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...have some more oxymorons to fill your issue: military intelligence, pretty ugly, liquid gas, and jumbo shrimp.Harvard Economic Review: We sure need a magazine like you guys in this market, right? Are we right? Right? Right!Harvard Voice: We love the free sunglasses and milkshake coupons—call us crazy, but we think that you could soon expand into publishing a newspaper.Now that you know we have some other offers, FM, let’s see if you come around to our idea of full-color Vinnie and Danny paper dolls…with outfits...
...about 4,500 house parties were held around the country, and a total of 550,000 people responded to an online survey asking how they would like to contribute their time and energy over the coming years. At about the same time, nearly 5,000 groups responded to a call from Obama's transition team for reports on the best ways to tackle health-care reform. More recently, some 100,000 people participated in an interactive feature on the transition website Change.gov, which allows people to vote on questions they want Obama to answer. Some popular examples: Will you legalize...
While his supporters seek out ways to stay involved, Obama's team is working to connect with citizens outside politics. Buffy Wicks, who helped run Obama's Missouri campaign, has spent the past couple of months putting together a new website, USAservice.org, designed to capitalize on Obama's call for Americans to volunteer in the days before the Inauguration. Even James Dobson's conservative Focus on the Family, no friend of Obama's campaign, is encouraging members to participate...
...year, rivaling what we spent on Medicare, and partly because our liabilities could crush us if foreign investors sour on Treasury bonds. That's why Obama's advisers want to focus on temporary initiatives that won't drown us in red ink by creating long-term obligations, which they call tails. It would be nice to give cash-strapped transit agencies enough money to reduce fares for a year, but what happens when the year is over? Similarly, some liberals have proposed temporary increases in Social Security benefits, but that kind of generosity tends to become permanent...
...will be change. Obama campaigned for it and won a mandate to pursue it. If he can make sure every initiative promotes his top priorities - reducing our dependence on fossil fuels, investing in our future competitiveness and rebalancing our economic playing field in a way Joe the Plumber would call spreading the wealth - the stimulus can succeed even if it fails to stimulate...