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...excellence—a Washington operative with an inflated sense of self-importance, a political skill set inversely proportional to ego, and a grab bag of talking points in the form of arguments by assertion. His knowledge of international affairs is sketchy, but he is quite sure of America??s historical preeminence within them. His achievements are few, but his sense of self-importance is vast. He is obsessed with image and public perception—the kind of man who takes pride in signing his emails “Sent from my Verizon Wireless Blackberry...
...body of work. As Guest explains, “We called it ‘Between Past and Present’ partly for that reason. Bogdanovich’s cinema references quite clearly classical Hollywood cinema, and at the same time, points forward towards the new Hollywood, which was America??s equivalent of the French New Wave.” The Ford festival will screen twenty-two films at its initial presentation this winter, and forty more movies in the next six months...
Thomas Jefferson, one of America??s most widely read forefathers wrote, “The best government is the government that governs least.” What Jefferson intended was for a system of self-regulating government. The financial crises on Wall Street and Main Street in late 2008 exposed the fissures of this political philosophy. The abject lack of oversight by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Bush administration, and Wall Street executives resulted in a full-blown recession and difficult financial times for all Americans...
...healthy dose of guarded capitalism is what America needs. Obama’s proposals, one of which is a $33 billion-dollar business tax credit, will shore up many failing small businesses in America??s heartland by providing a tax credit for each net hire by a small business. That, in addition to good labor incentivization practices, innovative ideas by talented workers, and moderate compensation packages for top executives and employees, promise to be the remedies for this ill economy. Unless middle-class Americans fight back against the excesses of Wall Street executives who make more...
President Obama has always claimed to be a student of history and Malcolm X, one of past America??s most aggressive advocate for justice and fairness once said that history is best qualified to reward our research. In this case, unless we learn from history and do an about-face when it comes to regulating our banking industry and start trusting our government to fight for our basic interests, then both our generation and posterity will suffer...