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Feb.25.2009
(c) 2009 Jeanne Powell"2008 Election - Why Hillary Lost"all rights reserved
A winner has been declared in the 2008 presidential election, thus averting another Constitutional crisis (as in 1876 and in 2000). Remarkably few ballot boxes were found floating in rivers this time around....
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Jan.19.2009
Below are excerpts from the Introduction of my up-coming new book: American Galaxy Remembering the Union's Faith Foundation - Celebrating the People and the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave - A Loving Higher Purpose for the People. Also, a detailed preview and description of American...
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Jan.11.2009
January 20, 2009, when Barack Obama is sworn in as the 44th President of the United States will be an historic day for this country like no other. One could compare it to the Lincoln inauguration, coming at a time when the southern states were leaving the union and threatening the very...
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Dec.11.2008
The hard-edged lack of kindness Gov. Palin emanated during her unsuccessful quest for the VP position is her most memorable trait. Listening to her convention speech I tried to keep a distance but then she reeled me in with her patronizing schoolmarm voice. She spoke of a bad word, "the S-...
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Nov.10.2008
Here are the answers to the quiz on Baltimore's literary heritage. At Read Street, the Baltimore Sun's book blog, on commenter noted that she’s a cousin to Dashiell Hammett. She wrote: He used to bring his grandmother (Old Mrs. Dashiell as we called her) down to visit. My mother used to say...
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Nov.06.2008
What an amazing and historic reality it was - on 4 November, 2008. Barack Obama elected the first African-American plus bi-racial President of the United States of America. I had tears in my eyes.
Indeed, I am deeply inspired and proud of all citizens of the Union for keeping the American...
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Nov.05.2008
They'll come without notice, still. The tears, I mean. I've spent the better part of today in an emotional haze born of exhaustion and pent-up hope, getting little or no work done, surfing for photos from the nation and world over showing people, citizens of the planet we share, celebrating Barack...
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Nov.03.2008
Baltimore has a rich literary heritage ...
and here's a way to test your knowledge. Answer in a comment on The Baltimore Sun's Read Street blog and you'll be entered in a book drawing (you don’t need a perfect score to win). Thanks to the University of Baltimore’s Literary Heritage Project,...
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Dec.21.2007
We all grew up in our American history classes with the image of peg-legged old Peter Stuyvesant ruling chaotically over the short-lived Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. They were a sorry lot, these Dutch, who didn't understand what they had on Manhattan, an island that awaited the organizational...
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