Lexicon of Disappointment: The Readers' Edition
700 or so comments later, here are the best of the bunch. Let the record show that you people are way more cynical than I am...
700 or so comments later, here are the best of the bunch. Let the record show that you people are way more cynical than I am...
Christiana Wyly | Posted 01.21.2009 | Politics
We need to follow Obama's example of reaching across the barriers that divide us as a people. We must learn how to reach into our hearts and truly meet another human being exactly where they are.
Jack Healey | Posted 01.15.2009 | Living
We miss Dr Martin Luther King, Jr each day. His day, our day, asks each of us to stand up for decency and justice and non violence in our time, in our community, in our family, and in our world.
Rick Siegel | Posted 01.13.2009 | Politics
Now we can and must demand better ethical standards from our bankers, financial advisors, corporate and political leaders.
Paula B. Mays | Posted 12.23.2008 | Living
The election of Obama also offers a chance for redemption: redemption from allowing unprovoked warfare, tacitly accepting torture, and permitting a denegation of our civil rights.
Lance Simmens | Posted 09.25.2008 | Home
Fear versus anger, defense versus offense, past versus future, insecurity versus hope. These are the trademarks of the current decisions Americans must make in the next six weeks.
Scott Atran | Posted 06.25.2008 | Politics
Fear may be the oldest and strongest emotion in our species. The politics of hope plays to a less primitive emotion.
Joseph C. Wilson | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Like his comments about small town Americans, Obama has demonstrated a cavalier disregard for the work of Foreign Service and CIA Officers serving overseas.
Trey Ellis | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
Yes, Obama's gaffe was a big one and as his opponent she has every right to go after him but she never coupled that with an even more devastating critique of McCain.
AP | BETH FOUHY | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
WASHINGTON, Pa. — Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Tuesday dismissed a voter's suggestion that when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton called him elitis...
Frank Schaeffer | Posted 03.21.2008 | Politics
Sen. Obama has a problem: the hardening of the American heart, the closing of the American mind, the seen-it-all attitude that makes us into sneering voyeurs too mean spirited to save ourselves.
Reilly Center For Media & Public Affairs | Posted 01.01.2008 | Home
The crowds were immensely different. Hillary was an older, seemingly more sophisticated crowd. Obama's crowd was younger and more energetic.
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The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
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I never actually heard the words made famous by a certain man on a certain TV show. Instead I got a lot...
Jim Hansen is director of the NASA Goddard Institute for...
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The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier...
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Al Franken's been anointed as Minnesota's junior senator, but how did the...
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Naomi Klein | Posted 04.20.2009 | Politics