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Obama's State of the Union Was Tantamount to Plagiarism
Tweet Share on Facebook January 26, 2011 Comment (269)If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, what can be said of plagiarism? President Obama’s second State of the Union address contained enough recycled ideas and lines lifted from speeches of others to make historians wince. I suppose this is what one does when one not only has nothing new to say, but is required by custom and Constitution to come forth with a report of some kind by a certain time and day.
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Joe Lieberman Is a Modern Day Profile in Courage
Tweet Share on Facebook January 20, 2011 Comment (5)In 1955, Sen. John F. Kennedy, with a powerful (some say determinative) assist from his principal aide, Ted Sorensen, produced a book that became an instant classic. In contrast to the dribble that so many aspiring presidential hopefuls have brought forth since, Kennedy’s Profiles in Courage remains in print and in the curricula of schools more than a half century after its publication.
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Obama's Tucson Speech Was Reagan-esque
Tweet Share on Facebook January 13, 2011 Comment (19)Tragedies have a way of bringing out the best in some and the worst in others. When I first learned of the attack made on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords last weekend, memory carried me back to a tragic day in San Francisco in the fall of 1978. That was when former city supervisor Dan White entered the majestic City Hall, through a side window, and assassinated Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk.
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Lessons for Boehner from Pelosi, Gingrich and Rayburn
Tweet Share on Facebook January 6, 2011 Comment (6)What history may know as the “Boehner Era” began yesterday. In what must have been the most anticipated and widely covered House transition in recent memory, John Boehner mounted the rostrum for the first time as the 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives. He got off to a good start.
