In a letter to congressional leaders sent Monday night, White House adviser John Brennan, the assistant to President Obama for homeland security and counterterrorism, argued that President Obama had made "significant improvements to the detainee review process" under President Bush and pointed out that all the former detainees released ...
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President Obama: Learn From Mr. Spock!
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President Obama's cool, cerebral, logical style has drawn comparisons to Mr. Spock of Star Trek, as played by Leonard Nimoy in the original series from the 1960s. Like that half-Vulcan, half-human Spock, Obama is a man of two worlds, of White America and Black America, of Kansas and Kenya. Like Spock, he's a careful thinker, a man who measures ...
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Breaking! ... Groundhog Sees Palin's Shadow, Predicts Winter Through 2012
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The first signs of something gone awry came on Punxsutawney Phil's new Twitter account ; Eek! A horrifying shadow! Stunning his handlers, from the Punxsutawney Groundhog Club , as well as tens-of-thousands of fans and spectators who make the pilgrimage to this tiny Pennsylvania berg, the infamous prognosticating groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, saw ...
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Stampede!
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Feeling a bit achey after shoveling out of this weekend’s snowstorm (and thinking a little global warming would be good right about now), I realized that I’ve been giving President Obama such a hard time lately, I should really celebrate a signal triumph, the GOP Q&A session which has been described as Barry in the Lion’s Den,
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Obama budget, jobs plan get early tests on Hill
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WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's proposed budget, stuffed with initiatives to spark jobs and the economy, is getting an early test with lawmakers weary of record deficits, wary of his tax ideas and nervous about winning re-election in November.
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Obama hearts the bankers. Hugs Geithner. Because everything is just fine
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Poor deluded fools like myself clearly to not get that Obama’s bailout plan will be looked at ten years from now as pure genius. That’s the word from his staffers, and why he gave a big hug to Timmy G. at the SOTU address. You see, Obama believes Geithner and the bailout plan are without [...]
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"Where's the movement?"
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In the emerging Obama mythology, this is the question attributed to President Obama whenever he is asked to take the lead on a progressive issue. It is not an idle question. Leaders can only lead if there is a pre-existing movement for them to get in front of.
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I Have A Question For President Obama
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RSVPing for Thursday's "Conversation": You lost in MA in part because the electorate thinks you haven't gone far enough with healthcare.� When are you really going to govern as though we gave you an overwhelming majority and stand up to be counted in the Civil Rights struggle of our era?� Or will you continue to believe in the siren song of " ...
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Her memoir, `Why I Stayed: The Choices I Made In My Darkest Hour,' takes readers on a three-year odyssey from...
The American International Group has agreed to cut employee bonuses by $20 million and will distribute about $100 million on Wednesday, according to people with knowledge of the negotiations.
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This past weekend there was a wonderful little event I stumbled into in the town of Ferguson, Missouri. A couple hundred or so of the good folks of North St. Louis County braved a chilly midwestern winter evening to attend...
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Come Watch the next BAGnewsSALON: Haiti Aftermath: A Look Back at the First Week
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Please join us on Sunday for the next BAGnewsSALON (to be held several hours before, and, yes, counter-programming the Superbowl) Haiti Aftermath: A Look Back at the First Week Sunday, February 7, 2010 3:00-4:30 pm EST This BAGnewsSalon will examine a small group of images from the week following the devastating Haitian earthquake. From ...
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The family of the failed Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, played a pivotal role in getting their son to start cooperating with federal authorities in sharing information about Al Qaeda, a senior administration official said Tuesday evening.
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Obama's FY 2011 Budget
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By Linda Beale Obama's FY 2011 Budget The Obama Administration released its FY2011 Budget proposals today which assumes a substantial amount of tax cuts (making the 2001-2003 Bush cuts permanent for most Americans costs about $3.75 trillion over ten years) and some tax increases to cover important programs (about $1.9 trillion), resulting in a ...
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"Terrorism" and "security" are just two more words meaning increased defense spending, grampops
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The Obama administration [blah, blah, blah] seems to have bent over backward to prove to the world [blah,blah] no matter what, ensure [blah,blah,blah] everyone gets the benefit of American civil liberties. But [blah, blah, blah] the paramount civil liberty is a sense of security [blah,blah] eroded under Barack Obama. ... etc. etc. "Homeland ...
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Republican congresscritters agree with President Taft on a legislative program: statehood for Arizona and New Mexico, an appointed legislative council for Alaska, postal savings banks, creating a court of commerce, and something I don’t quite understand about conservation of public lands. The Republicans seem united despite strong ...
Suddenly, you can't turn around without getting a panicked lectureabout the deficit. But in all the discussions about the horrifying, worse-than-terrorism, scarier-than-nuclear-war threat to everything we hold near and dear, nobody ever seems to discuss the fact that much of the deficit is due to unemployment. (Gosh, it turns out that if ...
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After discovering the cure for the common cold Christopher Monckton has taken up constitutional law . "If by some miss chance the ETS scheme proceeds any further and actually gets passed into law, the next thing that will happen is that the courts will call it in and it will be declared unconstitutional and that would bring the Government down,''
 
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I call Exodus 20:4 Opened my news browser, and what did I see? A picture of Saint Obama, looking at me. Well, he’s not the first politisaint, and sadly won’t be the last. My only question, and it’s an important one: Is the halo the intention of the subject, or just of the photographer?
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David Streitfield writes : The number of Americans who owed more than their homes were worth was virtually nil when the real estate collapse began in mid-2006, but by the third quarter of 2009, an estimated 4.5 million homeowners had reached the critical threshold, with their home’s value dropping below 75 percent of the mortgage balance. ...
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How I’d Love to Take the Train
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Glenzilla recently professed to being mystified at a cheap low trick often flicked at provocative writers, the charge of being “angry.” If one obviated bedrock democracy principles like habeas corpus for nothing but ridiculous fear of course we should all be angry, but the primary thrust of the charge is to make the proponent of truth doubt ...
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An Econ 101 student could tell you that this is flat out wrong, and rather dangerous, talk. The government should not cut spending during an economic downturn, or the economic downturn will turn even worse.At a town hall meeting there today President Obama tried to hammer home his message that the federal government needs to rein in its spending ...
A note from our friends at CeaseFirePA : Three of the four Democratic candidates for Pennsylvania governor say they support a law requiring that lost or stolen handguns be reported to the police - another large step forward for a commonsense reform attracting growing support across the state. At a candidates’ forum Friday night in Harrisburg, ...
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Sarah Wants Rahm Out. Good Call, Miss Late-To-The-Party
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A significant number of us in the Democratic wing of the Democratic party have been calling for Rahm's head for a while now. Now The Quitter's got the memo that Rahm Emanuel is … well, a rude bastard … is trying to get on our bandwagon. It's developed that, when considering those liberal groups who've said they plan to run issue ads against ...
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Tonight's Rescue brought to you by ItsJessMe, YatPundit, mem from somerville, jennyjem, grog, and pico. Diary Rescue is all about promoting good writers, so remember to subscribe to diarists whose work you enjoy reading. In The Raw Politics of Immigration Reform Should Lead to Legislation , Duke1676 suggests the dynamics may actually be ...
Congresswoman Allyson Schwartz : “Last year President Obama and Democrats in Congress took immediate action to stabilize our economy and make important investments for our future prosperity. We provided relief to millions of American families and businesses struggling from the economic recession. We passed 25 different tax cuts including the ...
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It's official: Alexi Giannoulias will face off against Mark Kirk this November to fill Barack Obama's former senate seat. It only took four plus hours after the polls closed to call it, but Giannoulias held off a challenge from David Hoffman, 39% - 34%. The Republican side was never in doubt, with Kirk crushing his teabagger opponent 57% - 19%. ...
I sat down with Giannoulias for an hour over the holidays (or maybe over Thanksgiving, I'm clearly getting old). I like him. He seems quite sincere. And earnest. Which is nice, and different, for a politician.
Dear Stan Lee @ Co., I strongly object to Spidey, Thor, Capt. America, Iron Man, and the Hulk being used in ads for Bank of America / Merrill Lynch. It's against everything they stand for! What's next Jean Grey, Janet Van Dyne, and the Scarlet Witch?
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