Politics

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…

It lasted a week. A week of President Obama starting to sound like the brave leader millions of Americans elected. And then we got to the policy part. Clearly, his opening bid for next year’s budget is designed to prove he’s more of a deficit hawk than Republicans. The administration’s upcoming budget, which the president…

How did a completely bankrupt satellite communications company—that now provides data and voice services to customers worldwide, including relief agencies in earthquake-torn Haiti—become a powerhouse with a market value of $560 million? Syncom Venture Partners came to its rescue, and set a better course. The easy part occurred when the Maryland venture capital firm, which…