I remember the 1952 election campaign. I was in a new elementary school and we had mock elections – 5th grade. We’d just moved from a very small house to the suburbs, and my father had taken a "real" job. It was like the World War was finally over in a real way, and things […]
Record-High Deficit May Dash Big Plans $1.4 Trillion in Red Ink Means Less to Spend On Obama’s Ambitious Jobs, Stimulus Policies By Lori Montgomery and Neil Irwin Washington Post October 17, 2009 The federal budget deficit soared to a record $1.4 trillion in the fiscal year that ended in September, a chasm of red ink […]
It’s a gray, almost cold Fall day in the foothills to the Appalachians. It may spare us from yet another downpour, but the wet is in the air. The leaves are turning, but their beauty is masked by the weight of the wet, and the streams are still angry torrents from our nightly soakings. Not […]
Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. William Shakespeare Macbeth, Act V, scene 5 Fifteen Minutes of Truth Telling is […]
The Biggest Disappointment of the Obama Presidency Washington Post By Eugene Robinson 10/16/2009 President Obama’s brief display of drive-by compassion Thursday in New Orleans was, for me, by far the worst outing of his presidency thus far – and the biggest disappointment. I covered Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath – the flood in New Orleans […]
House Panel Clears Derivatives Bill, Debates Plan for Consumer Agency By Zachary A. Goldfarb Washington Post October 16, 2009 The Obama administration won its first major victory Thursday in its effort to overhaul the nation’s financial system as a key House committee passed a bill to regulate exotic financial instruments known as derivatives. Trading in […]
Key House Panel Votes to Regulate Derivatives New York Times By STEPHEN LABATON October 15, 2009 Bowing to political pressure from community bankers, the House Financial Services Committee approved an exemption on Thursday for more than 98 percent of the nation’s banks from oversight by a new agency created to protect consumers from abusive or […]
Andy McKee – Topeka, Kansas
I was going to let it go, but I couldn’t pass on Rush’s noble romanesque pose on the rock with a tsunami coming ashore in the background captioned, "An outpouring of support, love and resolve to fight. After the storm, waves recede and the rock remains" [I wonder who he/they are resolving to fight with]. […]
Larisa Alexandrovna of Raw Story has an interview posted with Frank Schaeffer – former Religious Right leader and son of its founder, Dr. Francis Schaeffer: Former right-wing leader warns of religious right violence: ‘Anyone can be killed’ Raw Story By Larisa Alexandrovna October 14th, 2009 Frank Schaeffer is an outspoken critic of the politicized Christian […]