Video of Obama’s Inauguration Speech

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The last few months have seen the unfolding of one of the most interesting and thought-provoking presidential races in history. Normally I am not terribly interested in the machinations of Washington but recently I have been paying rather close attention to McCain and Obama and my decision of who to vote for has already been made. If you are like me and want to go ahead and cast your vote (and avoid the possibility of long lines) you can vote early.

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Definition: verb to raise trivial and frivolous objection
Etymology: Latin cavillari to jest, cavil, from cavilla raillery; akin to Latin calvi to deceive
Date: 1542
Quotation: “A piquant development which I have noticed in recent years is that American visitors to Paris have acquired an admirable mastery of that useful and difficult art known as bargaining. They may [...]

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Since this whole SNAFU began a little more than a year ago I’ve read a lot about the fallout, and I’ve inferred a lot of what caused it, but I never could assemble the whole story. Thankfully, there is This American Life to explain it all to me. Their show (click on the [...]

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Tonight the New York Times released the first public draft of the US government’s proposal for pulling our economy out of its tailspin. They’re calling it the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008″. In the short section at the very beginning of the bill it describes very broadly the purpose of the bill: [...]

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Here are (hopefully stable) links to Oreilly’s 4-part interview of Obama ranging over a variety of topics. O’Reilly gets in his digs, but I think Obama’s arguments hold up very well…now let’s just get to those debates with McCain.
Part 1: Diplomacy, Iran, Iraq
Part 2: Taxes, Economy
Part 3: Obama’s “Associations”
Part 4: Oil Crisis, Energy Plan

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If you’re like me, you’ve been searching for the right words to express your love for Barack Obama. Thanks to Obama Girl (and her shameless self-promotion), that search is now over…

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For those of you who don’t know, Barack Obama ran away with the Democratic vote at the Iowa caucus. That’s right, Barack Hussein Obama won over the hearts of thousands of American patriots. I don’t think it’s possible to come up with a worse name for someone trying to win votes from United States citizens. [...]

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Since leaving the college eutopia of beer, pizza, ultimate, and occasional studying, I’ve tried to become more knowledgeable about “real world”, “adult” things like US politics. Now is a good time to do that because we have a presidential election looming in the near future. I neglected to vote in the last election [...]

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