The President appears to be doing a victory lap of sorts from the Health Care Summit. Kicking off his weekly message with a congratulatory message to the Winter Olympians, Obama raises their accomplishments as examples for the Congress: …if we want to compete on the world stage as well as we’ve competed in the world’s [...]
After the Health Care Summit, President Obama had one more item on his plate: the presentation of the National Medals of the Arts and Humanities at the White House. The recipients were selected in 2009 and received their medals yesterday (February 25). This ceremony was postponed due to the shooting at Fort Hunt. The National [...]
The Health Care Summit at Blair House (across from the White House) is now in session. I’m listening on C-Span Radio. The WH video feed has a 2-3 second delay. C-Span on-line is 2-3 seconds ahead of the their radio feed. :) Since I have work to do at the desktop, I’ll take the audio. [...]
The Hummer has been banished to Retro-World. And the kingdom rejoiced. Government supported General Motors is shelving the Hummer after a failure to land a sale with heavy equipment maker Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machines Co. in China. What does China know that we don’t? Hummer sales reached their peak in 2003 with over 30,000 [...]
What will Virginia be without the arts and humanities? Both the Virginia Commission on the Arts and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities have been put on the chopping block by the state’s Appropriations Committee of the House of Delegates. THE ARTS CALL TO ACTION YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION NEEDED Actions by VA Advocates Can Make [...]
