howobamagotelected.com - 11/18/2008
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"Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened." George Washington, Farewell Address, September 19, 1796 ...
bloomberg.com - 11/13/2008
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Nov. 13 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama is
pushing Congress this year to approve as much as...
$50 billion to save cash-starved U.S. automakers and appoint a czar or board to oversee the companies, a move that would require President George ...
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Obama Pushes for $50 Billion for Automakers, Oversight Czar
bloomberg.com - 11/24/2008
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Obama’s Troika May Push for Deeper Role in
Economy (Update3) By Rich Miller and Robert Schmidt Nov....
24 (Bloomberg) -- Barack Obama today unveiled an economic team steeped in fighting crises and likely to push for an unprecedented government role in ...
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How the News Media Influenced Obama Voters
Club for Growth —
This video is burning up the InterWeb tubes today. It's from the new website, How Obama Got Elected:
“When she walks in a room, folks just explode”
QandO —
... While many people still seem to write Palin off, based more on a caricature of her than anything substantive, the Republican base is as fired up about her as ever. Will that popularity last? It’s hard to say, but it would do the Republican Party a lot of good to understand why she’s so popular rather than dismissing her as some backwoods, country hick who can’t hack it in the Big Leagues. The truth of the matter is that the GOP can’t survive in the Bigs without her.
2008 The Age of Arrogant Ignorance
Newsback —
... of self-governance. But as Jefferson pointed out, there is a huge difference between right information and wrong information, truth and ideologically driven fiction. Today, thanks to a leftist press, leftist academia and leftist Hollywood, too many Americans are well educated in falsehoods. As a result, they are dead wrong on almost everything, but damn sure of themselves just the same. The High Price of Arrogant Ignorance When Obama supporters were interviewed leaving the polls, here's how they explained their support . As Jefferson said, It is error alone which needs the ...
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I will preface this post by emphasizing that it is NOT Barack Obama’s fault that the market has fallen so much on his watch. The American economy was grossly over-leveraged before he was even elected to the Senate in 2004.
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For Those Who Said He Wouldn't
maxedoutmama.blogspot.com 11/19/2008 — The governors had their climate change conference, and Obama made an appearance yesterday. The NY Times has the story : Speaking by video to a climate conference in Los Angeles, Mr. Obama repeated his campaign vow to reduce climate-altering carbon ...
Obama and the Stock Market
qando.net 11/6/2008 — N o this isn’t what you think. It’s just a rather interesting example of how the press, even within one agency, and writing about the same story, will spin it in different directions to the point that you might not realize they’re ...
Replacing Justice Souter
reason.com 5/21/2009 — With Supreme Court Justice David Souter set to retire next month at the end of the Court's current term, President Barack Obama faces one of the most important decisions of his tenure. Reason.com asked a panel of leading legal scholars and ...
Dissident Notes on the Obama Coronation
cato-at-liberty.org 1/20/2009 — It’s wall-to-wall Obama in the newspapers and on the airwaves, and I keep wondering, Was it quite so overwhelming in the run-up to previous inaugurations? I think not. Presumably the gushing media response is generated by some combination of ...
AN OBAMA PANIC? - New York Post
nypost.com 10/13/2008 — Posted: 4:09 am October 13, 2008 Barack Obama has re mained cool and confident amid the financial melt down, even as John McCain at times has been embarrassing, lurching from one proposal to the next. But while the polls are reflecting Obama's steady ...
Obama’s Tax Promises
cato-at-liberty.org 11/11/2008 — President-elect Obama has made a slew of tax promises. Some of them are tax increases, some of them are tax cuts, and many of them are actually spending increases. Let’s try to sort them out.
Here I classify tax changes in comparison with the ...
How to Profit from the Obama Stocks
oldprof.typepad.com 6/14/2009 — Understanding public policy decisions is crucial to investment success. This has never been more true. Government intervention is changing the nature of every business. As an investor, you need to figure out what is going to happen, and whether it ...
The Obama Crash
howardlindzon.com 1/23/2009 — I can’t vote, but declared myself an Obaman. That seems like a long time ago.
The problem we face is that we are accelerating out of control. It’s not Obama’s fault and it’s not Obama’s problem to fix. He can’t. ...
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The Big Money 11/17/2008
Barack Obama is a green-energy nut. It’s not because he’s a conservationist—his legislative record doesn’t suggest anything beyond the normal progressive votes. It’s not because he’s an Al Gore disciple—Obama won’t get near the former VP’s idyllic ...
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The Economist: Full print edition 11/20/2008
Comparisons between Barack Obama and FDR are misguided IN HIS victory speech on November 4th Barack Obama talked about people putting “their hands on the arc of history” and bending it “once more towards the hope of a better ...
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