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Current Recession Not (Yet) As Bad As 1982
2 comments on Current Recession Not (Yet) As Bad As 1982After repeatedly invoking the specter of the Great Depression to frighten the public into supporting the “stimulus” bill, the Obama administration has moderated its rhetoric. Professor Mark J. Perry of the University of Michigan offers…
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Seaman Recruit Harry Kirk Petersen, United States Navy
The other day I sat in a restaurant and watched my son become a man. Harry recently bailed out of college. He was in the third year of a five-year construction management program at Drexel…
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Step Aside, NY Times — Patch Is Bringing Google Zillions to Hyperlocal Maplewood
I got interested in the hyperlocal Maplewood BlogolopolisTM because the mighty New York Times was wading into the fray (and I happen to know the local Times reporter). But it turns out the Times is…
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Looks Like A.T.I.N. Is Going Hyperlocal For A Little While
I’m going to have a followup post later today about Patch.com and (I hope) the Maplewoodian, but in the meantime I want to call attention to Alan Wolk’s fact-filled post about the NYT launch. I…
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Maplewood NJ, Pop. 23,000, Now Has
FourFIVE Competing Local Websites(Don’t miss my followup post about the true 800-pound gorilla of the story. Also, I tweaked this post’s headline and added a substantive Update at the end.) Suddenly the Maplewood hyperlocal web neighborhood is crowded.…
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Mr. Obama’s War: I Told You So
President Bush salutes in front of General David Petraeus and Admiral William Fallon, September 2007, in Iraq President Obama today announced an Iraq withdrawal plan that George Bush would be proud to call his own.…
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How NOT To Talk About Race
This week brings two reminders of the fact that it is possible to make statements that are both a) intellectually defensible, and b) really, really stupid. Reasonable people can disagree about whether Americans focus too…