Sarah Reagan vies for control of the Republican Party Thanks to the legacy of the failed Bush presidency and the electoral landslide it produced for the Democrats, the Republicans are convening in Miami today to figure out wtf to do next. No doubt returning to the glory days of the Reagan Administration will be a major theme. But not even …
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VcvmoGjGNc[/youtube] Joseph A. Violante: We’ve heard a good deal recently about the 18 percent of men and women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who are at risk for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or depression, according to an authoritative RAND Corporation study. Another 19 percent are estimated of having experienced traumatic brain injury (TBI) caused by improvised explosive devices that “rattle” …
Arianna Huffington writes in her blog today: On or about December 1910,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “human character changed.” We can be much more specific: “On November 4, 2008, just after 11 pm Eastern, America changed” (human character remains rather intransigent). The change was driven by two things: our country’s remarkable capacity for regeneration, and Barack Obama’s remarkable ability to tap …
Republicans whiners like David Frum are already complaining that Obama is “muscling his way into power.” If he had anything to do with the choice of the rug in the Oval Office seen in the picture below published by CNN , it’s definitely alright with us. Obama and Bush confer over the Banner of Michael *Compare to the Urantian Sojourn …
“My wife is going to kill me” Joe Scarborough, the conservative host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, was describing Barack Obama‘s new Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel‘s bedside manor this morning and shocked his fellow bobble heads by describing him as routinely flipping people off and saying “Fuck you.” Oops. No doubt the Bushies will delight in handing the commies at …
GRAND CAYMAN — President-elect Barack Obama met with several impressive new cabinet members today to discuss a plan of action to solve the many problems facing his new administration, the United States, and the world. The meeting was held on a private beach on Grand Cayman Island, which Obama noted was symbolic of the “sea change” that was coming. The …
• Ebony And Ivory Live Together In Perfect Harmony Side By Side On My Piano Keyboard, Oh Lord, Why Don’t We? —Paul McCartney It strikes me as an unfortunate bit of necessary shorthand that Barack Obama has been thought of almost exclusively as a “black” man. Barack is biracial. He’s not the first “black president.” He’s the first “black and …
