Soon-to-be-sovereign politics
Let me repeat here in print for the two-hundred-and-twenty-three-thousand, four-hundred-and-sixty-first time, the words of the late great Boston Red Sox fan and green beer drinker, Tip O’Neill: “All politics is local.” Full Story
Why Obama needs a Republican Congress
The undertakers of Bill Clinton’s political doom showed up in Little Rock, Ark., in 1992 for a meeting with the presidentelect two months before his inauguration. They were the leaders of the Democratic Congress, and they might as well have been draped in black crepe. Full Story
Obama’s priorities
Billions of dollars are being spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we have stingy budgets for the stubborn needs on the home front.
Thousands of teachers have been laid off, schools closed and homes foreclosed on all over the country. Banks are holding back on loans to small businesses, and the jobless rate remains stubbornly high. Full Story
MOMENTS IN TIME
. On March 25, 1958,
Sugar Ray Robinson defeats Carmen Basilio to regain the middleweight boxing championship. Born Walker Smith, Jr., “Sugar Ray” got his boxing name when he borrowed his friend Ray Robinson’s Amateur Athletics Union card to enter a boxing tournament at age 16. Full Story
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