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The end came quietly on Aug. 21 on the letters page of The Washington Post. A reader castigated the newspaper for having written that Sasha Obama was the "youngest" daughter of the president and first lady, rather than their "younger" daughter. In so doing, however, the letter writer called the first couple the "Obama's." This, too, was published, constituting an illiterate proofreading of an illiterate criticism of an illiteracy. Moments later, already severely weakened, English died of shame.

Erica's students wrote letters to the future president for the National Writing Project and this is the result. Great stuff Erica.

"Now that we're aware ChaCha exists, I can assure you that we will begin discussion of a formal policy to prohibit cell phone use in classes," said Gerard O'Sullivan, vice president for academic affairs at Neumann College in Delaware County, Pa. He said most professors already prohibited cell phone use in class.

throw some of these into wordle and see what you get.

Every inaugural address ever made.

Throw some of these into Wordle and see what you get.

I am dropping this in your mailboxes today.

song/video presidential letter pink

great resource.

Pro-con's page about the election this year. Straightforward.

Campaign contributions by local area. Great stuff to see who is promoting whom for president.

How great is this for understanding who is contributing to the campaigns?

Obama announces the launch of usaservice.org and commits to renewed community involvement on the part of citizens.

President's from Washington through Obama.