Hope

Holiday Reflections: The Exquisite Nature of Faith: The Constrasts and Challenges of Reality

SaraKay Smullens | Posted 01.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Prostitution, Reality, Suffering, Hope, Holiday Season, Health, Death, The Power of Prayer and Community, Living News

Holiday Reflections: The Exquisite Nature of Faith: The Contrasts and Challenges of Reality "Silent Night" Bloodshed all over the world: bomb...

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Barack Obama: Change

Don King | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Supporters, Obama Hope, Change, Making History, Obama Change, Martin Luther King, Hope, Understanding, Martin Luther King Jr., Love, Peace, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

The world is watching American history in the making, live and in living color. We've taken an important step in the right direction by electing Barack Obama as President.

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Ebony and Irony: Think Critically, or Hope?

Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: George Carlin, Irony, America, Hope, Barack Obama, Comedians, Entertainment, Comedy, Entertainment News

It isn't that hope or irony are wrong, what's wrong is that we think we need to pit them against each other, and that they can't co-exist. The old lines in the sand are being erased on every level.

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Keeping Track of Change
(It Takes More Than Hope)

Eugene Jarecki | Posted 01.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama Presidential Transition, Change, Obama Transition, Hope, Obama Transition Team, Barack Obama, Politics News

Let us not forget that it was Obama himself who invited each of us to fulfill our end of the contract between citizen and president in an historic effort to bring about change.

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A Tasty Mom's Take On This Holiday Season

Liane Weintraub | Posted 01.02.2009 | Living

Read More: The Economy, Holiday Season, Hope, Family Values, Economy, Christmas, Family, Living News

This holiday season, my wish for you and your loved ones is to be filled with the same sense of hope that my family and friends are.

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Milk: Hope On The Screen And In The Streets

Tanene Allison | Posted 12.25.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Movie Reviews, LGBT Politics, California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, Hope, Lesbian, LGBT Rights, Sean Penn, Gay Marriage, Harvey Milk, Harvey Milk Movie, Gus Van Sant Milk Movie, Milk Movie, Same Sex Marriage, Civil Rights, Entertainment News

The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.

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Stem Cell Research Offers Hope to Type 1 Diabetics

Mary Lou Song | Posted 12.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Diabetes, Stem Cell Research, Hope, America's Front Porch, Tokoni, Living News

When does life begin? I don't know. But I do know that we shouldn't turn our backs on the people who desperately need cures to their diseases; the people who are with us, right here and right now.

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Our Thanksgiving of (Obama) Hope

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Love, Hope, Spirituality, Repentece, Thanksgiving, President-Elect Barack Obama, Obama Thanksgiving, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Politics News

This Thanksgiving we have a new brilliant, exemplary father and husband for our President-elect because millions of Americans did not vote along traditional party lines.

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Support Your Local Republican

Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Election Reaction, HuffPost Election Reaction, Republicans, Not Talking Politics, Politics, Political Views, Hope, Bonding, Living News

I feel the Republicans' pain. I've been there. We all have And I remember it well. Not only the sour taste of defeat, but the desperation of despair.

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The LGBT Rights Heartbreak and the Great Work Ahead

Tanene Allison | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hate, Proposition 8, Prop 8, Hope, Marriage Equality in CA, Civil Rights, No on Prop 8, Tony Kushner, LGBT Rights, Angels in America, The Election, 2008 Election, Better Angels of Our Nature, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News

As the community grieves and seeks to blame whomever we felt did not support us enough, data interpretations may make it all too easy to generalize and stereotype on the road to blame.

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Hope Won...Now What?

Tabby Biddle | Posted 12.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congressman John Lewis, Hope, Barack Obama, California Proposition 8, 2008 Presidential Election, Politics News

Can we also stay hopeful in the midst of market meltdown and the calamity of being amidst two economically and emotionally draining wars?

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Obama's Election May Put an End to Sept. 11-related Animosity and Bring Healing

Ray Hanania | Posted 12.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hope, Animosity, Backlash, Terrorism, 9/11, Healing, Middle Easterners, Barack Obama, Election Reaction, Muslims, Arabs, Hate Mongering, 2001, Bias, Bigotry, Obama Middle East, President Obama, Obama International Reaction, Sept. 11, 2008 Presidential Election, Obama Presidency, Obama Middle East Policy, Obama International Experience, Obama Reaction Abroad, President Elect Obama, Politics News

Obama's election as president has changed America and can also make it a far better nation, one that truly embraces the ideals that motivated our founding fathers.

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The Psychology Of Hope and Fear

Joyce McFadden | Posted 12.09.2008 | Living

Read More: Fear, Psychology, Change, Obama, Hope, Presidential Results, President Obama, Obama Wins, Obama Presidency, Obama President, Living News

Obama inspired our country by realizing that we need in our country the very same thing we need in our personal lives: to use the better part of hope and fear together.

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Destiny

Darryle Pollack | Posted 12.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Obama Hope, HuffPost Election Reaction, Obama President, Hope, Obama Presidency, Obama Grant Park, Politics News

Best of all was the surge of hope -- to feed a starving country. As if Obama took a fresh batch of cookies out of the oven, and the scent floated all over the world, impossible to resist.

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Obama's Crowds Made the Difference

Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 12.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Obama Hope, Obama Victory, Change, Obama Change, Hope, Obama Crowds, Catholic, Obama Diversity, Obama Rallies, Obama Excitement, Barack Obama, Obama Rally, John McCain, Obama Diversity Crowds, Home News

The reason I voted for Obama had little to do with the candidate and everything to do with the crowd.

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Yes We Can

Nancy Chuda | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, HuffPost Election Reaction, HuffPost Election Analysis, Hope, Obama Presidency, Politics News

President Obama will build that bridge everywhere he goes -- he will connect, one person to another --giving them the ability to leap from faith to future.

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The Hope of Obama

Stephen Zunes | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

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Posted on Alternet, Nov. 6. 2008 Barack Obama's resounding victory has brought even this cynical observer of Democratic Party politics to dare to hop...

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Obama Proves Equality of Opportunity

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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No matter what your name or race is you can make it here. America is for real. The hope is real.

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The Long Exhale

Sasha Abramsky | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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The tears running down my face last night and this morning were of something so much more than happiness, so much more than simple relief. They were an exhalation.

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America Awakens

Stephen H. Dinan | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Racism, Presidential Election, Democrats, Barack Obama, Hope, Freedom, 2008 Presidential Race, Obama Hope, Obama Election Day, President Obama, President Elect Obama, Politics News

Obama is our country's better nature: A blend of the best of our world's cultures, Made real as a divine gift, so that we each better remember who we are, and what we can yet become.

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Out Of The Desert Of Despair At Last

Rusel DeMaria | Posted 12.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Unity, Infrastructure, Despair, Hope, Climate Change, President Obama, The World, War, Obama, New National Dialog, Peace, Energy Policy, Communication, Home News

I've arrived at the edge of a desert of despair, the tears forced upon me by a message of hope. For the first time, I've seen the American promise f...

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The World Breaths a Sigh of Relief as America's Light Goes Back On

Rob Kall | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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Looking at the faces of the people in the crowd, as Obama gives his first speech as president-elect, I see a hope that beams bright, a hope that does not stop at red or blue state borders.

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Art, Politics and Soul in New York

Vicky Ward | Posted 12.05.2008 | Style

If you weren't in Times Square tonight, the only place to be was downtown in the West Village at Gavin Brown's gallery for an installation by Jonathon Horowitz called Obama '08.

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Hope Hurts

David Weinberger | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Liberals and Conservatives, Politics, Obama, Hope, Liberals, Barack Obama, Audacity of Hope, Politics News

The hope Obama offers is that we can get past the knee-jerk positions that are used to test the loyalty of the faithful.

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Hope. Not Faith.

Marc Cooper | Posted 12.03.2008 | Home

Hope, says the dictionary, is about our desires. Faith, on the other hand, is about confidence. I've got tons of the former, and damn near none of the latter. So if Obama offers hope, I'll take what I can get.

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