Tag: Jimmy Carter

If you’re not Pete Buttigieg, and most of us are not, the Iowa caucuses were pretty much a disaster for Democrats, although you’d have...

I’m not sure who said this, but it’s obviously true, and never more so than today: When a president dies, the funeral is not...

Just how did Donald Trump and Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell and the rest of the GOP gang manage to fall short in their...

Reform revolution Peter Beinart explains the real difference between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton: One is an insurrectionist and one an incrementalist. Clinton's bet is...

Wasn't me Brownie: Stop blaming me for Katrina. Via Politico. Hindsight is 20-20 Seven essential facts about Katrina 10 years after – all of which point to governmental...

Ticking clock With time running out and the vote apparently close, Barack Obama makes a pitch to congressional Democrats with a letter to Rep. Jerrold...

State level If Congress couldn't pass a bill to defund Planned Parenthood, a host of state legislatures are ready to go next. Via The New...

The Washington Post’s Dan Balz yesterday quoted Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker from Georgia, warning that Obama’s support for sweeping health care...

On the heels of President Barack Obama's visit Tuesday to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to tour the building's rooftop solar array -- and, by the way, sign the $787 billion stimulus bill -- Westword's Michael Roberts recalls the last time a U.S. president celebrated solar power in Denver. Solar installations, not to mention presidential visits, have come a long way since President Jimmy Carter dodged drunken revelers in 1978 at Rick's Cafe, a celebrated singles bar in Cherry Creek that used the sun's rays to heat its dishwasher.