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The news for young Republicans

Did everyone catch the little news item about the homeless Florida woman at President Obama’s town hall meeting last week? Her name was Henrietta Hughes, and within minutes of asking the president — in a heart-tugging TV moment — “Help, please,” she and her son were offered a rent-free home by (of all people) the [...]

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Big day on the Mall

So, speaking of the Inauguration … did I ever tell you about being the white guy at the Million Man March? Now be quiet — you are not my offspring and you have NOT heard this story a hundred times before. Okay, so it was 1995, October. I’d been living in Maine for seven years, [...]

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Winter tunage

A friend in Alabama writes: uhm … the high in maine today was below zero … how on EARTH do you deal with that? Well, obviously — you stay inside and listen to music. Spouse, a genre-shifting combo of flexible lineup centered around José Ayerve of Brunswick, surfaced lately on an implausibly good compilation called [...]

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Mighty like a river

It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America. – Barack Obama, Nov. 4 I guess you have to be a certain age to hear Sam Cooke’s voice in this. For me, “A Change is Gonna [...]

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Okay, maybe my mind is going soft

I find myself at the edge of tears sometimes when I look at these pictures. I was in 7th grade when our public school system in Manassas, Virginia, became racially integrated. In the following photo, one’s eye immediately jumps to the little boy. But I find myself staring at the older fellow on the left, [...]

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Spitting image

When I saw this picture, I was struck by how much Barack Obama looks like his grandfather. I was glad to see that Ta-Nehesi Coates noticed it too. And I found his reflections upon this to be especially moving. We often give a pass to racists by noting that they were “of their times.” Fair [...]

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Barack Slips John The Shiv

A great piece of reporting by Jonathan Weisman of the Washington Post may answer the big question of Friday night’s presidential debate: Why was John McCain so angry that he refused to look Barack Obama in the eye? The New York Times was out first, you may recall, with its own behind-the-scenes report of what [...]

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Whither McCain?

Best snippet of post-debate commentary I’ve seen, from John Cole’s Balloon Juice:

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The Great Schlep

Totally offensive, totally funny, and (almost) totally true:

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