Chief Justice Blows Presidential Oath

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court John Roberts threw incoming President Barack Obama a curve or two when swearing him into office today by misquoting the oath of office. The oath being well-known,  I’d suspect Obama can recite it in his sleep, but he labored to repeat it as paraphrased by Roberts.  Not a big [...]

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Byrd and Kennedy Fall Ill at Inaugural Luncheon

Just saw reports that both Senators Robert Byrd (D, WV) and Ted Kennedy (D, MA) had to leave the inaugural luncheon on stretchers.  Byrd had an undisclosed (as of yet) medical event, Kennedy reportedly had a seizure of significant length.  As you know, both have suffered of late with different ailments.
We hope their conditions improve [...]

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Dawn of a New Day

It’s a new day in America and together may we usher in an era of progress, cooperation,
conviction to high ideals compassion, vigilant adhesion to our principles, defense against
greed and corruption and unprecedented change to improve our nation and the world.
May peace break out among historic enemies and prevail.  May [...]

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One Door Opens

The preliminaries over, we witness a moment in American History that fulfills one of America’s promises to itself and the world.  Today we get to demonstrate that our promise is real, at least in the “all (men) are created equal” sense.

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