I'm OK With It
My mind was on other things yesterday, but then Barack Obama threw me a curve by winning the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush.
My mind was on other things yesterday, but then Barack Obama threw me a curve by winning the Nobel Peace Prize simply for not being George Bush.
Lester Sloan | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
While writers, poets, and scientists usually win the award for what they have accomplished, statesmen, philosophers, and other persons of ideas are honored for the causes that they champion.
Jackson Williams | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics
Some critics have claimed the prize should be the "culmination of a career." Says who? Not Alfred Nobel, and he ought to know.
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
This movement to change America did not begin when Barack Obama took the presidential oath of office -- it has been underway for decades.
Bart Motes | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics
Obama has given new possibilities to a world that only a year ago was defined by conflict. He's rejected the zero-sum game of the Bush years in favor for respect driven diplomacy.
Michael Russnow | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
It is enormously premature for Obama to be getting this great tribute, which to a certain extent cheapens the prior recipients and the work all of them performed over so many years.
Ralph D'Andrea | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics