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Full Text Of Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism Speech (1910) & President Obama’s New “New Nationalism” Speech (2011) 0

Full Text Of Teddy Roosevelt’s New Nationalism Speech (1910) & President Obama’s New “New Nationalism” Speech (2011)

CNN headlined President Obama’s speech from Osawatomie, Kansas Obama channels Roosevelt’s ‘New Nationalism’, referring to “Colonel” Teddy Roosevelt’s 1910 speech, also delivered in Osawatomie, during the opening ceremonies for the John Brown Memorial Park which...

Today’s Federal Reserve Foreign Currency Swap Announcement: Worth The 491 Point DOW Surge? 0

Today’s Federal Reserve Foreign Currency Swap Announcement: Worth The 491 Point DOW Surge?

 “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today” – J. Wellington Wimpy (1932)    Today witnessed what is likely to be viewed in later days as a bout of “irrational exuberance,” primarily due to...

Extending The 2011 Payroll Tax Cut? How To Make The GOP Cry Uncle. 0

Extending The 2011 Payroll Tax Cut? How To Make The GOP Cry Uncle.

Senator John Kyl (R-AZ), who adamantly opposes tax hikes, has found one he really wants to help inflate. How?  By not extending the 2011 payroll tax holiday, he – and the GOP – would  raise the...

Four Problems With Perfessor Gingrich’s “P.S. America Schoolchild Janitorial Initiative” 1

Four Problems With Perfessor Gingrich’s “P.S. America Schoolchild Janitorial Initiative”

“You’re going to see from me extraordinarily radical proposals to fundamentally change the culture of poverty in America,”  Newt Gingrich speaking at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, last Friday, November 19, 2011.     Yes,...

From The Incomparable Mind Of A Certain Pre-Presidential Newt 1 — Meet The Janitor Corps AT P.S. America! 0

From The Incomparable Mind Of A Certain Pre-Presidential Newt 1 — Meet The Janitor Corps AT P.S. America!

“It is tragic what we do in the poorest neighborhoods, entrapping children in, first of all, child laws, which are truly stupid.  Most of these schools ought to get rid of the unionized janitors,...

Watch It Here, Livestreamed — The Nation Magazine And The New School’s “Occupy Everywhere” – 8 PM Tonite (Thurs., Nov. 10) 0

Watch It Here, Livestreamed — The Nation Magazine And The New School’s “Occupy Everywhere” – 8 PM Tonite (Thurs., Nov. 10)

Livestreaming through Livestream.com of Occupy Everywhere: On the New Politics and Possibilities of the Movement Against Corporate Power, featuring Michael Moore; Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine); William Greider (Come Home, America: The Rise and Fall...

GOP/TP — Heavily Employed In Lying About Unemployment 0

GOP/TP — Heavily Employed In Lying About Unemployment

From our nemeses in the GOP we constantly hear how the Obama administration has during its tenure failed to create any jobs whatever.  Of course, that’s patently false.  This, in turn, proves to already-made-up...

Herman Cain Surprises Meet The Press – Calls Himself Stupid! 0

Herman Cain Surprises Meet The Press – Calls Himself Stupid!

From: Meet the Press, October 16, 2011, transcript of a portion of the discussion between David Gregory and Herman Cain, arguably the front runner in the GOP presidential race for the party’s nomination.    ...

08-09-2011 – Stock Market: Confusion Reigns On The High Ground 0

08-09-2011 – Stock Market: Confusion Reigns On The High Ground

[[[To view the complete and formatted article, click “READ MORE” now. . .]]]  We found the UP elevator!!  And this despite an equivocal Federal Reserve announcement; manufacturing and productivity down; unemployment still up with more folks...

08-08-2011: Stock Market Craters Two Days Running . . . 0

08-08-2011: Stock Market Craters Two Days Running . . .

To view the complete and formatted article, click “READ MORE” now. . . It’s not surprising.  High unemployment . . . massive cutbacks in government spending at all levels that will be felt more...

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