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07 Jan 19 : 01 | Cheryl Saban: Grandma's in the House Very soon, President-elect Barack Obama and his family will move into the White House. They'll take their belongings, their hopes, and their dreams and settle into the esteemed residence of the individual who holds the highest, most powerful, and most difficult office of our land. 0ur new... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 30 hours ago |
08 Jan 04 : 44 | Gordon Goldstein: Lessons of Obama's First Cabinet Controversy It had to come some time. Despite a nearly flawless transition period of astute, substantive and widely praised cabinet appointments, the nascent Obama administration has unintentionally provoked its first controversy. Significantly, it is in the sphere of national security. A vigorous... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 20 hours ago |
08 Jan 00 : 58 | Thomas Frank: An Unrepentant New Dealer Runs for Congress Thanks to the media circus swirling around the governor of Illinois and his schemes to fill President-elect Barack Obama's Senate seat, little attention is being paid to the race to succeed Rahm Emanuel as he moves from the House of Representatives to White House chief of staff. That's a shame,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 24 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 06 | Michael Giltz: Obama's Latest Dumb Pick: TV Doc Sanjay Gupta Apparently, Marcus Welby is too old and Noah Wylie of ER wants a break because Barack Obama's pick for Surgeon General is CNN"s Sanjay Gupta. This is dismaying since Gupta has embraced junk science, has questionable ethics and seems to have been chosen mostly because he is famous. Forget a Team of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 27 hours ago |
07 Jan 21 : 02 | June Hopkins: The New Deal Redux Political pundits often draw comparisons between current events and the good (or bad) old days. Especially now. Last year's stock market rollercoaster seems to be a replica of the 1929 crash that led to the Great Depression of the 1930's. Furthermore, President-elect Obama is channeling... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 28 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 48 | A. Siegel: Stimulate me Stimulate Etymology: From Latin stimulatus past participle of stimul? ("goad on") . Verb: to stimulate: To encourage into action. To arouse an organism to functional activity. Synonyms: encourage, induce, provoke, animate, arouse, energize, energise, excite, perk up Antonyms: de-energize,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 30 hours ago |
07 Jan 18 : 04 | Bob Ostertag: Hoping for Audacity (on climate change!) What I want from my new administration this year: a program to address climate change that is stunning in its breadth and scope. The weird thing is: I might get it. * The new administration will quickly pass an economic stimulus plan approaching something like a trillion dollars. * At the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 31 hours ago |
07 Jan 17 : 53 | Dave Zirin: The Year in "Political Sports" There will be more than a few articles proclaiming 2008 the greatest "sports year" in decades, if not ever. If the definition of sports is confined to professional sports played by men, then this hyperbolic statement could have a ring of truth. Tiger Woods won the US Open with a torn-up knee. The... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 31 hours ago |
29 Dec 21 : 29 | Jordan B. Gorfinkel: My White House Chanukah Miracle My Chanukah miracle: producing the musical presentation for the 2008 White House Chanukah celebration -- in eight days. I attended and performed with Kol Zimra, the only music group to entertain at two White House Menorah lighting ceremonies, the first in 2004, where we also led the first ever... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
03 Jan 16 : 32 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Burris Flap Tosses Glare on Virtual Lily White... Illinois Congressman Bobby Rush took much heat for saying this, "don't hang and lynch" him. The "him" is Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich's hotly disputed Illinois senate appointee Roland Burris. Rush deliberately spoke in racially charged terms. His point was that if the Senate tried to kick... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
07 Jan 03 : 13 | Steve Clemons: Joe Biden's CODEL to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan: ... Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of US Senators including Lindsey Graham (R-SC), John Kerry (D-MA), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Jack Reed (D-RI) are leaving soon on the last CODEL (Congressional Delegation trip) that the soon-to-be-but-not-yet Vice President will make in his career as a Senator. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed 45 hours ago |
06 Jan 22 : 56 | Trevor Neilson: A Philanthropy Strategy for President Obama Faced with the greatest set of challenges of any new President in recent history, President-Elect Obama will need unprecedented support -- and flexibility -- from the non-profit sector as he works to implement his agenda. He will be asking for that support at the worst possible moment. Almost... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 20 : 34 | Michael Hais and Morley Winograd: Mr. President: Bring Us Together The election of Barack Obama signaled the beginning of a "civic" realignment, produced by the political emergence of America's most recent civic generation, Millennials (born 1982-2003). Civic generations, like the Millennials, react against the efforts of divided idealist generations, like the Baby... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 18 : 57 | Mike Lux: Phasing Out of Transition and Into the Book Business Cross-posted on OpenLeft.com The deal that I cut with my friends in the transition was that I would get released a couple of weeks early so that I could begin the process marketing my new book, The Progressive Revolution: How the Best in America Came to Be, which will be in bookstores and... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
22 Dec 20 : 42 | Brian Ross: Will the Ghost of Richard Nixon Haunt the Obama White House? No matter how far out you go into modern political history from 1972, the ghost of Richard Mihous Nixon, and his administration, follows U.S. presidents. In Frost/Nixon, Frank Langella gives a very charitable and gentle film performance of one of the most dark and disturbed men ever to hold the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 03 : 00 | Arianna Huffington: Obama Isn't the Only One Being Inaugurated on Jan.... Barack Obama is not the only one being inaugurated on January 20th. We all are. And that's not just because Obama has promised to make a call to service "a central cause" of his presidency. It's because this moment in history demands that we stop waiting on others -- especially others living in... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
06 Jan 00 : 14 | Stephen Zunes: Feinstein: Bad Choice for Intelligence Ignoring the pleas of those calling for a more credible figure, Senate Democrats have instead chosen Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) to lead the Senate Committee on Intelligence. Feinstein was among those who falsely claimed in 2002 -- despite the lack of any apparent credible evidence -- that Saddam... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
05 Jan 22 : 19 | Craig Crawford: Have a Hopeful New Year Nations throughout history perished or flourished based upon how well they progressed into a new age. America mastered the industrial age in the early 20th Century and, thanks to John F. Kennedy's vision for the future of science in calling for a trip to the Moon, we mastered the age of computers. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
16 Dec 20 : 06 | Jeffrey Feldman: The Painfully Unwatchable White House Christmas Video Given this week's events, I did not think it was possible to find a video more excruciating to watch or more embarrassing to the United States than the footage of an Iraqi journalist shot putting his shoes at George W. Bush. Oh...wait...I found one: The 2008 Barney Christmas Video from the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
05 Jan 19 : 09 | Jayne Lyn Stahl: One Month After Inauguration Day On Feb. 20, one month after Barack Obama is sworn in as our next president, he must file a brief to let the Supreme Court, and the American people, know how he stands on the Bush administration's policy that says the commander-in-chief "may order the military to seize legal residents of the United... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
02 Jan 21 : 06 | James Zogby: Gaza: Lessons We Should Have Learned The horrors that are unfolding in Gaza are but a tragic replay of past confrontations: the same bluster and threats, the same miscalculations by all sides, the same massive and overwhelming use of Israeli force designed to "stop once and for all...," and same absence of any constructive U.S. role -... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
02 Jan 16 : 10 | Jacqueline Salit: How the Independent Movement Went Left by Going Right How the Independent Movement Went Left By Going Right A Special Post-Election Report By Neo-Independent Executive Editor Jacqueline Salit. On election night I watched Barack Obama give his victory speech in Grant Park, cheered on by millions of Americans across the country. They were... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
01 Jan 20 : 34 | Joseph Romm: The Top 10 Global Warming Stories of 2008 What events, actions, and findings had the most positive or negative impact on the likelihood that the nation and the world will act in time to avoid catastrophic warming? Since the #1 story is way too obvious to generate any drama, I will start there and then go back and count down from 10 to 2. ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
31 Dec 16 : 31 | Chris Rodda: MRFF Amends Lawsuit Against Defense Department On December 29, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) filed an amended complaint in the case of its co-plaintiff, decorated combat medic Army SPC Dustin Chalker. The amendment includes a number of additional examples of the "pattern and practice" of unconstitutional promotions of religion... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 18 : 00 | Joan Garry: Constructive Impatience I'll admit it. The Rick Warren selection stung. I really tried not to take it personally. I raised many gay dollars (insert funny visual here) for the President-elect. I received more than a handful of emails with the subject line; "I want my money back." My 81 year old mother said it in her... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 15 : 25 | Marty Kaplan: Once in a Lifetime I don't know about you, but I've had it up to here with once-in-a-lifetime events. Katrina was once in a lifetime. The 2004 tsunami was once in a lifetime. This past year's wildfires were the worst blazes in living memory. Every other month seems to bring an epic rain or snow that is said to be... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
30 Dec 02 : 14 | Sandip Roy: Gays and Rick Warren Could Come Together? It seems the party is over for gays. It was all too good to be true. A mention in Obama's acceptance speech on that heady night in Chicago. Then came the news that the gay and lesbian marching band would be in the inauguration parade. And an open lesbian was appointed to head the White House... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
28 Dec 04 : 12 | Steven G. Kellman: Bush the Bibliophile In an act of spectacular revisionist chutzpah, Karl Rove is now portraying George W. Bush as a devoted bibliophile. The man who marketed Bush as a good ol' boy from Midland, Texas exuding righteous disdain for elitist intellectuals has just published an article in the Wall Street Journal titled ... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
27 Dec 16 : 58 | Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Remembering the Other Eartha Kitt The smile on Eartha Kitt's face was unforgettable. It belied the pain, ridicule and turmoil that she had endured after she was unceremoniously shoved at or near the top of then President Lyndon Johnson's enemies list. But that seemed to be the furthest thing from her mind that late spring afternoon... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
27 Dec 03 : 13 | Hoyt Hilsman: The Bush Presidency: Shakespearean Tragedy or Cruel Farce? As the Bush era draws to a tragicomic close -- with shoes being hurled at the American president -- it might be tempting to portray the Bush presidency in Shakespearean terms, as a tale of overarching arrogance and hubris that led to his ultimate downfall. In fact, the presidency of George Bush... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
26 Dec 06 : 20 | Larisa Alexandrovna: An Open Letter to Professor Edsall: Retract Let me first say that I respect professor Edsall tremendously. He is a treasure to journalism. Unfortunately, he has been incredibly sloppy and bordering on defamation in his latest entry on the unfortunate death of GOP programmer Michael Connell. Edsall rightly takes to task the many people that... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
25 Dec 03 : 59 | Arianna Huffington: Ho, Ho, Ho: What You Told Us to Stuff Into the... Earlier this week, I asked for your suggestions on what gifts we should give to some of our favorite -- and not so favorite -- public figures. You responded with a flying sleigh's worth of great gift ideas. Even Santa's elves couldn't have been more industrious. Now it's time to unwrap the... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
23 Dec 22 : 59 | Aram Khayatpour: Outrage Over Blagojevich? Really? Alright, what he did was bad. It was really bad. His attempt to sell the empty senate seat Obama left behind was an incredibly corrupt act. The arrogance and disregard for ethical behavior he displayed was so ridiculous it borders on farce. The nation has responded appropriately, calls for his... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
22 Dec 18 : 26 | Michael Jones: Getting Away With It I just watched Rod Blagojevich jog to the podium with his improbable hair caressing his eyebrows and do a full Bill Clinton. I read on a blog somewhere that a political associate of the governor's called him Bill Clinton with morals. As the governor jogged off into the sunset he left his versions of... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
20 Dec 20 : 10 | Lisa Derrick: Mike Connell Key Figure in OH Voter Fraud and WH Email... Mike Connell, Karl Rove's IT guru--who was compelled six weeks ago to testify in an Ohio vote-tampering case--was killed late Friday night when his plane crashed into the garage of an empty house. Ohio's Secretary of State, Jennifer Brunner had requested that Connell and his wife be placed under... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
19 Dec 19 : 19 | Ben Cohen: 10 Ways To Spot a Neo Con In my latest installment of 'Top 10' lists, I thought I would compile a post that would be of use to the general public. Bashing Republicans and Democrats is good fun, but 'How To' lists are slightly more practical in our confusing political environment. Over the past 8 years, we have learned that... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
17 Dec 22 : 39 | Miles Mogulescu: Join the Viral Campaign to Throw a Symbolic Shoe at Bush:... Here's an email I'm sending to my friends and contacts: I urge you to highlight it, copy it , and send it to your friends and contacts, too--or personalize it with your own message. If you have a blog, website, Facebook page or MySpace page, please promote it there, too. Let's start a viral campaign... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
16 Dec 15 : 33 | Menachem Rosensaft: Senator Caroline Kennedy: An Inspired and Inspiring... Senator Caroline Kennedy: An Inspired and Inspiring Choice by Menachem Rosensaft Let's see now, Caroline Kennedy is a graduate of Columbia Law School, she has been deeply involved with and committed to public education in New York City, raising millions of dollars for the city's public schools,... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
15 Dec 01 : 46 | Frank Dwyer: Small Mercies Luckily when attacked in Iraq today George W. Bush didn't have to rely on the George W. Bush administration for sufficient shoe-armor to keep him safe, so he can finish his term with the same elegance, wit, compassion, and distinction that he brought to the rest of his time in the White House. Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
11 Dec 18 : 23 | Roger I. Abrams: The Secretary of Sports President-Elect Obama has made plain his support for a college football playoff system. Advocates of our current system have expressed their dissent. They prefer determining which two teams compete for the national championship through an intricate maze of polling and ratings. Of course, all other... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
08 Dec 21 : 19 | Tom Engelhardt: The Imperial Transition Reposted from TomDispatch. Did you know that the IBM Center for the Business of Government hosts a "Presidential Transition" blog; that the Council on Foreign Relations has its own "Transition Blog: The New Administration"; and that the American University School of Communication has a "Transition... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
08 Dec 17 : 06 | Jeff Schweitzer: Not Home Yet: The Terrible Carnage of Bush's Final Days Bush is going out as he came in, acting aggressively and recklessly in the absence of any support from the people. In 2000, he came to office after losing the popular vote, but behaved as if the country had handed him a resounding conservative mandate. Rather than ruling from the center of a deeply... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
16 Dec 17 : 59 | Danielle Crittenden: Where Is the Jewish Martha Stewart? Google "Hannukah Decorations" and you'll come up with only a slightly less lame selection of foil dreidels and plastic menorahs that you'll find stuck in the back corner of your local CVS. I don't say this resentfully: Jews themselves tend to be ambivalent about their trumped up competitor to... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
14 Dec 23 : 57 | Thelma Adams: Motherhood Tales: My Little Runaway When my husband, Ranald, was small, a neighborhood girl tried to flush herself down the toilet. Her mother found her standing in the john, next stop China. Ranald told me the story after our daughter Elizabeth, 9, packed her bags on Columbus Day and split. Lizzy's long goodbye began with a banging... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
09 Dec 17 : 41 | Andrea R. Vaucher: Along For the Ride: Hacienda San Angel Puerto Vallarta, that once quaint fishing village -- the Mexican St. Tropez in its day -- fell out of grace as a jet set destination about the time they built a highway connecting the town to the airport in the late seventies. Then they built Nuevo Vallarta - a Miami Beach wannabe, complete with... Source : The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
