The only thing I thing that we want to make sure of is that when she's attacked, she's defended, because of the other side hasn't had quorums about trying to mischaracterize her or attack her in ways that I find very offensive.
It found that a majority - 55 percent - believe "that just about anyone who really wants to work can find a job in the United States." Less than a third disagreed with the idea.
"By a similar margin, 54 percent to 28 percent, Americans believe that just about anyone brought up in poverty can achieve a middle class lifestyle."
So...gasoline prices are up, housing values are down, and the political fortunes of the party of the successful - the Republicans - are said to be bleak. However, the opinions expressed in this poll by majorities are basic tenets of Republican belief, viewed as arrant nonsense by Democrats.
Is there a ray of hope here? Maybe Republican candidates who focus on these themes will find that majorities of voters will agree with them.
It supports the contention that the level of activity on the Sun will significantly diminish sometime in the next decade and remain low for about 20 - 30 years. On each occasion that the Sun has done this in the past the World’s mean temperature has dropped by ~ 1 - 2 C.
DAVID LETTERMAN compares the candidates:
John McCain frequently consults with General David Petraeus.
Barack Obama frequently consults with Scarlett Johansson.Barack Obama makes people think of JFK.
John McCain makes people think of AARP.
I'd call that equally insulting to both candidates. Come to think of it, didn't JFK "consult" with Marilyn Monroe and woo some mobster's moll in the White House?
Barack Obama is the Hey-Jude candidate, the man who somehow will "make it better."
Barack Obama's first general election ad says, about 46 seconds in, that the Illinois senator passed laws that "extended health care for wounded troops who'd been neglected." The ad "Country I Love", which was released Friday, provides a citation at the bottom of the screen which reads "Public Law 110 - 181."
Q. Why do the KGB operate in groups of three?
A. One can read, one can write and one to keep an eye on the two intellectuals.
The whole episode is a reminder that history is a complicated thing. The traits that lead to disaster in certain circumstances are the very ones that come in handy in others. The people who seem so smart at some moments seem incredibly foolish in others.
Even if you never met him, you know this guy. He's the guy at the country club with the beautiful date, holding a martini and a cigarette that stands against the wall and makes snide comments about everyone who passes by.
Most politicians don't know what the Kyoto accord says. They think it's an environmental treaty. It's not. It's an economic treaty.
Its purpose is not to reduce GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions -- under it GHG emissions are guaranteed to rise. Kyoto is a United Nations treaty designed to transfer wealth from the developed world to the developing world by charging the developed world for the right to emit carbon. That's hardly surprising given that wealth redistribution from rich nations to poor ones is the goal of most countries belonging to the UN.
Peru President Alan Garcia enacted a legislative decree to declare a 60-day state of emergency in 11 of Peru’s 24 departments Thursday as temperatures in the Andes region continue to drop dramatically and claim the lives of residents. As Peru remains in the grip of intense cold — meteorologists have registered temperatures dipping to -22°C, or 7.60 F — the cold weather death toll continues to rise. Sixty-one children have died since April 13.
You'll have to eat some crow. But crow doesn't taste so bad if it's served on the White House china.
James Q. Wilson, America's premier social scientist, notes that "the typical criminal commits from 12 to 16 crimes a year (not counting drug offenses)" and says that 10 years of scholarly studies "have shown that states that sent a higher fraction of convicts to prison had lower rates of crime, even after controlling for all of the other ways -- poverty, urbanization, and the proportion of young men in the population -- that the states differed. A high risk of punishment reduces crime. Deterrence works."
Barack Obama is the most split-personality politician in the country today. On the one hand, there is Dr. Barack, the high-minded, Niebuhr-quoting speechifier who spent this past winter thrilling the Scarlett Johansson set and feeling the fierce urgency of now. But then on the other side, there’s Fast Eddie Obama, the promise-breaking, tough-minded Chicago pol who’d throw you under the truck for votes.
No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and all of us are made better off whenever any one of us is made better off.
Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments.
What I don't want to do is to see a diminished commitment to the public schools to the point where all we have are the hardest-to-teach kids with the least involved parents with the most disabilities in the public schools. That's going to make things worse, and we're going to lose the commitment to public schools that I think have been so important to building this country.
Kohut's contention is not that white voters lie to pollsters, but that pollsters fail to fully capture the views of lower-income, working-class and elderly white voters who disproportionately refuse to participate in telephone surveys, even though they vote on Election Day.
This column will probably get Barack Obama in trouble, but that’s not my problem. I cannot tell a lie: Many Egyptians and other Arab Muslims really like him and hope that he wins the presidency.
The man who calls his daughter a 'rotten little pig' in an obscenity laced phone call endorses the man who thinks drugging and raping women is funny.
In April, approximately on hundred sealing ships were trapped in ice floes off the northeast coast of Newfoundland while they were participating in the annual seal hunt off Canada's easternmost province. It required the Canadian Coast Guard to rescue a number of the trapped vessels and their crews. However, at one point, an icebreaker sent to free them actually found itself trapped.
In May, meteorologist Anthony Watts issued a report on the way temperatures continue to cool. The new global data revealed a whopping three quarters of a degree Celsius drop in temperatures since January. Dr. Roy Spencer, formerly of NASA and now the principle (climate)research scientist at the University of Alabama, said that, “If you exclude the anomalous 1992 cooling from the Pinatubo volcano eruption, it’s the coolest May in 20 years.” Even the U.S. government, courtesy of NASA, has admitted that the Earth is now a decade into a cooling cycle and it is likely to last at least two or three more decades.
High-flying tech stocks crashed. The roaring housing market crumbled. And oil, rest assured, will follow the same path down.
We've learned another important lesson from the housing market: The longer prices stay stratospheric, the worse the eventual crash - simply because the higher the prices and bigger the profit margins, the bigger the incentive to over-produce. It's even possible that, a few years hence, we could see a sustained period of plentiful oil supplies and low prices, meaning $50 or below.