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As the GOP wrapped up its annual winter meeting in Obama’s birthplace this weekend, Chairman Michael Steele had all the bluster of a man on top of the world. When asked by reporters visiting the Hawaiian tropics for the GOP gathering if he plans to run for re-election in 2011, he shot back: “I have…

The image of the Greensboro Four is frozen in American history, four young men sitting quietly at the lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro, N.C., on Feb. 1, 1960—politely asking to be served and being refused because they are black. There had been sit-ins before, but the headlines generated by the simple…

The White House Kitchen Garden is frozen under, but, this Black History Month, first lady Michelle Obama is once more using food to address the epidemic of childhood obesity that has gripped the country and, she said in a recent speech to the United States’ Conference on Mayors, “never fails to take my breath away.”…

If the Indianapolis Colts win the Super Bowl on February 7 (and they are favored by the Las Vegas odds-makers), it will be the third time in four years that an African-American head coach has led his team to victory in the big game. In the college ranks, the prospect of a black head coach…

IN MEMORIAM LEE ARCHER Another of the famed Tuskegee Airmen has been grounded. Lee Archer, the only certified ace among the famed corps of black fighter pilots, has died. Archer, who was 90, broke barriers both in the military and in civilian life. The Tuskegee Airmen were created as a black fighter pilot group in…

Once upon a time, the World Economic Forum was the place to be. The great, the rich and the powerful flocked to the tiny town of Davos in the Swiss mountains to talk about the great issues of the day. Davos hit its peak during the dot-com boom, when it seemed that 25-year-old paper billionaires…

The State of the Union address has a reputation for inclusion—the Supreme Court, the entire Cabinet and every member of Congress gathers to hear the president say something about everything he can think of. With Democrats in power, however, Republicans in Washington had reason to feel left out. Nevertheless, conservatives found plenty to celebrate during…

Capitol Hill is a wild, rowdy beast, and a president either rides it or gets bucked out of town. President Obama has learned that lesson the hard way over the past 12 months, and the question that loomed largest as he strode into Congress for his first State of the Union address was this: Can he…

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Whenever President Barack Obama gets into a political bind, he extricates himself with a speech. If that pattern continues, we can expect some amazing oratory in Obama’s first State of the Union address. Never in his meteoric public life has Obama been in such a mess. His signature proposal for health care reform is on…