Posts Tagged ‘NYT’

President Obama took a mulligan on the oath of office with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. in the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday night. [Photo: Pete Souza/The White House/NYT]
Oath Is Administered Once Again - The Caucus Blog - NYT 012109:
WASHINGTON – President Obama was re-administered the oath of office on Wednesday [...]

President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and their families took in the concert at the Lincoln Memorial. [Photo by Charles Dharapak/Associated Press/NYT[]
Lincoln Memorial Concert Kicks Off Festivities - NYT 011809:
WASHINGTON — A singing, dancing, cheering sea of people poured onto the National Mall on Sunday afternoon to kick off three days [...]

OTM: The News Then and Now010909: It took about 20 years in the 1600’s for the modern newspaper to come into being. An exhibit at the Folger Shakespeare Library in D.C. traces the birth of the form. Bob pays the exhibit a visit to observe how much has changed with news in the past 400 [...]

That bloodthirsty Jacobin Maureen Dowd is at it again. She’s cribbing from the Great Books (not the Good Book)), stirring up the mob with cries of “Heads Must Roll.” This time her victims are tweedy, partridge-hunting aristos at A.I.G.:
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.
The best of times because W.’s [...]

Joe Wurzelbacher spoke to Senator Barack Obama about taxes while the candidate campaigned near Toledo, Ohio, last week. [Photo: Jim Young/Reuters/NYT]
Joe the Plumber now has the two most famous tax bills in the United States.. One is the hypothetical business owner’s tax burden discussed in Wednesday night’s Presidential; debate. The other is the state income [...]