Retailers were antsy about Black Friday. Many expected the worse. Many expected less shoppers and certainly less purchases.
That’s not what they got.
Although the article points out that the rise in spending, which was 3% over last year, was the smallest in 3 years, the fact is, there was a rise in sales.
“So far, so good,” [...]
Throughout the Election all we heard was that Republicans are better when it comes to the military, terrorism, and foreign affairs, generally. Haven’t we been spoon fed that for the last decade? Or longer?
Yet, the Pentagon and military brass are looking forward to a ‘positive ‘ President Barack Obama. Obama is making a clear play [...]
Coming tomorrow at 10:40AM, President Elect Barack Obama will roll out his national defense/foreign policy team. Just as he did with his economic team, facing a mounting economic crisis, Obama’s announcement tomorrow comes after the tragic and stunning terrorist attacks in Mumbia, India.
But the announcement has more than just crisis situations in common, the roll [...]
Wow.
Senator Hillary Clinton, soon to be Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has reportedly passed on an opportunity to become Senate Appropriation Committee Chairperson.
Hillary Clinton passed on becoming boss of the mega-powerful Senate Appropriations Committee to pursue the more prestigious secretary of state job with President-elect Barack Obama, the Daily News has learned.
As chairwoman of the [...]
The world is condemning the outrageous attacks in Mumbai India led by President-elect Barack Obama.
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama’s chief national security transition spokeswoman Brooke Anderson said: “President-elect Obama strongly condemns today’s terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and his thoughts and prayers are with the victims, their families and the people of India. These coordinated attacks on [...]
What Harry Reid should have taken in to account, before his spineless hand over to the Caucus as a whole, was the fact that Sen. Joe Lieberman did not just betray President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign, but also Senate DEMS and House DEMs.
But no one in the room knew, as Merkley spoke, that Lieberman had supported [...]
The third poll for the 2010 midterm election for the United States Senate seat up in Pennsylvania, held by Senator Arlen Specter, has been released.
Quinnipiac has released a new poll on a hypothetical match up between Senator Arlen Specter and possible DEM challenger and MSNBC Hardball host Chris Matthews.
Sen. Arlen Specter (R): 45%
Chris Matthews (D): [...]
So fitting for Thanksgiving, wouldn’t you say.
President Bush is kind and decent enough to do the traditional pardon to a Thanksgiving turkey.
Anyone think President Bush looks like he is afraid the damn thing will bite him?
Hey, even turkeys aren’t happy ion this ecnomy Mr. President So watch out.
Turn out though, turkeys are not all [...]
President-elect Barack Obama continues to round out his foreign policy/national defense team today. First, word came out that Obama has asked current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to stay on for at least one year. Gates has reportedly accepted.
Obama has reportedly also settled on General James Jones as National Security Adviser. Jones has been closely [...]
We have had 3 different polls released in the GA Senate race in the last couple of days showing a pretty consistent result:
11/24/08 Insider Advantage Chambliss 50% Martin 47% Undecided/other 3 Chambliss +3
11/24/08 PPP Chambliss 52% Martin 46% Undecided/other 2% Chambliss +6
11/20/08 Research 2000 Chambliss 51% Martin 45% Undecided/other 4% Chambliss +5
11/19/08 Rasmussen Chambliss 50% [...]
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