IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Gun control is coming. The only question is how many more tragic deaths must pave the way. For now, another father’s anguished voice demanding congressional action to keep guns out […]
Month: May 2014
Winning the peace
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 28 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Under fire for a foreign policy that critics say lacks muscle, President Obama chose the commencement ceremony at West Point to lay down military markers. Succinctly stated, he addressed three […]
“They were intolerant of intolerance”
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 22 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Billionaire Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks, speaking in the context of Donald Sterling, who is being forced to give up ownership of the LA Clippers due to his […]
The Female Senatorial Advantage
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 21 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Tuesday’s primary elections sent a new message about women candidates and how they see their gender playing on the campaign trail. Over the last couple of decades their gender has […]
The mud campaign has begun
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 15 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Anyone who thinks it’s too early to focus on the 2016 presidential election better think again because the campaign has begun, kicked off by none other than the GOP’s favorite […]
Gen. Shinseki is the solution, not the problem
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – The latest scandal to shock Washington is long waits at hospitals administered by the Veterans Administration, waits long enough that some veterans died before receiving treatment. Reports of an allegedly […]
Their prayer may not be your prayer
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – In another narrowly decided 5-4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to more prayer in public settings. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the conservative majority, sided with local […]
What is Boehner up to?
IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – What is Speaker of the House John Boehner up to? All is not as it seems. In an election year where the economy and Obamacare will be front and center, […]
You must be a hero
2 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – “Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,” a phrase said or written in various forms by numerous people in the 18th and 19th centuries, should today also stand in altered form as, […]
Smart versus dumb, not strong versus weak
1 May 2014 WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND Today’s Events in Historical Perspective America’s Longest-Running Column, Founded 1932 By Douglas Cohn and Eleanor Clift WASHINGTON – Challenged by a Fox News reporter to respond to critics who say his foreign policy doctrine “is weakness,” President Obama responded during a press conference in The Philippines with a pointed defense […]