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Here’s more stuff on stimulus bill myths
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Will Bunch COUNTERS the chorus of falsehoods.
UPDATE: Bob Shrum also makes a few GOOD POINTS. My favorite part is where he corrects the historical revisionists (like some of our Applesauce regulars) concerning the New Deal:
“(F)rom 1933 through 1937, unemployment declined year on year in what was then the largest period of uninterrupted growth in American history; the Dow-Jones Industrial average rose nearly 400 percent. The New Deal only faltered afterwards, in 1938, as the President prematurely moved toward a balanced budget with less stimulative spending—precisely the course the Romneys, Kyls and Republican ideologues now demand.”
Does killing critters make Palin feel like a man?
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Following Applesauce’s cue, more liberal media turning against Daschle (UPDATE: DASCHLE IS OUT!)
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I said HERE yesterday that Tom Daschle should withdraw from consideration to head up the Department of Health and Human Services.
Today, The New York Times (HERE) and The Nation (HERE) are saying much the same thing.
UPDATE: Daschle is OUT!
UPDATE II: Bob Woodward predicted 10 days ago that the Obama administration would face more “tax problems,” as we see here:
Sounds like some of our Applesauce commenters
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Michael Steele, the new chairman of the Republican National Committee, SAYS government never creates jobs.
Declareth he: “Not in the history of mankind has the government ever created a job.”
This from a guy who used to hold a government job.
He sounds like those Applesauce commenters who don’t realize that any tax imposed by any government at any level amounts to “redistribution of wealth” or that virtually any action taken by any government at any level serves some “social agenda.”
Fifty years ago today: “The day the music died”
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I was a 16-year-old high school junior when I heard the news on that Tuesday morning that Buddy Holly and two other rock singers had been killed in a plane crash in Iowa. They had been touring with the Winter Dance Party, a poster for which is shown above.
Holly was one of my favorites, but I had no sense that day that his legacy — based on a career of barely two years — would endure for half a century and beyond.
Nor could I or anyone else have known that his musical influence would be absorbed by such future legends as the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Paul Simon and others.
There are some good angles on Buddy Holly HERE and HERE and HERE.
POSTSCRIPT: Here are couple of Holly videos, each of which is pretty primitive in its own way:
