$17,316 Total value of personal gifts to President Bush last year, including a $5,474 bicycle$39,722 Value of gifts to Vice President Cheney, including a $6,125 Colt revolver
40,000 Average number of people on the official Medicare and Medicaid websites at any moment on May 15, the last day to enroll in the government’s drug-benefit plan
89% [...]
-0.4% U.S. personal-savings rate in 2005, the first time since 1933 that the average American’s spending has exceeded disposable income$9,312 Estimated average credit-card debt per U.S. card-holding household in 2005
726 Number of gay and lesbian members of the military discharged in 2005 for breaching the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy
$200 million Estimated amount the U.S. [...]
25% Drop in the number of prosecutions in which the FBI was the lead investigator, from 2001 to ‘05
300% Increase in the number of FBI-led prosecutions regarding national security or terrorism in the same period.
3 ft. Height that homes in New Orleans will have to be raised to qualify for flood insurance and federal rebuilding [...]
I Have A Dream
delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.
I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation [...]