Tag: politics
member name: Dave McGill
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June 13, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
We have more oil on hand today, in this country, than we had in 2003 when the average, inflation-adjusted price of crude was $32.34 per barrel. At the same time, estimates of world-wide oil product . . .
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July 02, 2006 02:46 PM EDT --
Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, their puppet, GWB, and other Republican Party shills, have evidently decided that the macho morons of this country hold the key to the upcoming elections.
In a new media . . .
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September 06, 2007 12:49 AM EDT --
REPUBLICANS: On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani continues to dominate the field. In the latest national poll, he led with 27%, versus 17% for the next highest candidate, who happened to be Fred Thompson. . . .
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October 10, 2007 12:03 AM EDT --
Earlier this year there was “travelflub.” It involved a set of new travel requirements aimed at controlling illegal immigration. However, it was so poorly planned that it had to be scrapped . . .
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December 24, 2007 03:10 PM EST --
Last Saturday I was a guest again on the Bernard Schaer Show on KFUN 1230 AM in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The subject was the economy.
Despite my lack of energy as a result of a temporary but very . . .
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May 23, 2008 01:03 AM EDT --
If this nation was a corporation, heads would roll and there would be a top to bottom reorganization.
Well, we the voters are probably as comparable as you can get to corporate stockholders, so I say . . .
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August 01, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
As the economic cycle that is being called stagflation plays itself out in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, the question that rises to the surface is: Are we being set up for a fall of mega-economic . . .
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September 30, 2008 07:05 AM EDT --
The stock market will likely open strong today, and well it should. Yesterday, the market lost one trillion dollars in value, and bloodbaths like that have been historical buying opportunities. . . .
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July 15, 2006 03:45 AM EDT --
That's right. I'm glum. I've been glum most of the day - ever since I was following a car with a sticker on it that said "I Am Proud To Be An American." I think it . . .
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September 16, 2006 03:51 PM EDT --
Like "Today's Illusion" once said, I also have an unaccountable aversion to revealing too much of myself. However, in posting this article, it is only fair and honest to admit . . .
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November 17, 2007 12:20 AM EST --
The Terror Alert page of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security says the following:
“Raising the threat condition has economic, physical and psychological effects on the nation.”
In . . .
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March 07, 2008 05:53 AM EST --
Most anyone's first reaction concerning the government's acquisition of additional powers is that these laws and executive orders must be for our own protection.
The government - our government . . .
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April 04, 2008 02:43 PM EDT --
The planes rose into the blackness of the new-moon night and, after reaching their maximum altitude, headed east. The lights of Amman could be seen as the formation left Israel, sped across Jordan and . . .
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May 13, 2008 02:35 AM EDT --
What can one think of a state that has recently tolerated pictures of lynchings on the walls of its rural bars?
It seems there's a good reason why Obama doesn't expect to win in West Virginia . . .
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May 17, 2008 01:41 AM EDT --
It's gotten so prevalent that even the outsourcing is being outsourced.
A firm in India is performing offshore outsourcing services for at least one American pharmaceutical company.
Offshore . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board declined to raise interest rates and, surprisingly, this may have been a factor in the Dow's 358 point drop today. It's surprising because generally . . .
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July 23, 2008 07:33 PM EDT --
On his current trip, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama seems to be doing a good job of persuading the world and - perhaps more importantly America - that he is, indeed, presidential material. . . .
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August 08, 2008 05:03 PM EDT --
If there has been one consistent theme in the contrarian articles it relates to the insidious influence of the massive amounts of money that have overwhelmed the political process. It has been argued, . . .
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September 16, 2008 08:34 PM EDT --
Economic conditions in America - if not the world - might be likened to a fish-tailing trailer hooked to a Volkswagen.
I learned about the science of fish-tailing the hard way one day as I sped down . . .
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May 09, 2009 05:28 AM EDT --
April 1 - In Beaumont, California, parents were charged with negligent storage of firearms and child endangerment after one of the several firearms in their home, which had been picked up by their 12-year-old . . .
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