Leon T. Hadar: Obama's Mideast Policy: An Unpromising Drive towards a Cost-Effective Pax Americana

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Published Sept. 1, 2010 at 1:55 p.m.

President Barack Obama is continuing to reorient U.S. foreign policy in general, and in the Middle East in particular, along the lines of the ...

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Obama's Oil Spill Emotions: The Mediagasm (VIDEO)

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:16 p.m.

If you've spent any time at all watching the heroes of cable news grapple with the ongoing oil spill crisis, it should be pretty clear that what they need to get them through the day is for President Obama to stand in front of their cameras and wage a frenzied campaign of emotional warfare against BP, oily water, tar balls, fancy pants, time, circumstance, modern life, the perils of consequence and the fickle finger of cruel fate ... Nothing less will do! Everyone remembers that iconic moment

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Helen Thomas Retirement Leaves 'Significant' Void: Anti-War Voices Fret

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:08 p.m.

The abrupt retirement of Helen Thomas from her perch as the ranking member of the White House press corps was essentially accepted as a fait accompli by supporters and detractors alike after her controversial remarks urging Jews to leave Israel surfaced ... Indeed, if there was any defense made of Thomas's comments, it wasn't done persuasively or at an influential level. But that didn't stop the progressive community -- many hearing about her retirement while at the Campaign for America's Future

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Obama's Support For Unlimited Oil Spill Liability May Not Include BP: Congressman

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Published June 9, 2010 at 3:01 p.m.

Congressional officials are worried that despite the White House's endorsement of unlimited liability for oil companies involved in damaging spills, a new statement of presidential policy may not actually cover the current crisis in the Gulf ... Rep. Rush Holt's (D-N.J.) office began airing concerns on Tuesday that the president's support for dropping numerical limits on the amount of economic damages paid by an oil company would not apply retroactively to BP ... The New Jersey Democrat sent a

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Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett: Obama's Failure to Deliver on His Cairo Speech

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Published June 9, 2010 at 2:26 p.m.

For many Middle Easterners, the growing perception that Obama has turned out to be just like any other president on issues that matter to them is more than a profound disappointment ...

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Seniors Across the Country Join President Obama’s Discussion on Health Reform and Medicare

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Published June 9, 2010 at 11:00 a.m.
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Yesterday, seniors across the country participated in President Obama’s tele-town hall meeting on the Affordable Care Act. Tens of thousands of seniors listened or watched the event while others gathered at more than 100 watch parties, some of which were attended by senior Obama Administration officials ... Watch the full event, with direct links to each question ... At the event, President Obama knocked down the misinformation campaign opponents of reform have been waging for a year. 

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Excerpts from President Barack Obama's Commencement Address at Kalamazoo Central High School

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Published June 7, 2010 at 1:41 p.m.

“… I’m here tonight because after three rounds of competition, with more than 1,000 schools, and more than 170,000 votes cast, I know – and America now knows – what you’ve done at Kalamazoo Central.  ... Together as a community, you’ve embraced the motto of this school district: “Every child, every opportunity, every time,” because you believe, like I do, that every child – regardless of what they look like, where they come from, or how much money their parents have –

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K Street Research: 'Non-Lobbying Entity' Expands, Plots K Street Takeover

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Published May 14, 2010 at 7:32 a.m.

Since Brien Bonneville and Larry Mitchell founded the very first "non-lobbying entity" at the beginning of the year, they've found plenty of demand for their "non-lobbying" services ... Their firm, which they call K Street Research, has attracted several new clients for a total of nine. To meet the additional demand they've hired an additional staffer, Tim Farnsworth, as director of research and communications ... "It's been exciting," said Mitchell. "We've had a lot of compliments, we've picked

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Harriet Miers' Ghost Haunts McConnell, Republicans

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Published May 14, 2010 at 7:24 a.m.

Congressional Republican leadership opened up a new line of attack on Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan Wednesday. But once again, the ghost of Harriet Miers, President Bush's SCOTUS nominee, haunted their efforts ... On the day that he sat down with Obama's pick for the Court, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) went to the Senate floor to express concerns about the Solicitor General's independence from the president(s) she served ... "She's never had to develop the judicial habit of

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Federal Oversight Panel Slams Obama's Small Business Plans, Says Administration Not Doing Enough

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Published May 14, 2010 at 7:17 a.m.
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A federal oversight panel criticized the Obama administration's attempts to boost small business lending, expressing doubts on everything from the plan's promised success to whether the administration is taking the right approach ... The administration has proposed a host of programs fuel small business loans, which have nosedived over the last 20 months. However, the bulk of the money is centered on a TARP-like program that would invest up to $30 billion in taxpayer money into banks. The cost

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