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Pop Politico: “Trust”

Ted Asregadoo February 3, 2009 6

The “hit the ground running” strategy the Obama Administration has adhered to since the inauguration has an unfortunate side effect:  It’s making people impatient for positive change in the economy, the war in Iraq,

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Pop Politico: “Crisis Politics”

Ted Asregadoo September 23, 2008 19

Between the Devil and the deep blue sea. Those are our options in dealing with this financial mess — or so it seems if you’ve been following events since the initial government bailout of

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Pop Politico: “Swing! Swing! Swing!”

Ted Asregadoo September 9, 2008 26

The current breathless “Sarah Palin Watch” going on in the mainstream and not-so-mainstream media is one of those political phenomena where the accuracy of her claims doesn’t really matter to those outside the chattering

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Pop Politico: “Greetings from Economy Class”

Ted Asregadoo August 12, 2008 8

The Bureau of Labor Statistics for July states that 5.7% of Americans are unemployed. Percentages are sometimes difficult to visualize, so how about this number: 8.8 million people are officially out of work. The

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