consumeraffairs.com - 11/8/2008
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ConsumerAffairs.com November 7, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and other government agencies that affect consumers, are likely to look very different under President Obama than they do under President Bush. With the priority on economic ...
scotusblog.com - 11/11/2008
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scotusblog.com —
Analysis Justice Anthony M. Kennedy’s reputation as a
“swing” vote in the Supumereme Court is well known,...
and frequently validated. It is not often, though, that the tendency to swing is evident as early as the oral argument in a ...
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Argument analysis: As Kennedy goes…
no-pasaran.blogspot.com - 11/2/2008
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no-pasaran.blogspot.com —
If Obama Can't Win It He'll Steal It,
note Floyd and Mary Beth Brown . Obama's ties...
to ACORN go back much further than his presidential bid. In 1992, Obama worked as executive director of ACORN's voter-registration segment, Project Vote. Obama, ...
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Stealing the Election: The 1960 and the 2008 Contests ...
clevelandmagazine.com - 11/6/2008
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clevelandmagazine.com —
He’s got his father’s good looks and mesmerizing
speaking skills. Too bad Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s journalism...
is polluted with wacky conspiracy theories. His June 2006 Rolling Stone article convinced countless readers that George W. Bush stole the ...
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Nut Job | Article Archives | Arts ...
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Risk And Opportunity
Firedoglake —
... 6) The federal government doesn't do its job because it's stacked with industry lobbyists and well-connected incompetents. (I'm cautiously optimistic on this one.) ...
Yeah, We're Screwed
Riehl World View —
... Perhaps I should revise the post to make the outlook much more black. Take any economic issues we're facing and multiply them by two or more and you still might not be close to how bad Obama is getting ready to make it if this is his path. Looks like he's going full steam toward Europeanization out of the gate given rumored appointments. Many of these people, including him, have no clue, or realistic concern about what it takes to make a business work. ...
Obama Eyes Consumer Activists for Agency Posts
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... prominent environmentalists are also in the running. snip~ If it turns out not to be Kennedy, the sources tell the Post that former Sierra Club president and environmental activist Lisa Renstrom is under consideration, as is California Air Resources Board chair Mary Nichols. Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen McGinty and Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Ian Bowles also reportedly have a shot at landing the post. Read more: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2008/11/obama_con...
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