Some thoughts on what’s killing our nation

Think Barack Obama’s a socialist? He’s practically Calvin Coolidge if you compare his ideas on health care to those of Jesus.

green job (grēn jŏb) n. A term used in a reckless manner to describe such wide-ranging modes of employment that the expression may have lost its meaning before it even had one.

we will be talking a lot about green jobs. That likely has a lot to do with President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan (otherwise known at the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009).

So there’s this revolutionary new electronic reader for books and newspapers from Amazon called Kindle [...]

A deal struck among GOP leaders in the U.S. Senate will give Sen. Jeff Sessions, [...]

Her name can be found on groundbreaking lawsuits, a Supreme Court decision and headlines around the world, but when Jacksonville resident Lilly Ledbetter had a historic fair pay act named after her last year, it could be said that this quintessential working woman had finally arrived. The journey, which took her from backwoods Alabama to the White House, has been anything but uneventful.

An intriguing byproduct of a new administration is a renewed interest in civics. Perhaps our [...]

Photographic evidence of the Weekly’s journey to Washington, D.C., for the inauguration of America’s 44th president, Barack Obama.

From: Pres. George W. Bush
To: Pres. Barack Obama
January 20, 2009
 
Dear Barry,
Tradition says I’m supposed to [...]

Three days of nearly non-stop travel – by both train and automobile – finally pay off as one road-weary Weekly warrior witnesses history first-hand.

There are a number of inauguration celebrations happening in Birmingham today and tomorrow:\
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Boutwell Auditorium doors [...]

On Jan. 18, one man left the relative comfort of his home for a rendezvous with destiny in D.C., the inauguration of our 44th president. With him: two cameras, a laptop, a thirst for adventure and little-to-no access or money. This is his story.

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FROM KYLE WHITMIRE:
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War on Dumb: America’s Political Intervention\
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War on Dumb: Alabama Exceptionalism\
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War on Dumb: Presidential [...]

Four years ago, in the wake of a bitterly narrow election that refused to break [...]

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Madison Underwood and Kyle Whitmire travel to Chicago for Barack Obama’s election night [...]

Relive history across the networks and the web…
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Obama moment of victory on TV:
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CNN
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NBC
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MSNBC
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FOXNEWS
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ABC
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CBS
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Obama moment of [...]

Here’s Birmingham Weekly’s running blog coverage from Election Night 2008…ah, memories:\
*UPDATE – Nov. 6 – [...]

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