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We're electing Obama today. ZZZZZZ
It's Electoral College day, in case you somehow missed it.
Eugene Carlson
Eugene Carlson was a print journalist for 25 years, primarily with Dow Jones & Co. He was a founding staffer of The Asian Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong and later worked as a reporter, edito
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The Fed's intervention in AIG: possibly a stroke of genius by the White House
"Make no mistake," as the politicians like to say. They'll be discussing, and debating, the AIG takeover [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/18/business/18insure.html] for the rest of all our lives, and beyond. The past two weeks, beginning with the takeover of Fannie and Freddie, mark a cornerstone in
Politics
A hurricane blows away bad news
Gustav came ashore in Louisiana as a diminished Category 2 hurricane, but it's a fat Category 5 gift to the GOP. Let us count the ways.
Politics
Who loves our presidential election marathon? Norwegians
"I never thought I could get the Norwegian government interested in the Mississippi primary," quips Wegger Chr. Strommen, [http://www.norway.org/Embassy/Skjult+Embassy/WCS_bio.htm] Norway's Ambassador to the U.S. "There isn't one Norwegian in Mississippi."
Elections
Memo to P-I editors and everyone else: This is really big
The morning after the Iowa caucuses changed the American political landscape, the editors at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer chose to lead the home page with Gov. Chris Gregoire's decision to tear down the Alaskan Way Viaduct by 2012. What were they thinking? All politics is local? Not last night. T