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Every new controversy demands a look at similar situations of the past. Just what is a bailout anyway? In the early 80's, Lee Iacocca arranged a government loan and tax concessions to bring Chrysler Corporation back from the brink of bankruptcy--- during the Carter Administration, to save you a Google. ...
President George W. Bush once famously declared: "I'm the decider, and I decide what's best." But when it comes to environmental issues, especially global warming, Bush often sounds more like the dissembler than the decider.
Throughout his presidency, Bush's so-called leadership on global climate change has lurched from outright stonewalling in ...
It would take an expert in the field to be able to give us an approximate estimate on how many American lives have been lost because of all the wars we have been involved in since the formation of our country. It would be a very large number of lives ...
Almost two years ago when so many candidates announced they would run for president, there was much excitement in the air even then. Those first crowded debates were wrought with various opinions about what were the most important issues facing our country. In a matter of months the choice for ...
There is a brand new topic on the political scene in the past few days. The subject of whether the Republican vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, is a good choice or not because of certain circumstances that have nothing to do with her ability to fill the job offered to ...
No one can say that saw the Democratic convention that it was not a spirit filled, upbeat event. There were several well liked headlining speech givers such as Ted Kennedy, Hilary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and even the wife of Obama, Michelle, gave a speech that was great by the standards ...
Back in the old days, people didn't have electricity or batteries to see things with or to brighten up their homes. All they had were fireplaces, torches, and oil lamps. It was a lot harder to see to do anything but they did it anyway and they liked it that ...
Who knows for sure where the phrase the smoking gun might have originated. It could have been first said in Europe not long after the firearm was invented or it might have been coined in the old west of America. Wherever it was first came up with, it is used ...
The Texas Governor's Mansion, which is located a block southwest of the Texas State Capitol Building in downtown Austin, is the most historic home in the Austin real estate market and the longest continuously inhabited executive residence west of the Mississippi River. Built in 1856, the Governor's Mansion underwent construction ...