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As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region Huffington Post (blog) A major reason for this is the plan, developed at the end of the Bush years and confirmed by President Obama, to draw down US troops in Iraq to 50000 by ... |
Nick Turse: As Washington Talks Iraq Withdrawal, the Pentagon Builds Up Bases in the Region
2009-11-22 23:07 UTC by
Nick Turse
Despite recent large-scale insurgent suicide bombings that have killed scores of civilians and the fact that well over 100,000 U.S. troops are still deployed in that country, coverage of the U.S. war in Iraq has been largely replaced in the mainstream press by the (previously) "forgotten war" in Afghanistan. A major reason for this is the plan,...
End of an era: Winfrey ending show after 25 years - The South Florida Times
2009-11-22 23:07 UTC
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Zap2it.com
The South Florida Times
Winfrey also famously wept at the victory celebration in Chicago's Grant Park on the night last November when Barack Obama, whom she endorsed, ...
RI bishop asked Kennedy in 2007 to avoid Communion - Houston Chronicle
2009-11-22 23:06 UTC
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ABC News
Houston Chronicle
Sebelius is now President Barack Obama's secretary of Health and Human Services. Other Catholic politicians have wrestled with the same issue Kennedy faces. ...
Chill out until Obama decides - Dallas Morning News
2009-11-22 23:01 UTC
Dallas Morning News
The Dallas Morning News waited until President Barack Obama was overseas on a crucial Asia trip to criticize his laudable caution in deciding appropriate ...
WBTV 3 News, Weather, Sports, and Traffic for Charlotte, NC-Senate Democrats ... - WBTV
2009-11-22 22:59 UTC
WBTV
2 Democrat in the Senate, said the health care bill must be passed by the end of the year so that President Barack Obama and lawmakers can shift their ...
Global Warming's Impacts Have Sped Up, Worsened Since Kyoto
2009-11-22 22:59 UTC by
The Huffington Post News Editors
WASHINGTON - Since the 1997 international accord to fight global warming, climate change has worsened and accelerated - beyond some of the grimmest of warnings made back then. As the world has talked for a dozen years about what to do next, new ship passages opened through the once frozen summer sea ice of the Arctic. In Greenland and Antarctica,...
OUR VIEW: Recession's effect on legalizing dope - Colorado Springs Gazette
2009-11-22 22:56 UTC
Colorado Springs Gazette
Voters approved medical marijuana in 2000, and the industry limped along until the Obama administration announced the federal government would respect state ...
Business is booming at Lewiston's ATK: Ammo company's workforce grows past ... - TMCnet
2009-11-22 22:49 UTC
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TMCnet
Gun sales rose consistently over a 10-month period that started in 2008 when Obama was elected, according to a news release from the National Shooting ...
New vet clinic caters to all sizesTMCnet
Rhodes Scholars and the Business World - Cato @ Liberty
2009-11-22 22:46 UTC
Cato @ Liberty
It crops up in President Obama's commencement addresses sneering at students who want to “take your diploma, walk off this stage, and chase only after the ...
Sybil Adelman Sage: 2012: the end of Oprah or of everything?
2009-11-22 22:33 UTC by
Sybil Adelman Sage
There's been an unrelenting amount of dismal news. Heaped on top of the existing and illogical wars, economic woes, job scarcity, terrorism, genocide, trafficking of women, global warming, identity theft, the greed of pharmaceutical companies and Wall Street tycoons, we're worried about health care reform, Social Security going broke, swine flu...
The Fall Of Greg Craig
2009-11-22 22:31 UTC by
The Huffington Post News Editors
Nearly 100 days after Barack Obama entered office, his top White House lawyer, Greg Craig, braced the President's senior advisers for a potentially explosive development. The Administration was preparing to release photographs of suspected terrorists being abused in U.S. custody. On April 16, Craig asked chief of staff Rahm Emanuel to focus on the...
OK, what about Reed and Langevin? - Woonsocket Call
2009-11-22 22:29 UTC
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Globe and Mail
Woonsocket Call
O, that it would haunt President Barack Obama more today. Obama is our first president to come of age in the post-Vietnam era and it shows. ...
Did Fort Hood shooting spree turn base into a 'combat zone'? - Christian Science Monitor
2009-11-22 22:26 UTC
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Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor
Several Texas lawmakers appear to be attempting an end-run around President Obama's effort to refrain from calling the Fort Hood shootings an act of ...
Healthcare Pros Blast Health Plan From Oregon's Capitol Steps (VIDEO) - Salem-News.Com
2009-11-22 22:23 UTC
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Salem-News.Com
Salem-News.Com
Oregon doctors rallied on the capitol steps against President Obama's Healthcare Bill Saturday. The healthcare professionals and activists are opposed to ...
How to Rebuild Global Prosperity - Wall Street Journal
2009-11-22 22:13 UTC
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Wall Street Journal
The assembled global CEOs called on then President-elect Obama to enact a massive fiscal stimulus. And they got their wish—if not as carefully targeted as ...
Can business and Obama get along?York Weekly
Huckabee appearance packs Books-A-Million at Brookwood Village - The Birmingham News - al.com
2009-11-22 22:06 UTC
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MiamiHerald.com
The Birmingham News - al.com
About 500 people packed the Books-A-Million store at Colonial Brookwood Village this afternoon to get an autographed ...
Palin visits Roanoke, 300-plus camp out overnight - Examiner.com
2009-11-22 22:01 UTC
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MiamiHerald.com
Examiner.com
Caroline Perkins, of Roanoke, keeps warm in the early morning cold while waiting for Sarah Palin. AP photo/Don Petersen Former Alaska Gov. ...
Byron Williams: What Is the Health Care Debate Really About?
2009-11-22 21:57 UTC by
Byron Williams
What is the current health care really about? Is it about cost? Is it government's inability to adequately deliver services that are best left to the private sector? Or is it a middle-class disdain for the poor? According to the Congressional Budget Office, Senate Democrats this week unveiled The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act at an...
Murray Fromson: Letter From London
2009-11-22 21:56 UTC by
Murray Fromson
It is amazing how a presidential junket and the meanderings of a silly little woman with pretensions to the White House can bump a war off the front pages or as the lead stories of broadcast news. President Obama, for instance, was attempting to show the better side of our country to Japan, Indonesia and China. But in Tokyo, he also observed the...
Local residents, politicians divided on Gitmo move to Illinois - Village Voice
2009-11-22 21:35 UTC
Village Voice
... IL are hoping that the Obama administration will go through with rumored plans to move the Guantanamo detainees to the "vastly underutilized" Thompon ...
Reading The Pictures: Birther Attack Gets a Fort Hood Twist - Huffington Post (blog)
2009-11-22 21:30 UTC
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CBS News
Huffington Post (blog)
By tying in Fort Hood, Phil Wolf's birther billboard constructed at his Colorado auto lot takes the "Obama as a closet Muslim" (or "Obama as secret ...
Biden urges Iowa Democrats to “stick with” President Obama - Radio Iowa
2009-11-22 21:30 UTC
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Duluth News Tribune (registration)
Radio Iowa
“I believe with every fiber in my being with President Barack Obama's leadership and capacity, we have a chance — we have a chance to bend history,” Biden ...
GM, Chrysler bailouts still keep lawmakers bickering - Automotive News
2009-11-22 21:29 UTC
Automotive News
McCain fanned the flames on Sunday, Nov. 15, saying while serving as grand marshal at a Nascar race that "anybody believes that Chrysler is going to survive ...
Michael Shaw: Reading The Pictures: Birther Attack Gets a Fort Hood Twist
2009-11-22 21:26 UTC by
Michael Shaw
If anti-abortion picketers can routinely intimidate women outside health clinics, can it be that hard for protestors to scare off all but the most racist customers from doing business with this attention-seeking, hate-mongering Colorado used car salesman? (See backstory in caption below.) By tying in Fort Hood, Phil Wolf's birther billboard...
Fiorina: Obama might have to 'eat his words' on health reform - CNN Political Ticker
2009-11-22 21:22 UTC
CNN Political Ticker
Barbara Boxer said Sunday that President Obama will have to “eat his words” on health care reform if the bill becomes law. After telling CNN Chief National ...
Nation's Capital Included Among States with Highest Rates of Child Hunger - Afro American
2009-11-22 21:14 UTC
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Afro American
Afro American
(November 22, 2009) - President Obama moved a step closer to his goal of ending childhood hunger nationwide by 2015 when he recently ...
Cyberposium 15 at Harvard Business School - Bostonist
2009-11-22 21:10 UTC
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Bostonist
Bostonist
Though Barack Obama appears committed to environmental causes, he's under significant political pressure to address other issues first, and the environment ...
youtube: Political propaganda in public schools: Advantages of Castro's ... - Examiner.com
2009-11-22 20:57 UTC
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Examiner.com
Examiner.com
We've all seen recently the videos of kids made to recite chants or sing songs of praise about Obama, one incident taking place in a Howard County ...
Advocates to promote English classes in Brockton - Daily Comet
2009-11-22 20:56 UTC
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Daily Comet
Earlier this month, state officials announced $1.3 million in grants from the Obama administration stimulus package for English classes. ...
State to announce in Brockton $1.4 million for English language program for ...Wicked Local Brockton
Misconceptions Of The Green Economy Before Copenhagen Climate Summit - Gov Monitor
2009-11-22 20:52 UTC
Gov Monitor
China is proving to be a major challenge to President Obama's ambitious environmental agenda. Designed to reinvigorate flagging hopes for the Copenhagen ...
Green jobs help climate, boost social justiceSan Francisco Chronicle
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She's Back - Wall Street Journal
2009-11-22 20:49 UTC
Wall Street Journal
President Obama says it's a risk with rising debt. So why is there talk of another multibillion-dollar stimulus? And Copenhagen's collapse. ...
What's coming up this week in St. Lucie County - Fort Pierce Tribune
2009-11-22 20:47 UTC
Fort Pierce Tribune
Favorite children's books selected and signed by such notables as Maya Angelou, Sean Connery, Tiger Woods, President Obama, Jimmy Buffet, John Glenn, ...
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ARETHA FRANKLIN, ALICIA KEYS & THE ROOTS TO PERFORM AT ANNUAL "CHRISTMAS IN ... - MOG
2009-11-22 20:44 UTC
MOG
After Aretha's performance earlier this year at President Obama's Inauguration ceremony she will grace the stage once again for NBC's 12th annual "Christmas ...
Brown: Health vote 'most impt I ever cast' - The Hill
2009-11-22 20:37 UTC
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The Hill
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) on Sunday called his aye vote Saturday night's motion to proceed on healthcare reform ...
Sherrod Brown: Obama Focused On Main Street, But Not All His Advisers AreAlterNet
America the jobless: Ron Paul wins, Timothy Geithner loses? - Christian Science Monitor
2009-11-22 20:28 UTC
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Christian Science Monitor
Christian Science Monitor
That was further borne out Friday, when the Congressional Black Caucus – one of President Obama's staunchest allies – pulled out of a vote on a key bill ...
Brown: Giuliani 'wants to keep 9/11 alive' - Politico
2009-11-22 20:26 UTC
Politico
Brown also took Giuliani to task for his disapproval of the Obama administration's decision to move supposed mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's trial to ...
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Dave Eggers edits "The Best Nonrequired Reading," a zesty selection: New in ... - Plain Dealer
2009-11-22 20:15 UTC
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Plain Dealer
Plain Dealer
Some pieces fall flat, such as a selection of letters from children to President Barack Obama that depend on saccharine moments of Art Linkletter cuteness. ...
Louisiana's Landrieu Exposed As The Magnolia Madame, Political Prostitute ... - Gather.com
2009-11-22 20:14 UTC
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New York Times
Gather.com
The Pimp of all pimps, President Obama, has put too much on the line on this issue and for them, failure is not an option. So they will pay any price to ...
Romney, Milsap join list of conference attendees - Bakersfield Californian
2009-11-22 20:12 UTC
Bakersfield Californian
John McCain. Romney was considered a strong contender both because of his success in the private sector -- he founded and led a venture capital and ...
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Ceremonial swearing-in set for new judge - KTIV
2009-11-22 20:08 UTC
KTIV
Lange was nominated by President Barack Obama and approved by the US Senate in October. The former Sioux Falls attorney actually was sworn in two weeks ago ...
How Senators voted - Lawrence Journal World
2009-11-22 20:07 UTC
Lawrence Journal World
... Hutchison, Texas; Inhofe, Okla.; Isakson, Ga.; Johanns, Neb.; Kyl, Ariz.; LeMieux, Fla.; Lugar, Ind.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Murkowski, Alaska; ...
President Obama should act on appointment - Bismarck Tribune
2009-11-22 20:07 UTC
Bismarck Tribune
More than a year has passed since Barack Obama was elected. And North Dakota still does not have its new US Attorney. The state deserves better. ...
What Thanksgiving Day Means to People in US - Voice of America
2009-11-22 20:04 UTC
Voice of America
President Obama, in a statement, called the report unsettling. Especially troubling, he said, is that there were more than five hundred thousand families in ...
How Far Will Obama's Falling Approval Numbers Go? - Race 4 2012 (blog)
2009-11-22 19:50 UTC
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RIA Novosti
Race 4 2012 (blog)
Obama's Gallup approval finally broke the threshold yesterday. Today, the number has declined even more, to 48%. However, as the President's numbers with ...
Coakley Has Big Lead in Race for Kennedy's Seat - Politics Daily (blog)
2009-11-22 19:43 UTC
Politics Daily (blog)
... for a new Virginia governor in a closely watched race that has focused on promises of jobs and critiques of President Barack Obama's policies a year. ...
White House Study Looks at Job Creation in Illinois if Gitmo Prisoners ... - ABC News
2009-11-22 19:37 UTC
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Big Government (blog)
ABC News
President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers has prepared an economic analysis of job creation if the federal government takes over the underutilized ...
Senate confirms 2 new US attorneys for Iowa - Chicago Tribune
2009-11-22 19:31 UTC
Chicago Tribune
... has worked for the last three years in the Des Moines law firm Ahlers & Cooney. He was the Iowa counsel for the Obama campaign and a former Harkin aide.
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Mammogram guidelines spark debate over health bill - Philadelphia Inquirer
2009-11-22 19:31 UTC
Philadelphia Inquirer
GOP lawmakers said the Democratic health care plan, which the Senate allowed to inch forward Saturday night and remains President Barack Obama's top ...
RI slow to spend millions in stimulus funding - Gather.com
2009-11-22 19:06 UTC
Gather.com
All the while, the Republican governor has criticized President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus plan as ineffective in creating jobs even though the ...
Petition Accuses President Obama of "Inviting Jihad" - NewsBlaze
2009-11-22 18:57 UTC
NewsBlaze
The letter is a response to the news last week that President Obama would allow 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators to stand ...
Patrick Kennedy Tells Providence Journal He's Denied Communion - Bloomberg
2009-11-22 18:52 UTC
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New York Daily News
Bloomberg
The exchange comes amid a debate over whether abortion coverage should be excluded from an overhaul of health care President Barack Obama is urging Congress ...
When the Red, White and Blue Is In the Red - CBS News
2009-11-22 18:43 UTC
CBS News
Yet, when President Obama came calling to China, we owed the Chinese more than a trillion dollars. Yep, old Ev Dirksen was right. ...
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Montana's hot spot - The Spokesman Review
2009-11-22 18:37 UTC
The Spokesman Review
A more modest two-room suite down the hallway from the larger suites has been renamed the Obama Suite. President Obama spent the night in that room while ...
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McConnell, Hutchison Don't Echo Call For Geithner Resignation - Wall Street Journal (blog)
2009-11-22 18:34 UTC
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Two Republican lawmakers criticized the Obama administration for pushing forward with health-care legislation when the economy continues to struggle, ...
Steele: 'Moderate Democrats Sacrificed Their Principles' - TPM LiveWire (blog)
2009-11-22 18:10 UTC
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TPM LiveWire (blog)
TPM LiveWire (blog)
President Obama, Harry Reid and their liberal Senate allies will surely gloat and pat themselves on the back for winning tonight's vote in the dark of night ...
Senate advances health care reform bill
2009-11-22 18:09 UTC by
webmaster@sltrib.com (<p>By David Espo</p><p>The Associated Press</p>)
Washington » Invoking the memory of Sen. Edward Kennedy, Democrats united Saturday night to push historic health care legislation past a key Senate hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
Obama's approval plummets in Iowa - Examiner.com
2009-11-22 17:57 UTC
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Chippewa Herald
Examiner.com
AP Photo/Charles Dharapak The state that propelled Barack Obama to the presidency now has a majority of voters displeased with his performance. ...
Phantom congressional districts inspire vaporous news reporting - Examiner.com
2009-11-22 17:57 UTC
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Examiner.com
Examiner.com
... found some strange numbers there, and quickly determined them to be signs of Obama administration incompetence, if not outright fraud. ...
3 Chicago-area students named 2009 Rhodes Scholars - Chicago Sun-Times
2009-11-22 17:57 UTC
Chicago Sun-Times
Shih also was a field director in Albuquerque, NM, for the Barack Obama Presidential campaign, and a field organizer in five other states. ...
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