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Does Obama deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? It depends on the definition of Peace

Jim Terry I have listened to conservative radio broadcasters mock President Obama's Nobel prize for several days and read editorials in some papers decrying the award. I was at first struck in the jaw by the news as was everyone else. And my initial ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Nobel Foundation,  Alfred Nobel,  U.S. Senate,  Al Gore

A preponderance or reasonable doubt?

Jim Terry "In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." Plutarch Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee missed an opportunity last week to further explore Judge Sotomayor's statement, "I would hope that a ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  21 Jul 2009
Related Topics: Senate Judiciary Committee,  U.S. Republican Party,  Lindsey Graham,  John Cornyn,  Strom Thurmond

Mandates driving surge to the river for hydropower

Far from it. The push to get electricity from moving water is only picking up steam. There is mounting political pressure to get more energy from alternative sources and developers are pushing ambitious projects to exploit America's biggest rivers for ...

From TERRY KINNEY AND JIM SUHR, San Francisco Chronicle,  30 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Obama's, you know, eloquence

Jim Terry More than a year ago, Senator Joe Biden described his future running mate, Senator Barack Obama, "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Biden apologized almost ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  4 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Joe Biden,  Rick Warren,  Larry King,  John McCain

The American voter, a puzzlement

Jim Terry After forty years of active grass roots politics, I am still puzzled why people vote the way they vote. I have considered the current presidential election over the past two years, although it seems it has been underway for two decades, and ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  1 Nov 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  George W. Bush,  John McCain,  Joe Biden,  George McGovern

Merci me

Jim Terry Earlier in the summer, the democrat candidate for president made the following statement: What a shallow and backward world view. But what can we expect from an empty suit? The reason many people from other countries are multi-lingual is ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  11 Sep 2008
Related Topics: American International Group,  Jim Black,  Margaret Thatcher,  Barack Obama,  American University

May, Memorial Day, and more

Jim Terry May 26, 2008 A headline in the May 9, 2008 Russian online newspaper, Pravda, declared, "Russia celebrates 63rd anniversary of USSR's victory in World War II." The article further states on that date, "...tanks and missiles rolled across Red ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  26 May 2008
Related Topics: Gustave Flaubert,  U.S. Republican Party

Now, those guys...

Jim Terry March 10, 2008 James M. Collins represented Texas' Third congressional district from 1969-1983. He was a folksy, traditional Republican who preferred to be called Jim. Collins was a guiding light in the growth of the Republican party in ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  10 Mar 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  James Collins,  Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  John McCain

The two horns of Craig's dilemma

Jim Terry September 7, 2007 A couple of Lyndon Johnson's biographers related some of his bathroom habits in their books several years ago. Robert Dalleck, in his book, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, chronicled that when Johnson was a ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  7 Sep 2007

Dark legacies

Jim Terry June 5, 2007 One of Lyndon Johnson's biographers writes about Lyndon as a student at Southwest Texas State Teachers College. According to his classmates, Lyndon would embroider the facts regarding almost anything. And when confronted by ...

From JIM TERRY, Renew America,  5 Jun 2007
Related Topics: George H. W. Bush,  Lyndon B. Johnson,  Bill Clinton,  U.S. Republican Party,  George W. Bush

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