Tag: us events
member name: Rory O'Connor
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January 28, 2008 11:27 AM EST --
Remember back in the last century, when Toni Morrison playfully dubbed Bill Clinton our first "Black President," adding that Clinton "displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent . . .
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December 07, 2009 03:14 PM EST --
In my last post on President Obama’s Afghan escalation speech I noted,
“Anyone who believes (the troops) will leave in eighteen months is a fool.” I also referenced “a . . .
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February 06, 2008 11:17 AM EST --
The horse race just turned into a marathon. The big Super Tuesday surprise was that Super Tuesday really wasn't so super. And the winners so far are… the voters and the media.
Those are . . .
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March 24, 2008 12:55 PM EDT --
As the war in Iraq marked its fifth anniversary, thirteen Iraqis were killed as dozens of mortar shells were fired at the "heavily fortified Green Zone" in what the New York Times called "one . . .
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October 21, 2009 10:16 AM EDT --
In the fall of 2002 --- little more than a year after the Al Qaeda attacks on the United States set off a chain of events that soon toppled the brutal, misogynistic Taliban regime in Kabul, and . . .
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May 18, 2006 12:29 PM EDT --
Introduction:
On October 12, 2000, the guided missile destroyer USS Cole pulled into harbor for refueling in Aden, Yemen. Less than two hours later, suicide bombers Ibrahim al-Thawr and Abdullah al-Misawa . . .
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November 15, 2006 04:42 PM EST --
What if I told you that a member of Osama bin Laden's inner circle operated with impunity within the United States for years before September 11? That despite being an ardent and avowed jihadi, he . . .
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July 24, 2007 01:20 PM EDT --
I spent many years toiling in the television news business, countless hours of which were spent sitting in sleek, cool, dark spaces known variously as the “Control Room” and even “Master . . .
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May 25, 2006 02:36 PM EDT --
Last week, William Scott Malone and I broke the story of how a still anonymous, senior White House official leaked top-secret NSA intelligence in 2001 to then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller. The . . .
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September 27, 2006 04:57 PM EDT --
I wasn't aware that this is Advertising Week (I thought every week was Advertising Week!) until I received an invitation from Mark McKinnon to attend a panel discussion on "The Evolution . . .
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February 20, 2008 11:07 AM EST --
If you're a Democratic primary voter in Ohio, Texas or Pennsylvania, and are still torn between Obama and the Clintons, here's the best reason I know to throw your support to Obama: Mark McKinnon. . . .
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March 05, 2008 11:18 AM EST --
There's a clever, effective technique often employed by coaches in the National Basketball Association, used to gain a subtle but demonstrable edge in close games, known as "working the refs." . . .
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June 05, 2006 04:06 PM EDT --
With Washington's attention focused on the murky fate of top White House official Karl Rove, one surprising and potentially significant development in the ongoing CIA leak case against top White House . . .
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