"The Engine of Job Growth in America"

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Published Feb. 2, 2010 at 3:15 p.m.
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Today, President Obama held a town hall meeting in Nashua, New Hampshire to discuss new initiatives and proposals to create jobs and encourage the growth of small businesses. He outlined the details of the new Small Business Lending Fund, which will be created using $30 billion from money repaid by Wall Street banks.  ... The fund will provide capital for community banks on Main Street to lend to small businesses that are struggling to obtain loans since bank lending standards have tightened.

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Top 100 Things of This Rotten Decade

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Published Dec. 29, 2009 at 6:52 p.m.
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#100: Craig Kilborn wasn’t the host of The Daily Show during this decade.#99: Fred Thompson’s presidential campaign. Ha ha, the “New Reagan.”#98: Joe Lieberman never got to be Vice President.#97: You know what didn’t even exist in any form before this decade? The iPod musical thing! It is nice to have such a thing, for [ ... ] ... Barack Obama - Joe Lieberman - Daily Show - Fred Thompson - Sarah Palin ...

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President Obama: Three New Initiatives to Help Community Health Centers

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Published Dec. 9, 2009 at 5:11 p.m.
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Click here to see the video ... Two causes all Americans can get behind are initiatives to improve our health care system and create jobs in a struggling economy. In an effort to accomplish both at once, today President Obama announced that $600 million in stimulus money will go towards improving community health centers across the country: ... [S]tarting today, we're making $88 million in funding available for centers to adopt new health information technology systems to manage their

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President Obama's small masterpiece of a speech at Fort Hood.

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Published Nov. 10, 2009 at 6:11 p.m.
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President Obama's speech at Fort Hood, Texas, was a small masterpiece—less than 15 minutes—in part because it was so modest. The president had great material and he knew not to get in its way ... [more ... ] ... Barack Obama - United States - Fort Hood - Politics - Society and Culture ...

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What will Barack Obama do with his Nobel Peace Prize money?

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 7:23 p.m.
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The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its Peace Prize to Barack Obama Friday morning. During a brief speech shortly thereafter, the president said he would "accept this award as a call to action" but ignored a question shouted from the crowd on how he would spend the $1.4 million in prize money. On Friday afternoon, the White House announced that the new laureate will donate the entire amount to charity. How, exactly, might the president go about doing this? ... [more ... ] ... Sponsored Topics:

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Why did Obama win the Nobel? Since the committee didn't really say, he can.

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 2:47 p.m.
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Say what you want about whether President Obama deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. His acceptance speech in the Rose Garden was an effective combination of humility—"I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments"—and political savvy. From now on, everything he does will have the stamp, however indirect, of the world's most prestigious prize: ... [more ... ] ... Sponsored Topics: Barack Obama - Nobel Peace Prize - White House Rose Garden - United States - Rose Garden ...

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The battle between jocks and nerds over Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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Published Oct. 2, 2009 at 11:45 a.m.
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On Friday in Copenhagen, the International Olympic Committee got Chicago's best shot. President Obama flew in to stump for the city's bid for the 2016 Olympics, joining Michelle Obama, Oprah Winfrey, and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. It wasn't enough: Chicago lost out in the first round of voting, a shocking defeat for the odds-on favorite to win the 2016 games ... [more ... ] ... Sponsored Topics: Michelle Obama - Oprah Winfrey - International Olympic Committee - 2016 Summer Olympics - Sport

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A primer on the word racism.

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Published Sept. 30, 2009 at 12:41 p.m.
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More than a few naive souls hoped that the election of Barack Obama signaled a new era of racial harmony. Instead, alas, American race relations have entered a bizarre new phase in which tension is ubiquitous and almost anyone can claim to be the victim of racism. Former President Jimmy Carter lamented that "there is an inherent feeling among many in the country that an African-American should not be president," in reaction to Rep. Joe Wilson's now-infamous outburst during President Obama's

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Tehran's worst fear is a sustained and well-funded human rights campaign.

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Published Sept. 28, 2009 at 11:00 p.m.
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It's an odd thing about Iran, but sometimes I could swear there are two of them. On the one hand, there is the Iran of the nuclear issue, the Iran analyzed by security experts, the Iran covered by the White House press corps. This is the Iran that made the news last week when President Barack Obama revealed the existence of yet another hidden Iranian nuclear reactor, the Iran that will be judged by the U.N. Security Council this Thursday ... [more ... ] ... Sponsored Topics: Iran - Barack Obama

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