20th century

by Debie Cox

My Google-fu is weak and my memory is weaker. I’ve decided now that I just need to give in and ask folks out in the world to give me a bit of a hand. Hopefully one of my well-read friends will be able to swoop in and say “this is what you’ve been looking for!” and my problems will be over.

Here’s the deal.

Via the Wall Street Journal:

The onset of the 2008 election cycle promted me to jot down my personal experiences and advice in running a local campaign. These lessons will be short and easy to read and understand. Without further ado...

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Said former mayor of Bogotá, Colombia, Enrique Penalos recently in the New York Times:

April 2008 was the coolest April in 11 years, reports the NOAA: "The average temperature in April 2008 was 51.0 F. This was -1.0 F cooler than the 1901-2000 (20th century) average, the 29th coolest April in 114 years."

I blame global warming.

Blake Fontenay traces the decline and the prospects for the future of the Ford family political dynasty:

Marcus Pohlmann, a political science professor at Rhodes College, questions whether the Ford family ever was a “political machine” in the strictest sense.

"Who would believe that tens of thousands of working families in this, the world's biggest economy, would have to rely on food handouts once meant only for the most unfortunate in society?"

Those who are trying to provide the food handouts to the folks on the street, that's who....

As state courts are faced with the question of same-sex marriages, the State Supreme Court in California narrowed the question to what is the definition of marriage during arguments yesterday.

Bob Tuke, Tennessee Political Director for Obama for President, former Tennessee Democratic Chairman and likely candidate for U.S. Senate called for the Tennessee Republican Party “to join the rest of us in, if not the 21st Century, at least the 20th Century.”