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...rolls into the 21st century, the mail system designed by Benjamin Franklin 225 years ago is struggling to survive in a George Jetson universe. In the past few years, the U.S. Postal Service has launched a blizzard of new services--stamps over the Internet, electronic bill payment and a service that prints and mails electronic documents. Yet revenues depleted by alternative communications (e-mail, electronic banking), combined with rising fuel and operating costs, have led this year to a daunting $350 million loss...
...George Jones? There's a case to be made that it's he, not Sinatra, Franklin, Holliday or any of those other pretenders, who is American popular music's premier talent. Matt Diebel explains here; below is another exhibit in the Case for George Jones...
...have to be smart to be a good liar, and Democrats like to lie in a visionary sort of way. The founding visionary of the modern Democratic Party, Franklin Roosevelt, was one of its most artful and charming shavers of the truth. There were giants on the earth in those days. Lyndon Johnson's mendacities achieved an infuriating magnificence, like King Lear playing three-card monte on the heath...
Consider the great Democratic lies. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson was elected on a promise not to involve America in the European war. In 1940, Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a promise not to involve America in the European war. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson was elected on a promise not to involve America further in an Asian war that it was, he said, the job of Asian boys to fight. (You remember that Goldwater in that contest was the wild man warmonger...
Yale defeated the men's team 23-36 on Friday afternoon at Boston's Franklin Park. The victory for Yale garnered the bulldogs the Main Memorial Trophy...