Notes from readers
COMMENTARY
Note: Florida Weekly's policy regarding letters to Columnist Roger Williams is to run them whenever the letter writers are smarter than the columnist, or he wishes he had said what they did. Here are only a few that fit that category. Others will appear as space allows. Full Story
Obama the rhetorical magician
George H.W. Bush made a "read my lips" no-new-taxes pledge in his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention in August 1988, and broke it two years later. That seemed a fast turnaround, but President Barack Obama has outpaced him by making, and then signaling his intention to break, a no-new-taxes pledge all in the same address. Full Story
The missing bridge
GUEST OPINION
This past week began with the details of the U.S. government's latest rescue of Citigroup. It progressed — if you want to call it that — with the announcement that the Treasury would be sliding $30 billion more over to AIG, the insurance giant that, when initially bailed out last fall, brought the phrase "too big to fail" into daily use. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
• On March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address, or "fireside chat," broadcast directly from the White House. Roosevelt went on to deliver 30 more of these broadcasts between March 1933 and June 1944. Full Story
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