Hillary Clinton
November 3, 2009
- Barack and Michele Obama, the couple, continue to captivate the public and the press, most recently in the cover story of the NYTimes Sunday magazine: "The first marriage. It's modern, it's a formidable international brand and it's an ongoing negotiation." Sounds like a reality show promo to me. Behind the scenes with those sleek and powerful Obamas. The First Lady's Halloween leopard ...
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August 17, 2009
- Yesterday my friend Inca and I spent some time together running errands. We were chatting about this and that when she turned to me and asked, "So what did you make of Hillary's response to that Congolese student?" (See also this article if you missed the news story.) "Inappropriate. Unbecoming. Embarrassing." said I, without skipping a beat. "I thought it ...
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August 11, 2009
- I am NOT HIM! Hear me roar! The loose lips parade of outbursts has replaced swine flu as the national epidemic of the moment. And there's no vaccine in sight for this 223-year-old unruly American problem. But even Arlen Specter's gamely stiff spine in the face of spittle on his coat from health care plan protesters invoking heavenly wrath -- whose fury is scarier for politicians, God's or ...
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July 2, 2009
- I was very much relieved recently when both Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and actor Johnny Depp admitted to hearing something go "Twitter-Twitter Tweet-Tweet," like some Vulcan canary singing for its supper out in the depths of cyberspace, but didn't have the faintest idea what it might be. Their public admission, I felt, placed me in very good company indeed. ...
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May 28, 2009
- Obama presses Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to stop building in West Bank settlements. By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPost May 26, 2009 JERUSALEM — One morning late last week, Israeli Border Police showed up at Maoz Esther, an outpost of Israeli settlers in the West Bank near Ramallah. They waited for a Bible study class to finish, tore down the settlers’ five little shacks and ran the ...
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May 18, 2009
- In book publishing the publishers generally pay the author an advance against royalties—meaning, the author gets some money up front, and if the book earns back that amount plus other expenses, the author will start getting more money. Most authors get relatively small advances that aren’t enough to live on, but some celebrities and major public officials get pretty fabulous amounts. Stewie ...
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March 27, 2009
- President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pictured with radical socialist revolutionary Che' Guevara as a backdrop. Image credit: Fr Loren Gonzales via overheardinthesacristyHillary Clinton's North Korea Foreign Policy Via "Shout-Out"Last night, Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton made a plea during an interview she was having with Greta Van Sustern during ...
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March 18, 2009
- THE POLITICS OF THE MUSE AND THE LIGHT THAT NEVER DIES In my recent GRITS.com interview with Marlive Harris and Luther E. Vann, I mentioned two poems in connection to presidential candidate Barack Obama. One was Midnight Flight of the Poetry Angels and the other was this poem, The Light That Never Dies: And now we stepto the rhythm of miracles.The time of light is upon ...
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March 14, 2009
- An editorial in the March 14, 1965 New York Times had this to say about the turmoil in Selma: “The past week in Alabama has been a time of dangerous competition between the forces of racism and reason, of violence and law, of the defeated past and the struggling future.” It was a lot to consider as I rode into Selma on a 50-seat plus bus filled to capacity with African Americans spanning ...
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March 4, 2009
- When I'm not writing crime novels, this is what I have to put up with By Matt Beynon Rees - GlobalPostPublished: March 4, 2009 15:25 ETRAMALLAH — The further back you are in a motorcade, the more bemused the expression on the faces of the pedestrians watching you speed by. When I passed them, the people of this Palestinian city stared with slack jaws, as though they wondered if the parade of ...
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