Ever play a game of Monopoly where you own two properties of the same color and you want to build hotels, but that jerk across the table won't trade you for the third property?
The stock market's tanked. Consumer spending is down. People are getting laid off.
Driving around the tiny, blue-collar suburb of Middletown, Ohio this Thanksgiving, I heard an ad on the radio that sums up this holiday season. The announcer boomed, and I paraphrase:
If you're not one of those people who goes holiday shopping on Black Friday, I applaud you. You're doing a good thing for society.
When asked to step forward and say a few words at a press conference Monday, four of the six members of president-elect Barack Obama's new national security team could barely clear the microphone.
For at least 30 years, a preacher has stood in the same place in front of the Willard Building, shouting Christian messages to entering and exiting students.
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