While this wasn’t the most exciting part of the Obama event (I enjoyed his town hall portion much more) here is the official Barack Obama speech from this morning in Fort Wayne.
My thoughts on the events are forthcoming.
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I was a Mike Huckabee guy. Then Mike Huckabee dropped out and off came my bumper sticker. John McCain, while I agree with him on more positions than Barack Obama, has done little to convince me that he has the power to bring this country back to where it should be. Hopefully, he can do so.
That’s why Barack intrigues me. I’m on his mailing list and when that email came through at 3:11pm this afternoon for tickets into tomorrow’s event I was on it like a hawk. By 3:13pm, I had a pair of tickets.
Much like many other Americans, I first saw Barack when he delivered an excellent keynote address during …
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When you picture Wikipedia, you don’t really think of a political battle. However, recently the “admins” are having battles among themselves as to what the direction of Wikipedia should be.
Some are falling on the side of letting most everything fly. With the obvious exceptions to spam and totally worthless articles, these folks would like to provide a wealth of knowledge on everything from Maywood City, CA to the White House.
They would rather leave in place the current system of calling an unfinished article a “stub,” which encourages further research and development on a particular subject.
For example, a few Wikipedia Administrators (which apparently is a rather coveted position that takes an awful lot of …
The battle for the border fence just got a little tougher as Department of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff said that his department will bypass environmental and land management laws to complete a border fence project by year’s end.
The move is touching some hearts in the Sierra Club, an environmental group, whose executive director claims the fence will threaten the environment of the region.
Carl Pope, the executive director, believes waiving these environmental laws is unconstiutional and he is calling for the Supreme Court to look into the issue.
The border fence will be equipped with towers, sensors, cameras along a 470-mile stretch that spans from California into Texas. This fence will cut through many areas of federally protected lands including national parks, wildlife …
Tags: border fence, chertoff, environment, homeland security, immigration, IRS, money, Sierra Club, tution
