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mm510: Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States
Words fail me. But the electorate didn’t. It’s it for now. Thanks, –MUDGE Technorati Tags: Barack Obama,presidential election,44th President of the United States Posted in Obama, Presidential election Tagged: 44th Presi...
mm509: Hear that sound? It’s the ice skaters in hell!
We’ve written before about our hometown newspaper, the Chicago Tribune. Taken most seriously in its home town. But proud of its Republican tradition. Its first editor of any distinction, Joseph Medill, was influential in winning the presidenc...
mm508: A great, and most useful, debate
The last debate. Three weeks to go. Got me to reminisce about my early exposure to politics. The first presidential debate I ever watched was the first modern presidential debate: Nixon v. Kennedy, 1960. I was a kid, growing up in a very political ...
mm507: Nobel and noble - a daily double
Sometimes good things happen to good people. Paul Krugman of Princeton University and the NYTimes, frequently quoted in this space, was awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics today. This is worthy recognition to an outstanding thinker, who not onl...
mm506: What to read when you’re not reading me
Away (from blogging — the writing, not the reading) and the economy, and especially the stock markets, continues in free fall. Everyone is on edge, if not downright frantic, because if you’re too young to be that concerned about your ret...
mm505: Could it happen again?
There’s more at stake in the present Wall Street bailout tsunami than the partisan posturing might lead you to believe. Conservatives vs. moderates vs. progressives vs. everybody. In a lifetime of casual reading about the Great Depression of th...

