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Archive for July 3rd, 2009

I’m surprised, as I’m sure everyone is, by Sarah Palin’s decision to resign as Governor of Alaska.  It seems as though she made her decision for family-type reasons, and if so I hope people will respect that.  It reminds me of when Kish and I had decided to send the boys to Columbus Academy rather [...]

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The Star-Spangled Banner is our theme as we approach the Fourth.   It is American lore that The Star-Spangled Banner is a poem composed by Francis Scott Key (a lawyer, incidentally) that is set to the tune of what was a popular British drinking song.   The “popular British drinking song” is The Anacreontic Song, the lyrics of [...]

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Stimu-later

The latest jobless statistics, and the gloomy prospects for unemployment for the rest of the year, suggest that the “stimulus” package failed of its principal purpose — to provide an immediate boost to the economy so that, overall, jobs would not be lost. The concern now should be whether the stimulus legislation will have the [...]

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