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I am aware that at times I sound like the Obama administration's chief cheerleader, but after eight years of Bush policies that felt like a kick in the guts or a punch in the jaw every couple of...
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OJ Simpson: justice today for crimes of yesterday
Yesterday was the culmination of the fall from grace for “The Juice.” The once beloved football star, and darling of advertising companies, was informed he would be a guest in the Nevada Penal...
Hawks into doves? Obama’s foreign policy team
For a while, people scoffed at Barack Obama’s run for the presidency, writing him off as a naïve idealist who could never make it halfway through the primaries, let alone into the Oval Office. His...
Michelle Obama and the politics of shifting
The added benefit of having Barack Obama as president, is that Michelle Obama becomes the first lady. For the first time in American history, an African American female has been uplifted as symbol of...
Black Friday and Thanksgiving: the holiday conundrum
Families gathered across the United States to celebrate Thanksgiving together this week. For some it involved a great deal of travel and stress. Hours of labour were spent in an attempt to create the...
Nebraska no longer a safe haven: what to do with the kids now?
Nebraska was the last state to institute a safe haven law. The original intent of this law was to stop mothers from leaving their newborn infants in dumpsters, if they decided they did not want them,...
George W. Bush: lame duck watch
Barack Obama, in his first press conference as president-elect, stressed that the U.S. has only one president at a time. The rest of us would do well to remember that. George W. Bush is still in...
GM Bailout: when the ship sinks, Joe Six-Pack is to blame
It seems each time the news turns to the financial sector there is a company or industry that's failing. While economists examine what it means to the economy as whole, ordinary Americans sit in fear...
Expat Republicans and Reagan Democrats: time for a new party?
The Republican Party, not having gotten the message in 2006, has been slapped down by the electorate yet again, only this time with considerably more feeling. It used to be the Democrats controlled...
Burning Lake of Fire: New Orleans sinks and Montecito burns
Katrina was a catastrophic event and the American government stood by impotent and unaffected while many were left to suffer. What the Katrina victims had in common was that they were largely poor...