I have drawn the parallel before, and it holds more strongly today than ever, to the situation with the Jacksonian Democrats of 1850 and their opposition party, the Whigs. The great conflict of the day was, of course, slavery. The Democrats were willing to accomodate slavery, even allowing new slave states to enter the union so long as every other new state was free, to keep the "balance" the same. A powerful movement... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gwhit715) http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/912 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 10:22:44 GMT http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/897/t/Rightwing-Partisanship.html feeds@yuku.com (gwhit715) http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/897 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:16:21 GMT http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/851/t/My-2006-Election-Prediction.html

And I am not sure that we have yet paid quite a high enough price, that we have yet crashed... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gwhit715) http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/851 Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:43:38 GMT http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/491/t/WWIII-.html
The rest of the world will not forget that our military aid of over $3 billion per year is paying for all of this, and we will suffer along with... ]]> feeds@yuku.com (gwhit715) http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/491 Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:20:53 GMT http://cafemochalatte2.yuku.com/topic/454/t/The-Insanity-of-American-Healthcare.html I am unfortunately familiar with all of the financing stunts that one can pull off in this life and survive ... and a larger and larger percentage of our population is, too. As wages enter their second decade of stagnation and as health-insurance costs continue their second decade of double-digit increases, virtually every family has TWO full-time breadwinners and most are also holding second jobs.