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November 22 ...
In 1718 English pirate Edward Teach â better known as "Blackbeard" â was killed during a battle off the Virginia coast. In 1899 jazz great Hoagy Carmichael was born in Bloomington, IN. In 1906 the "SOS" distress signal was adopted at the International Radio Telegraphic ...
World
Bud Day
From an Investor's Business Daily editorial :
For 18 years, [California] has spent more than it has taken in. A lot more. Over that stretch, total spending grew 5.9% a year on average, to $144.5 billion. A general rule of thumb says states should increase spending no faster than the rate of ...
Other
November 21 ...
In 1620 the Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA; the ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth, MA, on December 26, 1620. In 1694 author and philosopher François-Marie Arouet, better known by his pen name of Voltaire, was born in Paris. In 1789 North Carolina became the 12th ...
World
Bud Day
From NowHampshire.com : (via Instapundit )
Republican activist and free market think-tanker Grant Bosse formally declared his candidacy today in New Hampshire's 00th Congressional District after news that the Obama administration has attributed a majority of the state?s stimulus jobs to that ...
White House
Barack Obama
In a video clip just shown on MSNBC, Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said of the health-care reform bill:
"The insurance companies hate this, like one old senator once said, like the devil hates Holy Water." Isn't this rhetoric remarkable? Recent polls show a majority of people ...
Congress
Dick Durbin
Chicago's leading South Side Irish fantasist adds to his ever-mounting rhetorical legacy.
Chicago's CBS2.com's Mike Parker reports :
Oprah Winfrey's expected announcement that she'll end her show -- and the prospect that she'll say goodbye to Chicago ? has Mayor Daley placing some blame on ...
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Oprah Winfrey
The Financial Times' Michael Mackenzie reports :
Short-term US interest rates turned negative on Thursday as banks frantically stockpiled government securities in order to polish their balance sheets for the end of the year.
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With the Federal Reserve maintaining an overnight target ...
White House
Federal Reserve
Bad enough, apparently, that NPR reports that one outgoing state official "was recently quoted as saying he researched whether California could switch from being a state to a federal territory."
NPR's John Meyers reports : (emphasis added)
A new report estimates that California officials ...
Other
I suspect that I am like a lot of people, in that while I'm not enthusiastic about Sarah Palin's present prospects as a leading voice for the Republican Party, I can readily recognize the complete hatchet job the media has done on her. It's been ridiculous.
In that vein, Glenn Reynolds links ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Lamar Smith
November 20 ...
In 1789 New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights. In 1889 astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, MO, and raised in Wheaton, IL. In 1910 revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero. In 1925 Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, ...
World
Bud Day
Mexico
Ann Althouse writes :
Holder imagines that he can hide inside that "thoughtful" routine that Obama so often relies on, but it is utterly pathetic here. Either he knows damned well what he's doing and he's lying or he's outrageously unqualified for his job. His evasive style is so ...
White House
Barack Obama
Eric Holder
Lindsey Graham
Glenn Reynolds
From AP: (via MSNBC )
West Virginia Sen. Robert C. Byrd [(D-WV)] became the longest-serving lawmaker in congressional history Wednesday, a milestone to be marked with a morning of Senate tributes and a special resolution.
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Since June 12, 2006, Byrd has been the longest-serving senator ...
Congress
Robert Byrd
Robert C. Byrd
A reader sent this along to me...
"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."
-- American Socialist Oscar Ameringer
Other
Bud Day
November 19 ....
In 1794 the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign Jay's Treaty, which attempts to clear up some of the lingering problems left over from the American Revolutionary War. In 1831 20th president of the United States James Garfield was born in Orange, OH. In 1863 ...
World
Bud Day
United States
Austria
Dr. Jeffery S. Flier :
As the dean of Harvard Medical School I am frequently asked to comment on the health-reform debate. I'd give it a failing grade.
Instead of forthrightly dealing with the fundamental problems, discussion is dominated by rival factions struggling to enact or defeat ...
White House
Health care
Medicaid
Forbes' Shikha Dalmia :
ObamaCare has nothing going for it anymore. With unemployment touching double digits, its economic timing is bad; with polls showing tanking support in every group outside of the narrow sliver of die-hard liberal reformers, its political timing is bad; and with the ...
Congress
Health care
John Stossel :
Had the government of New York state grown at the rate of population and inflation over the past 10 years, it would have a $14 billion surplus today. Instead, spending grew at twice the rate of inflation. So New York has a $3 billion deficit.
To dent California's deficit, ...
