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Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following Shooting

Seeded on Sat Nov 7, 2009 12:57 AM EST (nbcchicago.com)

President Obama didn't wait long after Tuesday's devastating elections to give critics another reason to question his leadership, but this time the subject matter was more grim than a pair of governorships.

politics, obamas-insensitivity, obamas-missteps, obama-following-the-shooting

Unemployment officially tops 10% at 10.2% 26 Year High!

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 2:27 PM EST (finance.yahoo.com)

The U.S. jobless rate unexpectedly jumped to a 26-1/2-year high of 10.2 percent last month, adding to pressure on the Obama administration to do more to tackle unemployment even as signs of recovery mount.

politics, unemployment-rate, over-10-unemployment, jobless-rate, 26-year-high

Report Says 75 Percent of Young Americans Unfit for Military Service

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:55 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

It's tough enough selling military service to teen-agers who might not be so keen on getting their heads shaved or buy the whole "we do more by 9 a.m." line. And the fact that enlisting today could very well mean a visit to the front lines doesn't help, either.

politics, young-americans, fit-for-service, military-service, unfit-for-duty

Nancy Pelosi: Broken Promise

Seeded on Fri Nov 6, 2009 12:24 AM EST (Campaign Standard)

Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was "absolutely" commi …

politics, nancy-pelosi, political-promises-broken, broken-promises

Pelosi's Government-Run Health Plan Will Require a Monthly Abortion Premium

Seeded on Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:26 PM EST (United States House of Representatives)

Health care reform should not be used as an opportunity to use federal funds to pay for elective abortions. Health reform should be an opportunity to protect human life - not end it.

politics, abortion-funded-by-health-care-legislation, abortion, health-care-reform-abortion, health-care-reform-funds-abortion

Gore's Dual Role in Spotlight - Advocate and Investor

Seeded on Tue Nov 3, 2009 12:18 AM EST (The New York Times)

Former Vice President Al Gore thought he had spotted a winner last year when a small California firm sought financing for an energy-saving technology from the venture capital firm where Mr. Gore is a partner.

politics, greenvine, ecovine, gore, gores-dual-role, al-gore

Republicans Are Poised for Gains in Key Elections

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 11:59 PM EST (Wall Street Journal)

Republicans appear positioned for strong results in three hard-fought elections Tuesday. But isolated, off-year contests aren't always reliable indicators of what will happen in the wider federal and state races held in even-numbered years.

politics, republicans, republicans-poised-for-big-gains, 2009-elections

Ron Paul responds to Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story"

Seeded on Mon Nov 2, 2009 12:03 AM EST (Raw Story)

Seeded by Adrian Thorn (Clipped by politicalwhiz)

Speaking to veteran CNN interviewer Larry King on Sunday, Texas Republican Congressman Ron Paul argued that he is just as upset with America's economic system as activist filmmaker Michael Moore -- except the longtime doctor does not believe the illness is purely based on capital …

politics, ron-paul, michael-moore, bailout, wall-street, capitalism, socialism

Promises to Keep: Candidate Obama vs. President Obama

Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 11:55 PM EST (FOXNews.com)

Barack Obama made a lot of promises during his two-year campaign for change.

politics, fox-news, president-vs-candidate, presidential-promises, obama-promises, broken-promises

Cash for Clunkers costs taxpayers $24,000 per car

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:59 PM EDT (CNN)

A total of 690,000 new vehicles were sold under the Cash for Clunkers program last summer, but only 125,000 of those were vehicles that would not have been sold anyway, according to an analysis released Wednesday by the automotive Web site Edmunds.com.

business, cars, cash-for-clunkers, cash-for-clunkers-fail

'Desecrated flag' video is DNC finalist

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:46 PM EDT (Politico)

One of the 20 finalists in health care video contest run by Barack Obama's campaign arm features a mural of an America flag splattered with health care graffiti until it's covered completely by black paint.

politics, health-care-reform, health-care, freedom-of-speech, dececrated-flag, dnc-finalist

CBO Puts House Health Bill Total Cost At $1.055 Trillion

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:30 PM EDT (NASDAQ.com Stock Tracker)

The Congressional Budget Office said Thursday a U.S. House health-care system re-write would extend health insurance to 96% of the nonelderly U.S. population by 2019, and spend $1.055 trillion to do so.

politics, health-care-reform, cbo-costs, trillion-dollar-bill

House health bill clocks in at 1,990 pages More than, War & Peace, Torah...

Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 10:05 PM EDT (Politico)

It runs more pages than War and Peace, has nearly five times as many words as the Torah, and its tables of contents alone run far longer than this story.

politics, healthcare-bill, health-care-reform, obamacare, health-reform

Can President Obama make his decision yet? More Troops or Not

Tue Oct 27, 2009 11:43 AM EDT

The truth of the matter is this, more and more Americans are dying daily, and the President seems to be more interested in anything but making a decision on whether or not we're going to send more troops. Personally I don't care if we do or don't...

Continue reading this entry ...

politics, obama-war, war-in-afghanistan, winnable-war, additional-troops, president-obama-needs-to-make-a-decision, anti-war, pro-war, win-in-afhganistan

REAL Price Tag for Health Care reform:Over $1 Trillion!

Seeded on Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:26 AM EDT (apnews.myway.com)

Health care legislation taking shape in the House carries a price tag of at least $1 trillion over a decade, significantly higher than the target President Barack Obama has set, congressional officials said Friday as they struggled to finish work on the measure for a vote early n …

politics, health-care-reform, obamacare, trillion-dollar-health-care, cbo-estimates-wrong

Fox News as White House Bogeyman

Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:42 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

The unprecedented presidential policy and efforts by the White House to undermine Fox News and legitimate critics of the president and his administration are dangerous and unsettling.

politics, fox-news-vs-white-house, fox-news-is-white-house-bogeyman, white-house-fails

Michael Moore: A Love Story? Not So Much

Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:38 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

Michael Moore can dish it out. But can he take it?

entertainment, michael-moore, michael-moore-becomes-a-target, anti-moore-films

Barack Obama so yesterday; worst poll rating drop in 50 years

Seeded on Fri Oct 23, 2009 2:34 AM EDT (Telegraph)

The decline in Barack Obama's popularity since July has been the steepest of any president at the same stage of his first term for more than 50 years.

politics, barack-obama, barack-hussein-obama, baracks-popularity-plummets, barack-dudd, democrats-fail, democratic-failure, republican-harold-barack-failure

'Prius' of the Navy USS Makin Island

Seeded on Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:25 PM EDT (FOXNews.com)

The USS Makin Island is the newest ship in the fleet and the first to use hybrid technology --earning it the nickname the 'Prius' of the Navy.

us-news

Key senators may rebuff Obama on health care

Seeded on Thu Oct 22, 2009 2:23 PM EDT (apnews.myway.com)

The Democrats' control of a hefty majority in the Senate - plus the House - would suggest that President Barack Obama is within reach of overhauling the nation's health care system this fall.

politics, health-care-debate, health-care-reform, obamacare, obamacare-in-doubt, reform-doubtful

Obama Compares Fox News to Talk Radio, Says He's Not 'Losing Sleep' Over Controversy

Seeded on Thu Oct 22, 2009 12:28 AM EDT (FOXNews.com)

President Obama spoke publicly for the first time Wednesday about his administration's portrayal of Fox News as an illegitimate news organization -- only to say he's not "losing sleep" over the controversy.

politics, fox-news-feud, fox-news, obama-and-fox-feud, fox-vs-obama, fox-fight

Fox Executive: "It's probably been PR and marketing we couldn't have bought,"

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:10 PM EDT (broadcastingcable.com)

Fox News has made much hay of the White House's strenuous attempts to de-legitimize the news channel. Greta Van Susteren has called it "silly" and "patently absurd." Hannity is running promos boasting: "Not approved by the White House."

politics, fox-loves-the-war, fox-loves-the-white-house, fox-cant-beat-the-pr, fox-loves-obama, chase-carey

Obama's ratings continue to Fall.

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:09 PM EDT (rasmussenreports.com)

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 27% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President.

politics, obama-approval-ratings, democrats-ratings, obama-fails, obama-falls

Matt Drudge, Drowning the Dollar?

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:08 PM EDT (Politico)

On Tuesday, Matt Drudge ran a headline about the weakening U.S. dollar on his website, Drudgereport.com. In and of itself, that would be unremarkable, except that it was the 18th time Drudge had posted a link to a story about the weak dollar this month.

politics, declining-dollar, matt-drudge, drudge-report, dudd-report

Grassley Warns HHS Web Site May Be littered with Propaganda.

Seeded on Wed Oct 21, 2009 12:06 PM EDT (Roll Call Daily - Breaking News)

Senate Finance ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is raising concerns that a Department of Health and Human Services Web site that urges visitors to send an e-mail to President Barack Obama praising his health care reform plan may violate rules against government-funded propa …

politics, grassley, chuck-grassley, government-website-turned-into-propaganda-machine

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