John F. Kennedy

KENYANS HAD HOPED TO SHAPE AMERICAN POLITICS IN A DEEPER WAY THAN JUST AN OBAMA WIN

Kenya seems to have a kind of jinxed relationship with America. Elections were held this time in America and there was protracted push and shove in Florida results. Unlike our big brother,we could only watch helplessly as...

Obama's wi-fi White House speaks to the YouTube age

It was a fireside chat for a wi-fi world. Barack Obama yesterday launched his first regular weekly update to the American voters by YouTube. It was an ultra-modern echo of how Franklin D. Roosevelt's regular folksy radio...

Fires Continue To Rage Around Southern California

Hollywood couldn't have created a disaster scene more terrifying: A prodigious wildfire ripping through suburban streets and cul de sacs on the northern edge of Los Angeles's populous San Fernando Valley. Three different areas...

Willter's 24 points lead Royals past Cougars

The Academy of Our Lady of Guam gym was filled with excitement and intense basketball action last night as the Cougars played host to the Notre Dame Royals in an Independent Interscholastic Athletic Association of Guam Girls'...

Dealey Plaza: JFK museum remembers 'day the world stood still'

As I walked through the 6th Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, I felt like only part of me was in Dallas. The other part of me was back in my third-grade classroom on Nov. 22, 1963, anxiously watching a black-and-white TV. If you go...

Construction continues on Kennedy High School theater

Residents of Sacramento's Greenhaven and Pocket area neighborhoods ought to brace themselves for what may be another noisy day.Heavy construction was scheduled to continue today on a new, 460-seat theater for John F. Kennedy...

Barnes strikes out 11 Friars in Bulldogs' 9-4 victory

By Elsa Ulloa • For Pacific Sunday News • November 16, 2008 Okkodo High School Bulldogs' Johnny Barnes went the distance and recorded 11 strikeouts to help the Bulldogs defeat the Father Duenas Friars 9-4 yesterday. The...

The Best and the Brightest

The Vietnam War had all the trappings of a Greek tragedy. America’s best and brightest picking up the French’s tab in a colonial war that ultimately marked the beginning of America’s decline, if not economically at least...

New presidents' errors make primer for Obama

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sat Nov 15, 2008 8:16 PM EST WASHINGTON - “It’s a hell of a way to learn things,” said President John F. Kennedy in 1961, following the spectacular failure of the invasion of Cuba that he ordered...

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)....