Monthly Archives: June, 2008
Obama vs. McCain
The party nominations for the U.S. elections are final. So what does this mean for those of us less interested in faux-pas/what candidates eat and more interested in hard numbers and economics? Drea, from Business Pundit, wrote up a (very general) overview of each candidate’s various policies. For those of you not yet deeply steeped [...]
Current Events
With all the News outlets, Blogs and Editorials around it’s sometimes hard to discern what news you need and don’t need. If you want a place where you can find today’s news stories from multiple sources all in once place, and with links to the original articles, just go to:http://www.currentevents.dumbagent.com/ or click on the Current [...]
Dumb History: The Boston Tea Party
In opposition to the Stamp Act and the Townsend Acts, the American colonists decided to boycott tea from the British East India Company. This allowed merchants such as John Hancock to smuggle tea from Holland without paying taxes. The Crown then decided, in 1773, to do away with any tax on tea and the British [...]
