Senator Joe Biden has been overshadowed by Governor Sarah Palin of late. Maybe he’s looking for something, anything, to get himself back in the news. I don’t think his latest comments were the kind of news he wanted, though. Watch the following statement Biden made to CBS Evening News’ Katie Couric and see if you […]
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Yesterday director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Bloomberg News columnist Kevin Hasset reported at Bloomberg.com that Democrats are the ones who created the current financial crisis that we find ourselves in as a nation. According to his commentary, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “exploded” and injured many bystanders (some fatally). “Take away
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In the Sunday, September 14, 2008 edition of the Washington Post (Page B01), Randall Kennedy’s “The Big ‘What If’” article was published. Its subtitle, “The hopes of black America ride on his shoulders. But the outcome’s way up in the air.” When I first read this article I found it interesting yet missing something. After
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The Obama campaign likes to say that John McCain “votes with George W. Bush” 90% of the time. For one thing, they never, to my knowledge, tell us where that 90% figure came from. And secondly, how does a Senator vote with the President when the President has no vote in the Senate? That’s simply
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I have a quick poll for Ponderstorm readers. Who should pay for the rescue of able-bodied people stranded by hurricanes after authorities issued clear evacuation orders and people refused to leave? [poll id=”2″] My position is that if there has been a clear call to evacuate an area that will be in imminent danger and
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