My local newspaper editor, as he does regularly, once again attacked unions as the problem in America. This is the same editor who once said “all the laziest goof-offs and goldbricks in the newsroom” where he began his career were union officials—and that the unionized New York Times editorial writers are nothing more than [...]
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I’ve been pounding an unpopular table in several places trying to show people that a $25 Billion investment/loan is critical for the US and makes common sense. I’ve taken a couple of days off from working on the subject. Today, I’ve finally found the opening statements of all three automakers to Congress.
I’m providing them below [...]
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Filed under: Autos, Congress, Credit Crisis, Economy, In The News, Stuart O'Neill, US Manufacturing
My regular readers will recall the Phrygian cap*, which the “Sons of Liberty” adopted about 1766 as the emblem of our Revolution. Many of the militia who served in the Revolutionary War wore the “Liberty cap” with “Liberty” or “Liberty or Death” or “Congress” embroidered on the headband.
[* "Who Stole Our American Hat?" 9 Sept [...]
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For me, and I’m certain for every reader, this is a day to say thanks for the good things in our lives. I wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving day with friends and family.
Everyday, if nothing else, we have the gift of sunrise.
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Part 2, in which battling spokespersons collude like you wouldn’t believe. (Part i was yesterday’s “Moving America Bass-ackwards“)
They are the political equivalent of unscrupulous telemarketers or internet phishers: This week, they’re a prince from Nigeria; the next, they’re telling you that you’ve won the Liechtensteiner lottery, or they’re from your bank checking your account, they’re [...]
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All we know, from all sources is that there have been 8 attacks in the city. MSNBC and CNN are reporting a minimum of 900 people injured and a minimum of 80-90 deaths. Some of the attackers have been killed and captured by security agencies. Other’s are holed up at the TAJ Hotel on the [...]
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He may be the lamest of lame ducks, but George W. Bush is still doing immense damage. Consider:
As the Bush administration prepares to issue its ruling on whether to limit greenhouse gases, it’s sending out a message to some of its allies: Tell us how much you don’t want us to regulate emissions linked to [...]
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Filed under: Climate Crisis, George W. Bush, Global Warming, Michael Stickings, White House
[First, let me say these are my own suggestions to help the situation. These are the changes I wish to see in the automakers. I will be doing more fact based writing, fully resourced, in the next few days. I agree with Rachel Maddow (video) that the attack on the UAW and the automakers could begin a [...]
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Filed under: Autos, Credit Crisis, Economic News, Economy, Foreign Policy, In The News, Stuart O'Neill
This is too sad for long comment. You wonder why Tom Friedman today suggested moving up the swearing in to Thanksgiving? He didn’t have this video in mind but if he’d seen it he would have puked.
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Filed under: Bush Admin, Economy, Foreign Policy, George W. Bush, International, Stuart O'Neill, World News
Well, tonight’s news showed the new “Thank you Sarah” ad from a new astroturf group called “Our Country Deserves Better PAC.”
Deborah Johns during the Move America Forward Tour in 2005
And you know, something made my little reporter’s “HUNCH” arrow swing all the way into the red. The reason, when I checked the website “http://www.ourcountrypac.org/” became [...]
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Yes, the Colmes-Hannity team on Fox News is splitting up.
And it’s so, so sad… or perhaps it would be if I cared. I don’t watch the show, and rarely the network, and, to me, Colmes was little more than an overwhelmed punching bag with no punch of his own, the perfect “liberal” for Hannity and [...]
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Filed under: Fox News, Michael Stickings
One of the major fallacies of the public perception of a ‘Detroit’ auto crisis is based on simple lack of information. The public doesn’t understand that this is global crisis with, just in the US, 3 million direct jobs at stake and millions of other indirect jobs at stake, and having global bailout requests.
Just in [...]
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Filed under: Consumers, Credit Crisis, Economy, Election '08, In The News, Stuart O'Neill, US Manufacturing
