Commentary - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
There is a striking parallel between the naivete of Senator Obama and President Woodrow Wilson in their expectation of imposing a liberal-progressive model of peace upon......
MND/BlogWonks: Your Alternate Daily (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
There is a striking parallel between the naivete of Senator Obama and President Woodrow Wilson in their expectation of imposing a liberal-progressive model of peace upon a fractious world. Senator Obama’s faith that his personal diplomacy with our sworn enemies will transform them into reasonable and peaceful partners is as old as American liberal-progressivism. Its [...]
Someone in a Tree (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Since my family is always interested in learning about history (well, Mom is and we go along with it) we took a trip to the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum. Family portrait Entering the museum Exciting merchandise in the gift shop Woodrow Wilson was originally from the South - born in Virginia and raised in Georgia - and his family owned slaves and fought for the Confederate army during...
International Civic Engagement (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars is announcing the opening of its 2009 2010 Fellowship competition. The Center awards approximately 20 - 25 academic year residential fellowships to individuals from any country with outstanding project proposals on national and/or...
NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
… was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on this date in 1912. We, of course, know him as Woody Guthrie. This from David Hajdu in a review in The New Yorker earlier this year of a new biography of Guthrie: …”This Land Is Your Land,” a song that most people likely think they know [...]
HealthGuidance (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, the first son and third child of Dr. Joseph Wilson, Presbyterian minister.
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Striking Satellite Photos Document Rapid Environmental Change WASHINGTON, June 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique vegetation, is graphically documented by more than 300 satellite images in Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, a new publication from...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
WASHINGTON, July 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Doing good is hard work, and it is getting harder all the time. Humanitarians confront a growing list of challenges around the world, from natural disasters to soaring food prices. They also face disturbing moral complications. Is it really helping, for example, to provide humanitarian aid that props up African dictators or allows warring groups to continue...
News Unfiltered (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Africa's rapidly changing environmental landscape, from the disappearance of glaciers in Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains to the loss of Cape Town's unique vegetation, is graphically documented by more than 300 satellite images in Africa: Atlas of Our Changing Environment, a new publication from the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Full release
Daily Khabor @ Khabor.Com (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
Wilson Bridge speed limit may constantly change ALEXANDRIA , Va. -- Should a computer tell you how fast or slow you should be driving on the road? Pretty soon that will be the case around the Woodrow Wilson Bridge . A variable speed limit system will be set up on the Capital Beltway between the Springfield Interchange and the Telegraph Road Interchange, WTOP has learned. It will be turned on in late...
Victor Dlamini (Free subscription) | yesterday
Howard Wolpe brings to peace-making and diplomacy a refreshingly skeptical approach, one that implicitly questions the ability of standard diplomacy to resolve conflict in areas where trust is low. Howard is the Director of the Africa Program and the Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity at the Washington DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars . In the work that he has...
sans everything (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
If there is one thing historians understand, it’s that history does really repeat itself exactly. History is the study of the past in all it’s local and unique particularity. Yet still, some forms of human behavior do fall into patterns, and when people make the same mistakes over and over again, it’s worth asking why. The [...]
http://2parse.com/?feed=rss2 (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
A friend of mine wrote to me yesterday regarding his concern about the windfall profits tax that Obama is current proposing for oil companies. He explained that that the very idea of this tax attacks the very essence of capitalism. And while I see his point, and am wary of political actions that involves scapegoating any [...]
DCist (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Consider alternate routes around the Wilson Bridge this evening, as WTOP is reporting a serious motorcycle crash on the Inner Loop of the Beltway near the bridge. An AlertDC email at 2:33 p.m. said that the Woodrow Wilson Bridge is actually closed at this time. The Outer Loop remains open. WTOP says that emergency personnel and officials are asking all motorists to stay off the shoulders, even though...
The Cycling Dude (Free subscription) | 08/03/2008
I can hear you now... "What the ?" That's what I thought, too. The story is an interesting one: Though you cannot see them, you may be touching them or even wearing them right now. Products made using nanoparticles are...
