Obama’s going to restrict arms possession regulations for la
December 28, 2008
Almost immediately after Obama won the 2008 presidential election on the first Saturday of November, many licensed retail weapons dealers started to experience surge in sales of guns to private individuals across the United States
Voting Begins in Ghana’s Presidential Runoff Election (Update1) (Bloomberg)
December 28, 2008
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) — Ghanaians began voting today in a presidential runoff election that will determine who gets to spend the revenue from recent oil discoveries.
Flood top local story in unusually newsy 2008 (The Gazette)
December 28, 2008
Normally, in a presidential election year, the Iowa caucuses are voted the year’s top story.But in Eastern Iowa, in 2008, the dramatic victory of Barack Obama in Iowa’s Democratic presidential caucuses and#8212; a victory that sent him on the road to the White House and#8212; came in fifth in balloting by Gazette readers and by Gazette staffers. This was the year of historic, record floods …
TV 2008 offered suprising assortment of highs, lows (The Indiana Gazette)
December 28, 2008
A strike. An election. A tragic death. Ratings plummeting and then skyrocketing in unexpected ways. Riveting Olympics stories. Stunning Emmy wins. A lot happened on television in 2008, and not much of it was ordinary or predictable.
In 2008, pop goes to pieces (Baltimore Sun)
December 28, 2008
Styles shift, barriers blur, audiences fragment and artists take chances T hroughout 2008, as America was transfixed by a historical and climactic presidential election and a scary economic meltdown, pop music became blurry.
Obama led first billion-dollar race (Miami Herald)
December 28, 2008
executive director Center for Responsive Politics Barack Obama surpassed all other presidential rivals in a record-setting 2008 U.S. election campaign that generated $1.7 billion in spending by candidates.
Voting starts in Ghana’s presidential runoff (Las Vegas Sun)
December 28, 2008
Sun, Dec 28, 2008 (12:21 a.m.) Ghanaians returned to the polls Sunday for a presidential runoff vote in a race that has become a referendum on whether the country’s stunning growth of the past eight years has trickled down to ordinary people.
The South Bay’s Top 10 stories of 2008 (Daily Breeze)
December 28, 2008
From a marathon presidential election to a faltering economy, 2008 proved to be a year rife with important news.
FRich: You’re Likeable Enough, Gay People
December 28, 2008
You’re Likable Enough, Gay People FRANK RICH December 27, 2008 IN his first press conference after his re-election in 2004, President Bush memorably declared, “I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.” We all know how that turned out. Barry Blitt Barack Obama has little in common with George W. Bush, thank God, his obsessive workouts and message control notwithstanding. At a time when very few Americans feel very good about
2008 race first to top $1 billion (Deseret Morning News)
December 28, 2008
Barack Obama surpassed all other presidential rivals in a record-setting 2008 U.S. election campaign that generated $1.7 billion in spending by candidates.
