Smart power: Have they heard of a spellchecker at the White House website?
Even spelling the president’s first name correctly is a challenge
Category: Politics
Obama to GOP: ‘They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.’
Shades of Rosa Parks
Pelosi’s Bitter Fruit
Bedecked in one of many $10,000 golf ball-sized pearl necklaces, multimillionaire and part-time viticulturist Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi dazzled the audience at a United Steelworkers event where she expressed revulsion over “income inequality in America.” The keynote speech addressed the “disparity of income and the gap between the …
Turkeys, Teachers and Political Theatre
As Obama prepares to pardon a turkey he uses a young teacher as a theatre prop
Green Maureen the Queen of Mean
In Maureen Dowd’s latest Sunday Times op-ed piece entitled “Playing all the Angles,” the snippy columnist identified conservative women as “mean girls.” As the lovely and gracious Dana Perino said in response, Maureen Bridgid Dowd may “have a way with words” but the New York Times diva of editorial opinion …
‘The Rent is too damn high guy’ not what he’s cracked up to be
Political sensation of the hour a disappointment.
Feingold and the First Lady
Crisscrossing the nation, Michelle Obama is out stumping for Democrats. The First Lady dropped in on America’s Dairyland to “badger” Wisconsin voters to reelect Senator Russ Feingold. Michelle lent star power to the beleaguered Feingold, who has raised twice the cash as his opponent Ron Johnson but still trails him …
The Clever and Classy G.W. Bush
Former President G. W. Bush was recently the keynote speaker at a University of Mobile scholarship benefit in Alabama. Taking to the podium, an “energized and animated” Bush spoke before a crowd of 1,000 about the pleasures of retirement, the honor of being the President of the United States and …
Prayer Circles and Polling Places
Keeping hope alive – legally or illegally
Chilean Inspiration
America has a unique opportunity to garner hope from Chile. Five thousand miles away at San Jose Mine in the northern town of Copiapo, hopelessness gave birth to miracles and that which seemed desperate instead gave to life determination, and indomitable trust in God. It was in Copiapo that a …