February 14 – 20, 2008
Tag: history
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The History of Deadlocked Party Conventions, Brushing Up on Your Trivia.
Jim Moran’s News Commentary
The President’s 8th and final budget was released this week. It charted a familiar path: more deficit spending, a failure to include the costs of off-setting alternative minimum tax (AMT) relief, a failure to include the true costs of the war and a failure to provide pay parity for our […]
Helen Thomas: Bush Plans To Leave A Lot Of Unfinished Business
WASHINGTON — With a year to go in the White House, President Bush has said he will sprint to the finish line.
Mason’s ‘Silent’ Scholastic Success
Are you smarter than a high school student?
Jim Moran’s News Commentary
The odds are now better than even that the U.S. economy is sliding or has already slid into a recession. The housing market downturn and sub prime mortgage crisis are the catalysts for a major economic downswing that looks to last well into 2009. The latest retail reports indicate a […]
Helen Thomas: Race And Gender Play Political Roles
WASHINGTON — Like it or not, race and gender will play roles in the choice of a Democratic presidential standard bearer.
Helen Thomas: Bush Embarked On Personal Diplomacy
WASHINGTON — President Bush is desperately in search of a foreign policy success on his current journey to the volatile Middle East.
A Penny For Your Thoughts: The News of Greater Falls Church
Fairfax County’s 11th Urban County Board of Supervisors took the oath of office on Wednesday evening, December 12, before hundreds of onlookers at the Fairfax County Government Center. The soaring glassed atrium resounded with repeated applause as Judge Stanley P. Klein of the Fairfax Circuit Court, attired in a black […]
David Brooks: From The Back Of The Pack
RINDGE, N.H. — The first thing you notice about Mike Huckabee is that he has a Mayberry name and a Jim Nabors face. But it’s quickly clear that Huckabee is as good a campaigner as anybody running for president this year.
