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2011 Brings Less Hope for Obama, All Americans
Tweet Share on Facebook December 31, 2010 Comment (9)Hope less: a way to say what we feel going into 2011, a few years into hard times, the Obama presidency and the toll taken on our nation's people since a new president, full of hope, took the oath of office in the bitter cold.
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'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' McCain, and the Drama of the Lame Duck
Tweet Share on Facebook December 22, 2010 Comment (4)The Senate show goes on, giving the American people some splendid political theater at the end of the year. Better late than never. Here are a few points on Washington's street the week before Christmas--naughty, nice, spiced with streaks of true character "coming out" at last. We are, after all, living in interesting times, so the last thing we wish to be is dulled down. Consider:
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Obama Lost Democrats With Tax Cut Deal
Tweet Share on Facebook December 14, 2010 Comment (10)True to my reputation as a history muse, I see Barack Obama at this hour in a Civil War light—the chapter which carved out classic templates of American character 150 years ago, none greater than the sage realist Abraham Lincoln.
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Thomas Jefferson and His Women
Tweet Share on Facebook December 6, 2010 Comment (11)Who doesn't love Thomas Jefferson? I asked myself that walking over to the Woman's National Democratic Club, founded in 1922--one of Washington's most graceful institutions, housed in a mansion even more beautiful inside than Monticello, Jefferson's own breathtaking abode and masterpiece atop a mountain in Albemarle County, Virginia. "Mr. Jefferson" used a spyglass to look down into the distance to check on how building the University of Virginia was coming along--the university for Cavalier young men was also his creation.
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Jimmy Carter Brings His White House Diary to Politics and Prose
Tweet Share on Facebook December 1, 2010 Comment (5)Reader, here's a page from the diary of a liberal, one who dares to speak the name, even to etch it in the ether, how's that? Just to be clear, fair and square for foes and friends alike; hold your fire on musings mostly made of memory. Was it Nabokov who wrote: "Speak, Memory?"
