Banned Books Week

When thinking of banned and contested books, it’s easy to conjure up images of the repression that existed in America during the 1950s. Sure, we’ve all heard of the book burning parties, and we all know that Diary of Anne Frank and Of Mice and Men were banned back in the day.

But the [...]

2009 Seattle Iranian Festival

It’s hard to party when your heart is with people dying on the street on the other side of the world.  Harder still for Seattle’s Iranian-American community, with family members caught up in the in the fight for their rights, freedom, and even their lives in Iran.

Yet party is just what we did today [...]

I (heart) Irony

The Boston Tea Party was a protest staged in 1773 against the British Government.  The colonists were protesting taxation without representation.

In 2008 elections in the United States, the voter demographics more closely represented the demographics of the United States citizenship than any election in US history.

Today large groups of people across the country [...]

Subscribe to President Obama’s Blog

The moment Barack Obama officially became the President of the United States, the Presidential website, WhiteHouse.gov, switched over to President Obama’s website.  The new website is built on a much more stable and transparent architecture, and this switch heralds another of many significant changes in the American Presidency:  we now have a President that [...]