LBJ Foundation Honors Rep. James Clyburn and Former Attorney General Eric...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The LBJ Foundation tomorrow will award its most prestigious prize, the LBJ Liberty & Justice for All Award, to Congressman James Clyburn and...
View Article‘STOLEN VALOR’ Camp: After Vietnam, how do we heal?
Despite the passage of 50 years since the first Marines landed in Da Nang, Donald Trump’s recent and controversial challenge to Sen. John McCain’s Vietnam War hero status strongly suggests that as a...
View ArticleBoth ‘guns’ and ‘butter’ are necessary for a vibrant community
If you were around during the Vietnam War, you likely remember Lyndon Johnson struggling to balance escalating costs of that military effort with domestic social programs that became the lynchpin of...
View ArticleFrom Harding to Kennedy to Obama to Rubio
While waging his Presidential campaign, U.S. Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is under constant criticism for missing over 30 percent of Senate votes in 2015. Rubio has also has missed Senate committee...
View ArticleOklahoma football: Unique group of seniors preparing for their final curtain...
NORMAN — Some of them are University of Oklahoma legacies. Some hadn't played much football before being recruited by Bob Stoops' staff. They came to Norman from places far and wide. Virtually all of...
View ArticleWhat We Lost When Bobby Kennedy Died
In honor of RFK’s 90th birthday, Jeff Greenfield, who worked as one of his speechwriters, explains why his legacy still looms so large. To ask “could Bobby have won if he had lived?” is a question both...
View ArticleSanders: Why I'm a 'democratic socialist' and why that's good
WASHINGTON - Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. A lot of voters call that unacceptable, so on Thursday, he offered a passionate explanation of why he wears that label, saying he's...
View ArticleBernie Sanders: Why I’m a ‘democratic socialist’ and why that’s good
Bernie Sanders calls himself a democratic socialist. A lot of voters call that unacceptable, so Thursday, he offered a passionate explanation of why he wears that label, saying he’s carrying on the...
View ArticleFive Ways the JFK Assassination Changed the World
John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 35th President of the United States of America, was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, 52 years ago. JFK's murder on November 22, 1963, might be the most significant, singular...
View ArticleHow JFK’s assassination led to a constitutional amendment
President John F. Kennedy’s death on November 22, 1963 traumatized a nation and led a united Congress to make a key constitutional change, in the form of the 25th amendment. View photo. Kennedy’s...
View ArticleSE Asia creates Economic Community, but challenges remain
Thirteen years after the idea was mooted, Southeast Asian leaders on Sunday formally created a unified economic community in a region more populous and diverse than the European Union or North America,...
View ArticleWhat if JFK had survived his assassination? (National Constitution Center)
(Source: National Constitution Center) Editor's note: This story first ran on Constitution Daily in November 2012. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas. Almost as...
View ArticleWhat if JFK had survived his assassination?
Editor’s note: This story first ran on Constitution Daily in November 2012. View photo. On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was killed in Dallas. Almost as prevalent as theories about his...
View ArticleThe hardest questions about fighting ISIS
(CNN)The political debate over the fight against ISIS is at fever pitch. Very soon after ISIS committed its atrocity in Paris, Republicans were criticizing President Barack Obama for his policies in...
View ArticleLetters West Palm neighborhood needs responsive leaders
Neighborhood needs responsive leaders We live in NoNo (north of Northwood). Sadly, it has become the backyard of all the NIMBYs (not in my back yard) of West Palm Beach. How pleased we all were when...
View ArticleCommentary: My thanksgiving for a great nation
Thank you, dear readers, for supporting The Bastrop Advertiser, and also to the editor and staff for their support and fine work. It is such a blessing for Bastrop to have its own “town crier.”...
View ArticleA Stranger Called Me a "Terrorist" and I Didn't React
I didn't say anything. And, in retrospect, I'm glad I didn't. On Friday night, I walked into one of my favorite restaurants in the neighborhood in which I live in Cincinnati, Over-the-Rhine, to grab a...
View ArticleSurviving Voices: Enduring Stories Of Hope National AIDS Memorial Grove...
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- In observance of World AIDS Day, the National AIDS Memorial Grove (the Grove) held two events that brought together more than 1,300 friends and supporters to...
View ArticleOpen Society Foundations Announces New Investments in Innovative Drug Policy...
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Seattle's Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion program is regarded as one of the most innovative drug policy programs in the country. Launched in 2011,...
View ArticleReality and Illusion in American Politics
As the crazy protracted carnival of the presidential election rolls forward with ever more outrageous rhetoric, spin, downright lies, and "gotcha" moments, it bears remembering what's on television...
View ArticleCivil Rights Pioneer Diane Nash to Deliver Keynote Address (Northwestern...
(Source: Northwestern University) EVANSTON, Ill. --- Legendary civil rights and peace activist Diane Nash -- who became involved in the nonviolent civil rights movement in 1959 when she was a college...
View ArticleNZ flag in Isis video
New Zealand features in Isis' latest propaganda video. A polished, four-minute video has surfaced online through Isis' media outlet, the Al Hayat Media Center. The video, entitled "No respite" features...
View ArticleHow JFK’s assassination led to a constitutional amendment (National...
(Source: National Constitution Center) President John F. Kennedy's death on November 22, 1963 traumatized a nation and led a united Congress to make a key constitutional change, in the form of the 25th...
View ArticleHow Wilko's touching love story simply took my breath away
It was a joy to be reminded of the extraordinary story of Wilko Johnson in this week's BBC documentary The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson. For anyone still unaware of the Wilko story, Johnson, the brilliant,...
View ArticleAs ISIS Strikes, China Rises (and America's Pivot Seems on Hold...Again)
Click here to view the companion video. As our hearts go out to Paris, Washington's collective head will once again pivot away from Asia and focus singularly on the war on terrorism. As this spectacle...
View ArticleRobert F. Kennedy Would Be 90 Years Old Today
Today would be Robert Francis Kennedy's 90th birthday, November 20th, 2015. Killed at the age of 42, he has been gone now six years longer than he was alive. In the forty-eight years since we've not...
View ArticleTranscript: Restraint: A New Foundation for U.S. Grand Strategy (The...
(Source: The Institute of World Politics) Below is a transcript of a lecture by Barry R. Posen, Ford International Professor of Political Science at MIT and Director of the MIT Security Studies...
View ArticleHenry S. Rowen, Second President of RAND, Dies at 90 (RAND Corporation)
(Source: RAND Corporation) FOR RELEASE Monday November 16, 2015 Henry “Harry” S. Rowen, photo by Diane Baldwin/RAND Corporation Henry “Harry” S. Rowen, who as the second president of the RAND...
View ArticleDecember 3, 2015Hitachi Receives 63 Elevators and Escalators Order for...
(Source: Hitachi Ltd) Information contained in this news release is current as of the date of the press announcement, but may be subject to change without prior notice. Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, December...
View ArticleDobbs: Trump and Carson — in ignorance we trust
Donald Trump and Ben Carson listen during the Nov. 10 Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee. (Morry Gash, Associated Press file) I recently saw a cartoon where one character says to the other,...
View ArticleTwins Are Very Different (Lessons from Jacob and Esau)
When we hear the term "twins," we often think of two things that are alike -- twin beds, twin turbo engines, etc. However, as the father of twins (who happen to turn ten-years-old today), I can attest...
View ArticleProtests in the Ivies: Whatever Happened to Irreverence and Thick Skins?
If I recall correctly, there was an Emily Post parody – the subject was etiquette for leftists — that appeared in The National Lampoon early in the 1970s. The National Lampoon was one of several...
View ArticleWhitewashing Militarism, Vietnam-War Edition
This year marks the fortieth anniversary of the Vietnamese victory over the United States, in the war that ravaged Vietnam, and caused untold suffering and division in the U.S. It was said, after the...
View ArticleWhy I’m a ‘democratic socialist’ and why that’s good
Democratic presidential candidate says he’s carrying on the legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King Jr. Bernie Sanders trails far behind Hillary Clinton in Democratic...
View ArticleSustaining operational excellence amid low oil prices
Even before crude’s steep price drop, oil and gas companies around the world were committed to profitability and growth targets that would have been difficult to hit. Cost inflation had driven down...
View ArticlePlastics engineering students benefit from scholarships (University of...
(Source: University of Wisconsin - Stout) November 17, 2015 The financial and educational value of receiving a scholarship hit home this fall for Travis Mullen, a sophomore majoring in plastics...
View ArticleCumberland Valley officials discuss poverty, approve contract for social worker
SILVER SPRING TOWNSHIP—While poverty and poverty-related struggles are not as severe among students in the Cumberland Valley School District as compared to other districts in the region, it is still an...
View ArticleTrump Could Be an Albatross for Down-Ballot Republicans
Should Donald Trump garner the Republican nomination, his presence on the ticket could have deleterious effects on Republicans running for office in closely contested races. Democrats would be in...
View ArticleDoes It Even Matter Who Wins the Presidency in 2016?
As the crazy protracted carnival of the presidential election rolls forward with ever more outrageous rhetoric, spin, downright lies, and "gotcha" moments, it bears remembering what’s on television...
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