By Elaine Donnelly
Extending sexual misconduct to combat units
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
For three days in Charlotte, a parade of prominent Democrats — including former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter and President Obama himself — will try to rev up the base with live speeches. But one voice that dominated party politics for decades will be notably absent: the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
There will be a bipartisan cast of thousands at the White House on Monday, liberating all from policy and campaign doldrums for a few hours, anyway. The 134th annual White House Easter Egg Roll is set to host 30,000 guests on the South Lawn to promote "health and wellness" through sport, dancing, cooking, storytelling and, uh, an egg roll.
"The Hangover Part II" is one of those execrable sequels that is not merely awful in its own right, but it also diminishes its predecessor. The exuberant trashiness of 2009's "The Hangover," a farce in which three unlikely friends try to reconstruct a lost night in Las Vegas, is here regurgitated as formula, offering just a handful of real laughs.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING KENNEDY
How different our politics might be if presidents and presidential wannabes were like priests, sworn to celibacy. Bill Clinton might still be in Hot Springs. We're forced among other things to listen to what wives and children (and maybe soon a husband) say and watch what they do. Families are sometimes assets, occasionally liabilities and often casualties.
When the U. S. Supreme Court announced its decree on the schools in the Seattle/Louisville matter, I wrote, with mixed feelings, to a friend:
When the U. S. Supreme Court announced its decree on the schools in the Seattle/Louisville matter, I wrote, with mixed feelings, to a friend:
George Washington was one of America's greatest citizens, but today he will be bestowed with arguably his most prestigious honor: immortality via bobblehead.
