Let 1,000 Republican Flowers Bloom
weeklystandard.com 1/25/2009 — What the GOP needs is not a unified message but political entrepreneurs. by William Kristol 02/02/2009, Volume 014, Issue 19

The Great American Car Love Affair
southernappeal.org 2/9/2009 — Over the weekend, Washington, DC was host to its annual auto show. Per family tradition, I took my dad into the city to check out the vehicles and to dream. My Chilean Father has taught me two things about being Chilean: one, we are all civil engineers by nature. Get ...

Orlando Bloom Wants You to Vote for Barack (video)
youtube.com 11/4/2008 — Visit http://www.VoteForChange.com

Labor's On Board, So Are Doctors
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 3/2/2009 — Labor's on board for the Sebelius nomination. See this statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney: We congratulate President Obama on his choice of Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as our next Secretary of Health and Human Services. The nomination of ...

Let a thousand flowers bloom, Atlantic-style (F-22 dept)
jamesfallows.theatlantic.com 2/21/2009 — My Atlantic colleague Mark Bowden has produced another of his riveting narratives in the new issue of the magazine. His article is about the former US Air Force fighter pilot who is among the last to have encountered -- and beaten -- enemy airplanes ...

Labor's love lost
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 11/12/2008 — One of the things you hear over and over again from critics of Detroit, especially ones from the left, is that their current woes are all management's fault because they kept making big cars. Management has made a lot of mistakes.  But making big ...

Automakers look to Obama administration for additional help — CNN Political Ticker 2/17/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — General Motors Corp. and Chrysler will submit detailed restructuring plans Tuesday, while the White House is expected to decide on whether to free up billions more in bailout dollars. President Obama will release $4 billion ...

Obama sees Afghan situation deteriorating — Reuters: Politics 2/17/2009
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The situation in Afghanistan seems to be getting worse and a solution will require more than just military force, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday.

Stimulus: Now for the hard part — CNN Political Ticker 2/17/2009
Obama will sign the stimulus bill into law Tuesday. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — President Obama on Tuesday will sign the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law. But he's far from being able to declare "Mission ...

Recovery.gov launched — CNN Political Ticker 2/17/2009
Recovery.gov has launched. (CNN) — Hours before President Obama was set to sign the $787 billion stimulus measure, the White House launched Recovery.gov, a site that the White House is calling an “unprecedented step to increase transparency ...

Lessons Obama learned from stimulus deal — CNN Political Ticker 2/17/2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama will pitch his plans this week for dealing with record home foreclosures and trying to thaw frozen credit markets — and taking some key lessons learned into consideration. Aides said the White House has ...