Posted on November 20, 2008 by Al
For those dreading the next 4 years, here’s a silver lining of sorts. Or not. It’s up to you. Isn’t diversity grand?
As America fretted about Obama’s exoticism and he sought to calm the waters with speeches about unity and common experience, Michelle’s body was sending a different message: To hell with biracialism! Compromise, bipartisanship? Don’t [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Al
Don’t know how we evidenced that as a people by putting Obama in the White House, but apparently Rasmussen has found that 44% of us favor free market capitalism as the engine that will enable us to realize the American dream.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that just 22% disagree with that sentiment, [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2008 by Al
Just going to direct you here today, since I can’t add anything that isn’t already written more eloquently. Here’s a key graf though:
What to do? The simple answer is obvious; let the consequences work their way through. But doing that would mean letting a lot of mortgages crash, and with them a lot of banks [...]
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