Posts Tagged ‘ usa ’

I just attended a keynote in which spouses James Carville and Mary Matalin shared center stage – what a treat. They’re at opposite ends of the political spectrum, of course, but as Mary said, politics makes for strange bedfellows. Very entertaining, very interesting, very insightful – it was a real pleasure. Plus, they offered...
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I don’t know very much about American politics and I don’t know very much about Barack Obama. But this speech is magic, and the fact that he wrote it himself speaks volumes about who he is and what he can potentially do for America. Full text after the jump …
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I recently had to pick up the Apple QuickTime MPEG-2 playback add-on. Since I’m Canadian, I paid $30 … while the US price is $19.95. This is somewhat annoying, given that $20 US is actually worth only $19.60 Canadian today.
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Diebold Accidentally Leaks Results Of 2008 Election Early
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Today, this seems like a very un-American thought: “I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.” - Thomas Jefferson I could not agree more. Worse...
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I happen to work in the education industry, which (in the US) is massively affected by NCLB – No Child Left Behind. It’s a law/program/initiative intended to ensure every K-12 student in America gets on grade level in key curriculum areas such as reading and math by 2014. It also happens to be one...
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 I’ve been seeing a lot about the US housing market lately … how bad is it going to get?
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Is it any wonder that Americans hardly know where continental Europe is? Check out this excerpt from a AP story on Congress passing a law authorizing Canadian drug imports into the US: Supporters of the idea say it would save consumers great sums by allowing them to purchase U.S.-made medications from other countries where...
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When the business you’re involved in is evil, you know it’s time to get out and start doing something else. Otherwise you will inevitably become evil as well. There are plenty of examples of that in the US health care system, which Sicko is highlighting right now. Here’s just one of them … Palmer...
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It’s really good to see that the American media knows what’s important: 3-foot subs that aren’t. It’s not like there’s anything more important to talk about right now.
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