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Barack Obama Sets the Record Straight

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jr., Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King, Swift Boat, Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, Keith OIbermann, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Obama showed good judgment by distancing his campaign from the more radical views of Reverend Wright, but also showed an admirable character trait by refusing to denounce Rev. Wright the person.

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Email Is Changing the Way We Communicate and Historians Are Worried

Tom Alderman | Posted 03.05.2008 | Media

Read More: Historians, National Archives and Records Administration, Email, Spam, Thomas Jefferson, Valuable Digital Assests, Arthur Schlesinger, Text Messaging, Digital Archives, Wisconsin State Archives, Internet, John Adams, Jr., Future Generations, U.C.S.D. Super Computer Center, Nara, Media News
Tom Alderman

You can shred a document and it's gone. You can erase a tape and it's blank. You can delete your email and trash your computer but your email is alive -- somewhere, on somebody's server.

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Memo to Obama: McCain Won't Hesitate to Play the Race Card

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 02.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: Harold Ford, John McCain, Terry Nelson, Jr., Racism, Michael Fauntroy, Republicans, Richard Quinn, Barack Obama, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

Senator John McCain's win in Wisconsin places him mere inches away from the Republican nomination. McCain's march to the nomination is nearly complet...

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Low Turnout, Few Options Mark Michigan Primary

Dan Treul | Posted 01.16.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Primary, Presidential Race, Mlk, Romney, Mitt Romney, Michigan Demoratic Party, Mccain, Obama, Barack Obama, Michigan Republican Primary, Clinton, Martin Luther King, Presidential Campaign, Dennis Kucinich, 2008 Presidential Race, Michigan Primary, Jr., Hillary Clinton, Michigan Democratic Primary, Dnc, Uncommitted, Home News
Dan Treul

Mitt Romney wins the Michigan Republican primary. Decisively. But does it even matter? Before what might be a Ford Edsel turns into a spaceship, a re...

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Driving with Joe Overholt

Steven Denlinger | Posted 01.12.2008 | Living

Read More: John Fohner, Nickels Bakery, Akron Beacon Journal, Sarah Overholt, " Kent State University, Mayor Giuliani, Cain and Abel, VW Rabbit, Matthias Overholt, Virginia, Richard Denlinger, A Cappella, Vera Overholt, People, Ohio, Prodigal Son, Jr., Disney, Tim Denlinger, Heidi Denlinger, Hartville Kitchen, Abigail Overholt, Conservative Mennonite, Nathan Overholt, John H. Miller, Cleveland Hopkins Airport, Greg Yoder, Hannah Overholt, Hartville, Joe Overholt, Hartville Conservative Mennonite Church, Eastern Mennonite University, The Hartville Singers, Christian Hymnary, Paul Kurtz, Aclu, Dismal Swamp, The Ausbund, Sr., Atlantic Intercoastal Waterway, "I Will Abide, Robert Redford, A River Runs Through It, Norfolk, Kent, Living News
Steven Denlinger

When I think back over my childhood, I remember one person who was truly unforgettable. Joe Overholt.

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Governor Spitzer Renames Triborough Bridge the "Robert F. Kennedy Bridge"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 01.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jr., Governor Elliot Spitzer, Edward Kennedy, Kerry Kennedy, Ethel Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

While representing New York, Senator Kennedy initiated numerous projects for the state's residents, including assistance to underprivileged children and students with disabilities.

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Live Web Coverage of the Iowa Caucus

Cenk Uygur | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media

Read More: MyDD, Faiz Shakir, Cenk Uygur, Think Progress, The Nation, Ellen Brodsky, Ari Melber, Air America, The Washington Note, Ben Mankiewicz, Adam Green, Webstream, The Agonist, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Jr., Newsweek, Sean Paul Kelley, newshounds.us, Live Coverage, Steve Clemons, MoveOn.Org, Sam Seder, Iowa Caucuses, Richard Wolffe, Wes Clark, Open Left, Matt Stoller, Todd Beeton, The Atlantic, Matt Yglesias, Media News
Cenk Uygur

If you love politics, you'll love the live Iowa caucus coverage on The Young Turks tonight.

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Seasons Greetings from the Flyover States (and Thanks Brad Pitt)

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 12.01.2007 | Living

Read More: Drew Brees, Branford Marsalis, Brad Pitt, Drew Dat, Make It Right, Habitat for Humanity Musicians Village, Angelina Jolie, Rem, Jr., Harry Connick, Dr. John, Saving NOLA Now, Global Green, New Orleans, Mike Mills, New Orleans Musicians Relief FUnd, Living News
Karen Dalton-Beninato

Please consider heading south to New Orleans for the best live local music around: tourism is one of the most important components helping the artists who have made it home able to stay there.

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From the People Who Brought You the War in Iraq Comes War With Iran

Tom Andrews | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Freedom's Watch, Richard J. Fox, Dr. John Templeton, Howard Leach, Win Without War, Ari Fleischer, Bush Iran, Gary Erlbaum, Robert Gard, Anthony Gioia, Kevin Moley, Edward Snider, Sheldon Adelson, Jr, Mel Sembler, Larry Wilkerson, Kyl-Lieberman Iran, Politics News
Tom Andrews

As far as President Bush and Vice President Cheney are concerned, Congress has the green light permanently lit if and when they decide it is time to "shock and awe" Iran.

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Pathetic Propaganda Posing as a Documentary

Michael Fauntroy | Posted 11.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Lily-White Movement, Black Vote, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Civil Rights, Nina May, Jr., Michael Fauntroy, Southern Strategy, Republicans, Alveda King, Reconstructon, Politics News
Michael Fauntroy

In arguing that the Dems were racist and that the GOP has been miscast by the liberal media as the enemy of Black people, Emancipation, Revelation, and Revolution completely overlooks the role of ideology in policymaking.

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Tom Cruise Dons Bald Patch And Fat Suit For New Role

Just Jared | Posted 11.18.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Jack Black, Tropic Thunder, Bill Hader, Nick Nolte, Robert Downey, Jr., Justin Theroux, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise Fat, Tom Cruise Bald, Tom Cruise Fat Suit, Matthew McConaughey, Tom Cruise Bald Fat, Entertainment News

Here are the first pictures of Tom Cruise in a fat suit and bald cap shooting his cameo for Ben Stiller's new comedy Tropic Thunder. Tom is believed ...

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A Mouse In The Rat Pack: Joey Bishop

Tony Sachs | Posted 10.19.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Peter Lawford, Rat Pack, Jr., Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Joey Bishop, Sammy Davis, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

The news might as well have been that one of Lincoln's generals had just expired, so remote does that bygone era seem to us who were born after Sinatra and his cronies ruled the world in the early '60s.

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Dr. King at Sacramento State College, October 16, 1967

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

Read More: T.S. Elliot, Jr., Lyndon Johnson, Victor Hugo, Martin Luther King, Aristotle, Martin Luther King Vietnam War, Martin Luther King Sacramento, Martin Luther King Civil Rights, Poor People's Campaign, Martin Luther King Riverside Church, NAACP Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Assassination, Naacp, Civil Rights, Vietnam War Protest, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Martin Luther King was greatly admired for having opposed racist sheriffs in Alabama, but when he turned his attention to the problems of poverty and war, he was bitterly criticized.

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