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The use of the word "gaffe" is getting on my last nerve. "Journalists" are paid to say what their words mean, or depending on the philosophic outlook, to lie. Using the word "gaffe" by "journalists" who consider themselves on the other side of center from the speaker, a misspeak is sometimes characterized as a "gaffe," and usually an embarassing gaffe. When the speaker is on the same side of center as the journalist, it is never a gaffe, but simply "misspeaking." When one misspeaks it is obvious, i.e. Obama arrives in Kansas and says it's good to be back in...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- When President Barack Obama visits Charlotte, N.C., Friday to tour Celgard, a battery-parts maker that has received $49 million in stimulus money, he's sure to tout how the government money will put people to work. The government says that stimulus spending created up to 2.1 million jobs as of Dec. 31, including 62,000 in North Carolina. Celgard got its stimulus grant to help with expanding its Charlotte plant and building a new one in Concord, N.C., and has said the expansions will create about 300 local jobs. Celgard's claims about job creation will play out over the...