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On A Winning Streak
With Tim Tebow and Sam Bradford hurt, President Obama now becomes the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy. And you can help. A tip o'the cap to Nick Ryan.
Is “Process, Effort And A Change Of Tone” Enough?
Aaron David Miller, a fellow of the Wilson Center in Washington and a Middle East negotiator in the administrations of four Chief Executives, writes about President Obama's Nobel Prize for Peace at CNN.com: A young president, barely in the 10th month of his first year...
Don’t Remind Us That Fred Gwynne Was Robbed…
"It isn't quite as inexplicable as Marisa Tomei's Best Supporting Actress Oscar, but it seems pretty close." - Mark Halperin at Time.com, on President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
For What?
The two words above were the first were heard in my household when my cellphone greeted me, seconds after awakening, with the words: "Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize." Five words that jolted me awake faster that any cup of coffee could. Or maybe even ten cups. If David...
Too Early For Halloween
Tomorrow night, the Los Angeles Angels go into this year's first round of the American League playoffs, facing the Boston Red Sox. Mike Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe recalls the days, three decades ago, when the Angels, in their first foray into the AL postseason,...
Annals Of The Obama Administration
The Wall Street Journal yesterday reported on the 45 works of art chosen by the First Lady from various government collections to adorn the White House. Loaned art in the Residence • Josef Albers – Homage to the Square: Elected II – Hirshhorn Museum • Josef Albers –...
How RN Saved The Peace Corps
In 1961, President Kennedy started the Peace Corps from an ambitious idea and a Marshall redux of sorts, an all- American volunteer program with three simple goals: 1) to help people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women, 2) to help...
Pat Nixon And The Golden Age Of The White House
White House renovator: First Lady Pat Nixon pictured with curator Clement Conger, daughter Julie Nixon Eisenhower, designer David Richmond Byers III (left, from left to right), and architect Edward Vason Jones (right) in the Green Room in 1971. Much has been written...
Laughing Matters
Saturday Night Live's cold open did not go unnoticed on the Sunday morning talk shows --- providing the basis of this week's discussion about whether and/or how much the bloom is off the rose. Like Darrell Hammond with Bill Clinton and Will Ferrell with W ---and last...
A Milestone For The White House Fellowships
Today is the 45th anniversary of the Executive Order that founded the White House Fellows program. The Fellowships's White House website describes the program's origins: Declaring that "a genuinely free society cannot be a spectator society," President Lyndon B....