sistertoldjah.com - 1/22/2009
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Ed Morrissey’s got a post up at Hot Air in which he praises Obama for issuing an executive order that rolls back executive privilege, making it more “transparent” to the people. This order was done supposedly in the name of “transparency.”
Look, I want to ...
thestar.com - 1/19/2009
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thestar.com —
Debra Black Staff Reporter An American education professor,
one of the founders of a radical 1960s group...
known as the Weather Underground, which was responsible for a number of bombings in the United States in the early 1970s, was turned back at the ...
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Canada | William Ayers turned back at Canadian border
mediamatters.org - 1/19/2009
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Did you hear that "some are saying" Barack
Obama's inauguration will cost "$160 million," which is $100...
million more than George W. Bush's last swearing-in? That's the tale the crew at Fox & Friends was telling on January 15. "Why does the ...
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Boehlert: The media myth about the cost of Obama's ...
swamppolitics.com - 1/17/2009
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by Mike Dorning PHILADELPHIA - Supporters of President-elect
Barack Obama are assembling in Philadelphia this morning for...
a "town hall'-styled address and the start of a thematic train ride that will deliver the incoming president to ...
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Obama's train ride: Lincolnesque imagery
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Obama Overturns Bush Records Secrecy Order
Newshoggers.com —
... is impressed, writing "On Inauguration Day, I promised to offer praise for Barack Obama when he pursued good policy, and it didn’t take long." At least one other conservative thinks this executive order is "nothing more than him throwing a meaty bone to his constituency who hopes to be able to find out “The Truth” about the Bush administration’s alleged plans to turn this nation into a dictatorial theocracy." That's simply mean-spirited hyperbole, hiding an implied argument. Who would really want to argue, out there in plain words, that stopping Bush's bosses (the ...
Obama Overturns Bush Records Secrecy Order
Crooks and Liars —
... is impressed, writing "On Inauguration Day, I promised to offer praise for Barack Obama when he pursued good policy, and it didn’t take long." At least one other conservative thinks this executive order is "nothing more than him throwing a meaty bone to his constituency who hopes to be able to find out “The Truth” about the Bush administration’s alleged plans to turn this nation into a dictatorial theocracy." That's simply mean-spirited hyperbole, hiding an implied argument. Who would really want to argue, out there in plain words, that stopping ...
Obama’s Got Promises to Keep — and He’s Keeping ‘Em
Comments from Left Field —
... … At least one other conservative thinks this executive order is “nothing more than him throwing a meaty bone to his constituency who hopes to be able to find out “The Truth” about the Bush administration’s alleged plans to turn this nation into a dictatorial theocracy.” That’s simply mean-spirited hyperbole, hiding an implied argument. Who would really want to argue, out there in plain words, that stopping Bush’s bosses (the American people) from finding out what’s in millions of his administration’s emails is a good thing? ...
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