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Details of Obama’s Stimulus Package

Update: See Final Details of Obama’s 2009 Stimulus Bill, as enacted on February 17, 2009. The exact details of the Obama 2009 Stimulus Package are still being hashed out. On this page and in the comments below, I am attempting to collect details of what’s...

You Stay Classy San Diego

I was perusing through the Library of Congress photo collection and stumbled across this advertisement from 1907 extolling San Diego’s virtues. Harbor. Climate. Opportunity. Investment. Profit. If I didn’t know better, I’d suspect that the guy who...

Defend Al Gore

Please somebody, defend Al Gore for me. What is it that you think he is trying to accomplish with his rhetoric? “We must face up to this urgent and unprecedented threat to the existence of our civilization,” And: “This is the most serious challenge...

The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “‘Tis some...

I’m a Fan of Coincidences

I’m a Fan of Coincidences A while back, I noted how on the same night that Barack Obama was in Minnesota clinching the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination, one of the local television stations was airing an episode of Star Trek entitled Plato’s...