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The Monday Line: Only 3,864 Hours of Cable News to Fill Until Election Day
May 28, 2012 5:15 am-
The Monday Line: 19 Days to Genocide in Camp AshrafIraqi police suppression forces surround Camp Ashraf (source: PMOI) Ironic that Egypt’s pro-democracy demonstrators...by Denis G Campbell on December 12, 2011 3:30 am -
Presidential Pardons Heavily Favor Whites(Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images) by Dafna Linzer and Jennifer LaFleur, ProPublica White criminals seeking...by admin on December 5, 2011 4:45 pm -
Groups Solicit the UN to Recognize Fracking as a Human Rights IssueOver 5,000 Calls Made to the White House from Citizens Concerned About Fracking Washington, D.C. and Brussels—...by admin on September 14, 2011 3:15 pm
Posts Tagged ‘White House’
Why Obama Isn’t Fighting the Budget Battle
In the next week the action moves from Wisconsin to Washington, where the deadline looms for a possible government shutdown over the federal budget. President Obama has to take a more direct and personal role in that budget battle – both for the economy’s sake and for the sake of his re-election. But will he? [...]
Why the Democrats Should Never Have Started Paying Ransom to Avoid a Shutdown
It’s called ransom. That’s what Republicans are demanding from the White House and congressional Democrats for not pulling the plug on the government. Problem is, when you pay ransom once, you’re almost begging to pay it again. And that’s exactly the pickle the Obama administration is finding itself in. In order to avoid a shutdown [...]
Plamegate Rides Again: Early Peek At New Film
by Charley James Thanks to the movie website Corona Coming Attractions, there’s an advance review of the new film Fair Game, based on the book by Valerie Plame, the CIA case officer who was “outed” by the Bush Administration when her husband called the president a liar in The New York Times in July, 2003, [...]
How Tough is Our President?
by Robert Reich Latest word from the White House is that the President still supports a public option but is also standing by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s remark last weekend that a public insurance plan is “not the essential element” of health-care reform. So where, exactly, is the White House on the [...]
Reality vs. Myth in Healthcare Debate!
As we head into the weekend, here is the straight skinny on healthcare report from the White House and David Axelrod. 8 ways reform provides security and stability to those with or without coverage Ends Discrimination for Pre-Existing Conditions: Insurance companies will be prohibited from refusing you coverage because of your medical history. Ends Exorbitant [...]
Obama’s Upcoming Hush-Hush Damage Control Meeting with LGBTQ Leaders
Rev. Irene Monroe The President has been an Obama-nation on LGBTQ issues since he’s taken office. The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our campaign dollars. But with a 74 percent disapproval rating the President [...]
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