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Drowning Our Sorrows, Lifting a Glass to Obama By Patricia Williams, The Nation We'll all sober up after inauguration day, but meanwhile let's enjoy some fizzy relief over George W. Bush's departure and a changing of the guard. Read more »   Hey Obama, Try an Inauguration Speech That Offers Some Real Hope for Change By David Korten, YES! Magazine Barack Obama was elected on a promise of change. Here's a speech offering hope for our economic, social, and environmental future. Read more »   As Obama Models Himself on Lincoln, a Closer Look at the 16th President's Views on Race By Garland McLaurin, American News Project Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. explores popular misconceptions about Lincoln, and the real reasons he launched the Civil War. Read more »   Obama's Team Signals It's Taking the Taxpayer Ripoff Route to Saving Our Financial System By Paul Krugman, The New York Times Obama's team is talking a whole new economic voodoo: the belief that by performing elaborate financial rituals we can keep dead banks walking. Read more »   Migrant Worker at Inaugural Ball Shares the Gliteratti's Hopes for Obama By Anthony D. Advincula, New America Media Despite the disparities between her and the party-goers around her, one cleaner feels a sense of unity around Obama's presidency. Read more »   8 Dumb Things George Bush Has Said About the Environment By Johanna Smith, Huffington Post Not only has his environmental policy been dismal, but some of his rhetoric is downright Dan Quayle-ish. Read more »   War Crime Trials for Bush? Try Fat Fees on the Speaking Circuit By Jordan Smith, AlterNet He's the most loathed political figure since the advent of public opinion polling, but Bush is set to rake in big bucks on the rubber-chicken circuit. Read more »   Obama Has the Chance To Be Another FDR -- He Can End the Era of Marijuana Prohibition By Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman, AlterNet As FDR did in 1933, Obama must now help end an utterly failed, socially destructive, reactionary crusade against marijuana. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Bush Won't Pardon Libby By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress The right-wing has been mounting a fierce campaign to secure a pardon for Libby. Looks like it didn't work. Read more »   Bill Moyers Volleys Back at Foxman's 'Reprehensible' Smear Tactics on Gaza By Lefty Coaster, Daily Kos Moyers' eloquent essay willfully misunderstood by the head of the Anti-Defamation League to score a cheap point. Moyers fires back. Read more »   Bush Commutes the Sentences of Border Patrol Guards Who Shot Unarmed Man By Steve Benen, Washington Monthly Of all of Bush's end-of-presidency clemency decisions, this is easily the biggest. Read more »   Biased Media: HBO Didn't Air Bishop Robinson's Invocation (But We've Got It) By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress Remember, this was the supposed salve on the wound to the LGBT community for the upcoming high-profile appearance of Rick Warren. Read more »

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