archive.japantoday.com - 11/28/2008
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WASHINGTON Critics are calling on U.S. President George W Bush to scale back the glittering multimillion dollar parties planned this week in honor of his second-term inauguration, saying lavish festivities are unseemly at a time of war. Bush is to be sworn in Thursday and feted with four days ...
redstate.com - 11/21/2008
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A Big 3 Bailout Could Kill Thousands of
Export Jobs If nothing else, the Great Depression proved...
very instructive. Plenty of commentators and analysts learned one of its important lessons: protectionist policies are only likely to deepen ...
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Get Ready for a Trade War
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Where are all the Anti-Inauguration activists now?
Michelle Malkin —
... for continuing the American tradition in a time of war and for holding parties so soon after the southeast Asian tsunami disaster. Remember? Critics are calling on U.S. President George W Bush to scale back the glittering multimillion dollar parties planned this week in honor of his second-term inauguration, saying lavish festivities are unseemly at a time of war. Bush is to be sworn in Thursday and feted with four days of pomp and party-going at a price tag of about $40 million. An unprecedented military presence and other security measures will add another $100 million to ...
Media Totally Okay with Big Obama Party
Ace of Spades HQ —
Media Totally Okay with Big Obama Party Remember all of those stories in 2004 in which the media and the Democrats encouraged President George W. Bush to tone down his party because we were at war, and tsk-tsking about the fact that donations bought access ? That was then. This is now. WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment is on the rise. The stock market is in the tank. Is this any time for a party? For the sake of the masses of people expected for President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration, let's hope so. While Obama must be sensitive to the nation's time ...
Media Totally Okay with Big Obama Party
Slublog —
Obama on his way to the inaugural. (Artists conception)
Remember all of those stories in 2004 in which the media and the Democrats encouraged President George W. Bush to tone down his party because we were at war, and tsk-tsking about the fact that donations bought access?
That was then. This is now. WASHINGTON (AP) - Unemployment is on the rise. The stock market is in the tank. Is this any time for a party?
For the sake of the masses of people expected for President-elect ...
$150,000,000: “[Y]ou don’t want it to look like a schlock affair”
Michelle Malkin —
... for continuing the American tradition in a time of war and for holding parties so soon after the southeast Asian tsunami disaster. Remember? Critics are calling on U.S. President George W Bush to scale back the glittering multimillion dollar parties planned this week in honor of his second-term inauguration, saying lavish festivities are unseemly at a time of war. Bush is to be sworn in Thursday and feted with four days of pomp and party-going at a price tag of about $40 million. An unprecedented military presence and other security measures will add another $100 million to ...
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