Last month, Congress approved $25 billion in low-interest loans for automobile manufacturers and suppliers to retool their plants to build more fuel-efficient vehicles. However, slumping sales, frozen credit markets, and the current global economic crisis has prompted the Big Three … Read more »
ELECTION junkies in acute withdrawal need suffer no longer. Though the exciting Obama-McCain race is over, the cockfight among the losers has only just begun. The conservative crackup may be ugly, but as entertainment, it’s two thumbs up!
Over at … Read more »
Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements… Read more »
Was it something he said?
It was nothing President George W. Bush did… Read more »
The disastrous foreign policies of the Bush years have created an opening for the new administration to show that progressive ideas are better able to secure and protect America in the 21st Century. A joint project of the Center for … Read more »
Be happy, dear hearts, and allow yourselves a few more weeks of quiet exultation. It isn’t gloating, it’s satisfaction at a job well done. He was a superb candidate, serious, professorial but with a flashing grin and a buoyancy that … Read more »
Having promised to “sprint to the finish” of his second term and “to remain focused on the goals ahead,” President Bush is “working to enact a wide array of federal regulations, many of which would weaken government rules” aimed at … Read more »
These are interesting times. Jobs are disappearing and General Motors is running out of cash. At the same time, America has assuaged some of its deepest wounds with the election of Barack Obama. We have less money in our pockets … Read more »
ON the morning after a black man won the White House, America’s tears of catharsis gave way to unadulterated joy.
Our nation was still in the same ditch it had been the day before, but the atmosphere was giddy. We … Read more »
Barack Obama’s election is a milestone in more than his pigmentation. The second most remarkable thing about his election is that American voters have just picked a president who is an open, out-of-the-closet, practicing intellectual.
Maybe, just maybe, the result … Read more »
