. . . . . funtroy on q &a. i am somebody who is trying to go beyond the walls to speak to a larger audience. that is a good deal of it. the huffington post and my own web site came about out of some frustration and i am writing columns and submitting themxd all across the country. not one was published. i got one published by the topeka capital journal years ago. i decided to go out and write my own columns on my own website. i knew someone who knew somebody at huffington post. that opportunity has opened up other opportunities. give us an example of what that does for you. it is actually pretty amazing. i have come to learn that many news producers go to the huffington post and i have ended up on radio or television. they would say they ve read what i wrote on huffington post and it is a tremendous value in that regard. xd fourth generation washingtonian? yes. i love it where it says on your web site that you are the nephew of walter. fauntroy. i do that
few days has come the winter fuel allowance, which is paid to everyone over 60, and is higher for the over-80 s. it is one contribution that we can make to help with the heating bills of the poorest in our society, but it is a contribution made to every pensioner and everyone over 60 in our country. i hope that there is now a consensus that that is the right thing to do. john mann. when i was out with the police on a friday night in my area, only 14 police officers were on duty in the division, out of a total complement of 2,380. will the prime minister intervene directly and swiftly to sort out the organizational malaise that nottinghamshire police has become? the home secretary tells me that her majesty s inspectorate of constabulary is looking into nottinghamshire police at the moment, but i have to say that the whole purpose of neighborhood policing, which we have developed over the past two years, is to get more police on the streets. for that, we need to invest in
caller: this year will absolutely go down as a historical year. let s omit the fact that we elected the first african-american president. it will go down with the same ranks of dr. king and the march on washington initially, the initiative march on washington in, what, 1963? so this will definitely be a historical year. all the things that our president has encountered coming into office, i think he has done a remarkable job trying to meet those challenges and bring the country around to some sustainable success this year. so i think this year will absolutely go down as a historical year, given all the context of the things he had to deal with as the first african-american president. thanks for the call. on the republican line we ll listen to greg joining us from union, missouri. greg, are you with us? we ll go on to gilbert joining us from alabama. good morning. caller: i feel that this will notñi only be remembered as a historical year, but i feel this will be the t