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OPINION: Live Blogging The Beck Rally | 10:03 Where are the searchlights and the gold standards?
They had to put a scrim with a picture of the Lincoln Memorial in front of the Lincoln Memorial because the symbolism wasn’t enough.
This introduction has the sound of a 1950’s film strip.
10:06: Shots of the crowd. Pure White. Lots of shaved heads, American flag [...]
Obama Assembles Dream Team On Court
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: August 8, 2010
Obama Assembles Dream Team On Court | Today, at Fort McNair, President Obama assembled with an all-star roster of basketball icons to play
before a group consisting of both wounded military, as well as members of the mentoring program conducted by the White House.
The game included both current and former NBA stars as well as friends and colleagues of the President. The former [...]
Over Emotional
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: June 2, 2010
Over Emotional | A standard critique of the Left made by the Right is that decisions made by liberal or progressive politicians are “too emotional”–too motivated by feeling, rather than reason.
The irony of this is manifest, as right-wing critics make this argument in what are all too often emotional broadsides, long on invective, on angry, ad hominem generalizations [...]
LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: President Obama East Room Press Conference, May 27, 2010
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: May 27, 2010
LIVE FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: President Obama East Room Press Conference, May 27, 2010 | On a sweltering pre-Memorial Day Thursday, President Obama, looking slightly exhausted but focused, clear and determined, gave a press conference in the East Room of the White House that emphasized the authority of Administration to oversee, direct, and correct the actions of BP in its oil spill response, and to assure the residents of [...]
White House Brief: May 24, 2010: Thad Allen, National Incident Commander
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: May 24, 2010
White House Brief: May 24, 2010: Thad Allen, National Incident Commander | A packed White House Briefing Room gathered to hear Thad Allen on the oil spill. This topic dominated the briefing from beginning to end–so much so that the events in South Korea this morning received only brief attention.
Allen serves as National Incident Commander, asked by Homeland Security chief Janet Napoliatano and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar [...]
ON THE RECORD: Conference Call: In Increase in Presidential Authority, Obama Seeks To Reduce Unnecessary and Wasteful Spending
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: May 24, 2010
ON THE RECORD: Conference Call: In Increase in Presidential Authority, Obama Seeks To Reduce Unnecessary and Wasteful Spending | In an attempt to introduce an alternative to the line item veto provision struck down by SCOTUS in 1998, President Obama has proposed a new way to “reduce unnecessary fat” through a procedure by which Obama would present Congress with a package of proposed rescissions of earmarks, which Congress would have to vote up or [...]
Dr. Alan J. Lipman From The White House: The Man Is Tired
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: November 24, 2009
Dr. Alan J. Lipman From The White House: The Man Is Tired | One measure of a President is the way he adapts to the long-term, multiple and overlapping layers and types of mental and physical stress that can characterize long stretches of his Administration. This is particularly true at the beginning of an Administration, when the pathways of dealing with these new, unexpected demands have not become [...]
The Fort Hood Shooting: Causes and Motives
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: November 7, 2009
The Fort Hood Shooting: Causes and Motives | From CBS News Early Show, Saturday, Nov 7, with interviewer Chris Wragge:
Rational Exuberance: Yale’s Shiller on the Economy
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: November 2, 2009
Rational Exuberance: Yale's Shiller on the Economy | In a little noted interview with Fareed Zakaria yesterday, Yale economist Robert Shiller (famed, among other achievements, for his book “Irrational Exuberance), stated, with some obvious consternation at the lack of national recognition of this fact, that:
“The S&P 500 rose almost two-thirds from its very bottom on March 9th until recently. It’s the biggest turnaround [...]
Dr. Alan J. Lipman: From the White House: Physicians Give Obama Standing Ovation After Speech on Health Care Reform
By Dr. Alan J. Lipman
Published: October 5, 2009
Dr. Alan J. Lipman
I arrived at the Rose Garden this morning to see a sea of white coats, physicians from across the nation, gather to hear the President speak on health care reform.
Physicians from every state were represented; across the back of their coats, you could read such locations as “Maine Medical Center”. One carried Obama’s book “The [...]