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Michael Jackson and 4th of July Priorities of Concern

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater | Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, Shabbat, 4th of July, Leonardo Da Vinci, Cable Television, Clean Energy, Michael Jackson Death, Iran Protests, Musical America, Iraq Troop Withdrawal, Shakespeare, Healthcare, South Carolina Governor, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Hollywood, Politics News
Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater

In the same week that hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest a travesty of democratic values, Americans took to the streets for the death of a superstar entertainer.

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Jackson's Death Means We're All Older Now and Need to Sober Up

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Prescription Drug Addiction, John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, The Moonwalk, I'll Be There, Charlies Angel's, Prescription Drugs, 1980's, Farrah Fawcett, Heroine, Charlies Angels, 1970's, Janis Joplin, ABC, "Thriller, Ed McMahon, Ratings, Fred Astaire, The Burning Bed, Keeping Up With the Joneses, Camero, The Partridge Family, Baby Boomers, Wacko Jacko, Thriller, Tabloids, American Bandstand, Martin Luther King Jr., Fat Albert, Jim Morrison, Elvis Presley, Rock With You, Robert F. Kennedy, Celebrity Worship, Soul Train, Cnn, Sideshow, Jimi Hendrix, Cocaine, Living News
Francesca Biller-Safran

The passing of Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett has hit us near-baby boomers and full-on baby boomers with a rock and roll punch to the gut we weren't ready for.

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The Public Relations Enigma That Was Michael Jackson

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 07.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Public-Relations, John F. Kennedy, Michael Jackson, Cnn, Sinatra, John Lennon, Elvis, Kimberly-Krautter, Madonna, Lisa Marie Presley, Tweeting, Michael Jackson Death, Martin Bashir, Entertainment News
Kimberly Krautter

My colleagues and I enjoy challenging each other as to how we would handle various PR disasters. By far the most interesting and stimulating conversations have always been around Michael Jackson.

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Will Obama Find His Inner Kennedy?

Casey Sherman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Nikita Krushchev, Iran Election, North Korea, President Obama, Politics News
Casey Sherman

President Barack Obama can match JFK'S charisma smile for smile, quip for quip but he'll have to dig a little deeper to find his inner Kennedy.

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The Biggest Problem With U.S. Health Care -- And How To Fix It!

Ken Dychtwald Ph.D. | Posted 07.18.2009 | Living

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Palliative Care, Gerontology, Health, Aarp, American Medical Association, Alzheimer's, Centers for Disease Control, Health Care, Michael Moore Sicko, Age Wave, Dychtwald, Wellness, Elderly, Aging, Living News
Ken Dychtwald Ph.D.

We should focus on re-visioning healthcare's purpose: to create long-lived, productive and healthy men and women.

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Obama's Crisis Management: North Korea, Again

William Bradley | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama, North Korea Nuclear Program, George W. Bush, United Nations, North Korea, Russia, UN Security Council, Newt Gingrich, China, Cuban Missile Crisis, North Korean Missiles, Singapore, South Korea, Bob Gates, North Korean Launch, World News
William Bradley

President Obama changed the old kabuki in dealing with his second North Korean crisis. He has gone in another, tougher, direction that may lead to a naval confrontation.

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After 45 Years, a Civil Rights Hero Waits for Justice

Thom Hartmann | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Cuba, President Obama, Cia, Obama Administration, Justice, Abraham Bolden, Civil Rights, Politics News
Thom Hartmann

A great miscarriage of justice has kept most Americas from learning about the Civil Rights pioneer Abraham Bolden who worked with President John F. Kennedy.

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2009 Gary Roosevelt High School Commencement Address

Robert D. Patterson | Posted 07.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Gary Roosevelt High School, Civil Rights Movement, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Rush Limbaugh, Jim Crow Laws, Affirmativ Action, Robert D Patterson Md, Commencement Speech, Gary Roosevelt Commencement Speech, Glen Beck, Robert F. Kennedy, Medgar Evers, Gary Indiana, Sean Hannity, Vietnam War, Malcolm X, Racism, Discrimination, Obama Election Night, Politics News
Robert D. Patterson

I really wanted to help them understand that despite the positive changes in the current political landscape, they will need to be prepared for the inevitable backlash.

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Love or Lust, Obama and the Fawning Press Need to Get a Room

Phil Bronstein | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Press, Phil Bronstein, Barack Obama, Politics, Media, Media News
Phil Bronstein

You can't blame powerful people for wanting to play the press to peddle self-perpetuating mythology. But you can blame the press for being played.

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Your Moment Has Come: DC Rally June 13 to Support Obama's Peace Corps Vision

Laurence Leamer | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Peace Corps, Washington, Demonstration, Rally, Obama, Jfk, Development, Protest Movement, Harris Wofford, D.C., Politics News
Laurence Leamer

You will be there because you listened to Obama's promise during the campaign to double the size of the Peace Corps, to send Americans out in new lands with outreached hands and open hearts.

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The Mantra of 20 nuclear Weapon States -- Why 20?

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Nuclear Weapons, U.N., Mohamed ElBaradei, Nuclear Proliferation, United States, Iaea, Mikhail Gorbachev, North Korea, World News
Evelyn Leopold

Today there are eight nuclear weapons states. North Korea, which just tested its second device, makes nine.

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Obama: Agent of Change or Compromiser in Chief

Sandy Maisel | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Energy, Hilary Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Change-Agents, Rahm Emanuel, Compromise, Obama, Peter Orszag, Joe Biden, Health Care, Pete Rouse, Obama Transition, Politics News
Sandy Maisel

The President is clearly the agenda setter, but he is not, as President Bush tried to be, "the decider." The verdict on Obama is clearly still out, but the early returns are positive.

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The Peace Corps Crisis

Laurence Leamer | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Community Service, Foreign Aid, Peace Corps, Volunteering, Shriver, Service, Kennedy, Volunteers, Developing World, Washington DC, Obama, Development, Politics News
Laurence Leamer

The Peace Corps is a broken bureaucracy. It has lost its way. It is a shell of what it once was. And in the most important moment in Peace Corps history since the Kennedy years, it is unready and unwell.

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Bishops Upset at Obama/Notre Dame: Try Listening to Jesus

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Catholic Church, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, Grand Theft Jesus, Jesus, Catholic Bishops, Bishop John D'Arcy, Obama Catholics, Obama Notre Dame Commencement, Barack Obama, Obama Notre Dame, Religion, Religion and Politics, Politics News
Robert S. McElvaine

As an American Catholic, I find these actions by the Hierarchy and "conservative" elements within the laity to be more than a little disturbing.

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Reading Amanda: One Black Man's Burden

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 06.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Harlem, John F. Kennedy, Langston Hughes, Charlie Rose, Jesus, Architectural Digest, James Baldwin, Carter Burden, Mr. And Mrs. Hamilton McKown Twombly, Eartha Kitt, Jane Jacobs, Amanda Burden, Charlie Rangel, The Dakota, Parties, Vanderbilt, New York City, Barack Obama, River House, Robert F. Kennedy, Rezoning, Newport, Lewis H. Michaux, In the Hamptons, Henry Roth, New York Times, Malcolm X, Philip Johnsons, Society, Maya Angelou, Tuxedo Park, New-York-Socialites, Style News
Michael Henry Adams

Reputedly she is known by friends and family as "Ba"; habitually, as a uniform, she sports sober Calvin Klein suits and subsists on tuna or grilled...

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Cheney's Toys

Leslie Griffith | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Malevolent Meddling, Seymour Hersh, Dick Cheney, John F. Kennedy, Isreal-Palestine Relations, Jack Kennedy, Obama and Kennedy, Obama-Kennedy Similarities, Cheney, Palestine, Middle Eastern Conflict, Isreal, Cuba Bay of Pigs, Middle East, John Kennedy, Middle East Conflict, President Kennedy, Cuba, Vice President Cheney, Bay of Pigs, Politics News
Leslie Griffith

We all remember conniving against a democratically-elected president ended in 1963. And we hear comparisons between the young, vibrant JFK and Obama. May the parallels end there.

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"Socialized" Medicine: Next Front in the Right's -isms Arms Race

Karl Frisch | Posted 05.03.2009 | Media

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Msnbc, Ronald Reagan, Cnbc, Harry Truman, Mccarthyism, Fox Business Network, Socialized Medicine, Communism, Maoism, CNN Headline News, Sean Hannity, Joseph McCarthy, Marxism, Cnn, Fox News, Michael Savage, Fdr, Lyndon Johnson, Socialism, Health Care, Bill O'Reilly, Stalinism, Leninism, Media News
Karl Frisch

For more than 75 years, conservatives have smeared progressive attempts to reform our faltering health-care system as "socialized medicine."

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Advice to Obama at G-20 Summit: A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats

Gary Shapiro | Posted 05.01.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, President Obama, G20 Summit, Trade and Poverty, Gary Shapiro, Health Care Kiosk, Colombia, Obama, Barack Obama, Obama and Op-Ed, Trade at Hand, Emerging Markets, Progressive, Peru, South Korea, g20, Free Trade, Protectionism, President Kennedy, A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats, Cea, Jfk, Telemedicine, Free Trade Agreements, Consumer Electronics Association, Poverty, G-20, Business News
Gary Shapiro

I don't know precisely when progressives in this country gave up on free trade. Because when they did, without perhaps even realizing it, they turned their backs on the developing world.

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The Next Great American Institution

Gracye Cheng | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Obama, Public Service Academy, Public Service, Representative Jim Moran, John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Rahm Emanuel, Americorps, Peace Corps, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Politics News
Gracye Cheng

The Public Service Academy, when it is built, will not only provide unprecedented access to public service for young people, but bring respect and prestige back to public service in our country.

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Whither Watchmen? Is This Big, Dark, Geeky, Lefty Movie The Next Comic Book Blockbuster?

William Bradley | Posted 04.09.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: John F. Kennedy, The Golden Compass, Alan Moore, Alternate History, Lord of the Rings, McLaughlin Group, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Soviet Union, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Constantine, From Hell, Batman, Anarchy, 300, Fascism, Nuclear War, The Dark Knight, Watchmen, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Dirty Harry, Dave Gibbons, V for Vendetta, Watergate, Bruce Wayne, Woodward and Bernstein, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Video, Zack Snyder, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Watchmen lays out and alternate America in a stunning opening sequence that presents the 20th century as a relentless slog of war and murder. If hope is on the menu, it's in short supply.

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Investing in the Green Economy Now for a More Secure Future

Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 04.02.2009 | Green

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Measure B, President Obama, Carbon Emissions, Economic Crisis, Green Jobs, Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, Congress, Los Angeles Air Quality, Pollution, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, California, Solar Integrated, Green Economy, Economic Stimulus Plan, Health Care, Green Policy, Solar Power, Antonio Villaraigosa, Green News
Antonio Villaraigosa

Now is the time to take bold action to invest in programs that will create green, sustainable industries that will provide good jobs and provide long term economic and environmental benefits.

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Obama's Plan Is About Dreams, Not Dollars

Will Bunch | Posted 03.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Barack Obama Ronald Reagan, Federal Budget Deficit, Martin Luther King, Ronald Reagan, College, Cancer, Barack Obama, Politics News
Will Bunch

It's true -- Barack Obama cannot cure cancer. By as president, he has the power to do something else that's almost as amazing: To help America to dream big again.

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Obama's Rhetorical Inspirations: Presidents, Poets, and Hobbits

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Obama State of the Union 2009, American Century, Henry Luce, City on a Hill, Rhetoric, Barack Obama Rhetoric, John Favreau, Isaiah, John Winthrop, Obama Jount Congressional Address, Lord of the Rings, Julius Caesar, Barack Obama, State of the Union 2009, Obama Rhetoric, The Hobbit, Obama Speech, Marc Antony, Bible, William Jennings Bryan, Daniel Webster, Obama State of the Union, The Guild League, Presidential Rhetoric, Shakespeare, Sermon on the Mount, Obama Administration, 100 Days, State of the Union, Politics News
Aaron Zelinsky

Here are the ten sources behind the most memorable lines of Obama's address.

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The Search for a Bailout End Game

Don McNay | Posted 03.27.2009 | Business

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Iraq Surge, Congress, Automaker Bailout, Wall Street Bailout, Howard Beale, Economy, Rick Santelli Video, Economic Crisis, Aig, Cincinnati, Don McNay, Stimulus, Henry VIII, Barack Obama, Rick Santelli Revolution, Thomas More, US Economy, Iraq War, Wall Street Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Henry Paulson, Kentucky, Rick Santelli, Economic Stimulus, Lexington KY, Republicans, Citigroup, Business News
Don McNay

Every bailout plan reminds me of an economic re-run of the Iraq war: There is a lot of panic. A hastily written plan sweeps through Congress without scrutiny. The plan is expected to "shock and awe" us.

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Obama Has Called the Nation to Service; He Needs to Call It to Sacrifice

Paul Abrams | Posted 03.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, George Bush, Sacrifice, National Service, George H.W. Bush, Vietnam, Steel Executives, Iraq, Barack Obama, Politics News
Paul Abrams

If 4,000 have sacrificed their lives in Iraq, another 20,000 their limbs and another 100,000+ their mental health, one wonders why asking Wall Streeters to sacrifice part of their wallets would be unpatriotic?

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