One of the big plus factors behind McCain’s in the upcoming presidential election is his supposed expertise on foreign affairs and knowledge from top secret senate briefings over the years. Not trying to be ticky-tacky here but I must say I was a bit concerned when recently in a press conference Joe Lieberman corrects McCain’s [...]
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We live in a democracy that has changed a lot, with the addition of scores of security measures to protect our president at a huge cost. As we became world policeman we invited more than domestic malcontents to make the president and his entourage a target. Read an interesting thought on this in the Atlantic [...]
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Forbes Magazine has published a list of the Top 10 Up-And-Coming Tech Cities and Columbus, Ohio of all places tops out the list at number one. Why you say? “No. 1: Columbus, Ohio. In 1997, the Battelle Memorial Institute, Ohio’s largest research center, based in Columbus, managed a single lab for the U.S. Department of [...]
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The campaign has brought up (for Democrats at least) strong language against NAFTA (although you can’t get Hillary or Barrack to say they’d pull out) they do say that they would use the power to pull out to re-negotiate it with Canada and Mexico to include fairer terms (does Canada have a competitive advantage because [...]
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You probably know about the White House phone call ad that Hillary Clinton put out prior to winning the Ohio and Texas primaries. Many people have been debating the ad (I thought the one on Real Time with Bill Maher was pretty good). Anyway, most people will agree that it is a negative ad (on [...]
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We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, Jan. 17, 1961. Somehow I missed out [...]
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An interesting case from the other side of the pond (fictional mind you) from column of the late Miles Kingston, humor columnist for the Independent (via Volkoh conspiracy blog) : “A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more [...]
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As a Indians fan I have been thrilled by the way Buffalo has been run as a AAA affiliate. The Indians over the last 15 years have really benefited by an amazing farm system thats crown jewel has been the Bisons. Columbus has the county owned Clippers whose old stadium (current stadium for one more [...]
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