Presidential Candidates: What is Your Position on Reintroducing the Military ...

Three days ago the LA Times did a story entitled, Obama leading McCain among Xbox voters. But will they stop playing long enough to actually vote?"Obama leads McCain 43% to 31% among the nearly 100,000 votes cast as of Friday on Xbox Live, according to Microsoft, which...

Poll Shows Small Business Owners Dissatisfied

Small business owners are not pleased with the inaction of the federal government, according to a poll released today by American Management Services, the nation’s premiere small business organization. The poll...

Crisis looms for airlines

For anyone who has been paying attention, the perils of peak oil have been obvious for some time now.  But if you think you're getting pinched at the pump imagine what it must be like to fuel up a 747? ...

Trucker Discusses Economic Issues on CNN

Six weeks ago, Dan Little spearheaded a nationwide truckers shutdown which took place April 1 as a means of drawing attention to the poor economic plight of independent truckers and trucking companies. Today, the...

Bankruptcies Up as Pennsylvania Primary Nears

Philly.com reports this morning that bankruptcy filings rose 25 percent in Pennsylvania last year, as rising monthly mortgage payments overwhelmed already shaky household finances and as tight credit markets hurt...

Fat Tuesday and Super Tuesday to Overlap for First Time

For the first time ever, “Fat Tuesday” and “Super Tuesday” – this year dubbed “Super Duper Tuesday” — fall on the same day, Feb. 5.If you’re not familiar with the term, Fat Tuesday, you might be quicker to recognize it by its French name, Mardi Gras. Each...

Reading Into Presidential Hopefuls

" Which type of book tells a more complete story about a presidential candidate? Autobiographical or biographical? While opinions may vary as to what makes a good biography or expose, there is no...

Fireworks erupt at Republican debate

The gloves came off this week:"ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney angrily accused each other on Wednesday of failing to be tough enough on illegal...

It's 1823 Again: 2008 Presidential Candidates, Charted

In a saucy sendup of the 1823 British "The Monthly Magazine, David Brooks and Ben Schott dissect the U.S. presidential candidates for us. They look at everything from intellectual capacity to lanugage styles, temperament, and their overall effect.Is Fred Thompson's logic...

So Far, GOP Candidates Shun the Web

"The Center for American Progress has a nice page tracking the web presence of presidential candidates of the two major parties. NetTrends '08: The Online Race for the White House tracks which candidates have a...

Facebook.com becomes a political force

You can now "poke" Mitt Romney (the 70th Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts) on Facebook (just like you could poke my 16-year-old brother's entire high-school and most of my girlfriends.)  "Poking"...

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