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Posted by AngelinaC on December 23, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Most of the news this week is buried under tinsel, garland, and good cheer towards our fellow man. However, behind the scenes President Bush’s media team attempts to recrewate history and leave a more positive spin on a legacy tarnished by neverending war and economic fragility. Meanwhile, noticing that the current brand of Republican politics [...]
Posted by AngelinaC on December 18, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Sarah Palin has official left the national scene and returned to her role as the Governor of Alaska. Senator Hillary Clinton will be vacating her Senate seat, and preparing for her new role as Secretary of State in the Obama Administration. Of course, this leaves the Senate seat that Hillary Clinton holds empty. Entering through [...]
Posted by AngelinaC on December 13, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Opinion pieces today are flooded with the Senate Republicans rejection of the automobile bailout. In what appears to be a partisan witch hunt against Labor Unions, there is the ignored reality that millions of people will lose their jobs. This could come as early as Christmas. It appears that the only hope for automobile manufactoring [...]
Posted by AngelinaC on December 11, 2008 · Leave a Comment
A vote of 237 to 170 passed the Auto Bailout Bill in the US House of Representatives, but many are suspicious of what the Senate will do with this bill? Are the Senate GOP going to block it, because they are anti-union and wish to place manufactoring in areas that are pro-business rather than pro-employee. [...]
Posted by AngelinaC on December 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Good morning.
Yesterday, we received another painful reminder of the serious economic challenge our country is facing when we learned that 533,000 jobs were lost in November alone, the single worst month of job loss in over three decades. That puts the total number of jobs lost in this recession at nearly 2 million.
But this isn’t [...]
Posted by AngelinaC on December 6, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Ok, everybody sing now — “I say Obama, you say Ayers,”. I just couldn’t resist repeating the little ditty that Saturday Night Live portrayed the night Sarah Palin was on the show. Yet, out of the well of satyric melody arises the man himself who challenges the difference between Anti-War activists and terrorists. He attempts [...]
Posted by AngelinaC on December 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
It is now official the United States is in a recession. However, opinion pages have yet to comment on the official state of the bludgeoned economy. Instead, much of the focus remains on the low drums of war as President Bush sends Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice to India to ease tensions with Pakistan. Elsewhere, [...]