“Martin Luther King” on The Daily Caller

Recently I blogged about the Oval Office remodel effort that took place while Obama was away on his (6th, 7th?) vacation. I mentioned that Obama picked a new Oval Office rug to replace the “sunburst” George W. Bush-era rug that First Lady Laura Bush designed. (more)

I had come to Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally from two thousand miles away seeking some sort of reconciliation for my feelings of constant outrage against the government-ruler mentality I had grown to know my entire adult life. (more)

Iraq policy was not the only Bush-era relic that President Obama moved on from Tuesday, as he announced the next phase of operations in the country the U.S. invaded in 2003. (more)

What are we to make of Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally at the Lincoln Memorial on August 28? Was it a religious revival meeting? Was it a Tea Party rally? Was it a patriotic demonstration? Or was it simply a massive outdoor Glenn-Beck-Program fieldtrip? The event that drew upwards of 300,000 people to the National Mall and sent shockwaves through Washington, DC, and across the country was all the above and more. (more)

Is America only for white people?  The question stuck in my mind following yet another e-mail exchange with a friend of mine, regarding my conservatism.  For this particular gentleman, being black in America is at odds with conservatism. As he put it: (more)

While Fox News host Glenn Beck spoke to the droves of people that flooded the Lincoln Memorial to attend his “Restoring Honor” rally Saturday, the Reverend Al Sharpton also drew a sizable, though much smaller, crowd across town for his “Reclaiming the Dream” rally at Dunbar High School. Sharpton’s rally concluded with a march to the proposed site of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall. (more)

A crowd estimated to be around 300,000 gathered on the national Mall Saturday for a three-hour rally led by Fox News personality Glenn Beck, who held largely true to his promise to keep the event nonpolitical and instead conducted something of an old-style religious revival meeting that meandered between calls for moral renewal, racial unity, self-government, and support for the U.S. military. (more)

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece is slated to speak Saturday at a controversial rally by radio talk show host Glenn Beck scheduled to take place in the same location as her uncle’s “I Have a Dream” speech. (more)

When Fox News and talk radio host Glenn Beck comes to Washington this weekend to headline a rally intended to “restore honor” to America, he will test the strength – and potentially expose the weaknesses – of a conservative grass-roots movement that remains an unpredictable force in the country’s politics. (more)

Alveda King, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s niece and one of Glenn Beck’s Restoring Honor rally’s keynote speakers, said if her uncle were alive today, he’d choose to attend the Aug. 28 rally that “demonstrates the spirit of love and unity and peace.” (more)

The debate over whether to build a mosque at Ground Zero grinds on. By now almost everyone knows it would be a YMCA/JCC-like neighborhood Islamic community center not even visible from Ground Zero.  The Washington Post recently published an aerial picture of the neighborhood to make that clear and provided an interactive walk around the area on its website. More importantly, America’s commitment to private property rights and the rule of law (not to mention religious freedom) have been clearly upheld by President Obama, New York’s Governor Patterson, New York City’s Mayor Bloomberg, and the city’s Landmarks Preservation Commission. Score one for what we stand for and what has helped to make us great. So the debate has moved on. According to the sometimes clear voice of Charles Krauthammer, “No one disputes the right to build; the whole debate is about the propriety, the decency of doing so.” (more)

The U.S. Department of Education’s spokesperson hung up on The Daily Caller Wednesday when seeking clarification regarding the Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s planned speech at an Aug. 28 protest march that the Rev. Al Sharpton and his National Action Network (NAN) are holding to counter Fox News commentator Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally. (more)

Outside a Chicago courtroom on Tuesday, former Democratic Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich orated what some could remember — anything is possible — as a 21st century “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” fused with the rhetorical stylings of the late, great OJ Simpson attorney Johnnie “If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit” Cochran. (more)

The trial of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich took an unexpected twist when the judge threatened to jail defense lawyer Sam Adam, Jr. for contempt of court. (more)

It seems like every week there is a new story out there that touches on the challenges of adopting, on a national level, energy policy that has historically dealt with on a regional and state level. (more)

It’s a scorcher out there—not only for the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are experiencing a record heat wave, but for future electricity prices, as well. (more)

Elena Kagan, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, seemed to shock many people when she dodged questions about the Declaration of Independence during her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. (more)

In case you haven’t read it, Washington Post associate editor and columnist Eugene Robinson wrote a column on United States Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) who recently passed away at the age of 92. (more)

It’s summertime, when a cable television host’s thoughts turn to himself. Yes, this was an unusually self-absorbed week for Keith Olbermann,  which is a bit like saying this was an unusually slimy week for John Edwards – it’s *really* saying something. (more)

In America, there’s supposed to be a stark separation between sports and real life. Sporting events are designed to be forms of escapist entertainment, much-needed opportunities for Americans to forget about things like budget deficits and political candidates and focus instead on their hometown team. (more)