John Adams

New Yorker: Bush's 'midnight' regulation period

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Administration now trying to craft new rules that are difficult to reverse When President Jimmy Carter lost his bid for reelection, in November, 1980, he had lots of unfinished business that he did not intend to leave that way....

Minnesota Opera singing a new tune

Jeremy Paul 'Pinnochio" which the Minnesota Opera is premiering as part of the OperaWorks program. Minnesota Opera has created a program to cultivate revivals of new work and to fund commissions over the next seven years. The...

Beschloss Lectures on Moral Courage

Leading with morality means that the president must do whatever is necessary to keep the country safe, prosperous, and united, even if it means an end to the president’s political future. If the president does the right thing,...

Rove: Era of negative politics is not over

clipped by: masburyclipper's remarks: Poster boy of dirty politics grumpy Clip Source: www.nytimes.com Do you think John McCain attacked too much or not enough? Dissecting the campaign that way is not helpful. Do you like Joe...

Transition: Let The Parlor Games Begin!

News that Barack Obama is considering Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State makes it official: the transition, that time of great speculation about who is going to do what, is underway ... and Bob Schieffer couldn't be more...

For Adams, life and lawmaking are balancing acts: Speaker-elect willing to pursue pragmatic course

Nov 16, 2008 (The Tribune - Above all that informs the political, the professional and the personal sides of state House Speaker-elect Kirk Adams, there is John Adams the boy. The boy was the towheaded 11-month-old fourth-born...

HISTORY WILL JUDGE (David Shribman)

By David M. Shribman David M. Shribman – 27 mins ago About The Author: David M. Shribman is executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in journalism in 1995 for his coverage of...

Orderly transfer of power

Many Americans may not have caught the significance of the photo on the front of this newspaper Tuesday, which we have reprinted here. It was of President George W. Bush and President-elect Barack Obama walking side by side,...

At least nobody has seceded because of it

Jim Goldsworthy, Columnist Cumberland Times-News A friend of mine asked me if I am glad the election is over. In 1828, Jackson’s supporters alleged that Adams’ wife was born out of wedlock (back then, such things mattered)....

Metropolitan Opera spotlights College Station talent

It's about 1,800 miles from the corner of Harvey Mitchell Parkway and Welsh Avenue to Manhattan's upper West Side, but Sasha Cooke's journey from the halls of A&M Consolidated to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House took...

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