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Mar.15.2010
I was riding my bicycle down the street one day on a beautiful warm Missisissippi day. I was going to my best girlfriends' house. Her family had more money than most, so they lived in a large home on river road in Moss Point, Mississippi. She and I spent hours and hours together talking about...
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Mar.14.2010
The Supreme Courtship between Barack Obama and John Roberts is officially over. While addressing a group of law students in Alabama last week, the Chief Justice Roberts confessed to being troubled that the president's yearly address "degenerated into a political pep rally."
He suggested...
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Feb.28.2010
Huffington Post, Feb. 16, 2010
No American leader has done more to advance a clean energy future than President Obama. Nor has any American president done more to invoke a mandate for stricter workplace safety and environmental regulations.
And yet, ever since President Obama first visited my native...
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Feb.19.2010
Todd Stern, a climate negotiator during Bill Clinton’s presidency and more recently a fellow at the Center for American Progress, will assume the role of special envoy for climate change at the State Department. “We have no shortage of evidence that our world is facing a climate crisis,” said...
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Feb.15.2010
Now that it has been established by leaders and commentators across the political spectrum that the Obama administration is a failure, Americans everywhere must reassess their positions and plans for the three years that remain.
This is good news for the Democrats: they no longer need to figure out...
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Jan.21.2010
My friends tend to a few views of President Obama and the Democrats at the end of Year One. They seem different, but actually, all are part of the Disappointment System, my new name for the combination plate of hurt and response which has become our national dish. As is so often the case, what we...
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Nov.05.2009
The bookstore would have been easy enough to pass without registering, even for a bibliophile like me, had it not been for the eye-catching window display. All manner of Obama memorabilia – buttons, bumper stickers, die cut images, campaign posters, handbills, photographs – punctuated the dozen or...
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Nov.05.2009
President Obama's new video talks about how we can bring about change - we have so much power, we just need to use it.
Click here to check out the President's new video.
What is the essence of meaningful change? How can we bring about positive changes in our own lives?
I've got a new article...
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Nov.04.2009
The United States is, once again, at the precipice of all-out war, and, if the Pentagon, the Republicans, and the military-industrial monolith have their way, Afghanistan may become another Iraq or Vietnam. One can only hope that President Obama knows his history and will refuse to repeat its...
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Oct.20.2009
Dear President Obama:
There are so many ways in which I am deeply grateful that you are our president. I could write you a long ode with many stanzas of praise. Such an ode would be heartfelt, but also heartfelt is this note that raises my deep concerns about much of the Arne Duncan education...
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