One of the best reads I came across this weekend was this essay in the New York Times Magazine by Matt Bai titled "Don't Look Back." In it, he talks about how overheated (my word, not his) some of the...
Re: "FDR's changes didn't work," by Charles B. Parker, Friday Letters. It is true that World War II brought an end to the Great Depression. It is less well-known that the economic stimulus of the New Deal was actually improving...
... and the only thing I feel is fear itself. Speaking about the economy in Central Ohio today, Obama (as quoted on his own Website), said this: We remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by...
Mom has watched it all. She's seen the Dem convention on CNN, CSPAN, MSNBC, even Fox (I got to her). From the "crucial battleground state" of Ohio, here's insight from Mom (a Dem-for-life, FDR-worshipping Clevelander whose congressman is Dennis Kucinich)....
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