Innovative Initiatives in Growth Management and Open Space Preservation: A National Study (Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Policy Research P)
Kiwiblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nine months into his term, I thought I’d take another look at Obama’s ratings compared to other US Presidents. Gallup has polling data back to WWII. At Day 270 the approval ratings were: George W Bush 89% (post 9/11) John Kennedy 77% Lyndon Johnson 74% George H W Bush 68% Dwight Eisenhower 65% Harry Truman 63% Ronald Reagan 56% Richard Nixon 56% Jimmy Carter [...]
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
• NBC's Meet the Press : Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey, Gov. Haley Barbour (R-MS), Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA), NYT 's David Brooks , WaPo 's E.J. Dionne , MSNBC's Rachel Maddow , Republican strategist Ed Gillespie and NBC's Tom Brokaw • CBS' Face the Nation : Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO), Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and Republican...
Chas' Compilation (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Takuan Seiyo has a long rant . [...] The Nobel-laureate in economics Gary Becker linked the financial travails of Argentina in the mid-1990s to government spending at more than 30% of GDP. The Swiss economist Peter Bernholz has linked hyperinflation triggers to government deficits exceeding 40% of expenditures. But government spending in Obamerica is 45% of GDP , and its deficit stands at 43.3% . Peronism...
Thomas Kraemer (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
PHOTO: (click on photo to enlarge) arrow points to the head of George McGovern speaking as the 1972 Democratic Party nominee for President at a rally in front of the Northrop Memorial Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus in 1972. George McGovern ran as an ultra-liberal peace candidate who promised to end the Vietnam War , but he lost the 1972 presidential election in a landslide to the...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
President Obama is arriving at House Cannon Building any minute to plea with Democrats to pass the biggest health care legislation since Lyndon Johnson created Medicare and Medicaid in 1964. House...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
It is not often you see a prominent law professor sue a prominent law firm and its famous founders. Professor Phillip Bobbitt is the name plaintiff of a proposed class suing Milberg (formerly Milberg Weiss) and several individual attorneys for malpractice. Bobbitt is on the facutlies of both The University of Texas School of Law and Columbia Law . The WSJ Law Blog found this one and noted that it...
Larisa Alexandrovna's At Largely (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Posted by Jeff Huber Daniel Ellsburg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that revealed Lyndon Johnson went along with a war he knew was unwinnable, says we’re repeating Vietnam in Afghanistan. In an... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
Pen and Sword (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Daniel Ellsburg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers that revealed Lyndon Johnson went along with a war he knew was unwinnable, says we’re repeating Vietnam. In an interview with The Real News, Ellsberg remarks on the war between the Pentagon and the White House. He also equates Vietnam to Afghanistan. “No victory lies ahead in Afghanistan,” he says, and “they’re not going...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Jim Kirwan November 02, 2009 Courtesy Of "Information Clearing House" Since the days of Lyndon Johnson that began almost forty-five years ago, with the assassination of JFK, the American public has been a reluctant participant in a Masquerade Ball wherein everyone with a titled position has been playing a double or in some cases even a triple part in this charade. The major problem for...
Jesse's Café Américain (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Tomorrow the Bureau of Labor Statistics will be reporting its October non-farm payrolls number. The consensus of economists is for a job loss of only 175,000 which is an improvement over the prior month loss, but more importantly maintains a steady uptrend as shown in the chart below. The BLS almost always revises the prior two months, in this case August and September. They tend to 'borrow' from...
Poverty News Blog (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
We thought this was a good perspective on a piece of American history. From West Virginia's State Journal we find this interview with Barbara Bayes, a woman who has spent a lifetime helping the poor in the Appalachian Mountains. The interview focuses on the start of the "War on Poverty" when President Lyndon Johnson created programs to try to help the poor. Writer Christine Miller Ford had...
Palestinian Pundit (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
According to the Republicans, the United States is once again at the crossroads of losing another critical war because of feckless Democrats. Only this time it's Afghanistan . BY JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER Foreign Policy ".... The real tragedy of Vietnam is not that the United States lost, but that it became involved in the first place. It pains me to say this as someone who served in the American military...
INSIGHT on Freedom (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
A Turning Point, Swiftly Reached By Alan Caruba ************************ The November 3rd elections were a turning point, swiftly reached. The inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama was followed by Tea Parties around the nation that aggregated into the huge September 12 rally in Washington, D.C. And barely two months later, the election of Republican governors in Virginia and New Jersey. In Maine, the...
Political Wire (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
This audio of President Lyndon Johnson about ordering some new pants is priceless. Beware of some rough presidential language, however.
Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
There are, perhaps, only a few jobs for which you truly cannot prepare, but just leap in and do. One of those jobs has to be President of the United States. No matter how much you think you've learned--be it in the Senate like Barack Obama, or as the governor of a state, like George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, or even as Vice President, like George HW Bush and Lyndon Johnson--the American presidency...
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cummar | 07/27/2009
Plot: The account follows the animation of little I.Q. Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) and his engagement with the adore of his animation Jenny. The gauze chronicles his contingent experiences with some of the most meaningful mankind and events in America from the distend 1950's in and out of the 1970's counting a engagement with Elvis Presley, JFK, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, belligerent in Vietnam, etc....
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