I don’t use a credit card, because shhhhh…I have bad credit. At this point I can get about $200 on a card, so why even bother. I’m in the minority though, as most Americans (80% of households) flash their plastic to pay for the majority of stuff.
Today, Obama will be meeting with bigwigs of the [...]

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What an ambitious, well-written speech.  Quite a few high points: obviously Bam closed on a strong note, “We are not quitters,” but my favorite passage had to be this one:
“But I also know that in a time of crisis, we cannot afford to govern out of anger, or yield to the politics of the moment. My job - our [...]

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File this one under Opportunity Lost.  With all the pain that’s out there right now over the economy, with unemployment numbers rising by the hour, Congress should have said “no” to voting themselves a pay increase this year and at least tried to put something real behind all their rhetoric of “shared sacrifice.”
Instead we get this:
A crumbling [...]

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Bob Dylan, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, Miles Davis, Q-Tip, John Coltrane, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Q-Tip, Sheryl Crow, Ludacris, Charlie Parker…all get some play on Barack Obama’s iPod.
The Guardian previews a story coming out this Friday in Rolling Stone Magazine, in which the the top Democrat talks about his musical preferences.
Obama admits to having “pretty [...]

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