History, unlike photography, does not work well in black and white. The past is an abstract jungle of color that spills over neat lines of political thought. - Gerard DeGroot As the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall fast approaches...]]> Despite the fervent, high profile effort to prevent New York's Twenty-Third District (NY-23) from electing Democrat Bill Owens their Congressman, the conservative upstate enclave has officially shifted from red to blue.  That the effort failed is...]]> Just over nine months into his first term, President Obama faces an unfortunate set of choices regarding another of his predecessors messes.  And as he contemplates his Afghanistan strategy, the president is taking pressure from all sides. His m...]]> It has been two weeks since White House Communications Dir. Anita Dunn openly criticized Fox News, and inexplicably, the controversy persists.  Of course, the loudest and most frequent complaints about the Obama administration's concerns over Fox...]]> Even amid the summer's health care debate ugliness, I knew there was something absent that prevented it from being intolerable, but I couldn't place it.  However, it all came rushing back to me when I looked over the headlines on the morning of T...]]> This may come as a surprise to viewers of Glenn Beck, but the "public option" is maintaining its popularity --  57% support for a public option -- as indicated in a Washington Post-ABC  poll, released Oct. 19.  But despite the polling a...]]> "This would be funny," said Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson, during his appearance on the Oct. 15 Rachel Maddow Show.  "but it's not funny because it's dangerous and it's bigoted…"  He was referring to disturbing alle...]]> I'm not certain I'd liken it to "warfare" as Anderson Cooper did, but the Obama White House decided to address its Fox News problem, head on.  White House Communication Director, Anita Dunn, became the administration's voice for the stating the o...]]> Rachel Maddow put her finger on it during her Wednesday, Oct. 7 broadcast.  While discussing the politics of health care reform with Newsweek's Howard Fineman, Maddow remarked, "We are no longer talking about Republicans at all…"  The...]]> Rio seemed the logical choice to host the Olympics, in my opinion.  Don't get me wrong, as a resident of the metropolitan periphery of Chicago, I would have been overjoyed had it been chosen.  I certainly couldn't fault the president for goi...]]>