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Lynch Law Lives on Stage and in Troy Davis Execution
Tweet Share on Facebook September 26, 2011 Comment (8)When you visit Atlanta, ask about the death of Troy Davis, an execution by lethal injection as miles of people across land and sea kept a vigil until it came to pass at 11:08 p.m. last Wednesday evening.
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What Michelle Obama Must Be Thinking
Tweet Share on Facebook September 22, 2011 Comment (1)This man won my heart when we met downtown at the law firm. Tall and shiny as a skyscraper in a silver suit, a smile that lit up the sun. We walked on Michigan Avenue together, over the Chicago River, and there he's waving, shaking hands, knowing names like nobody's business. Yes, like a native son of the city when I've lived here all my life! He charmed all the older ladies on the South Side, too; they know my family, told my parents I can't do better than a man named Barack!
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Hug Between Obama and Bush Humanized the Presidency
Tweet Share on Facebook September 19, 2011 Comment (2)Since when have two presidents (past and president) hugged each other in public?
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Moving Forward from 9/11
Tweet Share on Facebook September 12, 2011 Comment (2)The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were not the worst thing that ever happened in American history, but we the people let them define and darken a devastated decade. We've seen the 21st century through a glass, darkly (with a short streak of euphoria in 2008).
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Republicans Are Bullying Obama Like a Schoolboy
Tweet Share on Facebook September 6, 2011 Comment (16)School has started in Washington and across America: new shoes tied, bells ringing, and playground games going on—including bullying. These days, we're wise to watching out for bullying, and determined to put a stop to boys being boys—except when it comes to our own President Obama. Lately, he seems to be shadowed by an endless summer squall that trailed him up to Martha's Vineyard, proving as true as a theorem: one month is a long time in politics. As pencils and knives are sharpened all around, the new school year does not bode well for him.
