And, it appears, McCain’s staff hasn’t figured that out. At least, not yet.
McCain advance teams need a little work
John McCain visited Gee’s Bend, Alabama, yesterday, in order to take a ferry ride across the Alabama river. It was a nice, little photo-op on a key piece of local infrastructure. As a Republican National Committee spokesperson said, “The ferry he will be riding is very important to that community. It’s both a good and [...]
Categories: 2008 Election · McCain
Looks like fuel costs and pretty much ripping apart the airline industry. Note they’re talking about fare hikes of 20% just to stay even!
United Airlines Parent Loses $537 Million, Cuts 1,100 Jobs
United Airlines parent UAL Corp. lost about a third of its market value Tuesday after reporting a $537 million first-quarter loss due to soaring fuel costs and saying it is cutting flights and 1,100 jobs. The sell-off accelerated and shares of other airlines dropped after [...]
Categories: Economy
And, we’re not talking “recession”. How about “rationing”?
U.S. Food Rationing? Urgent Global Shortage Hits Home
The global food shortage is already at crisis stage in many countries. Now it seems poised to hit home. And we’re not just talking about price hikes. Just as U.S. residents accept the inevitability of one dreaded R-word, recession, another one may loom: rationing. First, the global outlook: After months of sounding alarms, today U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said [...]
There’s yet another point to be made about the American housing crisis. The escape to the suburbs isn’t working so well these days…
The Sub-Prime Demographic Shift
Focusing on the foreclosures shows only part of the sub-prime fiasco’s effect on our country. Yes, we’ll have displaced people, a swelling poverty base, and an overall loss of consumer wealth. It will impact our businesses, manufacturing sectors and economic stability. Rising food and gas costs (along with housing costs) make up the bulk of [...]
Categories: Housing Market
Would she? Or wouldn’t she?
In the past week, Hillary has dramatically altered US policy regarding the use of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. Specifically, Hillary is saying that she would launch a nuclear strike on Iran if they launched a nuclear strike on Israel. She is also saying that she wants to extend the US nuclear umbrella beyond Israel, and include other US allies in the Middle East (i.e., we would nuke Iran if they nuked these US allies). That’s a huge, and newsworthy, change in US policy. First, [...]
There just has to be some good news out there tonight. Somewhere. Help me find it. Certainly not here:
No joy on the home front:Sales of existing homes fell in March while the median home price declined, compared with the price a year ago, as a severe slump in housing showed no signs of abating. The National Association [...]
But, wait. It gets worse:
Economist: Housing Slump May Exceed Depression
An influential economist who long predicted the housing market bubble cautioned Tuesday that the slump in the U.S. housing market could cause prices to fall more than they did in the Great Depression, and bailouts will be needed so millions don’t [...]
Categories: Economy · Housing Market
It’s one thing to fail to be proactive, but it’s something entirely worse to refuse to even use existing rules and regulations to make even a small step forward.
Bush Throws Out Tools To Fight Global Warming Threat
Our guest blogger is Robert M. Sussman, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and former Deputy Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. President Bush and his administration are trying to block the application of existing environmental laws to the problem of climate change, claiming that a “regulatory train wreck” is on the [...]
Categories: Bush Administration · Global Warming/Climate Change
This is just disgusting.
Ashcroft Compares Waterboarding To Being ‘Interviewed By Jon Stewart’
Yesterday, former attorney general John Ashcroft spoke at St. John’s University on “Leadership in Challenging Times.” In his speech, Ashcroft aggressively defended the Bush administration’s policies on the Iraq war, wiretapping, and interrogation. At one point, he “joked” about waterboarding, comparing the torture to being interviewed by Jon Stewart: Going to a high school [...]
Categories: Torture · Waterboarding
We’re living in 2008, with all of the accompany medical and scientific advances, right? Then, why is this trend developing?
Life Expectancy Drops For Some US Women
For the first time since the Spanish influenza of 1918, life expectancy is falling for a significant number of American women. In nearly 1,000 counties that together are home to about 12 percent of the nation’s women, life expectancy is now [...]
Categories: Health Care
Crude Oil hit another record high today. How nice is that?
Supply Worries Push Oil Over $118 A Barrel
Oil prices rose Tuesday to a new record above US$118 a barrel supported by concerns about crude supplies from some key producers. Light, sweet crude for May delivery rose [...]
Hillary Clinton spent some time on Countdown last night. I missed it, choosing to watch CBS’s “Sunday Morning” on the DVR. I was a regular viewer years ago, but somewhere along the line I fell out of the routine. Rediscovered it this past weekend, thanks to my wife, and came to the realization that it’s just about the best news show on television. It appears it’s where all the older, solid, reporters are ending up. The writing is sharp, the pace isn’t so fast that you feel obligation to overdose on caffeine to keep up with it, and the stories are a great mix of hard news and often emotional features. It’s just darn good.
So, I’ll have to defer to the blogosphere to provide some thoughts on Clinton’s appearance:
Clinton’s surprising appearance on ‘Countdown’
It’s hardly unusual to think Hillary Clinton would appear on a popular, national cable talk show the night before a major primary, but her appearance on MSNBC’s “Countdown” was at least somewhat unexpected. For one thing, the Clinton campaign has done little to hide its disgust with the network’s coverage of the Democratic race, most [...]
Categories: Clinton · Television
As you watch the Pennsylvania Primary results roll in tonight, consider another batch of numbers. We have a winner! Or, is it, “loser”?
Bush: “The highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll”
A new record: “President Bush has set a record he’d presumably prefer to avoid: the highest disapproval rating of any president in the 70-year history of the Gallup Poll. In a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken Friday through Sunday, [...]
Another poll has him even lower:
Pollster: Bush hits 22% approval nationwide
Categories: George W. Bush
Got through Monday and today was just beautiful. The kind of spring weather you’d like to bottle up and pull out in the middle of a heat wave!
Right into the meaty information tonight, beginning with a new (and grim) assessment of military suicides. It looks like the VA has been sitting on the true numbers.
VA confirms 18 vets commit suicide every day
Top officials at the Veterans Administration tried to conceal information from the public about the sudden increase of attempted suicides among veterans that were treated or sought help at VA hospitals around the country, a previously undisclosed internal VA email indicates. The email was disclosed Tuesday in a federal trial at a courthouse in [...]
CBS picked up the story last night:
Categories: Military
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