Dead Florida boy makes good
He finally did it last week, and without much fanfare — dead plus 100, and still walking among us.
That’s quite a trick for anybody and I don’t plan on performing it anytime soon. You die, and then 100 years later somebody writes something about you in Full Story
The pre-emptive tax revolt
Nearly everyone understands that his taxes just went up.
President Barack Obama won’t admit it, although he must suffer from a guilty conscience. He uncorked a rambling, defensive 17-minute-long answer in response to a question at a town-hall meeting about new taxes in the healthcare bill, complaining about a “whole lot of misinformation” without citing any. Full Story
Time to stand up to Wall Street
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell met with two dozen top Wall Street executives recently and got his marching orders: Just say “no” to any new regulations designed to prevent another Great Recession, the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
. On April 29, 1986,
in a game against the Seattle Mariners at Fenway Park, Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox becomes the first pitcher in Major League Baseball to strike out 20 batters in a nine-inning game. Ten years later, Clemens repeated the feat, the only player in baseball history to do so. Full Story
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