Monday, January 24, 2011

Short Stuff

A video distributed to Obama supporters provides a preview of the President's upcoming State of the Union. The theme appears to be Winning the Future. Captain Future approves.

Polls are about unanimous now that President Obama's approval ratings have jumped markedly higher. Republicans and the GOPer Congress are going the other way.

Westerner Timothy Egan doesn't buy the Rabid Right's association of freedom with gunslinging.

The 50th anniversary of the JFK Inaugural prompted this detailed reconstruction of that day in Vanity Fair, and E. J. Dionne's recollection and evaluation of the Inaugural Address. So let us begin the reevaluations and celebrations of various milestones of the Kennedy years, aided now by the newly completed and now accessible digital archive of the Kennedy administration at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library site.

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