President Elect Obama will soon be at the top of THE professional org chart. He’ll be the CEO of a company with branches affecting every sector of the world. He’ll have to draw upon every bit of his community organizing skills in order to spur a successful outcome.
It’s probably fair to say that people [...]
Sometimes I wonder if the environment abused Mr Bush when he was a child, as he so often exhibits need to exact most vengeful retribution onto the Earth for past grievances of some sort. However it is the Earth has offended him so terribly, still-President Bush has a few parting shots in his arsenal:
George Bush [...]
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar’s dying last words included the phrase, “E tu Brute?” Just as Brutus was not alone in the murder of Julius Caesar, Citigroup’s bailout is not alone in the final demise of the free-market system as we once knew it. On November 26th, David Lazarus of the L.A. Times wrote, “The Citigroup bailout [...]
The next time you watch a sitcom, a commercial, or in some cases the news, try to note the number of Hispanics you see. Granted, news media are beginning to have more Hispanic newscasters, but it’s still a seldom appearance.
Hispanics (the largest and fastest growing minority group) make up approximately 14.8% of the population, but [...]
Wow! It’s great to see gasoline prices down to what they were somewhere in 2002 or 2003.
Yes, one has to go back to 2002 or 2003 to remember prices this low.
Texas has a lot going for it. When the rest of the country is suffering from the current economic slump, Texas isn’t [...]
The possibility of becoming the Secretary of State of the United States of America in the administration of the most historical president we have had since George Washington (this is my humble opinion, of course) is a fantastic honor and would be welcomed by most as a crowning achievement in and of itself. It is [...]
Well, usually when a person goes to ask for a loan or money because they are in dire straights they come with their hat in hand and a humble attitude. As I listened to the Big 3 Executives “plead” for the $25 Billion, I was struck by their lack of humility and even the indignant [...]
A purported message from al Qaeda’s deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri posted on Islamist Web sites on Wednesday told President-elect Barack Obama that “a heavy legacy of failure and crimes awaits you.”
Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s No. 2, castigated Obama, saying “in you and in Colin Powell, (Condoleezza) Rice and your likes, the words of Malcolm X [...]
From CNN Today:
Doctors have given a woman a new windpipe with tissue engineered from her own stem cells in what experts have hailed as a “milestone in medicine.” The breakthrough allowed Claudia Castillo, 30, to receive a new section of trachea — an airway essential for breathing — without the risk that her body would [...]
After his conviction of felony corruption, pork-king Ted Stevens seemed determined to win his senate seat anyway. “You’ll get my Senate power when you pry it from my cold dead hands!” Only in America, a land of unbalanced power where a convicted felon is disallowed enfranchisement, can a convicted felon run for the U.S. senate. [...]
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