It is Read an E-Book Week from March 7 to 13. To celebrate this year’s promotion of e-reading, I will be offering all of my e-books for 50% off of their original price. Enter the code RAE50 at checkout to redeem your discount. On top of that, people that tweet about this article (linking to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Election 2008'
Celebrate Read an E-Book Week with 50% Discount
March 7th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Books · Election 2008 · General · Politics
Now Sold at Barnes & Noble
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments
As an author, you want to reach as large of an audience as possible. That’s why I’ve been working to get my e-books sold on more than just Amazon.com and Smashwords. After a relatively long wait, all four of my works are now available for purchase on Barnes & Noble’s website. They have also been [...]
Tags: Books · Election 2008 · General · Politics
The Stimulus Saved the Economy
February 19th, 2010 · No Comments
The Obama administration has been building up its contention that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the stimulus, saved the economy from economic depression. The numbers lay this out clearly. During the last months of the Bush administration, the economy was shedding 800,000 jobs a month. After the stimulus passed and began [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Election 2010 · Politics
President Obama Meets with Republicans for Q&A
February 1st, 2010 · No Comments
President Obama went full steam into the lion’s den on Friday as he joined Republicans at their annual retreat in Baltimore, Maryland. While he gave a speech that sounded similar themes to his State of the Union, such as a shared burden on solving America’s problems, he also took questions from House Republicans. It was [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Election 2010 · Election 2012 · General · Politics
We Want Our Money Back
January 14th, 2010 · No Comments
In the fall of 2008, the financial system collapsed in a way that forced the federal government to bailout major banks on Wall Street. The program, started under the Bush administration, was known as TARP. Congress authorized the Treasury Department to spend $700 billion of taxpayer money to stabilize the system in the hope that [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Election 2010 · Politics
What has the GOP done for America?
January 7th, 2010 · No Comments
There has been a lot of hoopla over the “socialist” agenda of the Obama administration. But the same critics of the administration that is actively trying to repair the country after the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression don’t have any ideas of their own. In fact, they can’t even point to any of [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Election 2010 · Politics
GOP Becoming Party of Crazies
December 11th, 2009 · No Comments
The Republican Party is moving far to the right, as was expected following the exit of independent voters in 2006 and 2008. The Tea Party wing of the party is clearly winning out. Two polls confirm the radical thinking of the few remaining members. The polling firm PPP asked respondents whether Barack Obama won last [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Election 2010 · Politics
Will GOP Oppose Everything Obama Does?
September 4th, 2009 · No Comments
The latest uproar across the country and on cable news is that President Obama will be delivering an address to schoolchildren encouraging them to make good grades, stay in school and do their homework. Seems innocent enough, right? Conservative talk shows and Republican politicians won’t have any of it. They claim that the president of [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Election 2010 · General · Politics
The Prop 8 Decision – Moving Forward
May 26th, 2009 · No Comments
As many of you have undoubtedly heard, the California Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Proposition 8. This divisive and unconstitutional act by the voters of California should not go without notice. Voters in the state (along with in many other states) have decided that they are going to put our rights as citizens [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Election 2010 · Election 2012 · General
GOP Turn to Dirty Tactics in Michigan and Ohio
September 16th, 2008 · No Comments
The Republican Party is engaging in voter suppression in the swing states of Michigan and Ohio, as reported by two prominent newspapers. The first incident occurred in Ohio and was reported last week by the Cincinnati Inquirer:
About one-third of the absentee ballot applications received at the Hamilton County Board of Elections have been ruled invalid [...]
Tags: Election 2008 · Politics