4:55 a.m. - The bus leaves a Baltimore airport hotel. I’m on board with a group of Ritenour High School students. They’ve worked hard to get here today. All of them are part of an organization called Partners in Achievement.…

En route home from the inauguration our flight plan was to go from Dulles to Charlotte, Charlotte to St. Louis. The planes we took were smaller planes, with two seats on either side of the aisle. The overhead compartments were…

As I walked to the National Mall this morning I was stunned with the number of vendors selling Obama merchandise. Not just t-shirts, hats and scarves, but long johns, action figures and Obama chocolate too,…

a.k.a. “The picture I was hoping it was v. The picture it actually was”

At first glance, based on the name of the file in our database, I thought this photo of a lone man, facing Lincoln’s statue at the Lincoln…