October 10, 2008 – 5:14 am
In his remarkably short career in the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama has skipped 45% of the votes.
October 7, 2008 – 7:49 am
Spent 8 years as a Director on the Joyce Foundation board.
Why is this important? Given his comparatively short career this is a huge chunk of time. More importantly, the Joyce Foundation attempted to sway the Supreme Court’s views on the 2nd Amendment.
During Obama’s tenure, the Joyce Foundation board planned and implemented a program […]
October 6, 2008 – 5:25 am
The Cuba embargo
In January 2004, Obama said it was time “to end the embargo with Cuba” because it had “utterly failed in the effort to overthrow Castro.” Speaking to a Cuban American audience in Miami in August 2007, he said he would not “take off the embargo” as president because it is “an important inducement […]
October 4, 2008 – 9:41 pm
<a href=”http://www.mystudiyo.com/act71655/mini/go/test_your_diy_knowledge”>test_your_diy_knowledge</a>
Much to my wife’s surprise, I’m a PM kind of guy. How do you score?
October 2, 2008 – 7:40 am
Harvey imagines Gwen Ifill’s reaction to challenges that she’s not impartial for tonight’s VP debate:
“It’s pretty simple,” said Ifill, “if Obama wins, I sell more books, which means I make more money. As moderator of the Vice Presidential debate, I’m in a position to help make sure that happens. That’s not a conflict of interest, […]
September 29, 2008 – 4:07 pm
This is for a small percentage of the audience, I know. The program for which I’d recently applied announced it’s new class. For those who’ve been wondering who got in, the announcement is here.
September 26, 2008 – 10:17 pm
Well, I have a bracelet, too!
September 23, 2008 – 5:11 am
Regional Transportation District. Let’s think about that name. Regional. Transportation. District. RTD. Their goal is to get you out of your car and onto a bus/lightrail car. Perhaps the single best incentive for that has been the EcoSystem pass, where businesses can purchase all-access transit passes for their employees. Now RTD wants to dump this […]
September 22, 2008 – 11:39 am
Given the recent mess that’s been made of the financial markets, a little digging is being done by folks all over. Bloomberg’s Kevin Hassett has done his own digging into the beginning of the end for Fannie May and Freddy Mac.
Fannie and Freddie became, “the primary customer of all AAA-rated subprime-mortgage pools.”
trillions of dollars in […]
September 15, 2008 – 5:38 am
In this fascinating article on foreign policy, Joshua Muravchik examines the past 100 years or so of foreign policy decision (don’t worry, it’s not comprehensive - would I do that to you?) and looks at some of the major decisions that have had an impact on current policy.
Specifically as it relates to the arguments surrounding […]
September 13, 2008 – 5:38 am
And now for something entirely different…
I was poking through Sylvia’s blogroll and stumbled across A Catechuman’s Tale. This very fine writer just penned an exceptional post on the Filioque. For the non-Orthodox, a catechumen is someone that is preparing to be accepted by the Church, and the Filioque is a Latin word meaning “and the […]
September 12, 2008 – 1:18 pm
In an Asian Times article that’s already old (Sept 3) Spengler looks at the Democratic National Convention from a different perspective than most of whats been passed around the blogosphere. He was there, for one thing. I know nothing about this writer, so I can’t tell if his critique of Obama is newly realized from […]
