What if Obama is not FDR, but Hoover?, a Nation columnist asks. . . Journalist William Greider of The Nation magazine was startled by a faux pas Obama made in China; moreover, he...
NOTE: Before reading this article, you may enjoy watching AARP TV's three-minute YouTube video, "Presidential Pets" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d2GvRoEmXA . Speculation about the Obama family's...
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Washington Post staff writer Dan Balz, in his article in the Oct. 19 Outlook section, pointed out to the U.S. president-to-be a history lesson the elected President must have in the present context. Citing...
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"FDR Lengthened The Great Depression photo credit: pingnews.com One of the new Liberal key talking points is that FDR oversaw the Great Depression - Obama and Biden have repeatedly stated this. The implication is that the left can steer us through this financial...
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"WASHINGTON - Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis. "When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
A Washington and Lee University professor has carried out his threat to challenge the Virginia Lottery. Business professor Scott Hoover is claiming in a lawsuit that millions of dollars worth of scratch-off...
"Watching Wall Street and the American real-estate market crumble over the past 10 months has not inspired great confidence in our wonderful free-market economy or the land pirates who run it. As someone who recently wrestled with the causes and consequences of the Great...
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Kedrosky regularly comes up with these little gems. It seems that by any metric you want to measure him the current President Bush has been a bust. " People seem to be in a historical frame of market mind this weekend, so here is a chart of Dow Jones index returns by...
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"I’ve been preoccupied with risk these days. Or risk mitigation to be exact. I’m tired of watching my TD Ameritrade account get whipsawed. It’s got me thinking. Would a portfolio invested solely in African markets be a tragedy waiting to happen? The chart below...
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" The newly remodeled Clean Marina website encourages marinas, boaters and marine retailers to help keep Florida’s waterways clean by adopting environmentally friendly practices. The site allows users to access resources which simplify the Florida Clean Marina Program...
Since the advent of internet video sites, western culture has become increasingly obsessed with the discovery of celebrity sex tapes -- and a new one always seems to be 'released' just in time to satiate the...
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BA chief apology over terminal 5 farce. Willie Walsh vowed his compamy would not rest, until Heathrow's Terminal Five was working. Wille Walsh said: "We apoligise sincerely to our customers." Another Cock Up, but...
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A Polish man working in Britain was caught right in the middle of a sex act - with a vaccuum cleaner. If you think that's not strange enough, then consider his excuse for being caught with his pants down."The...
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Ranging from the gun used to kill the assassin of President John F. Kennedy to the Wicked Witch of the West's hat from 'The Wizard of Oz', a South property developer has accumulated the best pop culture collection...
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