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The public vetting of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has turned, as was inevitable, to her experiences as a college student at Princeton and a law student at Yale. ...
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Here's the story line: A liberal Supreme Court associate justice decides to retire early in a new president's first term. The president then nominates a judge to become the country's first Hispanic justice. ...
Obama Charges Navy Grads with Upholding the Constitution
President Obama, in an address Friday to the United States Naval Academy's graduating class, said the new officers were charged not only to "protect and defend the American people," but also to uphold the Constitution of the United States. ...
Michael Steele Still Struggling to Jumpstart GOP
Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele announced Tuesday that the Republican Party was going to make a comeback as the "party of new ideas," then proceeded to offer no new ideas in his speech to state Republican leaders at a convention center in Oxon Hill, Maryland. ...
Notre Dame President Upstages Obama
Most would agree that President Barack Obama is pretty good at giving speeches. At the University of Notre Dame's Commencement ceremony Sunday (see my live Twitter coverage here), Obama's message of dialogue and working together was well-delivered and well-received, but University President Father John Jenkins stole the show. ...
Live Twittering Obama's Notre Dame Commencement Address
Kaitlynn Riely is receiving her undergraduate diploma from Notre Dame today, and she will be sharing her front row perspective on President Obama's address and the campus scene in Twitter updates below. Refresh this page for up-to-the-minute news, and check The Cram later this evening for a full recap. Read Kaitlynn's full coverage of the Notre Dame commencement controversy here, including the Notre Dame president's letter to graduates, Alan Keyes's arrest, and planes flying images of aborted fetuses. #twitter_div { width: 610px; padding: 5px 10px 5px 10px; background-color: #333; } ...
Notre Dame President Addresses Obama Debate in Letter to Graduates
Note: This article was originally posted May 12, 2009 Father John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, wrote a letter to the 2009 graduating class praising students for their respectful debate about President Barack Obama speaking at the May 17 Commencement. In the letter, Jenkins clarified that the invitation to Obama was not "a political statement or an endorsement of policy." ...
President Obama Turns Controversy into Message at ASU
In his Commencement speech Wednesday evening at Arizona State University, President Obama turned the controversy over the school refusing to give him an honorary degree into a message to the graduating class that there is always room for improvement. ...
Notre Dame President Addresses Obama Debate in Letter to Graduates
Father John Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, wrote a letter to the 2009 graduating class praising students for their respectful debate about President Barack Obama speaking at the May 17 Commencement. In the letter, Jenkins clarified that the invitation to Obama was not "a political statement or an endorsement of policy." ...
Rebuilding Year Not Going Well for Republicans
As a Notre Dame football fan who has had to suffer through two very bad football seasons during my time here, I'm familiar with the concept of a rebuilding year. The Republican Party is currently undergoing a rebuilding year, but nearly halfway through 2009, I've seen more deconstructing than constructing. ...
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