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Click here for the full Video Madame Speaker, Vice President Biden, Members of Congress, and the American people: When I spoke here last winter, this nation was facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. We were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. Credit was frozen. And our financial system was on [...]

The breathtaking battle that is taking place in America today over health care is deeply troubling in many ways, but the principle factor behind this contentious war is one that goes to the heart of our democracy. It is a corrupting power so intertwined with our American dream that it is arguably protected by our [...]

Carol Phillips, a “tweep” of mine and marketing professor at Notre Dame University, recently wrote an article describing an alledged failure of the popular social medium Twitter to offer real value to the Millenial Generation also known as Generation Y. The article, which focuses largely on a comparison of the two news-making social networks of [...]

Take everything you know about traditional media and throw it out a ten story window. Laugh gleefully at its destruction and enjoy a baser instinct than your probably used to for the briefest of moments, go ahead. You will get far more joy that way than holding onto obsolete learning in an era of monumental [...]

The National Review Online, perhaps the premier online journal for the conservative viewpoint, has a post today on “The Jim Cramer Treatment” that I was going to respond to until I saw this advertisement plastered on the page of their blog: The ad is as tasteless as it is offensive. I was at Fordham University [...]

For months I avoided it. I knew it was coming, after all I am a complete addict for social media, but also knew that I might not emerge before my eyes went blind from screen-itis. I joined the now ever-present Twitter a few months ago as an experiment. I had no idea what it was, [...]

While all blogging is an exercise in mild narcicism you will all be pleasantly surprised to find I expect you to be exhuberant about my return to writing for the Thinking Press. It has been about five months since I lost a bit of interest in maintaining this publication, and there were a few reasons [...]

– This is an April Fools Article…Got you! – Senator John McCain had no comment when asked Wednesday morning about rumors that Sarah Palin, the former Vice Presidential candidate and 2012 GOP Presidential hopeful, is pregnant and the child may be his. Rumors began after a highly secretive doctors visit by the Alaska state Governor, [...]

Drip. Drip. Drip. This morning, an otherwise beautiful wintry Friday morning, brings with it something far more chilling than any cold front. With the failure of the big 3 automotive bailout in the United States we look forward to an economic outlook more imperiled than any we have seen in generations. It is not simply [...]

Join Whoopi Goldberg (ABC’s “The View”), Under Secretary James K. Glassman (U.S. Department of State), Dustin Moskovitz (Facebook), Oscar Morales (One Million Voices Against the FARC) and other prominent attendees, as they engage pioneering leaders of youth movements from around the world at the Alliance of Youth Movements Summit streamed live from New York City, [...]