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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News
Russ Baker

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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One Year Later: Gerald Ford Will Always Be President

James Pinkerton | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, President Obama, One Year Later, Obama One Year Later, Obama, Health Care, Global Warming, Barack Obama, Timidity to Govern, Politics News
James Pinkerton

There's been no Rooseveltian realignment for Obama, just Clintonian regression. Perhaps the situation might have been different if he had focused on jobs rather than health care and global warming.

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Mindless Stars and the Glamour of the Gun

Tom Gregory | Posted 11.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Lindsay Lohan, Mlk, Rfk, Fergie, Uzi, Kent State, Sarai Givati, Khloe Kardashian, Gun Violence, Gang Warfare, Hayden Panettiere, Future Heretics, Columbine, Gerald Ford, Vietnam War, Gun Control, Walter Cronkite, Charles Manson, Jfk, Bullets, Guns, Entertainment News
Tom Gregory

Across the pages of leading fashion magazines mindless stars with thin careers are being showcased wearing Future Heretics t-shirts glamorizing guns.

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Ford's Lucky Day Revisited

Geri Spieler | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dublin, Gerald Ford, Judge, Sara-Jane-Moore, Sarah Jane Kahn, West Virginia, Prison, Secret Service, Charleston, St Francis Hotel, Assassination, Attempt, Fbi, New Jersey, San Francisco, Samuel Conti, Politics News
Geri Spieler

Thirty-four years later, the Secret Service is still trying to understand the mind of that 45 year old woman, mother and doctor's wife who aimed and shot at Gerald Ford.

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Weeping for the Kennedys

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: President John F. Kennedy, Ayatollah, Boss Hague, Ronald Reagan, Chappaquiddick, Dick Cheny, Donald Rumsfeld, Teddy Kennedy, Iran, Democrats, Tammany Hall, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Honey Fitz, Senator Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Al Smith, Lyndon Johnson, Nikita Krushchev, Berlin Wall, Jfk, Sam Leibowitz, Bobby Kennedy, Republicans, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

The Kennedys knew how to strive for noble causes, step by step. They would make deals, but only to benefit the best causes.

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Barack Obama: Left-Handed? Right-Handed? Ambidextrous? Ambivalent?

David Finkle | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Harry S. Truman, Left-Handed, Bill Clinton, International Left-Handed Day, Golf, Right-Handed, Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford, Ambidextrous, Professor Stephen Christman, George G. W. Bush, Healthcare Reform, Barack Obama, Martha's Vineyard, Herbert Hoover, Politics News
David Finkle

I suspect the convictions that seem somewhat wobbly now that Obama has attained the nation's highest office would immediately strengthen if he looked his two hands over and committed once and for all to the left one.

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Senator Edward Kennedy Made Human Rights Part of US Foreign Policy

Aryeh Neier | Posted 09.27.2009 | World

Read More: Chile, Augusto Pinochet, Senate, Human Rights, Henry Kissinger, Gerald Ford, Ted Kennedy, World News
Aryeh Neier

Kennedy reacted strongly to reports of the great cruelties that accompanied the coup in which General Augusto Pinochet took power in Chile.

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Senator Ted Kennedy: The Lion In Water

Richard Laermer | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elections, Richard Nixon, Chevy Chase, Politics, Gerald Ford, Chappaquiddick, Massachusetts, United States Senate, Health Care, Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Richard Laermer

Ted Kennedy was undoubtedly the lion of the Senate who lived a long and consistent life as a public servant. Not even political foes can argue that hi...

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Dreams of My Absent Father

Don McNay | Posted 09.18.2009 | Living

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Small Business, Gamblers, Playboy, George W. Bush, President Obama, Newport, Girls Next Door, Reagan, Northern Kentucky, Harvard, George H.W. Bush, Childhood Barriers, Gerald Ford, Covington Ky, Cincinnati, American College, Single Parent, Bill Clinton, Richard Wolffe, Ford, Father's Expectations, Kentucky, Don McNay, Ky, Motivation, Barack Obama, Adoption, Renegade, Structured Settlements, Obama "Dreams of My Father", Vanderbilt University, The American College, Playboy Bunny, Single Mother, Eastern Kentucky University, Million Dollar Round Table, Son of a Son of a Gambler, Personal Finance, Nixon, Living News
Don McNay

When I read the Obama quote about fathers, it made me wonder what side of the equation I fell on. Was I living up to my father's expectations or making up for his mistakes?

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Two Women, Two Potential Assassins Out On the Street

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taking Aim, Murder, Women, Fromme, Sara Jane Moore, Historical, Prison, Gerald Ford, Obama Attacks, Secret Service, Obama, Free, Assassins, Fbi, Obama Secret Service, Assassination, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Geri Spieler

Two women, two potential presidential assassins, are free today, 34 years after they attempted to assassinate Pres. Gerald Ford.

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Women Criminals I have Known

Geri Spieler | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Parole, Randolph Hearst, Court, Secret Service, Fbi, Sharon Tate, Leno Labianca, Murder, Gerald Ford, Rosemary laBianca, Los Feliz, Leslie Van Houten, Sara Jane Moore, Waverly Drive, 1969, Stabbing, Patricia Krenwinkle, Charles Manson, Van Houten, San Francisco, Women's Rights, Living News
Geri Spieler

It seems it is the season for paroling women who attempt to assassinate our presidents and those who commit heinous crimes.

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Renegade and Dreams of My Absent Father

Don McNay | Posted 09.08.2009 | Media

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Al Gore, Dreams of My Father, Obama, Sarah Palin, Reagan, Gambling, Unwed Mothers, Politics, 2008, Richmond Ky, John Edwards, Richard Wolffe, The Making of the President 1960, The Daily Beast, Lexington KY, Bookmaking, Obama Haters, Covington Catholic High School, Richard Wolffe Renegade, Barack Obama, Adoption, Clu, Playboy Magazine, Playboy Mansion, Born Again, Louisville, Million Dollar Round Table, Son of a Son of a Gambler, Obama's Dreams of My Father, Hillary Clinton, Nixon, Sports Betting, George Bush, 2008 Elections, Playboy, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, President of the United States, George H.W. Bush, Single Parents, Gerald Ford, Cincinnati, Betting, American College, Newsweek, Playboy Bunnies, Covington Kentucky, Bill Clinton, Structured Settlement, Msfs, John McCain, Michelle Obama, Annuities, Chfc, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Father's Expectations, Don McNay, 2008 Election, Barack Obama 2008, Structured Settlements, Vanderbilt University, Renegade Obama, Playboy Bunny, 2008 Presidential Race, Eastern Kentucky University, George W Bush, Fatherhood, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Hugh Heffner, Renegade, Media News
Don McNay

Obama's election was not only a door opener for people of color. It also showed that people with absent dads, or no dad at all, can grow up and live in the White House.

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My Acid Trip with Squeaky Fromme

Paul Krassner | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charles Manson, Sandra Good, Brend McCann, Mel Lyman, Squeaky Fromme, Vincent Bugliosi, Gerald Ford, Politics News
Paul Krassner

This month, Fromme is scheduled to be released from prison after serving 34 years for the attempted assassination of President Ford in 1975. We took LSD together four years earlier.

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A VIP Seat to History: Photographer David Hume Kennerly

Eileen McMenamin | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Photography, David Hume Kennerly, White House, Obama Inauguration, Obama Books, Gerald Ford, Politics News
Eileen McMenamin

If journalism is a front row seat to history, photographer David Hume Kennerly has been sitting in the VIP section.

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Gloating Over Obama's Honeymoon End

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dwight Eisenhower, Presidential Honeymoon, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Jimmy Carter, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Just as President Obama's second quarter nears its end, the predictable happened: the gloat over his reported light dip in popularity has begun with a vengeance.

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Bush Gets His Bounce

Mark Kaminsky | Posted 07.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Ex-Presidents, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Politics News
Mark Kaminsky

Americans and their media treat ex-presidents like kids treat difficult parents once they either die or stop parenting and start doing something useful, like helping them to pay off a mortgage.

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What Does an Extremist Look Like?

Geri Spieler | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, New Technology, Mark Sullivan, Secret Service, President Obama, Racist, Right-Wing, Congressional Budget Office, White-Supremacists, Government, Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, Geri Spieler, Nsa, National Security, Federal Government, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, San Francisco, Socialist, Right-Wing Extremism, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
Geri Spieler

Is an extremist tall, short, young, old, thin, fat? Would you know if the person standing next to you was about to pull out a gun and shoot? Scary ...

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Sara Jane Moore's Interview Fallout

Geri Spieler | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Revolver, Matt Lauer, Presidential Assassination, Gun, Police, West Virginia, Secret Service, Today Show, Fbi, Sara Jane Moore Today Show, Charles Manson, Virginia, Gerald Ford, Squeaky-Fromme-Gun, Sara Jane Moore, Taking Aim at the President, Prison Release, Charleston Gazette, West, Geri Spieler, Charleston, Assassination, Huffington Post, San Francisco, Charleston Daily Mail, Media News
Geri Spieler

If you were standing on that sidewalk next to Moore when she was 45 years old, would you have expected her to pull a gun from her purse, aim and pull the trigger at the head of the U.S. President?

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David Hume Kennerly, Ford's White House Photographer, Outraged At "Today" Show

The Daily Beast | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Today Show, David Hume Kennerly, Sara Jane Moore, Sara Jane Moore Today Show, Gerald Ford, David Hume Kennerly Today Show, Media News

Would-be presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore--who on Sept. 22, 1975 fired a .38-caliber bullet at President Gerald R. Ford--sat down for a convivial...

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Sara Jane Moore -- Then and Now

Geri Spieler | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Randolph Hearst, Taking Aim at the President, Sara Jane Moore, Remarkable, Charleston Gazette, West Virginia, Geri Spieler, Sally Moore, Charleston-West Virginia, Gerald Ford, Secret Service, Assassination, Fbi, Symbionese Liberation Army, President Gerald Ford, San Francisco, President, Politics News
Geri Spieler

Sara Jane Moore missed Gerald Ford's head with a bullet by a mere six inches. Someone like her didn't raise any alarms on a street corner in 1975, and wouldn't today.

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Sara Jane Moore Tried To Assassinate President Ford, Discusses Attempt And Spending 32 Years In Jail (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 06.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Ford, Sara Jane Moore, Video, Sara Jane Moore Video, Woman Who Tried to Assassinate President Ford, Gerald Ford, Today Show, Sara Jane Moore Today Show, Sara Jane Moore Released, Sara Jane Moore Wiki, Gerald Ford Assassination Attempt, Politics News

To look at this 80-year-old grandmotherly woman, it is difficult to imagine that she spent 32 years in prison for attempting to assassinate President ...

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Why Do So Many Republicans Hate America?

Mitchell Bard | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tear Down This Wall, Meet the Press, Reagan Berlin, Ronald Reagan, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Dick Durbin, Guantanamo, 9/11, Matthew Alexander, Keith Olbermann, Lindsey Graham, Due Process, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Politics of Fear, Jonathan Alter, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Freedom, Hate Us for Our Freedom, General Petraeus, Newt Gingrich, Republicans, Berlin, Torture, Politics News
Mitchell Bard

I say that Cheney and Gingrich don't love America because they don't seem to care about American values as they have traditionally been viewed.

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Cheney, Rumsfeld Urged CIA To Mislead Congress In The 1970s, Authors Say

Online Journal | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Church Committee, Legacy of Ashes, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Thomas Hartmann, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Lamar Waldron, Cia, Politics News

The first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was chief of staff to President...

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White House Pet Correspondent Lucky Sees Stars & Stripes!

Wendy Diamond | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Val Kilmer, White House Correspondant Dinner, David Gregory, Madeline Albright, 50 Cent, Chanel, Bo Obama, Animal Fair, Karl Shaughnessy, Petsmart, Chace Crawford, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Denise Shaughnessy, Idina Menzel, Taye Diggs, Blake Lively, Design on a Dime, Ty Pennington, Pat Buchanan, Rick Ocasek, Wendy Diamond, John McLaughlin, Tammy Haddad, McLaughlin Group, Lucky Diamond, Jon Favreau, Gipper, Jaclyn Smith, Christina McLaughlin, David Adler, Rahm Emanuel, Janet Napolitano, David Axelrod, Ronald Regan, Paulina Porizkova, Twinkle, Penny, Ella, Elizabeth, Tank, Ralphie, Bird, Diddley, Barbra Streisand, Kate, Coltrane, Iams, Living News
Wendy Diamond

With all the presidential advice Lucky received this past weekend from the above-mentioned, she is well on her way to being appointed White House Pet Correspondent to Bo Obama.

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Comedy and Politics: Together Forever

Caissie St. Onge | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Gerald Ford, Snl, Daily Show, Colbert, Satire, The Comedy Behind the News, Comedy News
Caissie St. Onge

The best comedy will shine a light on politics while holding up a magnifying glass until politics tries to run away or catches on fire. Metaphorically speaking.

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