Month: August 2008

2 posts

August 31, 2008· Soundtrack Of Our Lives· 9 mins read

The Soundtrack Of Our Lives

Every Sunday, The Soundtrack of Our Lives looks back at some of the music that was popular, and the performers who were influential, around the time Richard Nixon was elected President. ODETTA At the March on Washington in 1963, one of the artists who performed for the crowd before Dr. King spoke was Odetta. She…

August 21, 2008· China, Democratic Party· 2 mins read

Falling Chinese Infrastructure

Yao Ming and earthquake survivor and hero Lin Hao, 9 Hugh Hewitt’s criticism of this comment by Sen. Obama is on the mark: Everybody’s watching what’s going on in Beijing right now with the Olympics. Think about the amount of money that China has spent on infrastructure. Their ports, their train systems, their airports are…