UPDATED: By Denis Campbell
Country music’s Tammy Wynette ‘standing by her man’ aside, Labour Health Minister Edwina Hart, currently standing for election as leader of the Welsh Labour Party is again today being skewered by the male-dominated Western Mail (or is it Male?) for, seemingly, not being a man.
This time they say it is for NOT [...]

By Denis Campbell
The Olympic movement and its games are global. The US needs to do more to look beyond its own shores to the rest of the world and join in the global dialogue as an equal partner rather than behave as the schoolyard bully and issue demands as the world’s policeman. They may spend [...]

Reprise: On 8 July we published an homage to the Left’s Rottweiller Keith Olbermann, the right went apoplectic as the article had 300,000 hits in 4 hours.
Keith is my kind of guy. Creative, completely unmanageable, he says what he feels in the moment and wears his outrage like his very large heart on his 6’ [...]

by Monroe Anderson
Michelle Obama is a hugger. I know this personally because, the last time I saw Michelle, she gave me a hug.
So yesterday’s international incidence with some of the British tabloids tsk-tsking her because she, gasp, hugged the Queen, doesn’t come as much of a big whoop to me.
I think I’ll explain my hug [...]

Obamania checked and locked for the next city’s visit, the USA rock and roll diplomacy makeover tour left today for NATO and Strasbourg with full global marks for President Barack and Mrs. Obama. Of course there was a lukewarm US press response (probably something they ate, they are not used to foreign travel and British [...]

 
 
by Christine Celello, The History News Network
In a recent issue of Peoplemagazine, Michelle Obama does her best to dispel any notions that she and the President have a “perfect” marriage. Rather, she insists: “I don’t want anybody to think that it’s easy. It works because we really work at it.”
With this revelation, the First Lady invoked [...]

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Fuming About Hume
What delicious irony — Brit Hume bitching about blogger partisanship.And then thanking rightwingers Brent Bozell and the Media Research Center “for the tremendous amount of material that the Media Research Center provided me for so many years when I was anchoring Special Report. I don’t know what we would have done [...]

by Denis Campbell
Every incoming POTUS and VPOTUS (President of the United States and Vice), has a code name used by their US Secret Service protection detail. The name is chosen by the White House Communications Agency, originally created as the White House Signal Detachment under Franklin Roosevelt.
According to protocol, ‘good’ codewords are unambiguous words that [...]

Michelle Obama, vilified by the fringe right, accused of horrible racial slurs and tarred with the same brush as her kooky pastor, wowed the Democratic convention last night with her dignity, grace and the heart of a lion. Speaking of lions, Ted Kennedy, the spiritual leader of the party, tied a bow around what would [...]

120 hours ago, Barack Obama woke up the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party. There were outpourings of pride and emotion on all sides that a person of colour could win the nomination, culminating with a rousing speech by Hillary Clinton calling the party to unite behind him. Quietly, unseen though, a familiar dark hate [...]