latimesblogs.latimes.com - 5/11/2009
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It was another signature campaign promise, candidate Barack Obama' s pledge to end "tax breaks for corporations that ship our jobs overseas.” Today, introduced by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner , Obama laid out his plan to close the offshore loopholes like the popular ones in the ...
Racial Divisions vs. Public Social Spending
openleft.com 8/10/2009 — This is a follow-up to my diary yesterday, "Obama Quandary Comes Into Sharper Focus: Part Two, Economic Substance" , in which I faulted Michael Lind for misperceiving the role of race in the story of New Deal liberalism. But I originally began ...
Obama Recognizes Anti-Communist Forebears
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 5/1/2009 — Happy Law Day and Loyalty Day everyone!
That's right, it's May Day or Labor Day in most of the world today, and President Obama has issued a pair of proclamations recognizing the homegrown American institutions of Law Day and Loyalty Day.
Law Day, established amid the anti-Communist ...
Coward
obsidianwings.blogs.com 5/20/2009 — by hilzoy Oh, and Harry Reid? Try showing some courage. Try leadership. You never know; it just might suit you. This certainly doesn't: "QUESTION: If the United States -- if the United States thinks that these people should be held, why shouldn’t ...
No, I Do Not Support "The Troops"
powerofnarrative.blogspot.com 5/23/2009 — I. Introduction I have intended to write this post for the last few years. As Memorial Day approaches, I thought: why not do it right now? Indeed, why the hell not? I have never sought outrage for its own sake; I write what I do because I am ...
Coward
washingtonmonthly.com 5/20/2009 — Coward Oh, and Harry Reid? Try showing some courage. Try leadership. You never know; it just might suit you. This certainly doesn't: "QUESTION: If the United States -- if the United States thinks that these people should be held, why...
Format Document
azleg.gov 2/5/2009 — Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the ...
Obama's National Security Speech
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 5/21/2009 — The following is the prepared text of President Obama's speech today on national security. You can also watch the speech live .
These are extraordinary times for our country. We are confronting an historic economic crisis. We are fighting two ...
Obama tells leaders of Americas the U.S. too disengaged, dictatorial
latimesblogs.latimes.com 4/18/2009 —
Ten days after telling Europeans that the United States had been divisive and derisive toward its allies there, President Obama publicly tells leaders of the Americas that his country has been too disengaged and even dictatorial toward its more ...
Looming Protectionism
corner.nationalreview.com 1/30/2009 — It's been a bad week for trade. First, Timothy Geithner engaged in a little economic saber-rattling toward China, and now Congress is attempting to exclude foreign companies from competing for infrastructure projects in the stimulus package. The ...
Obama’s Speech on Detainees and National Security
blogs.wsj.com 5/22/2009 — The prepared remarks of President Barack Obama at the National Archives Museum on detainee policy and national security.
These are extraordinary times for our country. We are confronting an historic economic crisis. We are fighting two wars. We ...
Obama agenda: Karzai and Zardari —
First Read 5/11/2009
Afghanistan's Hamid Karzai and Pakistan's Asif Ali Zardari didn't exactly inspire confidence on Meet the Press. "Zardari rejected the notion that his nation is on the brink of collapse and contended that Pakistan is merely one front in the global ...
McKiernan out in Afghanistan —
First Read 5/11/2009
From NBC's Jim Miklaszewski In high-level shakeup, Defense Secretary Robert Gates will announce today that he is replacing Gen. David McKiernan as the top U.S. and NATO military commander in Afghanistan with General Stan McChrystal, the director of ...
Gibbs on Sykes' Limbaugh remark —
First Read 5/11/2009
From NBC's Scott FosterAsked for the President Obama's reaction to comedian Wanda Sykes' joke at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner calling Rush Limbaugh the 20th 9/11 hijacker, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he ...
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