Posts Tagged ‘Barack Obama’
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Water
Posted on July 8, 2010
If you Google the search term “water main break,” you get close to 6 million hits. In the Washington D.C. area, the suburb of Potomac is dealing with a huge...
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Desperation
Posted on July 1, 2010
To paraphrase Pink Floyd, “desperation is the Obama way.” The President and his Democratic colleagues are desperate to find any angle to try to change the course of the coming...
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Expect the unexpected (From The Hill)
Posted on June 29, 2010
If there is any iron rule to the political game, it should be: Expect the unexpected. Things change, and sometimes they change rapidly. At the beginning of President Obama’s term,...
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Meaningless Points on the Board
Posted on June 25, 2010
My father, a rabid White Sox fan if there ever was one, would always derisively talk about Cubs third baseman Ron Santo as Mr. Clutch. “If you ever needed a...
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Thesis, Antithesis, Progress
Posted on June 24, 2010
Like many college students, I struggled mightily to understand what the hell Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was trying to say in his very dense philosophical texts. Since I don’t read...
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