second world war

is what Obama said true?

At a time when we're facing the largest homecoming since the Second World War," Obama said of veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, "the true test of our patriotism is whether we will serve our returning heroes as well as they've served us."

Democrats in the Senate held hearings on contracting abuses in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is a woefully under-reported topic in our media. Some of the companies operating in Iraq have a deplorable record of over-charging the government, providing sub-standard and possibly even dangerous services to our soldiers, and abusing Iraqi civilians.

Name a city in Italy. Now name another one. Was one of those two Venice? Right.
Now name a city in Poland. Was it Warsaw? Right.
Stay with me now, one more.

Name a city in Switzerland.

I have been working with a graduate student on a project that is looking into government programs to encourage angel investment that he is conducting for a national angel network group. He sent along an article published last fall in the Economist that said the following:

President Bush continues to embarrass and humiliate us with stupidity like this:

President George W Bush has said that America should have bombed the Nazi death camp Auschwitz during the Second World War.