This video will be featured at the Pre-Inaugural Ball HuffPost is throwing tonight in Washington but I want to give HuffPosters the first look. Check it out -- and check back tonight for up-to-the-minute coverage of our Countdown to a New Era.
In an unprecedented blitz against social awkwardness, Meetup.com and The Huffington Post have decided to hand out half a million name tags to the crowd at inauguration.
I can think of no better way to celebrate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. than to come together and make a real difference in the lives of others.
While watching the celebrations in the run up to this Tuesday's inauguration, I was struck by the realization that we are seeing an America George Bush and Dick Cheney did not want us to see.
Get involved, check. Go to Michigan, check. See an Oscar de la Renta dress in a magazine and buy it thinking if Obama is elected that I would try to go to the inaugural and wear the dress, check.
The celebrities who have descended on the town provide a sharp contrast to the old, stodgy (and let's face it, overly white) days of being overrun by the helmet heads of the GOP.
It is one of those rare moments in history when we are being called upon to get involved to effect meaningful and sustainable social change, and not just change our outfit, but also outfit change.
On this national day of service, we honor the skills and passions of volunteers who fuel our nation's democracy, strengthen our civic institutions and unite our communities.
While his words may be invoking Lincoln a lot this week, Obama's style, in pulling off the most expensive inauguration in American history as thousands are losing their jobs, is straight from the Gipper's playbook.
No reform is possible if we keep the present health system -- America now spends 16 percent of our GDP on health, and the number of uninsured and under insured rises every year, in tandem with the costs.
I owe Norman Lear for helping me shed some of the more severe and less humanistic parts of my approach to DC and what we are all trying to achieve here.
The 24-7 Obamamania is upon us and, you'd do well to check very different and generally sober looks at the sure-to-be-self-assured first lady, Michelle Obama.
At the moment it's even-money that George Bush will pardon Scooter Libby -- or about 6 to 5, to be precise, based on wagers placed on internet bookmaking sites like Intrade.
I'm not big on crowds -- I'm a contrarian. When everyone zigs I can't help but zag, but this party I absolutely could not miss.
Bush is the ex-boyfriend we've finally gotten out of our life only to discover he left an unpleasant souvenir, like an STD. A particularly nasty strain too, in the form of new HHS regulations.
Through this visible Inaugural platform, President-elect Obama and Dr. Rick Warren have opportunity together to move beyond sectarian interest to national interest.
Just days before Obama's inauguration, it's hard not to equate the landing and rescue of US Air Flight 1549 on the Hudson River to the state of American politics.
This moment sets in motion a process that allows ultimate authority to shift from one man to another without a shot being fired, a person being imprisoned or a life being lost.
The weight of a torch finally passing -- my generation is now being called upon show some measure of the sort internal strength that I pray has not skipped a generation. Let this be our inauguration day too.
