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Twenty years ago today ---9 November 1989--- the German Democratic Republic finally read the writing on the wall (literally and figuratively) and announced that open travel would be permitted between East and West Berlin and East and West Germany. This was the...

I found it fascinating that on the 46th anniversary of RNs "last press conference", the Governor of Alaska gave her first national press conference without handlers. Something else that I found interesting was that while both press conferences protrayed the...

Today's Washington Post has a front-page feature by Wil Haygood, the biographer of Sammy Davis Jr. and Adam Clayton Powell, which tells the story of Eugene Allen, an octogenarian resident of Northwest DC who, from 1952 to his retirement in 1986, was a butler at the...

Critics accused the Old Man of sometimes using government resources for political purposes.  The practice did not exactly start in 1969, nor did it end in 1974.  The President-elect has now taken it into the Internet Age.  His official transition website (change.gov)...

Forty years ago, in the wake of the hard-fought 1968 presidential election, the nation faced what many assumed would be a turbulent transition. But it did not turn out that way. Whatever happened later, the country moved from what had been the one of the most divisive...

After a great deal of discussion and speculation, we finally have the answer: Barack Obama is the New Nixon. The clincher?  I'll let Anthony Holden tell you in his own words from today's Daily Beast: Among the countless blessings conferred by the election of Barack...

It's hardly news that print media has been in steady decline ever since the moment that the ball came down in Times Square on December 31, 1999, and the world realized that these newfangled computers were not going to all crash and were here to stay. This morning,...

It was widely noted in the media yesterday morning that former Weather Underground leader and current professor of education Bill Ayers voted at the same grade school where Sen. Barack Obama (and Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan) cast their ballots. But lost in...

Barack Obama is the first non-Southern Democrat to win a majority of the popular vote since 1944.  (In 1960, JFK got less than 50 percent in his race against the Old Man.) In fact, he is only the second non-Southern Democrat since 1828 to get more than 51 percent. ...