Presidents’ First Speeches to Congress Focus on Parts of the State of the Union
cqpolitics.com 2/24/2009 — CQ TODAY PRINT EDITION – CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS Feb. 23, 2009 – 8:18 p.m. Presidents’ First Speeches to Congress Focus on Parts of the State of the Union By Bennett Roth, CQ Staff Lawmakers will arrive early in hopes of grabbing center-aisle seats, ...

Union employees go on strike … against the union
hotair.com 3/19/2009 — In the Someone Left The Irony On Department, the SEIU has a new problem besides Democratic defectors on Card Check. A planned layoff has a union local filing a complaint with the NRLB over unfair labor practices and accuses the employer of bypassing ...

Happy Birthday Abe Lincoln: Slavery, Secession and Civil War
culturekitchen.com 2/12/2009 — Feb. 12th is a big day for me. Not only is it my birthday, but it is the birthday of two of the towering figures of the 19th century, born on the same day, same year: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln. 2009 is the 200th anniversary of their births. I want to focus on Lincoln in this article. ...

TaxPayersFor CommonSense: "State by State Breakdown of Earmarks"
taxpayer.net 3/20/2009 — March 13, 2009 Update: Version 5 is now available. (Download it here) This version includes member state and party, and also allows for a partisan tabulation of who got how many earmarks. We did not try to parse an earmark among parties; we only ...

CNN: Quench your speech trivia thirst
njdc.org 2/24/2009 — From CNN, “Quench your speech trivia thirst.” A little more than a month after taking office, President Obama addresses a joint session of Congress tonight, the 76th time a president has done so. Ronald Reagan was the only president to postpone his speech to Congress. Ronald ...

Gorbachev's model for Obama
boston.com 12/29/2008 — The "decisive year" for which Gorbachev called two decades ago may now be here -- for our side.

Just 9% of Non-Union Workers Want to Join Union
rasmussenreports.com 3/16/2009 — Union members tend to believe that most workers want to join a labor union. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 47% of union members hold that view while only 18% disagree. But those who don’t belong to a union hold a ...

Short Publications - Obama the Naive
aei.org 1/19/2009 — Barack Obama's willingness to meet with the leaders of rogue states such as Iran and North Korea "without preconditions" is a naive and dangerous approach to dealing with the hard men who run pariah states. It will be an important and legitimate issue ...

Only Going To Church On Christmas
openleft.com 2/24/2009 — What should we expect from President Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday night? Probably talk of our economic difficulties, but talk of how we are going to fix them through more public spending (especially on health care), less military ...

Iran 2009 vs. USSR 1991 - A Study in Contrasts (and Leadership)
harrisonprice.com 6/24/2009 — USSR in 1991. There have been plenty of cries from Obama Defenders that his silence (until yesterday sort of) was the wise and prudent thing to do… as if not waiting the entire weekend to make a strong statement would have somehow caused Iran’s mullahs to blame America for their ...

When a 'State of the Union' speech isn't — CNN.com - Politics 2/24/2009

CNN Radio Political Notebook: Breaking down the president's big night — CNN Political Ticker 2/25/2009
It wasn’t an official State of the Union speech, but President Obama’s debut address to a joint meeting of Congress, and viewers across the country, drew the same kind of spotlight — and scrutiny — that generally accompanies that annual event. CNN ...