Posted on March 3, 2008 by thestateofblog
During a debate last week, both candidates pledged to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement to add protections for U.S. workers and for the environment. But Clinton’s campaign cited a memo about a meeting between a senior Obama economic advisor, Austan Goolsbee, and consulate officials in Chicago reassuring the Canadians not to take Obama’s [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by thestateofblog
So, as you may know, Ike’s Mama is due to have our second child sometime within the next few weeks, and we don’t know the sex of the baby. We always laugh about what will happen if it’s a girl. Picture Big J with a daughter! One of our running debates is whether to allow [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by thestateofblog
“During eight days of programming, students can learn everything from how to achieve a state beyond bliss to the proper application of personal lubricants.
“In 2004, the biennial event won the Collegiate Network’s Campus Outrage Award. Now in its fourth incarnation, Sex Week at Yale 2008 includes a lecture by a VH1 host of “The Pick-Up [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by thestateofblog
Well, I think the American voter is often, often has intuitions which are better than those of their own presidents. That is to say, I think that presidents tend to, during the recent period, tend to have drawn more strength from the voters than the voters from their presidents. As Franklin Adams once [...]
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Posted on March 3, 2008 by thestateofblog
“What a shame, what an irony! The nation of Israel which is founded on the wound and being a victim of holocaust is continuously manifesting as a source of horrible holocaust of present day.Friday, Israel’s deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai promised Gaza would experience a “Shoah,” and today the Israeli Defense Forces made [...]
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