RFK: A Prophecy Fulfilled

26 November 2008 |permalink | email article

“Things are moving so fast that a Negro could be president in 40 years.” Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, before he was assassinated on June 6 of that year in Los Angeles. As the Jesuit magazine America noted… read full story

Trillion Dollar Conundrum

25 November 2008 |permalink | email article

Barack Obama was smart to name his economic team ahead of his national security team. Declining to estimate how many billions a major economic stimulus package would cost he said “we’ll do what’s required.”

Back-of-the-envelope calculations by Nobel Prize… read full story

Fierce Urgency of Now

24 November 2008 |permalink | email article

Obama’s weekly radio address Saturday, just three weeks after becoming President-elect, minced no words. Shunning timidity he called for an aggressive, two-year stimulus plan to revive an economy verging on collapse.

“If we don’t act swiftly and boldly, most… read full story

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