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Romney criticized US President Barack Obama, who during his first term in office ended the space shuttle program, for lacking a clear vision for the future of space exploration -- a failing which he said had cost jobs.
the fact that food stamp use has increased by nearly 50% the month before Obama took office, as reported by Bloomberg, suggests that it was under a Republican administration, when this country first started hemorrhaging jobs, that the need for food stamps rose.
Well, food stamp use is certainly higher than it's been in more than four decades. Is that because, as Gingrich claims, Obama is nurturing a culture of dependency? Hardly.
There would appear to be a contradiction in the polls. On the one hand, Americans continue to be deeply unsatisfied with the state of the economy.
Can you feel the sarcasm dripping from that headline?
By Sebastian Junger - The video that emerged in recent days appearing to show four U.S. Marines urinating on several dead Taliban fighters has outraged many people in this country.
George W. Bush thinks his brother should have tried to follow in his footsteps this year:
There are three lovely charts in this article. I'm re-seeding it because it is so obvious that the right-wing cannot get even the basic facts about Obama correct. The first shows the % of federal spending increase under Bush (eighty-eight) and under Obama (seven point two).
Remembering Bush-Cheney & Co has not initiated any private discussions.