The blackening of Obama

Seeded on Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:01 AM EDT (Salon.com)

After a summer of hate, and a barrage of GOP-hyped racial flaps, Obama's approval rating among whites has plunged

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Van Jones resigns

Seeded on Mon Sep 7, 2009 2:00 PM EDT (Salon.com)

My column that was published on Friday of this week was about the difference between a political party and a political movement - and I can't say I'm happy to see the lessons of that difference being highlighted so intensely and so negatively as they are with today's news that Va …

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How Obama's health care went astray.

Seeded on Thu Sep 3, 2009 2:10 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

WASHINGTON -- A group called the Herndon Alliance -- a coalition of liberal health-care groups, unions and patient-advocacy groups created in late 2005 -- was only a few months into its work planning a health-insurance overhaul by the time it asked focus groups what they thought  …

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Tax pledge a target

Seeded on Sat Aug 29, 2009 11:31 AM EDT (The Washington Post)

During last year's campaign, President Obama vowed to enact a bold agenda without raising taxes for the middle class, a pledge budget experts viewed with skepticism.

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Route 66 - Honey, Can I Buy This Train Set?

Seeded on Sun Aug 23, 2009 11:08 AM EDT (Ozark Photos Blog)
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Man finds train for sale while touring Route 66.

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Obama's healthcare messages are backfiring

Seeded on Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:53 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

The president's range of abstract arguments for reform are leaving people confused, some Democrats contend.

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Faith in Obama drops

Seeded on Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:40 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Public confidence in President Obama's leadership has declined sharply over the summer, amid intensifying opposition to health-care reform that threatens to undercut his attempt to enact major changes to the system, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Santa Barbara fire caused by Mexican pot farm

Seeded on Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:41 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

A fire that has burned more than 75,000 acres in Santa Barbara County over the last week was started in an illegal marijuana growing area operated by a Mexican drug organization, authorities said.

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Illegal immigration enters health care debate

Seeded on Sat Aug 15, 2009 2:08 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

VALLEJO, Calif. -- A health clinic in this blue-collar city north of Oakland, partly funded by the county, is saving local hospitals thousands of dollars in emergency-room visits by treating uninsured patients who suffer only non-urgent ailments.

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Plans cancelled on buying passenger jets

Seeded on Tue Aug 11, 2009 11:40 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Democrats have been criticized for adding $330 million to the Air Force's budget to buy the aircraft. The Pentagon didn't request the money. Associated Press August 11, 2009

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Terror suspect loved jihad and fighting for allah.

Seeded on Tue Aug 4, 2009 3:28 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Federal authorities said Tuesday the accused ringleader of a group of North Carolina terrorism suspects talked about loving jihad, fighting for Allah and loathing a U.S. military presence at Muslim holy sites.

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Liberals fear losing public-plan option

Seeded on Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:37 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

WASHINGTON -- Liberals who see the effort to overhaul health care as a once-in-a-generation opportunity are growing anxious that a final deal -- and a Democratic president they backed -- will negotiate away their top priority: a public plan to compete with private insurers.

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The Gates opening

Seeded on Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:53 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Overreaction to the arrest of Harvard's Henry Louis Gates obscures the fact that much has changed in the United States in matters of race. Gregory Rodriguez July 27, 2009

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A broad, costly health care reform.

Seeded on Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:34 PM EDT (The Omaha World-Herald)

This past week, President Barack Obama promised "the reforms we seek" will bring greater "inefficiencies to our health care system." It was a slip of the tongue, but the Obama-inspired health care bill moving through the House of Representatives suggests that the presid …

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The squandered stimulus

Seeded on Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:26 PM EDT (The Omaha World-Herald)

Digg Newsvine del.icio.us Reddit Facebook Twitter It's not surprising that the much-ballyhooed "economic stimulus" hasn't done much stimulating. President Obama and his aides argue that it's too early to expect startling results. They have a point.

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Never again, North Korea, think again.

Seeded on Tue Jul 21, 2009 12:22 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Despite decades of platitudes, the West has been unable or unwilling to confront the genocidal slaughter of the Pyongyang regime.

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The Obama agenda bogs down

Seeded on Mon Jul 20, 2009 11:55 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

It usually doesn't happen this quickly in Washington. But President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats are finding that the old maxim that what goes around, comes around applies to them, too. Less than six months into his term, Mr.

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New curbs set on arrest of illegals

Seeded on Sat Jul 11, 2009 11:13 AM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

The Department of Homeland Security said Friday it was revising a program that authorized local police to enforce federal immigration law -- a controversial aspect of U.S. border policy.

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Frank to introduce a consumer protection bill

Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 3:50 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

WASHINGTON – Rep. Barney Frank plans to officially introduce consumer-protection legislation in the House of Representatives Wednesday, setting the stage for at least a committee vote by the end of July, a spokesman said.

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Here comes the next fiscal crisis

Seeded on Wed Jul 8, 2009 3:35 PM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Without action by policymakers, an increasing imbalance between federal spending and revenues will produce a dangerous deficit.

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The painful side effects of Obama's healthcare reform

Seeded on Sun Jul 5, 2009 10:53 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

There are warnings signs that the president and his allies are looking at government-run rationing of care for the oldest and sickest.

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Maxine Waters job trainung center caught in funding ban

Seeded on Sat Jul 4, 2009 11:40 AM EDT (The L.A. Times)

Congress moves to ban earmarks for projects named after sitting lawmakers, including the Maxine Waters Employment Preparation Center in Los Angeles. Waters is furious.

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Palin to resign

Seeded on Fri Jul 3, 2009 4:31 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska announced Thursday that she would step down by the end of the month and not seek a second term as governor, allowing her to seek the Republican nomination for president in 2012.

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Franken bolsters Democrats' hand

Seeded on Wed Jul 1, 2009 12:06 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

The Democrats' enhanced majority could enable them to bypass Republican filibusters, easing the passage of sweeping health-care and climate-change bills. But that dominance is tenuous, given that the party is showing fractures over those and other issues.

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We will need to raise taxes soon

Seeded on Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:29 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Expect Congress to seriously consider a value-added tax.

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