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Book Review: Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
The title of Bob Woodward’s book is bound to confuse many readers, for one would think it refers to Afghanistan and Iraq, the two wars that President Barack Obama inherited when he took office....
View ArticleRJ’s 2010 Senate Race Predictions
A total of 37 Senate seats are up for grabs this year. The current composition of the US Senate is 59 Democrats (two of whom are actually independents who caucus with the Dems) and 41 Republicans. What...
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President Obama to Speak to Congress
The president of the United States will address a joint session of Congress at 7 PM September 8 to encourage a better season, this following the Congressional summer break, and to outline his plan for...
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Biden Optimistic Global Hunger Struggle Can Be Won
Vice President Joe Biden spoke last Monday at the World Food Program USA award ceremony. He praised this year’s winners, Bill Gates and Howard Buffett, who have dedicated their talents to fighting...
View ArticleHaikus for the Campaign Trail
Most people in this country, with the exception of political consultants and pundits, are not very happy with the direction of our politics. Campaigns are growing longer, louder, more bombastic, and...
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Political Conventions Are Like Sporting Events
I have wondered if anyone else noticed how much the Democratic and Republican conventions were like sporting events. We had everything that is very similar to sports: a home crowd advantage,...
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Joe Biden: From Football to the Vice Presidency
Joe Biden keeps a low profile, but is an outspoken man among men, and an American, with an American background. In Newport, New Hampshire on Friday, the vice president and candidate for the vice...
View ArticleI’m Voting For President Obama
A week ago, if you asked the average Democrat who was going to win this presidential election, the resounding answer was President Obama. But the latest Pew Research poll shows Mitt Romney ahead with...
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The Problem with the Presidential Debates
I understand that the presidential debates are big ratings events on television, and if you bounce around the channels afterwards (everything from FOX News, CNN, to NBC), you would think that these...
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Obama Candid in His Inaugural Address
The president, directly preceded by the vice president, took his public oath of office today, before the Capitol Dome, and before a crowd of Americans just short of one million strong. For President...
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POTUS 2016 Poll: Should Joe Biden Challenge Hillary Clinton?
The political question of the day? Should Vice President Joe Biden enter the 2016 POTUS foray and challenge up-till-now presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton? As we speak, the Vice...
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Language Matters: Melania Trump and Plagiarism in Politics
Melania Trump found herself atop the Republican Convention’s first-day news coverage when observers spotted passages in her speech that copied lines from Michelle Obama’s parallel 2008 address, in some...
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Blu-ray Review: ‘Confirmation’
HBO’s recent television movie, Confirmation, will be available on Blu-ray and DVD August 2nd, and has already been released for digital download and streaming. It’s the story of Anita Hill accusing...
View ArticleBiden’s F-Bomb Is No Laughing Matter
Vice President Joe Biden apparently thinks it is funny that an open microphone caught him using an inappropriate expletive when speaking with President Obama. This obviously unscripted moment came...
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Satire: The News in Pictures XXXV
Welcome to "O Caption! My Caption!" Blogcritics' examination of news, sports, and politics utilizing the most efficient and timesaving method: looking at pretty pictures and deducing what happened...
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Stephen Colbert Welcomes Home the Troops
This week brought two very special episodes of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. They were titled “Been There, Won That: The Returnification of the American-Do Troopscape.” In them, Stephen Colbert...
View ArticleBiden’s F-Bomb Is No Laughing Matter
Vice President Joe Biden apparently thinks it is funny that an open microphone caught him using an inappropriate expletive when speaking with President Obama. This obviously unscripted moment came...
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Satire: The News in Pictures XXXV
Welcome to "O Caption! My Caption!" Blogcritics' examination of news, sports, and politics utilizing the most efficient and timesaving method: looking at pretty pictures and deducing what happened...
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Stephen Colbert Welcomes Home the Troops
This week brought two very special episodes of Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report. They were titled “Been There, Won That: The Returnification of the American-Do Troopscape.” In them, Stephen Colbert...
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Biden Optimistic Global Hunger Struggle Can Be Won
Vice President Joe Biden spoke last Monday at the World Food Program USA award ceremony. He praised this year’s winners, Bill Gates and Howard Buffett, who have dedicated their talents to fighting...
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