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Home Training: A Good Defense Against Swine Flu
When good manners and public health needs collide, it’s a great opportunity for a teachable moment. So just a reminder: shielding your cough and your sneeze now can keep you—and who knows who else—healthy later. As long as swine flu is making its way across the country, let’s put the home training our mothers and…
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Truth's Rightful Place on the Hill
She never learned to read or write, and the only known example of her signature seems to spell “Sonnog.” The only photographs are of her in old age, high cheekbones and strong features, her tight curls covered in a white bonnet. Isabella Baumfree — she didn’t call herself Sojourner Truth until she was 46 —…
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A Plane, A Photo Shoot, A Furious Obama
I agree with President Obama as well as NYC Mayor Bloomberg about the recent flyover in lower Manhattan. That was one of the most idiotic and senseless government-approved decisions in quite some time. A photo shoot of a Boeing 747 near the site of 9/11? It doesn’t get any more heartless than that. Louis Caldera,…
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How Beethoven Killed Black Classical Music
Way, way back in the day, there was an Afro-Polish violinist, a biracial child prodigy of such virtuosity that even Beethoven felt compelled to dedicate a sonata to him. There were honors and accolades and patronage from a prince. But fortunes changed, as poet laureate Rita Dove describes in her novel-sized book of poems, Sonata…
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100 Days, 5 Clichés
Barack Obama’s ascendancy still brings to mind popular themes from his campaign—“we want change” and “yes we can”—the liberal analogues of “morning in America.” But brushing aside the loftier characterizations of the president’s political rise, 100 days in, his deliberate style, his approach to political adversaries, his omnibus economic recovery policies and his Aloha diplomacy…
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Where's the Bully in the Pulpit?
Never mind 100 days, the Obama era thus far can be summed up in the 10 days since Congress returned from Easter recess—remarkable, smartly articulated policy goals on one hand and, on the other, a paralyzing reluctance to engage the bare-knuckled brawls that those goals demand. Obama came roaring into last week eager to talk…
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Why the Dems Can’t Count on Specter
Arlen Specter likes it when he’s described as the best lawyer in the Senate; there are a lot of lawyers in its chambers. Specter, 79, particularly enjoys his reputation as someone who will go wherever the facts lead. This is the man, after all, who served as chief counsel of the Warren Commission, which investigated…
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Specter Says Moderate or Die
Publicly, GOP leaders and operatives are slamming Republican Sen. Arlen Specter for being an “opportunist.” In a scathing statement released soon after the Tuesday announcement that Specter is becoming a Democrat, GOP chairman Michael Steele charged that Specter “only cares about furthering his personal political interests because he knew that he was going to lose…
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Get Your Free Meal!
I didn’t participate in the $4.99 special Popeye’s ran last week. Judging from the news reports that may have been the best thing. Last thing I need is to get stabbed over someone being angry over Popeye’s running out of dark meat. But, I’ve been trying to get up on all of the free meal…
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Wednesday's Headlines
PPG: Obamas Make Chocolate City ‘Chocolate People Who Run Ish’ City WSJ: Turning His Swag On: The Making of a Celebrity President NYDN: Don’t Let 44 Fool You: Racial Equality Still a Work-in-Progress SPP: Where Are the White Guys with Money and/or Guns?!? The GOP Base is Shrinking! WP: DOJ Urges Equalizing Drug Sentences Because…