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CULTURE ZOHN: Graduation Daze Part Two

Patricia Zohn | Posted May 16, 2008 | Living


Patricia Zohn


I promised my sons I would not write about them again; the last time

I wrote about graduation one of them didn't talk to me for over a year as he reminded me that he had indeed graduated even if I hadn't...

Memo to Tom Hanks: Barack Obama Is No Harry Truman

Robert Schlesinger | Posted May 5, 2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

So Tom Hanks has endorsed Barack Obama, comparing him -- according to the clip I just saw on Hardball -- with FDR, HST, JFK and RWR (that last would be Ronald Reagan -- apparently the Dems have the monopoly on names that can be reduced to catchy three-letter-initials, though...

Ask not why words matter, ask when they mattered most

Robert Schlesinger | Posted May 2, 2008 | Politics


Robert Schlesinger

Words do matter and few presidents knew this better than JFK (who of course also understood that rhetorical power has its limits).

How JFK came up with his memorable words and why they matter -- from "ask not" to the Cuban Missile Crisis -- is the subject of

40 Years Ago Today, The Police Tried to Kill Me At Columbia University

Blake Fleetwood | Posted April 30, 2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

April 30, 1968

With billy clubs swinging, bloodying heads, a phalanx of riot police stomped their way through the crowd of faculty supporters standing outside Fayerweather Hall. No one was given a chance to walk away.

The police then proceeded to smash in the main doors of...

Rev. Wright: "Obama Says What He Has to Say as a Politician"

Blake Fleetwood | Posted April 25, 2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

The above quote is from Bill Moyer's interview with Rev. Wright which is to air tonite. Rev. Wright, referring to Obama's disavowal of Wright's more controversial comments, said "He does what politicians do."

Sometimes...

Obama's ambivalence about playing the political game is how the Clinton's have successfully blunted his...

Debates Are Not About Issues.

Blake Fleetwood | Posted April 18, 2008 | Politics


Blake Fleetwood

They are about: Who Is the Best Candidate? Who can Win?

Ever since the first televised debate between Kennedy & Nixon, voters have often judged candidates on inconsequential issues... Nixon lost the 1960 debate, and election, because of such trivia as how much did he sweat?...How...

Hillary's Honorable Future: A History Lesson

Michael Goldfarb | Posted March 27, 2008 | Politics


Michael Goldfarb

As a journalist I have always practiced a form of history from below. My career coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union and the continuing break-up of the old World Order (the New World Order is still not in place). I preferred to report from the street rather...

Recapturing the Spirit of the 1960 Convention

Jonathan Greenspan | Posted February 27, 2008 | Politics


Jonathan Greenspan

Before Vietnam; before JFK, MLK and RFK went down; before we started beating up on one another; before we starting hating one another; before we all became cynics -- there was a moment when all seemed possible. At the time of the 1960 Democratic Convention, I was twelve years old....

Castro and the Colossus

Robert Scheer | Posted February 20, 2008 | Politics


Robert Scheer

The resignation of Fidel Castro is more promising for the burnishing of his legacy than the mostly septuagenarian Cuban hard-liners in Miami and their fawning allies in the Bush administration would like to believe. After all, Mao Tse-tung is still honored in communist China, the fastest-growing capitalist power in the...

Forging a Negotiated Path to Iraq's Future

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted February 19, 2008 | Politics


Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

If President Bush has his way, the US military will be forced to stay in Iraq indefinitely -- regardless of who wins the presidential election in November. I wanted to draw your attention to an op-ed I wrote in today's Boston Globe, laying out President Bush's worrisome plan:

The...

Why I Recorded Yes We Can

Will.i.am | Posted February 3, 2008 | Entertainment


Will.i.am

I was sitting in my recording studio watching the debates...
Torn between the candidates

I was never really big on politics...
and actually I'm still not big on politics...

The outcome of the last 2 elections has saddened me...
on how unfair, backwards, upside down, unbalanced, untruthful,

Sam Stein

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NOW Head Described Treatment Of Clinton A "Gang Bang"

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Sam Stein   |   January 31, 2008 11:47 AM


Marcia Pappas, the President of the New York State chapter of the National Organization of Women, gained a bit of notoriety on Monday when she called Sen. Ted Kennedy's endorsement of Sen. Barack Obama the "ultimate betrayal" of women. The...

Obama, Clinton and the War

Robert Scheer | Posted January 30, 2008 | Politics


Robert Scheer

It should mean a great deal to progressives that in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination Sen. Ted Kennedy favors Sen. Barack Obama over two other colleagues he has worked with in the Senate. No one in the history of that institution has been a more consistent and effective...

Kennedy Endorses Obama _ 'Change in Air'

AP   |  DAVID ESPO   |   January 28, 2008


WASHINGTON — Summoning memories of his brother the slain president, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy led two generations of the First Family of Democratic politics Monday in endorsing Barack Obama for the White House, declaring, "I feel change is in the...
Sam Stein

BIO

After Kerry Endorses, Political World Waits For Kennedy

HuffingtonPost.com   |  Sam Stein   |   January 10, 2008 01:26 PM


With one Massachusetts senator throwing his weight into the Democratic presidential race today, anticipation now mounts for the other to follow suit. Sen. John Kerry announced his support for Sen. Barack Obama at a rally in South Carolina on Thursday....

A Nation of Laws, Not Men

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted December 7, 2007 | Politics


Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

I'm headed to the Senate floor right now to speak about startling news from today's newspapers:

The Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the interrogation of two Qaeda operatives in the agency's custody, a step it took in the midst of Congressional and legal...

MITT IS PROUD! TO! BE! A! (mumble)... mrmn

Barry Yourgrau | Posted December 6, 2007 | Politics


Barry Yourgrau

Mitt's speech on his Mormonism today was meant to echo Kennedy's on Catholicism--was it?

In his address--to a groomed audience--Mitt used the term MORMON, how many times?

Once.

Kennedy, in his speech to an audience of Baptists, definitely not home turf, used the term CATHOLIC how many times? Here's the...

A Funny Thing About Norman Mailer

Eric Alterman | Posted November 27, 2007 | Politics


Eric Alterman

: When speaking at the memorial service for Arthur Schlesinger Jr. a while back, Mailer made the odd comment that he was really just an acquaintance of Arthur's. This led many in the audience to presume that he had been invited merely for his celebrity. The funny thing is that...

Giving Needy Young Children a Real Head Start

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted November 16, 2007 | Politics


Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

When you ask parents what they want to accomplish in life, their answers always include opening doors of opportunity for their children, so they can grow up healthy and safe, graduate from high school and college, and achieve the American dream.

Head Start
was enacted as...

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