President Barack Obama is scheduled to address students at a Virginia high school. The speech will be broadcast on cable, and is supposed to focus on the setting of goals and working hard. But of course where politicians and bureaucrats are concerned, it had to get more complicated than that. Republicans complained that Democrats might […]
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Perhaps you’ve heard of the so-called “birthers.” You’ve definitely heard of the healthcare debate. What’s interesting to me is the effort to link the two. The birthers are those Americans who continue to complain that President Obama should be removed from office because (they say) he has never produced adequate proof of being born in
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Would people mind to just take it easy on all of the overblown rhetoric? Critics of healthcare reform call Barack Obama a Nazi. Critics of the Patriot Act called George W. Bush a Nazi. There are people who are complaining at town hall meetings on healthcare reform. They don’t like what they’re hearing, and they
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The “Cash for Clunkers” program is an interesting one for me because I heard an editorial on how terrible it was, and then the next day I read a testament to its greatness, so I thought it warranted a closer look. In a nutshell, the plan works like this: people turn in their old cars
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One thing I sometimes tell my history students is that generally when a country/kingdom has a conflict with another power, the citizens rally around their leader (at least over the short term). That’s why sometimes in history leaders have started trouble. If they are feeling the heat from their people, a little war here or
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