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by Mark Silva
"Climategate,'' they call it.
What a joke.
As if the hacking of some email in England exposing some overzealous scientists with a political agenda undermines the world's collection of scientific data on climate change.
Suddenly, it's time for Al Gore to ...
White House
Al Gore
by Mark Silva
On the heels of the best employment report of the year -- albeit one with continuing job losses -- President Barack Obama says additional steps will be needed to help a reviving economy produce more new jobs in the year ahead and insists that overhauling the nation's ...
White House
Barack Obama
By Jim Tankersley
President Obama will push back his visit to the international climate change treaty negotiations in Copenhagen, from the first week of the conference to its final scheduled day, a senior White House official said this afternoon.
The move comes in response to greenhouse ...
White House
Barack Obama
China
India
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin says she is no birther.
The author of Going Rogue insists that she has never suggested that President Barack Obama, a native of Hawaii, was not born in the United States.
Yet, in a radio interview this week, the Republican candidate for ...
White House
Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
by Mark Silva
Gov. Charlie Crist, the popular Florida governor running for Senate, got his numbers crossed, inadvertently directing parents to a sex phone line.
Callers to the governor's office heard an on-hold recording of Crist promoting the toll-free Florida KidCare line, a ...
Congress
Charlie Crist
by Mark Silva
President Barack Obama not long ago fielded a question from a high-schooler in Virginia about how one goes about getting the job that the president has.
"Let me give you some very practical tips,'' the president replied. "First of all, I want everybody here to be ...
White House
Barack Obama
by Michael Muskal
Armed with some good economic news, President Barack Obama took his campaign for more jobs to Pennsylvania today, but ran into more than he bargained for in questions.
Speaking at Lehigh Carbon Community College in Schnecksville, Pa., Obama made the usual points: That ...
White House
Barack Obama
by Mark Silva
Americans only narrowly support the "new way forward'' that President Barack Obama has announced for the U.S. military in Afghanistan - with 51 percent supporting the strategy unveiled this week at West Point.
And the public is divided in its confidence that the plan - ...
White House
Barack Obama
Gallup Poll
Afghanistan
by Don Lee
In a positive jobs report before the holidays, the nation's unemployment rate eased to 10 percent in November, from 10.2 percent in October, and the number of workers on payrolls was essentially unchanged last month, the Labor Department said today.
The report said employers ...
White House
by Mark Silva
While President Obama seeks "a new era of engagement'' with the rest of the world, Americans are showing less interest in reaching outward than they have in a long time.
"For the first time in more than 40 years of polling, a plurality (49 percent) says the United ...
World
China
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
by Mark Silva
"We've seen significant turnaround in the economy,'' President Barack Obama said today. "Our economy was in a freefall.''
Yet, with unemployment running at over 10 percent, the White House opened a "jobs-summit'' today.
"Today, our economy is growing again for the first ...
White House
Barack Obama
by Mark Silva
Desiree Rogers came to Washington touting "the Obama brand.''
Now it's Rogers' brand of social management that some are questioning, with the White House Social Secretary at the center of congressional subpoena talk that in past times has been reserved for the likes of ...
White House
Barack Obama
by Kathleen Hennessey and Mark Silva
With the House Homeland Security Committee holding a hearing today on the breach of White House security that enabled an uninvited Virginia couple access to a State Dinner, the ranking Republican is calling for subpoenas of both the couple and the White ...
Congress
Fred Thompson
by Mark Silva
"We did not ask for this fight,'' President Barack Obama told the cadets at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point this week in announcing an escalation -- and also the start of a troop drawdown -- of the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan.
"It's his war now,'' Time ...
World
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Ezra Klein
by Mark Silva
Our friend and colleague Clarence Page notes that President Barack Obama has lost at least one old friend on one issue: Chicago's Bill Ayers, on the escalation of the war in Afghanistan.
Obama was criticized for "palin' around with terrorists'' during the presidential ...
White House
Bill Ayers
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Vietnam
by Mark Silva
Sarah Palin was supposed to be drawing a pretty good crowd this evening on her Going Rogue tour at the College of the Ozarks.
But her appearance at the Mall of America is another story: Authorities there apologizing for suggesting that reporters covering the former Alaska ...
White House
Sarah Palin
by Mark Silva
When President Barack Obama delivered his nationally televised address about his deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan -- and also the setting of a date to start a withdrawal -- he had about 8.5 million people following him on major cable networks.
FOX News ...
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Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
Afghanistan
Fox News
by Mark Silva
Who says FOX News doesn't like Barack Obama?
The first year of the Democratic president has been good for the nation's leading cable news channel - its viewership up 7 percent in prime-time hours so far in 2009, compared to the same time last year.
Make that 10 percent ...
White House
Barack Obama
Fox News
CNN
Lou Dobbs
by Mark Silva
It was Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of Defense, who once told soldiers asking for more equipment: "You go to war with the Army you have.''
And it is Rumsfeld, who oversaw the Bush administration's invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, who now is chafing at ...
White House
Afghanistan
Robert Gibbs
Barack Obama
Iraq
by Paul West
In his first comments on an effort to impose a conservative purity test on Republican candidates in the 2010 election, Republican National Chairman Michael Steele stressed the counter-productive nature of litmus tests.
At the same time, Steele attempted to play down the ...
