Barack Obama | Barack Obama
Dec.05.2010
The American president, who has been talking about democracy, did not have the basic courtesy to inform another democratic president that he planned to visit his country. Barack Obama made an unscheduled visit to Afghanistan, skirted the capital Kabul and landed straight at the Bagram Air...
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Nov.27.2010
Jimi Hendrix would have turned 68 today.
Okay, I confess, I'm old enough to remember Jimi Hendrix, yes, even old enough to have gone to Woodstock to hear him perform.
Better still, while a teenage high school student, I often ran away to Woodstock where I would spend weeks liberating crab meat...
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Nov.27.2010
Jimi Hendrix would have turned 68 today.
Okay, I confess, I'm old enough to remember Jimi Hendrix, yes, even old enough to have gone to Woodstock to hear him perform.
Better still, while a teenage high school student, I often ran away to Woodstock where I would spend weeks liberating crab meat...
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Nov.21.2010
Incredibly, it was fifty years ago that another young senator was elected as president, and nearly fifty years ago that his life was cut short that fateful day in Dallas. His life, yes, but not his legacy.
For the past week or so, I haven't been able to stop thinking about John F. Kennedy, and what...
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Nov.18.2010
To begin my discussion about the importance of others in supporting the creative process, I would like to present an interview I had with Loren Long, an accomplished artist who has illustrated many books, including Mr. Peabody’s Apples by Madonna, I Dream of Trains by Angela Johnson, a 2004...
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Nov.01.2010
1. Power is a reality: Power-the quest for it and the fear of it--has been a reality of the our condition since the dawn of human consciousness and the formation of the first human societies, both wandering and settled, agricultural and industrial. How does sitting home on election day make...
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Oct.07.2010
(fed's release secret tapes
overheard the night before
his verdict was announced to the World.)
bragojevich successfully sold the rights to arizona behind obama's back to Vicente Fox who was trying to launder his image from his defrocked party and their Alliance for Change (the source of...
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Oct.01.2010
Who is that masked superhero zooming across the country on treacherous adventures to save the Democratic damsel? It's President Barack Obama, in a desperate attempt to erase the midterm election enthusiasm gap. Two words: good luck.
We're talking about a chasm that makes the Grand Canyon seem but...
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Sep.28.2010
Geri Spieler's review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books, www.nyjournalofbooks.com
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women.
Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press.
In BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the...
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Sep.22.2010
Of all the powers in which I have placed my faith, my deepest and most lasting allegiance is to the power of speech. I eat, breathe, and sleep words. When I am lucky enough to happen on it, the delicious taste of le mot juste fills my mouth like melting chocolate. If words had volume, mine would...
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