McElvaine literally wrote the book on the Great Depression. Here the professor draws parallels between 1929 and our present economic dilemma.

From Huffingtonpost.com, 28 October 2008 post, by Robert S. McElvaine.:
…We are beyond discussions of whether we are in a recession; the antecedent of “it” in the above question is “Depression,” and there are enough parallels between then and now to induce sleeplessness in many of us…

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While people focus on a couple of terrible days in 1929, in fact the market collapse leading into the Depression was a long downward slide, punctuated by days of drastic drops and occasional gains–much like what has been going on for the last six weeks, including yesterday’s huge gain.

As the Crash on this date in 1929 was a lagging indicator for a severe economic downturn that was already underway, the current Grizzly Bear Market is a lagging indicator for an economy that was already in serious decline before Wall Street noticed…

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George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends. Seriously…

From The Raw Story, 28 November 2008 post, by way of Agence France-Presse:

WASHINGTON (AFP) — George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of Iraqis and Afghans, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends.

“I’d like to be a president (known) as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,” Bush said in excerpts of a recent interview released by the White House Friday.

“I would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process. I came to Washington with a set of values, and I’m leaving with the same set of values.”…

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More could be lost

From The Raw Story, 24 November 2008 post, by Nick Juliano:

The plans to retain and store records from George W. Bush’s eight years in office is lacking in specifics and raises the possibility that millions of missing White House e-mails will be lost permanently, a independent government watchdog warned Monday.[snip]

…”The American people are at risk of losing the Bush administration’s electronic records,” warned Anne Weismann, CREW’s top lawyer. “It is appalling that less than two months before the administration ends, the agency entrusted with preserving our nation’s historical records still has very little information about what records it will be receiving. True to form, the White House is keeping both NARA and the public in the dark up to the very end.”…

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See also:

Cheney secrecy laying groundwork for ‘history heist?’

Should we feel sorry for the Republicans?

Stephen dismantles right wing efforts to “rewrite history” in an effort to portray the GOP as hapless victims of bully Democrats.

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Frost explains his methodology of breaking Richard Nixon down over a 12-day period.

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From Huffingtonpost.com, 17 November 2008:

Nobel laureate Paul Krugman was around to remind Will of some history — that the economy improved after the New Deal, and that it was FDR’s attempt to balance the budget in 1937 (a move favored now by many conservatives) that then cut into that progress.
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India’s space program lands probe on Earth’s proper satellite

Finally, someone else went up there.  Best of all, India made the trip for around $80 million:  a relative bargain.  This news, in my opinion, marks the beginning of a new space-race.

It is now quite official that the US & Russia have been surpassed in lunar exploration.  Since the Moon is the most logical place to launch missions further into our solar system, and eventually into deep space, it is imperative that the Moon be elevated among NASA’s present priorities.

For now, however, congratulations to India on their extra planetary accomplishment.

From Yahoo.com, 11 November 2008 post by, Naseeb Chand:

…An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organization announced, in a milestone for the country’s 45-year-old space program…[snip]

…Scientists monitoring the probe cheered as ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair announced the success of the country’s first lunar mission, which began on October 22 when a rocket transported Chandrayaan-1 into space.

The probe, carrying three instruments and with the Indian flag painted on its outer panes, settled in a crater in the moon’s south pole…

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How the economic crisis can help Obama redefine the Democrats.

From the The New Yorker, 17 November 2008 post by, George Parker:

…Barack Obama’s decisive defeat of John McCain is the most important victory of a Democratic candidate since 1932. It brings to a close another conservative era, one that rose amid the ashes of the New Deal coalition in the late sixties, consolidated its power with the election of Ronald Reagan, in 1980, and immolated itself during the Presidency of George W. Bush…

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