Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
SPEAKER: PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA[*] OBAMA: Thank you. Thank you, guys. Thank you very much. Please have a seat. Thank you so much.Well, first of all, let me thank Lew Hay and his visionary leadership at Florida Power & Light. It's an example of a company that is doing well by doing good. And I think it's a model for what we (Read More)
Mashable!:
We’ve had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn’t one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, the results are in.Whereas last week’s Windows 7 versus OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard battle was a close one, (Read More)
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Joe Raedle / Getty Images No other prosperous country not torn by civil conflict has anything like our volume of mass killings. Lee Siegel on America’s shameful epidemic.Nidal Malik Hasan may have shouted “Allahu Akbar” before his murderous onslaught at Fort Hood, but his actions were part of an Am (Read More)
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SOME PEOPLE ARE PUSHING THE STORY THAT HASAN WAS INVOLVED IN THE OBAMA TRANSITION, but that appears to be an unfair stretch. As you can see from the updates to this Gawker story, he seems to have attended some public events and gotten his name on a list of “participants,” but not to have actually been part of the process. (Read More)
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OBAMA RIDES TO CHRIS DODD’S RESCUE: Dodd Getting Presidential Help in Reelection Campaign.Embattled Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd (D-Ct.), whose low approval ratings make him one of the most vulnerable Democrats seeking re-election next year, gets help from President Obama tonight.Obama will appear at (Read More)
Open Left - Front Page:
Birtherism wears its crazy on its sleeve. For one thing, the demand that Barack Obama produce his birth certificate did not reach anything close to its crescendo until months after Obama had already posted his birth certificate to the internet. And, of course, there's the crazy incarnate of Orly Taitz. So you can be forg (Read More)
Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
It's been about two months now since Gen. Stanley McChrystal submitted his Afghan war report to the Pentagon and White House, reportedly asking for something like 40,000 more U.S. troops. Monday Obama and his advisors had yet another meeting.And the diligent Jake Tapper reports on his Political Punch blog that the current t (Read More)
Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
Die grösste Gesundheitsreform in den USA seit vier Jahrzehnten steht auf der Kippe. Wenige Stunden vor der Abstimmung im Repräsentantenhaus ringen die Demokraten von Präsident Barack Obama weiter um eine gemeinsame Linie bei Schwangerschaftsabbrüchen. (sda/Reuters) Bis tief in die Nacht zum Samstag verhandelten Befürworter (Read More)
Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
Nach dem Amoklauf von Fort Hood ist die Polizistin, die den mutmaßlichen Täter außer Gefecht setzte, mit viel Lob bedacht worden. Kimberley Munley habe Nidal Malik Hasan mit vier Schüssen verletzt, obwohl sie selbst von einer Kugel getroffen worden sei, erklärte der Kommandeur des größten US-Militärstützpunkts, Generalleutn (Read More)
Submitted by Lucaswyrsch:
President Obama made an appearance in Florida last week that should have gotten more attention. At a time when many Americans are apprehensive about the state of the economy and uncertain about the nation’s long-term prospects, Mr. Obama delivered an upbeat speech that offered a glimpse of a broader overall vision and a pra (Read More)
Ecademy: user blogs:
Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another country, a poll showed.Residents of sub-Saharan African countries were the most likely to want to move abroad permanently, the (Read More)
The Guardian:
Noam Chomsky is the west's most prominent critic of US imperialism, yet he is rarely interviewed in the mainstream media. Seumas Milne meets himNoam Chomsky is the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar. A philosopher of language and political campaigner of towering academic reputation, who (Read More)
New York Times:
Even politically vulnerable Democrats in Congress said the party’s losses in two governor’s races this week were not big influences on their decision on health care.
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New York Times:
The mayor’s unexpectedly close re-election could jeopardize the quadrennial payouts — some as high as $400,000 — that he has routinely showered on his campaign workers.
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New York Times:
The mayor’s unexpectedly close re-election could jeopardize the quadrennial payouts — some as high as $400,000 — that he has routinely showered on his campaign workers.
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