Pimping for Votes

Thu Jan 29, 2009 10:39 PM EST

Lets go back to 2002 when President Bush told the Congress that we had to stop Saddam from building nukes. Even on that questionable rationale with the unfettered powers it gave the President, the vote for the War Powers Act To Use Military Force Agains Iraq was 297 to 133.

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politics, party, idealogy

Math Quiz: 50,000 times one day equals what?

Mon Jan 26, 2009 6:30 PM EST

Here is a good question for some economist- or perhaps Sylvia Brown: How long will it take to dig ourselves out of this financial mess? The answer is, of course, no one really knows. And no one knows how to even gather the data to calculate an answer.

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recovery, politics, unemployment, layoffs

The Yippy Dogs and the Homebuilder

Sat Jan 24, 2009 8:44 AM EST

In my neighborhood, we had an empty lot owned by a builder who had some financial difficulties. As time passed the lot became more overgrown and more littered. It was an eyesore in an otherwise pleasant middle-class neighborhood.

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politics, change, obama

Stampede At The W-M Ranch

Sat Nov 29, 2008 10:25 AM EST

How'd it happen? How did people get so mobified that they charged like an old western movie cattle drive to get their hands on some more stuff, and someone gets trampled to death?

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media, business, human-nature, black-friday

The "A" Team

Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:24 PM EST

Almost a month after the election the fear of the conservatives is almost palpable. In the days following the trip to the woodshed that they took, I would have expected this kind of knee-jerk, shock reaction to the size of the Electoral vote difference.

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election, post, odd-news