by Leo Gerard | Jan 22, 2009 | Blog
Symbols of the 16th president of the United States surround the 44th. And they did so from the beginning. Barack Obama, formerly a Senator from Illinois, announced his plan to run for president on Abraham Lincoln’s birthday from the steps of the Old State Capitol in...
by Robert Borosage | Jan 22, 2009 | Blog
"A man whose father less than 60 years ago might not have been served at a local restaurant can now stand before you to take a most sacred oath." It was not the words, but this transcendent reality that evoked the tears at Barack Obama's inauguration Tuesday. The...
by Terrance Heath | Jan 21, 2009 | Blog
"Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountain top. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned...
by Bill Scher | Jan 21, 2009 | Blog
In his first Inaugural, President Barack Hussein Obama delivered one of the most eloquent descriptions of liberalism in history. Many will focus on the calls for unity, to depict the speech as non-ideological. but make no mistake. President Obama is calling for unity...
by Alan Jenkins | Jan 19, 2009 | Blog
In the days just before and after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 80th birthday, I had the opportunity to visit two places that are integral to his modern day legacy: Washington, DC and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. As I witnessed the inauguration of Barack Obama...
by Sara Robinson | Jan 19, 2009 | Blog
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose: It may perhaps be asked what need there is of reasoning or proof to illustrate a position which is not either controverted or doubted, to which the understandings and feelings of all classes of men assent, and which in...
