The Congress goes on summer recess at the COB today, but something tells me this will be a working vacation. Keep your Blackberry’s charged.
The health care reform debates march on. It’s just breaking up into small group discussions, state-by-state, city-by-city, county-by-county. This conversation is going local and the President will [...]
Just this month O Magazine featured a house tour of Peggy Cooper Cafritz’s mansion on Chain Bridge Road in Palisades, an affluent neighborhood in Washington, DC. Sadly the virtual O Magazine tour is the only opportunity Cafritz or anyone will ever have to see her home and her art collection again. Last night [...]
Thursday is the big day. President Barack Obama pops a brew with Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Gates’ arresting officer Sargeant James Crowley of the Cambridge Police Department at the White House for an informal chat about…..health care reform. Wouldn’t that be interesting (!?).
But this is supposed to [...]
E. LYNN HARRIS (1955 - 2009)
Another incomplete 5th Inning. Thursday, July 23, best-selling author E. Lynn Harris died at age 54. E. Lynn Harris may not have coined the phrase “down low,” but his fiction certainly aired out the closets of affluent, gay and bisexual African American men and the women who love [...]
Ah! It’s Health Insurance Reform. This makes a big difference in how we debate health care. There are issues related to the “care” and there are issues related to the coverage [read costs.] Perhaps “Health Insurance Reform” should’ve been articulated long before the August deadline was set; though big insurance would [...]
Before there was an “Undercover Black Man,” David Mills was a somewhat mild mannered reporter for The Washington Post who was invited to share in the good fortune of his college friend David Simon on a new television series based on Simon’s book “Homocide.” “Homocide” jump started a new writing career for Mills with [...]
There was a time a “space cadet” was just some nerdy kid (like me) who joined a space club, got a badge or membership card from school, and a little kit to make your own lunar module. You watched every “splash down.” Then mushrooms and LCD clouded the picture, and eventually “space [...]
The problem I’m having with the health care reform debate is that too many people are behaving as if it was 1993; and too many people are making a political football out of an essential service that gives Americans the best shot at the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The [...]
As anchorman of the CBS Evening News, I signed off my nightly broadcasts for nearly two decades with a simple statement: “And that’s the way it is.”
To me, that encapsulates the newsman’s highest ideal: to report the facts as he sees them, without regard for the consequences or controversy that may ensue.
Walter Cronkite
from “Telling the [...]
Wars are made on enemies, not on ideas; wars have defined goals — usually forcing the enemy to capitulate — but a war on terror has no clearly defined end.
Margaret MacMillan
Professor of History, Oxford University, Toronto
author, Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History
Jonathan Yardley reviewed MacMillan’s recent book, Dangerous Games, in today’s Washington [...]
