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President Barack Obama's much-ballyhooed "beer summit" came and went at the White House Thursday where the two sides of what has become a bitter…
July 31, 2009 / 6 Comments / Read More
"Hey, we're makin' history here, we're makin' real history here," said a legislator talking about Congress and inadvertently echoing Dustin Hoffman's "I'm walkin' here, I'm walkin' here" line in the…
July 31, 2009 / 11 Comments / Read More
The Framers of the Constitution were relaxed -- many Republicans might say careless -- in laying out the qualifications to hold office in their new government.
Members of the…
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Will Barack Obama ever be free of conspiracy theories? During the presidential campaign, he was bedeviled by false rumors that he was a "secret" Muslim.
Now fringe elements charge…
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Some people just cannot wait for dog killer Michael Vick to return to professional football. The only thing this inter-species sadist deserves is universal derision.
Let's re-cap exactly why…
July 31, 2009 / 14 Comments / Read More
It isn't often that those of us struggling to be coherent in our chosen profession praise the work of our competitors, but the other day E.J. Dionne of The Washington…
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Transparency, said President Barack Obama in a memo not long after he took the oath of office, was going to be a "touchstone" of his administration. His advisors then gathered…
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Hope and jobs are in short supply in Ohio eight months after President Barack Obama won the recession-battered state in the 2008 election with promises of a better future.
July 30, 2009 / 5 Comments / Read More
President Barack Obama's struggling Presidency took another hit as new polls show more and more Americans now feel his health care reform proposals are…
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President Barack Obama hosts a white police officer and an eminent black scholar at the White House on Thursday, hoping in the process to quell a heated national furor over…
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