Issue: 298
November 7, 2008
Commentary
FEAR ITSELF
Columnist
Change is coming! That’s what we were told during the recent presidential election campaign and Tuesday’s election alone brought a historic change to America—Barack Obama is the president-elect and he promised more change than John McCain. But anyone who would bring change to the nation must first find all the parts—the parts of the economy,…
Change is coming! That’s what we were told during the recent presidential election campaign and Tuesday’s election alone brought a historic change to America—Barack Obama is…
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Commentary
Obama and Afghanistan; Obama and the Second Coming of Clintonia – National Affairs
Columnist
We hope for Barack Obama to have all the success in the world. And given his smarts – he seems far and away the smartest president-elect in the last 45 years – he should although, as one person put it to me, people hope for so much from him that there conceivably could be no…
We hope for Barack Obama to have all the success in the world. And given his smarts - he seems far and away the smartest president-elect…
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Commentary
Blue Virginia
Guest Commentator
Virginia and the rest of the old South always voted for Democrats for president when the Democratic party stood for racism, and for Republicans when the Republican party stood for racism, until tonight. Virginia just voted for a Democrat for president, while the Republican party still carries the banner of racism. In fact, the Republican…
Virginia and the rest of the old South always voted for Democrats for president when the Democratic party stood for racism, and for Republicans when the…
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Commentary
Locked and Loaded – From the Fringe
Columnist
“Tool up.” “They’re buying racks and racks of ammunition. There were spots where there was none left.” “You better have a security plan in place.” These were not words uttered in a frontier dialect from the lips of NRA members. Instead, they were the voices of friends and family. Their voices and phrases sounded in…
“Tool up.” “They’re buying racks and racks of ammunition. There were spots where there was none left.” “You better have a security plan in place.” These…
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Commentary
Barack Obama and the Great Yearning
Guest Commentator
The election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States is a benchmark event in African American’s long, long history in this country. However, the overwhelming support Obama received from the nation’s Black communities, support that saw unprecedented numbers of African Americans marching as one to the polling booths, stemmed from emotions and…
The election of Barack Obama as 44th President of the United States is a benchmark event in African American’s long, long history in this country. However,…
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