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Friday, February 6

A corrective: Will American foreign policy change under Obama?

by DavidAkin on Fri 06 Feb 2009 07:08 PM EST

Sanger, the chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times, has a new book out and in it, he suggests that we all take a pill if we think CHANGE is coming so far as America's stance towards the world ...... “The world he is inheriting from Bush will constrain his choices more than he has acknowledged, and certainly more than the throngs of supporters believed as they waved their signs proclaiming CHANGE,” Sanger writes, with justifiable asperity.

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Help: Looking for some freeware Mac OSX audio recording software

by DavidAkin on Fri 06 Feb 2009 10:21 AM EST

Here's what I'm looking for in this little package:

Records "line-in" audio on Mac Intel machines
Has a "timer" while recording
Records in some compressed format (.mp3 preferably but .wav or .ogg)
Is free

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Gobsmackingly bad job data this morning

by DavidAkin on Fri 06 Feb 2009 07:25 AM EST

Employment fell by 129,000 in January (-0.8%), almost all in full time, pushing the unemployment rate up 0.6 percentage points to 7.2%. This drop in employment exceeds any monthly decline during the previous economic downturns of the 1980s and 1990s.

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