washingtonmonthly.com - 12/19/2008
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ACCOUNTABILITY WATCH.... It's not my intention to belabor the argument about Rick Warren giving the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration, but the topic has prompted some good discussion. For that matter, I've received a whole lot of good emails about...
openleft.com - 12/24/2008
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openleft.com —
In his column today, Thomas Friedman laments our
lack of infrastructure , and is upset that more...
GM executives have not been re-assigned despite the company losing seventy-two billion dollars: What has become of our infrastructure, which is so crucial to productivity? Back home, I was greeted ...
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Accountability For Thee, Not For Me
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/25/2008
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tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com —
In yesterday's thread, there was some good discussion
on corporate accountability, but I want to more explicitly...
emphasize that not only are alternatives to traditional private shareholder ownership possible, but that they regularly are used in our ...
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Alternative Ownership Approaches for Corporate ...
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“This should be a fight over the official prayer itself”
Comments from Left Field —
Steve Benen puts the Rick Warren controversy in broader perspective:
The real problem isn’t with who will give the invocation, but rather, the fact that there’s going to be an invocation in the first place. We had 144 years of presidential inaugurations, dating back to George Washington, in which there was no invocation and no benediction. This shouldn’t be a fight over which pastor delivers the prayer; this should be a fight over the official prayer itself. ...
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First thoughts: The full Obama Cabinet —
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From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, Domenico Montanaro, and Carrie Dann*** The full Obama Cabinet: At his last press conference of the year before departing for Hawaii, NBC’s Savannah Guthrie reports, Obama will unveil his final cabinet picks (and maybe ...
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Navarrette: Respect Obama's choice of Warren —
CNN.com - Politics 12/19/2008
If controversies were sitcoms, the ruckus over Barack Obama's decision to have the invocation at his inaugural ceremony given by Rick Warren -- bestselling author and pastor of the 20,000-member Saddleback Church in Southern California -- would be the ...
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