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Where are all the Anti-Inauguration activists now?
Michelle Malkin — [image] President Obama’s Chicago machine is kicking into high gear to plan and fund his massive, unprecedented inaugural festivities. He just appointed an inauguration planning committee that includes his hometown cronies William Daley and Penny Pritzker. They’ve got a campaign-style website counting down the days to the massive party in Washington. To deflect attention from the costs, the One’s party planners are ...

The Whole Mall
Hotline On Call Part Deux — The Presidential Inaugural Committee announced today that the entire length of the National Mall will be open to the public so that as many visitors as possible are able to watch Pres.-elect Barack Obama's swearing-in ceremony. It's a first apparently. Full release is available after the jump, and for more inaugural event info, check out the committee's Web site. WASHINGTON, DC -- In keeping with its pledge to make the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama one of the most open and accessible in history, the Presidential Inaugural ...

Kudos to the Change.gov New Media Team
techPresident — ... It's also worth a look at the Presidential Inaugural Committee's website, which looks and feels like it was also done by Phillips' team. Today, it launched a ...

Sharon Stone, Jamie Foxx: Obama
The Swamp — ... Financier George Soros and four family members also have contributed a combined total of $250,000. Among the donors identified - those contributing more than $200 per person - the inaugural committee reports that 169 gave the maximum of $50,000 42 gave $25,000.The committee is not accepting contributions from corporations, political action committees, labor unions,federally registered lobbyists, non-U.S. citizens or registered foreign agents, ...

Obama Calls for National Day of Service
The Caucus — Barack Obama is calling for a national day of service to take place on Jan. 19, the federal holiday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday and the day preceding Mr. Obama’s inauguration as president. Mr. Obama and Joseph R. Biden Jr. are planning to roll up their sleeves themselves that day and perform some as-yet-unspecified service work in Washington, D.C. The Presidential Inaugural Committee is putting the wheels for the project in motion with calls and e-mails to national service organizations. The committee is reaching out to organizations of all sizes and ...

Leah McElrath Renna: Rick Warren, Obama? Really?!?!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... "The Presidential Inaugural Committee, at the direction of President-elect Obama...will organize an inclusive and accessible inauguration that...unites the nation around our shared values and ideals." ...

Obama's unity call falls on P.C. ears
Citizen Crain — ... in the No on 8 campaign. Never mind all of those things because they do not matters as much as ideological purity, as defined by those who despite their own intolerance somehow think of themselves as "progressive."  We must demand exclusion in the name of "unity"!  Must I even point out the irony here? A number of critics have traced Obama's horrific betrayal to this transition-team promise:"The Presidential Inaugural Committee , at the direction of President-elect Obama...will organize an inclusive and accessible inauguration that...unites the nation around our shared ...

President-Elect Obama and His 10 Inaugural Balls
Electric Venom — ... Of course, taxpayers need not fret: we’re not footing the bill for Obama’s big balls. That’s the job of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, which has been busily raising funds to fete Obama’s balls. Sure, actors and other artsy types are happy to fork over ...