Oct
22
Or The Return of Reverend Jeremiah Wright By William A. Cook * Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass, c. 1818-1879. There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices, more shocking and bloody than are the people of these United States, at this very hour. (Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July, 1852) One hundred and forty seven years ago that charge was leveled at the United States by a former slave who judged America's actions since its founding agai
Oct
22
Prices of Treasury coupon securities have sagged in overnight trading and the belly of the curve has weakened versus the wings of the curve. The yield on the 2 year increased a basis point to 0.96 percent. The yield on the 3 year note edged higher by 2 basis points to 1.50 percent. Likewise, the yield on the 5 year note increased 2 basis points to 2.36 percent. The yield on the 7 year increased 3 basis points to 3.01 percent. The yield on the 10 year note edged higher by 3 basis points,also, t
Oct
22
Pok Pok , the Thai restaurant in Portland, Oregon that I’ve mentioned before, was featured on the Travel Channel program “ Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives .” The segment is embedded below, and you can find it on YouTube here . (Via Oregonian and Thai food expert Austin Bush, who points out that the show was filmed during characteristically rainy weather.)
Oct
22
Opinion: One Reason Obama is Against Honduras - hondurasnews.com 10/22/2009 Excerpt:“When Yale Law School Dean Harold Koh was chosen as chief legal counsel to the [US] State Department, we editorialized that it was an “offensive nomination.” We explained that “Mr. Koh’s repeatedly stated agenda is contrary to the American tradition of law originating in the ‘consent of the governed.’ ” Little did we know that Mr. Koh would trample on the consent of the governed in other countries, too.”“N
Oct
22
If John Kerry had not gone to Kabul, it is possible that the Afghan picture would look very different. The Senator for Massachusetts huddled with Barack Obama back in Washington yesterday, telling reporters later that a decision on troop numbers before the election results were clear would lack common sense. It seem likely that his views will be taken seriously by Obama: details of the role he played in persuading President Hamid Karzai to accept a run-off vote began to emerge yesterd
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