In its battle against the financial crisis, the U.S. government has extended its full faith and credit to an ever-growing swath of the private sector: first homeowners, then banks, now car companies. Soon, President-elect Obama will put the government credit card to work with a massive fiscal boost for the economy. Can the U.S. pay the money back?
You never know who you might find at Ben’s Chili Bowl, the venerable diner in Washington’s U Street district. Even a president-elect.
At first glance, the town of Edwardsville, Ala., with a population of 194 people, might raise a few eyebrows with its bid to receive 5 million from the economic stimulus package being assembled by Barack Obama and lawmakers in Congress.
A group of engineers today proposed a plan called Jupiter Direct to Obama advisors. The proposal would replace NASA’s current plans for the Ares rocket. The engineers claim that the new plan would get astronauts to the ISS in less time, and for less money.
FleaPlus writes “Popular Mechanics reports that a ‘renegade’ group including NASA engineers has met with President-Elect Obama’s space transition team to present information on the DIRECT architecture for launching NASA missions after the Space Shuttle is retired. According to the group, DIRECT’s Jupiter launch system will be safer, less expensive, better-performing, and be ready sooner than the Ares launch system NASA is currently developing, while still providing jobs for much of the existing shuttle workforce. Meanwhile, it’s expected that current NASA head and adamant Ares supporter Michael Griffin will be replaced by a new NASA administrator.”
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President-elect Barack Obama says he still thinks there needs to be a playoff system for determining the country’s college football champion.
When Barack Obama takes office on January 20th, he’ll not only be the most powerful man in the world, but also the most powerful gamer.
Conservatives are at it again. Obama just announced his bold American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan to put our economy back on the right track and rebuild America from the ground up, and they are already attacking, obstructing, and spreading lies. We can’t sit back while history repeats itself. To fight back, here is the mythbusting you need.
Everybody’s expending a lot of air guessing at what Obama’s first 100 days will be like. But only Mad Magazine has the guts to speculate on his first 100 minutes, in this exclusive preview for Indecision.
Conservative documentary filmmaker John Ziegler is determined to prove that Barack Obama won the 2008 election because of media bias, and that “the media assassination of [Sarah Palin], her character and family, was one of the greatest public injustices of our time.” Ziegler has now released clips of a January 5 interview with Palin.
