by Tom DeWolf | Aug 7, 2010 | Politics, Traces of the Trade
So what? Political wrangling over political nominees happens regularly. But this time the Emmy-nominated film of my family’s journey, Traces of the Trade, is tangled in the intriguing web. Thank you to my cousin James DeWolf Perry for alerting me to this latest...
by Tom DeWolf | Apr 19, 2010 | Inheriting the Trade, Politics, Traces of the Trade
On March 30 I wrote about a “weapon” opponents of Goodwin Liu’s nomination have employed: comments Liu made during a panel discussion on May 6, 2008 that I attended following a screening of Traces of the Trade at the Newseum in Washington, DC. This...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 30, 2010 | Inheriting the Trade, Politics, Traces of the Trade
I did not see this one coming. President Obama has nominated Goodwin Liu, an Associate Dean and Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, to serve on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Opponents have seized upon comments Liu made during a panel discussion on May...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 22, 2010 | Politics
Do these people kiss their mothers with those mouths? Calling Rep. John Lewis a n****r?! Rep. Barney Frank a f****t?! Watching and reading the news, it appears that civil debate is presently almost non-existent in our nation. This isn’t about health care....
by Tom DeWolf | Jan 11, 2010 | Politics
Like most of you, I’ve been bombarded with news about Senator Harry Reid’s comments regarding candidate Obama. My question is, “What’s the big deal?” In their new book Game Change about the 2008 presidential campaign, authors Mark...
by Tom DeWolf | Dec 3, 2009 | Politics
I’m exceedingly disappointed in President Obama’s decision to send an additional 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. I’ve had a sinking feeling for many weeks that his decision regarding this war would be something along these lines. As Nicholas Kristof...
