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The Post I Swore I Wouldn’t Write

11 September 2011

I wasn’t going to write this post. I thought about it long and hard and I had promised myself that I wouldn’t write it because I didn’t feel that I had anything meaningful to add to the conversation of the day. And I didn’t want to appear self-serving. And I didn’t want this to be [...]

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Obama Admits Mistake In Daschle Nod

3 February 2009

President Barack Obama has admitted that he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Tom Daschle. Daschle had been tapped by President Obama as his choice for Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services until revelations that Daschle had made a number of errors on his taxes were made public. Daschle called [...]

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CNN Readers Want More Stimulus Checks

11 December 2008

CNN readers seem to think that Obama should focus dollars on more stimulus checks instead of infrastructure. Check out these recent poll results (as of 12/11/08 11:06am): Of course, my money’s on infrastructure improvements a la FDR. My best guess is that Obama’s team will advise that the job market – not the consumer market [...]

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Does Wal-Mart want your child to read?

17 October 2007

Wal-Mart is the largest corporation in America, according to Fortune 500. According to Good Jobs First, Wal-Mart recently posted earnings of $350 billion in annual revenue and reported a profit of $11 billion (with a b). One thing is clear about Wal-Mart: they don’t like to spend money. My mom always said, “That’s how the [...]

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