"The economy is the main issue in the election," writes Post blogger reckless G, "and would fare better in the first year of a McCain presidency, even though Obama would best manage the economy and holds the lead in the presidential race. Are these economists schizophrenic? How accurate are economic projections anyway? Where do economists get the statistics to base their projections on?... If indeed 'it’s the economy, stupid,' then Obama is danger of becoming the first black candidate to fail in a bid for the presidency. Still an achievement, but not quite what Obama supporters are hoping for. Especially those who have promised a steak dinner to some of us who believe McCain will be our next president."
"Ok, Hugh," writes Post blogger Mitch Mulhall in comment #11, "Hitchens goes all George Plimpton on the subject of waterboarding and you're willing to dismiss it...."
"Where did Christopher Hitchens receive his fake torture?" writes Post blogger Hugh McCormack in comment #7.
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According to a majority of economists at U.S. banks and research groups polled by Reuters; “The economy has supplanted the Iraq war as the main issue in the November presidential election between Arizona Sen. McCain and Illinois Sen. Obama” and “The U.S. stock market would fare better in the first year after a victory by Republican presidential candidate John McCain than by his Democratic rival Barack Obama.” This despite the fact that “The poll also found that Obama held a 7-point lead over McCain in the presidential race, and had a small edge on the question of who would best manage the economy.”
Continue Reading July 23rd, 2008
Today, after 20 years with the last three presidents, Americans watch their most precious value erode into meaninglessness. Does U.S. citizenship mean anything to this president, our Congress, our governors and our mayors of major cities.
After 9/11 decimated our national security blanket, our borders needed closing. Our immigration laws and visas needed immediate tightening as most of the bombers hailed from Saudi Arabia. All of them lied on their applications without fear of inspection. Yet, current policy allows endless immigration by Saudi nationals as well as many others from the Middle East. Has anything changed? Not!
Continue Reading July 21st, 2008
If you think America suffers an energy crisis, you haven't seen anything yet. Shall we drill offshore? In Alaska? Should we continue with as John Denver sang, "More scars upon the land"? When will we pull our heads out of our proverbial armpits? Sooner rather later! As T. Boone Pickens said, “It's time to jump to solar and wind power!”
In this week’s dueling op-ed in U.S. News and World Report, Joseph Romm and Robinson West battled via words to catch readers' ears. Their theme: energy and our oil price crisis! Romm demanded an end to our oil addiction. West countered with a reality check: it ain't gonna' happen!
They're both encouraged to remember Einstein's prophetic words, "The problems in the world today are so enormous they cannot be solved with the level of thinking that created them."
Continue Reading July 18th, 2008
Presidential architect Karl Rove’s mainly miss-the-mark missives in the Wall Street Journal are a thing of beauty, but none have quite reached the level of co-opted op-ed pulchritude as his latest exercise in self-aggrandizement, modestly headlined “Barack’s Brilliant Ground Game.”
Karl Rove, far too executive-privileged to show up for Congressional testimony, nonetheless has all the time in the free world to tell his free market pals that Democratic Presidential nominee-to-be Barack Obama in “brilliant” because his is following Rove’s obviously brilliant strategems from 2000 and 2004, when he took a booze-free Texas back-slapper with a hitch in his delivery and nursed him to first place in our quadrennial Presidential beauty contest.
Continue Reading July 11th, 2008
Multiculturalism proves a deadly mix of racism, social incongruity, irreconcilable ethnic groups and the fabricated presumption that everybody loves everybody else.
Continue Reading July 10th, 2008
Just today, I heard somewhere on one of the news channels that doctors are advocating that kids as young as 7 start taking cholesterol-reducing meds and that parents should start getting their kid's cholesterol levels checked by the age of 2!
I took care of my disabled mom during the last 10 years of her life. Her main problems were arthritis and heart disease. While doing my duty as a caretaker, I did a lot of research on how to help her. I found the "Life Extension Foundation" to be my most valuable resource on different nutritional remedies and the latest research on various illnesses and/or longevity. I/we were using things like shark cartilage, melatonin and glucosamine long before the general public even knew such things existed.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2008
Thomas Friedman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist of The New York Times, was officially christened as king of the world over the weekend in Aspen—and why the hell not?
He wore the mantle lightly at the Aspen Ideas Festival, in part because he married into the gazillionaire Buxbaum family, who have so far given tens of millions of dollars to the town, with the latest dollop a $25 million downpayment for a spanky campus at the Aspen Music Festival and School. But Friedman’s wallop at the podium has all but nothing to do with Bucksbaum bucks, and everything to do with his prescient ability to package the zeitgeist with the tidiness of a juice box—the kind that comes with its own self-piercing straw.
Continue Reading July 7th, 2008
The Con Man goes from Aspen Mayor Mick Ireland, to the false god of flip-flopping, to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to allow individual ownership of handguns.
Click here for the complete "Con Games with Michael Conniff" for Monday June 30, 2008.
June 30th, 2008
I liked the freedom of setting my own hours. Working for the club was like working for myself. It enabled me to finish school. I had to finish it up at Regis University and finished through their online program. But I definitely found my niche. I was driven to learn, I had passion for the knowledge I was gaining, particularly the study of physiology. I really liked the clients. I like the relationships I was developing. I really enjoyed it. I was sure I’d be passionate about it, though working with people might ruin me liking the exercise thing. But that ended up not being the case. Working with really athletic people is absolutely an advantage to being in Aspen. You’re dealing with performance and not obesity, and it’s one of the better places to be.
Continue Reading June 30th, 2008
Taco Bell my favorite fast food place has decided I as a customer need to know all about their hiring practices in Glenwood Springs. Give me a break right on the counter when I order my food I need to know all about your hiring practices with this big document right on the counter that states we E-Verify? Great you want us all to know your staff is legal.
Continue Reading June 28th, 2008
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