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On this Veterans Day, its worth remembering that the holiday originally was named Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end, on Nov. 11, 1918, of the “war to end all wars.”
By November 1954, it had become apparent that hadn’t quite…
Barack Obama and Chris Wallace in happier days, before one became president and the other got snubbed.
Oscar Wilde once described fox hunting as “the unspeakable in full pursuit of the inedible.” What would he have said about Fox hunting? Perhaps…
President-elect Obama and Treasury Secretary-designate Timothy Geithner (AP Photo by Charles Dharapak)
In a bizarre demonstration of how important confidence is to the health of the American economy, President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama held back-to-back photo ops Monday, 90…
Barry Blitt, "The Politics of Fear," The New Yorker, July 21, 2008
Thanks to everyone who’s called, written, e-mailed and phoned about my Sunday column, “The First 83 Days.” I apologize to those who were offended, but I’m stunned at the…
Now comes the hard part. President-elect Barack Obama, having won a historic mandate for change, must make it happen.
He faces monumental problems: “Two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century,” as he put it in…
Congress traditionally avoids controversial issues in the weeks between a presidential election and the Christmas holidays. This year may be different.
Spooked by the economy’s slow response to the $700 billion Wall Street rescue package passed in September and the erratic…
When the momentous campaign debate over lipstick on pigs and BlackBerrys finally subsides, Americans might appreciate a conversation on issues that actually affect the money in their pockets.
Presidential candidates Sen. Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain hinted at what serious…
Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona responded to Monday’s financial crisis on Wall Street by telling an audience in Jacksonville, Fla., that the “The fundamentals of our economy are strong, but these are very, very difficult times.”
Naturally this…
Over the next 65 days, Americans will be presented with two very different visions of the role of government, one anchored in the verities of the past, the other urging something that hasn’t been tried for a while.
The first will be…
In 2005, corporate America turned a $1.6 trillion profit. Even by Sinatra standards, it was a very good year. Why, then, did 25 percent of large American corporations pay no income tax — zero — that year?
Taxpaying Americans — scraping to…
Amid the hoopla of the presidential campaign last week, as candidates were delivering their hopeful economic messages, a dull missive from the government’s bean counters landed with a thud:
The White House Budget Office said it expects next year’s federal deficit to…
If religion were not so entwined in American politics, there would be little controversy about federal aid to faith-based charities.
Does anyone doubt that the Salvation Army does good in the world? Or Catholic Charities? Or Lutheran Family and Children’s Services?…
WASHINGTON — Sen. Barack Obama’s comments April 6 about the feelings of Americans in small towns that have lost jobs to other parts of the world was still top of mind today as Obama and Sen. John McCain, the presumptive…
