weeklystandard.com - 1/19/2009
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Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have now both promised that the upcoming economic stimulus bill won't include any earmarks. Both have used Clintonian language to limit the scope of their promises, but that hasn't gotten all that much attention.
Barack Obama has said that the stimulus bill will ...
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... . And more recently House Democratic leader Jim Clyburn owned up to the fact that Democrats intend to make sure that Congress gets its earmarks, even if it has to disguise them. ...
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I Pledge
deanesmay.com 1/23/2009 —
I pledge not to be a participant in the deification and mass worship of our President.
(Via David Bernstein .)
Pledge of Allegiance Becomes Pledge to Obama
newsblaze.com 1/29/2009 — A parent in the Clark County School District of Las Vegas, Henderson area reported today that his son, who is in 1st grade, came home yesterday saying that he didn't want to go back to school anymore. When asked why, the boy said that during the ...
Black Iraqis make Obama a model to follow —
CNN Political Ticker 1/19/2009
Jalal Thiyab Thijeel quotes Barack Obama, saying it is time for change.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Their faces and darker skins make them look different. They are routinely called "slave" by the majority, whatever their profession. But Iraq's ...
The more things changes in the office... —
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From NBC's John Yang The occupant will be changing, but the Oval Office will be staying much the same, for now at least. Every new president can make changes in the ultimate power office -- new artwork, any of the rugs and desks his ...
Obama greets volunteers at DC high school —
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From NBC’s Athena Jones WASHINGTON -- President-elect Obama 's third stop during his Inauguration Eve day of service was a high school gym in northwest Washington, where he and his wife spent about 40 minutes shaking hands and posing for ...
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