Sep 8, 2008 – In an unexpected, frightening moment in April 1945, Vice President Harry Truman got the news: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt … For many Americans who suffered through the Great Depression and World War II, FDR was more than a president; he was their political … Security Council, newly created by the 1947 National Security Act; the vice president would attend all NSC and Cabinet meetings; the…

Sep 7, 2008 – It starts with the news of someone being elevated to a position of prominence and potential national leadership, but quickly enters … It was the political story of the year.  … Political opponents were, of course, gleeful. …

Sep 26, 2008 – As I write, news is coming across the wire that a bill to bail out the financial industry is likely to pass. … At the root of this mess is not the failure of capitalism but political interference in the market. … The secret good news beneath today's terror is that 93 or 94 percent of America's mortgages are sound.…

Sep 25, 2008 – Don't you think that in quiet places where they can't be heard, there aren't some involved in the 2008 political race who aren't whispering … I watched the Democratic Party's national establishment do everything within its power to knock Hillary Clinton out of her party's … Mike Huckabee as a political blocker, manage to hijack conservative votes from candidates such as former Massachusetts Gov.…

Sep 24, 2008 – The script first broke into the national media on a Washington Post blog called The Trail. … It was first corrected on an ABC News blog by political reporter Jake Tapper. … Which camp is abandoning fair-play principles for political gain?…

Sep 22, 2008 – of us, Republicans and Democrats alike, must understand that we share part of the blame as an institution, and not just as one political … Here's the proof cited by the senator: "One, Senator Obama has led Senator [John] McCain in news coverage for 12 consecutive weeks … 'liberal,' even though the National Journal ranked Senator Obama as the most liberal member of the Senate and Senator Biden as the…

Sep 21, 2008 – Turn to yet another political rock star: Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. … At a September 10 news conference in Washington, Paul announced that he would not endorse fellow Republican John McCain. … "     • The national debt should not be increased by even a penny.…

Sep 20, 2008 – Harvard political scientist Robert Putnam in his own heralded book, Bowling Alone (2000), after analyzing National Opinion Research … such as “The Daily Show with John Stewart” raised political awareness among Midwest high school students. … Funny, but I haven’t noticed James Gandolfini in the news as a crime suspect.     …

Sep 19, 2008 – WASHINGTON -- Despite all of the political obstacles Republicans may face in this troubled election year, Barack Obama has some … Heading into the final week before his nominating convention, major polls showed him slipping in the national numbers and in a number … Still in the throes of Obamamania, the national news media has yet to come to grips with the electorate's growing lack of confidence…

Sep 19, 2008 – the program gets under way with greetings from Mike Huckabee, formerly a governor and presidential candidate, and currently political … And I still miss Ann Lloyd Merriman of the Richmond News-Leader and later Times-Dispatch, our historian and keeper of the flame, who … As you would imagine, given newspapermen's talent for organization, the National Conference of Editorial Writers is a kind of anarchists…

Oct 3, 2008 – demise that other news -- particularly about the war being waged against radical Islam -- has been hard to find. … There is also good news from Afghanistan that generally is ignored by our political and media elites in their efforts to find only … None of this is good news, but it is about to change. Gen.…

Oct 2, 2008 – The National Organization for Women and the NAACP would probably launch a nationwide boycott targeting Rush’s advertisers. … Cable news would run stories non-stop demanding that Rush resign from the airwaves. … Both the news media and the comedy kings are not out simply to make fun of Palin, but to crucify her.…

Oct 2, 2008 – First, a majority of voters still does not think the freshman senator is more adept at handling the challenges of war, national security … small business, raising tax rates on investment capital, would be a good idea at a time of severe financial strain," Kemp said at a news … McCain can regain the political offensive on the economy by tearing into Obama's plan to raise taxes on corporations and investors…

Oct 2, 2008 – I blame Democratic leaders for larding the Senate version of the bailout bill with what the national political news website Politico.com…

Oct 1, 2008 – She would be required to turn to the cameras and tell the national audience that she has a book coming out on Jan. 20, 2009 -- a date … The official promo for the book gushes: "In 'The Breakthrough,' veteran journalist Gwen Ifill surveys the American political landscape … During the Democratic National Convention, Ifill offered her neutral analysis on NBC News before Michelle Obama's speech: "A lot of…

Oct 1, 2008 – but permeating every page, is a feeling of resentment at having to watch an exercise that had so little to do with the pressing news … The fulcrum of the country's financial and political seesaw was in Washington, D.C., where an historic deal to keep credit flowing … But no one would confuse it with the center ring of the American economic and political circus maximus in A.D. 2008.…

Sep 29, 2008 – The troubling news in this year's report is the precipitous drop in the economic freedom ranking of the United States. … Again, the great concern here is that the most powerful predictor of national prosperity is the extent to which a nation is economically … We need less political hot air and fewer politicians who want to degrade the very law that is there to protect us.…

Sep 28, 2008 – Economic news is worsening. … As Stanford Political Scientist Paul Sniderman stated it, "there's a penalty for prejudice, and it's not trivial." … But the fact that there is racial tension in America is not “news.”…

Oct 15, 2008 – The big problem for the GOP isn't that Obama has a mid-single-digit lead in the national polls. … It is not a surprise to me that the CBS News/NY Times poll has Obama leading by the largest margin. … If we allow the Coastal Elites to decide for the rest of us who will hold the reins of political power then we deserve what we get:…

Oct 15, 2008 – Moreover, Obama has never stood up to the interest groups, activists, or political bosses in his own party. … Finally, Obama’s still unformed political personality and his constant bobbing, weaving and contradictory posturing on a wide range … Conventional wisdom says that disastrous economic news unavoidably assists Barack Obama, but why at a time of menace and insecurity…

Oct 14, 2008 – Then they wrote a script to demonstrate their political biases (based on their "linking activity").   … Every single one that I could see -- except for Yahoo News in a separate link -- is colored blue." … And though Martin is not a partisan, he did briefly work for National Review and covered the Republican primaries, so he should link…

Oct 13, 2008 – In political terms, it doesn't really matter what caused the current economic crisis. Nor does it matter that it is worldwide. … It knows this very well and is braced for bad news. … In due course, the economy will come back, as it always does, and the political balance will reassert itself.…

Oct 12, 2008 – Most Americans wake every morning to news that Barack Obama will win next month’s presidential election. … Let’s take this political axiom to some of those who do the predicting, to project what America will look like under an Obama administration … Deval Patrick as attorney general; New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a political independent, at treasury; Susan Rice as national security…

Oct 10, 2008 – These media outlets probably would enjoy how Seth MacFarlane interrupted his story for a political aside. … Then Peter watches the news and hears, "Tonight's top story: Local record shop employee Jesus Christ was found in Mary Kate Olsen's … It's amazing that this kind of junk is on national television. McFarlane's script isn't exactly engaging the Bible narratives.…

Oct 10, 2008 – a Democrat who needs help getting the votes of rural white folks, the go-to guy is David "Mudcat" Saunders, a central-casting political … He cringes when he hears a news anchor refer to his home turf as "redneck country." … Webb wrote in The Wall Street Journal: "The greatest realignment in modern politics would take place rather quickly if the right national…