Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Lots of people watched Barack Obama:
Day four of the Democratic National Convention featured the acceptance speech by nominee Sen. Barack Obama. The convention was carried live during prime time on ten networks – ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, FOX News Channel, MSNBC, BET, TV One, Univision and Telemundo. Coverage ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Personal income tumbled unexpectedly in July and inflation-adjusted spending shrank as government economic stimulus waned, but consumer spirits rose this month, a hint the economy may muddle through its woes.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Brookings' Robert Puentas does a useful side-by-side comparison of the two candidates' proposals on federal transportation policy. Perhaps the most noteworthy thing about it is the sheer gap in the quantity of policy idea. Obama has all kinds of proposals for this and that, whereas McCain has total blanks on ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
When John McCain started his 2008 presidential campaign Sarah Palin was not yet governor of Alaska.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
According to this, the key difference b/w a Democrat and Republican is that Democrats care about the less fortunate at the expense of the general taxpayer while Republicans care about the general taxpayer while failing to wholly account for the less fortunate.I don't think that's accurate at all.There were a ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices were nearly unchanged by midday Friday as a stronger dollar balanced concerns that Tropical Storm Gustav will impact U.S. offshore oil and gas production.
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
John McCain and Barack Obama are both noteworthy for getting better-than-average press and for having savvy communications teams. They're also noteworthy for the fact that their teams have very different ideas about what their job is supposed to be. The Obama team is constantly frustrating progressive bloggers and news junkies ...
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Saturday, August 30th, 2008
George W. Bush apparently decided to seize on a week of mixed (as opposed to uniformly bad) economic indicators to argue that the economy's turning around. I could try to offer a rebuttal, I suppose, but I'm always a bit taken aback by how dominated political arguments are by disputes ...
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Personal income tumbled unexpectedly in July and inflation-adjusted spending shrank as government economic stimulus waned, but consumer spirits rose this month, a hint the economy may muddle through its woes.
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Friday, August 29th, 2008
DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp is recalling 857,735 vehicles equipped with a heated windshield wiper fluid system for a potential short-circuit problem, according to federal safety regulators.
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