Oct 28
The following is the text as prepared for delivery of John McCain’s speech in Dayton, Ohio, as provided by the McCain campaign.
It’s great to be back in Ohio. We need to win Ohio on November 4th, and with your help we’re going to win here, and bring real change to Washington, DC.
It’s been a long [...]
Oct 27
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, October 2008: Given the title, American Rifle is a book that many potential readers might dismiss without a thought. Don’t do it: Alexander Rose’s peculiar “biography” is not written for gun enthusiasts–though they’ll certainly enjoy it–but for anyone interested American history from George Washington to the Wild West to [...]
Oct 27
Amazon.com Review
Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine advances a truly unnerving argument: historically, while people were reeling from natural disasters, wars and economic upheavals, savvy politicians and industry leaders nefariously implemented policies that would never have passed during less muddled times. As Klein demonstrates, this reprehensible game of bait-and-switch isn’t just some relic from the bad [...]
Oct 24
As the financial and economic crisis deepens, the latest edition of The Harris Poll® finds that the economy, which was already at the top of the list of concerns for Americans, has moved even farther ahead of all other issues that people want the government to address. According to some of the findings of a [...]
Oct 22
In this ground-breaking book, bestselling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Dick Couch follows the SEAL Task Unit in Iraq s Anbar Province between 2005 and 2007, chronicling the unit s deployment in the Battle of Ramadi. Based on extensive interviews with Army, Navy, and Marine personnel who fought in the battle and the author [...]
Oct 22
President Bush, who has made international aid a cornerstone of his foreign policy, warned yesterday against cutting U.S. assistance to impoverished nations in the midst of the financial turmoil sweeping Wall Street and Main Street, arguing that doing so would undermine America’s economy, national security and moral authority.
“During times of economic crisis, some may be [...]
Oct 21
Education, School, University No Comments
Conversations about the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan tend to focus on whether we should be there and how we can bring them to a close. What’s less discussed is how these conflicts will profoundly affect health care and academic medicine in the years to come.
The first event in a new series, the Stanford [...]
Oct 20
MEDIA ALERT
WHO: Channel One News, the leading school-based news broadcast, now in its second year of partnership with NBC News’ Peacock Productions
WHAT: Opens “One Vote” Presidential Poll – Teens Nationwide Cast Their Vote in Largest Online Election
WHERE: Channel One Schools Nationwide Will Be Participating and all Teens Eligible To Vote Online at www.channelone.com or www.onevote.com
WHEN: [...]
Oct 20
Africa has been mentioned only fleetingly in the recent US presidential debates, a reflection of how low the continent rates.
In the three debates between Democratic party candidate Barack Obama and Republican John McCain, as well as in the one between their running-mates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin, Africa was mentioned only in passing as a [...]
Oct 20
The U.S. military is creating an electrical code for U.S. facilities in Iraq as part of an effort to prevent future electrocutions in Iraq. The deaths of at least 18 U.S. service members and contractors in Iraq are under investigation as possible electrocutions.
The code is being created by certified electricians hired by the U.S. Army [...]
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