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Police Called In To Calm Unruly Delta Passengers At JFK

AP | Posted 12.23.2009 | New York

Read More: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Delta Terminal, JFK Fight, Air Rage, Delta Airlines, Airport Security, Jfk, John F. Kennedy Airport, Haiti, New York News

NEW YORK (Associated Press) - Police say officers were called in to help with an unruly crowd for about an hour at the Delta Air Lines terminal at Joh...

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What Makes Us Wise II: The Defining Wisdom Project

Julia Moulden | Posted 12.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Joseph Campbell, Dalai Lama, Wisdom, President Obama, Martin Luther King, University of Chicago, Julia Moulden, Winter Solstice, New Radicals, Nobel Peace Prize, Maya Angelou, Jfk, Templeton Foundation, Mandela, The Balanced Life, Living News
Julia Moulden

In order to create a field of wisdom science, we wanted to bring together all the interested parties - philosophers, classicists, historians, experts in law, medicine, psychology, biology.

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No JFK Moment For Obama On Afghanistan

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, President Obama Afghanistan, Cuban Missile Crisis, War in Afghanistan, John F. Kennedy, President Obama, Robert Kennedy, Vietnam, Military-Escalation-Afghanistan, Generals, Jfk, World News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

There's the depth of American military involvement, commitment, and the entrenched thinking that Afghanistan is the front line in the war on terrorism. Obama shares this thinking with the generals.

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Annals of Unsolved Crime: The Oswald Mystery

Edward Jay Epstein | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, Cia, Jack Ruby, President Kennedy, Kennedy Assassination, Jfk, John F. Kennedy Assassination, Fbi, Cuba, Soviet Union, Politics News
Edward Jay Epstein

The endless tangle of bullets, trajectories, wounds, time sequences and inconsistent testimony that has surrounded the JFK assassination will probably never be satisfactorily resolved.

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Mr. President, 'Change' Is Your 'New Frontier'

John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Restoration, Bush Doctrine, John F. Kennedy, John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Public Policy Polling, 1961, Kennedy, Boston, 1960, Ted Widmer, The Death of Conservatism, Democratic Party, 2012, Change, 2010, 2008, New Frontier, George W. Bush, Jfk, Republican Party, William v. Shannon, 1984, Jack Kennedy, John Winthrop, Mario Cuomo, Massachusetts, Democrats, Charles Blow, Barack Obama, Tom Jensen, The New Frontier, Ark of the Liberties, Republicans, Sam Tanenhaus, Politics News
John R. Bohrer

The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.

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Church and State in JFK's America

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, New York Times, Patrick J. Kennedy, Jfk, Thomas J. Tobin, Separation of Church and State, Vatican, Politics News
Geoffrey R. Stone

Whatever happened to the America that JFK believed in? The America in which "no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials"?

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"Informed Sources": What Really Happened When Rush Limbaugh and Sarah Palin Got Into Upstate New York Politics

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al D'Amato, Congress, Rush Limbaugh, David Paterson, Senate Races, Democratic Party, New York, Caroline Kennedy, Moderate Republicans, Albany, Andrew Cuomo, Senate, Conservatives, Moderates, George Pataki, Elliot Spitzer, Sarah Palin, Hillary Clinton, Jfk, Kirsten Gillibrand, Republican Party, Ny Governor, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

The latest tempest involved New York's 23rd Congressional district, where the Republican candidate was forced out of the race because of her positions on gay and abortion rights.

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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books

Read More: John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Afghanistan, George W. Bush, Nyr, Iran, Arthur Schlesinger, Presidency, Barack Obama, Garry Wills, Hoover, Lincoln, New York Review, One Year Later, Abraham Lincoln, The New Deal, Racism, Jimmy Carter, Fdr, Iraq, Health Care, Jfk, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Books News

The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and what...

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The Kennedy Assassination: New Details About the Transfer of Power

Steven M. Gillon | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Politics, Lbj, Vice President, Warren Commission, Kennedy, Kennedy Dead, Kennedy Assassination, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Jfk, President, JFK Assassination, Books News
Steven M. Gillon

Exactly when did doctors give up their efforts to save Kennedy's life? And when did Lyndon Johnson learn that JFK was dead?

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Surviving the Media Circus, Without Becoming the Clown

Barry Levinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Television, Barry Levinson, Joe Wilson, Poliwood, Wag the Dog, Communications, Jfk, Hollywood, You Lie, Barack Obama, Democratic National Convention, Media News
Barry Levinson

Communication -- the ability to connect and manipulate -- is perhaps the most interesting part of politics we can observe, and the most frightening.

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Gore Vidal Knocks Obama, Says "Anti-Semitism" Got "Poor Polanski"

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.28.2009 | Books

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The Atlantic, Barack Obama, John Meroney, Roman Polanski, Bill Clinton, Gore Vidal, Jfk, The Atlantic Monthly, Polanski, Hillary Clinton, Books News

To mark the recent publication of Gore Vidal's memoir, Snapshots in History's Glare, The Atlantic's John Meroney interviewed the American literary and...

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How Confident are Boomer Consumers?

Carol Orsborn | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living

Read More: Watergate, Boomers, Jfk, Wall Street, Boomer Generation, Camelot, Living News
Carol Orsborn

In light of the deteriorating Consumer Confidence Index, Wall Street should worry less about Boomers' level of consumer confidence and more about our degree of consumer denial.

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Checkpoint Charvet

Nick Foulkes | Posted 10.26.2009 | Style

Read More: Hermes, Jfk, Cold War, Style, Barack Obama, Charvet, The Kennedys Museum, Kennedy Museum Berlin, Kruschev, Berlin Museums, Checkpoint Charlie Museum, Berlin Wall, Yul Brynner, Style News
Nick Foulkes

This Museum reminded me just how cool Jack looked. Kennedy showed that you could be a man who shopped and still face down the Soviet Union when the need arose.

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The Big Dollar Bustout ... Is Too Big To Fail Still an Option?

Eric Ehrmann | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Subprime Crisis, Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Somerset Maugham, Ronald Reagan, Bric, The Lost Generation, Federal Reserve, Twitter, Hitler, China, Reserve Currency, Woodrow Wilson, Slow Movement, Barack Obama, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nobel Prize, Sidwell Friends, Austrian Economics, Foreclosures, Russia, Rupert Murdoch, League of Nations, Timothy Geithner, Paul Krugman, Death in Venice, Jfk, Great Depression, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stalin, Business News
Eric Ehrmann

With efforts to rebrand America's national identity in the electronic media falling flat like a bad online date, taking away the dollar's too big to fail status might be the better wake up call.

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Why Can't We Just Say "Obama, We're Proud of You?"

Joe The Nerd Ferraro | Posted 10.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rabin, Lincoln, Nobel, Joe the Nerd, Gop, Gandhi, Congress, Benigno Aquino, Mlk, Palme, Bhutto, Rfk, Obama, Jfk, Sweden, Politics News
Joe The Nerd Ferraro

The Nobel being awarded to Obama is the world saying loud and clear that the right wing zealots in the United States are out-of-line with everybody else on the planet.

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Obama Goes to Oslo: The Quiz

Michael Kubin | Posted 10.13.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King, Amartya Sen, Columbia, Al Franken, Guantanamo Bay, Harvard, Jfk, Barack Obama, Oslo, Comedy News
Michael Kubin

What will President Obama say in his Nobel Peace Prize lecture? Eleven possible quibbles, questions and quotations: you decide.

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The Secret of Conspiracy

Michael Kaplan | Posted 12.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Lee Harvey Oswald, John F. Kennedy, Memory, Conspiracy, Assassination, Jfk, JFK Assasination Conspiracies, Error, Media News
Michael Kaplan

Just as we want our success to be the result of skill, not luck, we prefer to be the victims of conspiracy rather than chance.

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Clinton's Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Revisited

Adam Neiman | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Roger Ailes Fox News, Bill Clinton, Rush Limbaugh, Paranoia, Rfk, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Glenn Beck, Jfk, Barack Obama, Politics News
Adam Neiman

What we lack and urgently need, since two political assassinations in 1968 defined modern American politics, is a frank and sane way to discuss political conspiracy.

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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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Jackie Kennedy Note Stolen, FBI Investigating: Report

AP | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ethel Kennedy, Rfk, Stolen Note, Jfk, Jackie Kennedy, Kennedy Note, Assassination, Politics News

DALLAS — The FBI is investigating a "stolen" handwritten condolence note by Jacqueline Kennedy to Ethel Kennedy that was penned shortly after Ro...

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Mr. Limbaugh, You Need to Apologize to our President

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 11.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Moyer & Maher, Obama's Speeches on Health Care & 9/11& Students, Jfk, Limbaugh, Ted Kennedy, Rep.Wilson, Ghwb, Media News
Joan E. Dowlin

The President called on all Americans to be strong, firm, and united to serve the nation while remembering the events of 9/11/01. This all sounds very inspiring. But not to Rush Limbaugh.

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Hitting the Jackpot

Mike Lux | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Congress, Public Option, 2009 Obama Administration, Speeches, Joint Session of Congress, Olympia Snowe, Barack Obama, Health Care Speech, Fdr, Ben Nelson, Jfk, Politics News
Mike Lux

This was one of the very best Presidential speeches I have ever heard. And more importantly, Barack Obama did everything he needed to do.

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Thanks Glenn Beck -- This 'Socialism' Sounds Great!

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Amazing Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Carter, Laissez-Faire, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Jfk, Capitalism, Health Care, Christian, Forclosure, Arianna Huffington, Fdr, Russia, Marx, Rasmussen-Reports, Norway, Sweden, Politics News
Paul Raushenbush

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

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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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Before Jenna: Political Children Working In Media (SLIDESHOW)

Huffington Post | Alex Leo | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Mika Brzezinski, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Maria Shriver, Sargent Shriver, Douglas Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Jfk, Jfk Jr, Slideshow, Political Kids in Media, Political Children in Media, Nancy Pelosi, Alexandra Pelosi, Chris Cuomo, Mario Cuomo, Slidepoll, Jenna Today Show, Jenna Bush, Jenna Hager, Today Show, Media News

The "Today Show" announced this week that they've hired Jenna Bush (aka Jenna Hager) to file stories for them about once a month. "It wasn't something...

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