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The foremost thought is that "change" does not necessarily mean for the better. Every 16 years, we get a fresh-faced, young, vibrant, and likable politician spouting nothing beyond the word "change." No substance. Change. No specifics. Change. No agenda. Change. No tidbits for voters to digest. More ... With the election literally days away, the choice of who will be President is now in the hands of the voters. No matter who is elected it will be a first for America. There will either be the first black president or the first female vice-president. Maybe the winner will also decide to stir up things a little with some unique choices for key positions. The question is, what will each of the two candidates staff, cabinet members, and cabinet ranking members look like? Here are a few possibilities to consider. More ... Recently, I have been exchanging emails with a lady named Claire Jordan and learning a little about the community in southern Georgia where her family comes from, a very small place known as Headlight, Georgia. Headlight is on very few roadmaps: located northwest of Fargo, it sits in a spot of swamp pretty much all to its proverbial lonesome. More ... The media's almost universal opinion that Sen. Joe Biden simply made just another one of his gaffes -- when he warned that the election of the untested Barack Obama would inevitably result in a global crisis where our enemies take measure of the man by confronting him and America with a challenge -- was dead wrong. More ... I don't know which is scarier: The American landscape the next President of the United States is destined to inherit, the people who will make that decision (us), or the fact that these two guys seem to want it so bad. More ... Halloween is the one holiday of the year where some very buttoned-up people get the opportunity to be a kid again. The best example I know of is in my old hometown of Richmond, Virginia in the Fan district and specifically on Hanover Avenue. This just happens to be the same avenue where my late father used to trick or treat back in the 1930's. More ... Boy, are my mother and father uncharacteristically agitated lately. I made the mistake of visiting them while they watched the cable news. Democrat Sen. Chris Dodd was on the tube blaming the market collapse on President Bush. Father jumped out of his recliner and began barking at the TV. More ... America is facing a collective panic. Financial markets are hammering our retirement accounts. Frenzied headlines are a daily occurrence in newspapers and scrolled along the bottom of cable TV news channels. Even the president has gotten into the act by breathlessly pushing his Wall Street bailout during an address to the nation. More ... |
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