling with him continue to be concerned about Iranian operatives "taking al-Qaeda ...
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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), a tool designed to grant federal dollars to match a state's funding of its own health insurance program for children, was established in 1997 and is set to expire this fall. Before its recess, Congress was in the process of crafting legislation to extend ...
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Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
You have probably already heard the news about Senator David Vitter, the Republican from Louisiana, being involved with the "D.C. Madam", the woman charged with running a prostitution ring in the D.C. area. Yes, this is the same Senator Vitter who is vehemently against the idea of same sex marriage ...
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Monday, July 9th, 2007
Howard Kurtz is a media critic at washingpost.com, and he has a column up today titled "A Blog That Made It Big". The blog to which Mr. Kurtz refers is Huffington Post, but that's not the part of his column that caught my attention.
At the end of his column, Mr. ...
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