July 2009
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Video Clears Up Obama Photo →
Thanks Steller for the link. My favorite part about the video is Sarkozy.
Where is stimulus money going?
According to a USA Today study, counties that supported Obama have received twice as much stimulus funding to date than those that voted for McCain.
This probably isn’t a case of Obama directing money to his supporters. Instead, it likely tells us something about the types of voters more likely to vote for a Democrat than a Republican. Then again, it could just be a random aberration in how...
Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, and Presidential...
Two books I just finished reading recently: John Meacham’s American Lion, a political biography of Andrew Jackson, and Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals, a study of Lincoln’s presidential leadership. Jackson served as our 7th president from 1829-1837; 24 years later, in 1861, Lincoln was improbably elected our 16th president, and served four years before he was assassinated shortly after his...
This is what happens when the government runs...
When it was deciding where to build its new compact car, General Motors Corp. made a point of saying it would push politics aside and use strictly commercial criteria.
So Tennessee’s three top officials were astonished last month, in a meeting with GM, when they were told the first two criteria were “community impact” and “carbon footprint” — or how the choice...