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While Obama's staff being the most diverse ever is all fine and good, this holiday season there's only one area in which I really want to see some diversity from Obama: I want him to bring a black Santa around for his two lovely daughters.
The 'No-Attacks' mythology -- crediting Bush for keeping us safe since 9/11 -- is all part of a huge lie. And the lie is rapidly becoming reality thanks to various Bush apologists and dead-enders.
In the scheme of great challenges faces the incoming Obama administration, an internal threat to Canada's democracy just ain't on anyone's priority list.
It's time to hold another pity party for poor , sad Jen. She claims she just can't get a fair shake in the press.
Of all the candidates being vetted by the Obama transition team for the Secretary of the Interior, none can match the unique qualifications of Arizona Congressman Raul Grijalva.
Now that his days of swaggering around Foggy Bottom are becoming sepia tinted and wistful, W's softening a bit, letting his imperial guard down and the truth burble from his lips like the last tangy drops of a Pisco Sour.
Any explosion anywhere now abets the extraordinary 9/11 iconography, underpinning the politics of fear that has been the leitmotif of the Bush presidency.
Nobody on cable news seems to think that consumers will have any problem buying cars from a company that has filed for bankruptcy.
Big Coal has spent more than Tobacco did making us think cigarettes were ok, to make us believe the "Saudi Arabia of coal" - the United States - will lead a clean, prosperous future.
TV writers have begun looking at programming schedules and wondering why those leading America increasingly look more representative of the country's diversity than the media informing and entertaining it.
Commentators, from the left and right, who are pushing President-elect Obama to lay out "grand strategies," "new global visions," or to set detailed priorities and timetables, are dead wrong.
Some people seem to just now be waking up to the fact that Obama never had a comprehensive plan to fully end the occupation. Obama never defined "ending the war" as removing all U.S. forces from Iraq.
What was completely predictable, if thoroughly heavy-handed, was the way the visual media shaped "The Return Of The Auto Executives" into a classic morality play.
The "daily" part of newspaper journalism has become a trap. It's too slow for today's readers, not slow enough for good in-depth journalism. Get rid of "daily" obligations and focus on immediacy.
To cut the rich a break while so many others struggle to support and educate their families is neither moral nor pragmatic.
What do you get a President-elect for the holidays who will soon have the weight of the world on his shoulders? Advice books, energy food, sports gear? It's a predicament.
Our troops are missing Christmases, birthdays, and wedding anniversaries -- often back to back. The marathon deployment cycle is adding greater stress to already strained families.
The National Bureau of Economic Research has reached the irrefutable conclusion...er, the results of one of their studies is indicative of...and they are quite certain of its validity...that, yes, we are...in a recession.
