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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘EU’

All Aboard – Amtrak Is Full Up

By Denis Campbell • Aug 23rd, 2008 • Category: Business Issues
Now that Joe Biden may live this January in Naval Observatory Circle as Vice President that would free a seat daily on Amtrak’s Northeast corridor. But will it be enough? Amtrak ridership was up 14% in July and because of the high cost of petrol more than 28 million people (up from 25.6 million) will [...]



Perception, Terrorism and Race

By Denis Campbell • Aug 2nd, 2008 • Category: Politics
In America’s heartland, anything that paints Barack Obama as (place your fear mongering adjective here) passes as “God’s honest truth” even when proven a lie. MSNBC reported yesterday, “Gerri Kish, (is) 66-year-old (and) born in Hawaii, read both of Obama’s autobiographies. She has close friends, she said, who still refuse to believe her when she [...]



The Spring, 2008 Irrelevancy Tour

By Denis Campbell • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Features
The George W. and Laura Bush EU farewell tour continued yesterday in the UK. After tea with Her Majesty at Windsor Castle, it was time for a lavish dinner with Gordon Brown at Number 10 Downing Street where the main topic was please, don’t pull your troops out of Iraq before my term ends. Prime [...]