Detroit Automakers A Relic Of The Past
Celebrity Fires Consume the Media
To Battle Stations
Failure To Blow Election Stuns Democratic Party Faithful Mourn End To Losing Tradition
Looking Past Palin
The Earth’s Not Flat and It’s Not Warming
A Force For Good -- But Not At State
Palin Saboteurs Want to Kill Her Career Now
As GM Goes, So Goes The GOP
A Kinder Gentler DC
Quantum Of Nonsense
Obama's School Choice
And They're Off
They Shilled For Obama
The Tricky Obamas-Clintons Relationship
Leaving Home
From Victim To Victor In Black America
They Gave All, For . . . This?
'No' To Obama'S Experimental Government
The Same Old Change
New Books
Palin's Next Career Move
Leaders Duck And Hide While Wall Street Steals From Us
Can Obama Pull Off A Historic Presidential Double Play?
A Bridge We Need
Trusting Paulson
The Secret Of Happiness
Hope And Vision
'Keynsian Moment' Needed To Fight 'Great Recession'
A Lemon Of A Bailout
For Obama, A Game Of High-Stakes Fiscal Poker
No One Should Be Railin' Or Bailin' On Palin
Believing Your Own ... Um, Propaganda
Post-Election Potpourri
The Insane Rage Of The Same-Sex Marriage Mob
Sarah Palin Is Not The Future Of The GOP
Walking On Sunshine
Hillary Appointment: The Audacity Of Broken Promises
GOP Needs Night Of The Long Knives
Obama's Washington
The New World Financial Order
A Bomb Thrower Vs. Obama Bashers
Let'S Hope Gop Will Give Us SomeThing To Vote For Rather Than Against
Is Gay The New Black?
DiscriminaTion Still Lives
The Truth about Government
The Republican Party is a Grass-Roots Party
Welcome To The Wired White House
Note To Gop: Get Serious About Women Candidates
Revenge Of The Boxes
Cold War Hawks Nesting With Obama
Let Them Eat Spam
Choices Have Consequences -- Unless You're Joe Lieberman
Dean: Dems 'Big Tent' Party Now
Don't Bail Out the Big 3 -- Interview With Dan Ikenson
Business Unusual
Blind Defense of Koran Abrogates Reality
Some Of My Best Friends Are…
In Detroit, Failure's a Done Deal
Evil Concealed By Money
The Clinton Gamble



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The fair price of a barrel of oil, according to Osama bin Laden in 1998 : $144

Date on which oil reached $144 per barrel : 7/2/08

Rank of this year's economic crisis among the "largest financial shocks since the Great Depression," according to the IMF : 1

Estimated number of FDIC-insured banks currently in danger of failing : 90

Number that failed during the past three years : 3

Percentage change since 2003 in the number of U.S. workers making "hardship withdrawals" from retirement accounts : +61

Death benefits that Lockheed Martin paid its current CEO in March, despite his being alive : $1,000,000

Chance that an American says his or her workplace is a "dictatorship" : 1 in 4

Percentage of Britons and Canadians, respectively, who say the United States is a "force for evil" : 35, 34

Number of John McCain's Vietnamese torturers who have publicly endorsed his candidacy : 1

Rank of McCain among the most frequent guests on Sunday-morning network TV news shows since 1997 : 1

Percentage of primary-season TV ads for McCain and Obama, respectively, that included images of the American flag : 60, 30

Percentage of U.S. Muslims who believe that "you can get ahead with hard work in America" : 71

Percentage of
Americans as a whole who believe this : 64

Chances that an American, asked to estimate what percentage of Americans are black, will guess too high : 3 in 4

Chance that an American believes that the majority of Americans are black : 1 in 11

Chance that a U.S. black believes the country has "gone too far in pushing equal rights" : 1 in 4

Projected amount that same-sex weddings will add to California's economy during the next three years : $684,000,000

Estimated annual sales-tax revenue that California receives each year from medical-marijuana sales : $100,000,000

Number of deaths in Florida last year caused by illegal drugs : 946

Number caused by prescription drugs : 2,002

Portion of U.S. troops in Iraq who are on psychiatric medications : 1/8

Portion of troops in Afghanistan who are : 1/7

Number of full-time correspondents that U.S. TV networks have posted in Afghanistan : 0

Total minutes of network TV coverage devoted to the war in Iraq between January and June 2008 : 300

Total during the same period last year : 1,229

Minimum number of times that journalists and politicians on TV have referred to Barack Obama as "Osama" : 8

Times they have referred to Osama bin Laden as "Obama" : 8

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