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Al Eisele: Kelly McCormack's Inspirational Example

At a time when we're being bombarded with media coverage of the noxious political atmosphere (see White House vs. Fox News), health care reform (see Obamacare vs. the insurance industry), rampant corporate greed (see AIG, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Santos, Ltd.,  Bank of America,  White House,  Goldman Sachs,  Rahm Emanuel

Al Eisele: Joe Foote's Plan to Save Journalism

Norman, Oklahoma - While we ink-stained wretches and Jurassic journalists agonize over the uncertain future of journalism in the age of the Internet, Joe Foote and the University of Oklahoma are trying to make sure that it survives and thrives in the 21 ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  16 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Katie Couric,  Wolf Blitzer,  Thomas Friedman,  John Steinbeck,  Jim Lehrer

Al Eisele: An historian's prescient view of 9/11

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was in my office at The Hill, a newspaper that covers Congress, when my friend, David McCullough, called me to say that an airplane had just crashed into the World Trade Tower in New York. He was staying at the ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  12 Sep 2009
Related Topics: David McCullough,  White House,  U.S. Congress,  The Pentagon,  George W. Bush

Al Eisele: McNamara's Ghost

(Editor's note: Because many young people have little or no understanding of the lingering effects of the Vietnam War, I asked Political Editor Alison Stevens, 27, to write this week's column.) Early in the morning on every Memorial Day, my father, ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  25 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Robert McNamara,  U.S. Congress,  Harvard University,  White House,  Helen Thomas

Al Eisele: Arianna: A Greek tragedy in only 6,200 words

OMG! Did you read The New Republic's cover story on Arianna Huffington? Isaac Chotiner devastatingly deconstructs her in a mere 6,200 well-chosen words in his stunningly insightful review of her latest book with its overlong title, Right Is Wrong: How ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  5 Jun 2009
Related Topics: Arianna Huffington,  The New Republic,  Twitter Inc,  Michael Huffington,  Newt Gingrich

Al Eisele: Answering the mail from HuffPost readers

Just out of curiosity and not as a matter of personal interest, do you think there's any truth to reports in the news media that President Obama is unhappy with his vice president because of his outspoken nature and penchant for sticking his foot in ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  30 May 2009
Related Topics: Dick Cheney,  U.S. Republican Party,  Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  House Intelligence Committee

Al Eisele: One year after "Nargis" - how to really help the Burmese people

I don't know anything about Burma, aka Myanmar, but my friend, Dr. Werner Peters, a prominent German author and political scientist who once was once an aide to two influential Democrats, the late Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota and former Rep. Lee ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  2 May 2009
Related Topics: Nargis,  Eugene McCarthy,  BBC,  Aung San Suu Kyi

Al Eisele: If Shakespeare Were Still Around

In honor of Shakespeare's birthday, here is what the Bard might have written if he were around today: On Barack Obama: "Give my my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me." Antony and Cleopatra On Obama's plan for withdrawing from Iraq: ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  24 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  Henry IV of England,  John McCain,  Cleopatra (musician)

Al Eisele: Looking Back at Oklahoma City and Columbine

This week's dual anniversaries of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and 1999 Columbine High School massacre in Littleton, Colo., prompt me to offer some thoughts about these iconic examples of irrational violence in America's heartland, both of which I ...

From AL EISELE, Huffington Post,  20 Apr 2009
Related Topics: New York Times Company,  Eric Harris,  Dylan Klebold,  Timothy McVeigh,  Virginia Tech

Blogger from Hill sizes up Udall in Vail

VAIL -- He looks like the classic Westerner, right out of the pages of an outdoor magazine. Tall, lean and handsome with a shock of grey hair, he’s dressed in a navy blazer, open neck shirt, creased blue jeans with silver belt buckle and cowboy boots. ...

From AL EISELE VAIL, CO, COLORADO, The Vail Trail,  19 Apr 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Stewart Udall (politician),  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress,  Jimmy Stewart

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