Despite a regular tendency to vote for third-party leftist candidates for President, I happily voted for Barack Obama in 2008. The defining issue for me was the badly degraded legal milieu of the Oval Office. In the wake of the Bush administration's repeated distortions of the powers of the Executive...
For the past few weeks, the anniversary of the birth of the modern gay rights movement has prompted renewed demands for the full integration of gays and lesbians into the military. Figures ranging from Gen. Shalikashvili to Barney Frank to a self-proclaimed conservative World War II spouse...
Bob Dinneen | Posted July 10, 2009 | Green
Wednesday, July 15th, marks the 30th anniversary of President Jimmy Carter's famous "malaise" speech.
As with many historic events, this speech was very different from the disaster that we now remember. First, Carter didn't use the word "malaise" even once in the speech. Second, his ratings in the...
Jim Selman | Posted July 10, 2009 | Living
The conventional wisdom in Alcoholics Anonymous is that alcoholism is a 'disease' of the ego -- self-centeredness. Basically the alcoholic becomes trapped in his or her own point of view and denies any other perspective on 'reality'. The alcohol is a symptom of a loss of control and choice --...
Cynthia Gordy | Posted July 10, 2009 | World
When Air Force One touches down in Ghana on Friday evening, it's sure to be another goosebump moment of the Obama presidency. The rich symbolism in Barack Obama, the son of a Kenyan immigrant, visiting Africa as the President of the United States, and Michelle Obama, the descendent of enslaved...
Bill Mann | Posted July 10, 2009 | Entertainment
President Obama obviously doesn't have enough time to watch TV regularly. Well, episodic TV, anyway. But when he does, he's said in several recent interviews, he tries to catch HBO's Entourage.
A smart, hip choice, as you'd expect from a sophisticated guy like Obama. I suspect the...
Sharon Glassman | Posted July 10, 2009 | Living
There are no second acts in American lives, the tragic ol' F. Scott Fitzgerald quotation goes.
Cut your whining! The new careerists say, for a very good reason.
Seconds acts are ours for the making. And it's never too late to start your re-starting.
This concept was brought...
Emma Coleman Jordan | Posted July 10, 2009 | Media
We have all read and heard the repetitive discussion of the "wise Latina" quote. But what many have not paid attention to is the unfair name-calling, and cultural and racial attacks that Judge Sotomayor's candidacy.
The Women's Media Center (WMC) of New York City has compiled a compelling video that...
Jason Mannino | Posted July 10, 2009 | Entertainment
If the walls at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles could speak they would tell you that last night was the kick off of the 27th Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Outfest, 2009. Outfest is one of the oldest, continuously running film festivals in Los Angeles and...
John R. Price | Posted July 10, 2009 | Politics
President Obama's health care initiative isn't dead yet. It's not even on life support. It is, however, in grave danger as long as either the approval or rejection of legislation in Congress rests in the domain of political ideologues and their media lapdogs.
Americans want meaningful changes in the...
Ina Pinkney | Posted July 10, 2009 | Chicago
In Chicago, we wait all year for this time of year. And the markers I use are local blueberries and peaches. Every week I buy one peach or one tiny carton to wait for the perfect 'moment' for each.
Blueberries come along first and when the explosion in my mouth...
Brian Dickie | Posted July 10, 2009 | Chicago
I have been working here for 10 years and much has changed. And most of it for the better. The construction of Millennium Park has been transforming. I was giving thought to that as I walked to the Park Grill at lunchtime. Ten years ago this was an unattractive wasteland...
Dan Glickman | Posted July 10, 2009 | World
The new pledge to commit $20 billion to global agricultural development, announced at this week's G-8 summit, has the potential to dramatically improve the livelihoods of more than 700 million of the world's poor living in rural areas. If realized, this would be the most significant investment in the developing...
Ari Bendersky | Posted July 10, 2009 | Chicago
Riesling is possibly the most misunderstood grape varietal in the wine world, especially when it comes to American palates. Ask your average wine drinker in the U.S. what they think of Riesling and they'll undoubtedly say it's sweet. In many instances they're right. But Riesling runs the gamut from super-sweet...
Kimberly Ann Elliott | Posted July 10, 2009 | World
Adam Thomson, in today's Financial Times, writes of the coup in Honduras as an echo of 1980s violence in Central America. But, in fact, the past is not as distant as much of the coverage of the coup suggests and the seemingly forgotten autogolpe, or "self coup" in Guatemala...
James Zogby | Posted July 10, 2009 | Politics
In 1991, as part of its overall approach to post-Gulf War peace-making, the Administration of George H. W. Bush secured an Arab agreement to suspend their secondary boycott against companies doing business with Israel, in return for an Israeli commitment to freeze settlements.
Three years later,...
Mona Gable | Posted July 10, 2009 | Politics
I'd like to thank Nancy Pelosi for nixing the resolution to honor Michael Jackson. It's not like Congress doesn't have anything to do. (Health care, anyone?) But it was a spectacularly bad idea from the start. And now with revelations about the late singer's drug problems, the coroner's office subpoenaing...
Paul Klein | Posted July 10, 2009 | Chicago
Is it the middle of summer already?
This is fabulous time to view art in Chicago galleries. For a lot of reasons there is much less pretentiousness in summer than at any other time of the art year. It is in summer that galleries anticipate fewer sales and less traffic,...
Richard Klass | Posted July 10, 2009 | Politics
A few weeks ago while showing the Vietnam War Memorial to some out of town visitors, a young man's voice startled me. This ten or twelve year old surveyed the more than 58,000 names on the wall, Including 16 of my Air Force Academy classmates, and asked his dad "did...
Roseanne Colletti | Posted July 10, 2009 | Business
I admit to a bit of morbid curiosity. I was not only interested in finding out what kind of Michael Jackson memorabilia has been selling since the death of the pop icon, but was also curious about their price and potential value as investments.
To that end I picked...
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