It’s like all you Tea Partying climate realists are conspiracy nuts or something (via Tom Nelson) Said story: Activists Fight Green Projects, Seeing U.N. Plot Across the country, activists with ties to the Tea Party are railing against all sorts of local and state efforts to control sprawl and conserve energy. They brand government action for things

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Excitable Andy Revkin And NY Times: You Tea Partiers See UN Black Helicopters In Green Projects

Pack them up and bring them home, no American should die on the battlefield if we’re not there to win. Via Politico: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Wednesday that the U.S. combat role in Afghanistan will end in 2013 while troops will remain in the country in a support role through 2014, The Associated Press reports. “Hopefully

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Obama To The Taliban: No More Fighting After 2013…

AP – President Barack Obama offered encouragement Monday for the former Soviet republic of Georgia’s hopes for a preferential trade agreement with the United States, but said the country has a way to go in its economic reforms.

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Obama meets Georgia leader amid Russia dispute
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Reuters – U.S. Catholic bishops and priests across the country read out letters at Mass on Sunday protesting plans by President Barack Obama’s administration to force religiously-affiliated nonprofit groups to offer birth-control coverage to women employees.

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Catholics hear protests of Obama health ruling at Mass
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Cain endorses Gingrich three days before the Florida primary, says Gingrich is a bold leader the country needs.

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Herman Cain endorses Newt Gingrich and his bold solutions to turn America around

Weekly Address: Corrosive Influence

On January 29, 2012, in barack obama, Uncategorized, by MalekAskew938

Transcript below the fold: (WhiteHouse.gov) — On Tuesday, in my State of the Union Address, I laid out a blueprint for an economy built to last — an economy built on American manufacturing, American energy, skills for American workers, and a renewal of American values. This week, I took that blueprint across the country, and

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Obama Speech Seeks to Frame Election

On January 24, 2012, in Uncategorized, by MalekAskew938

Obama, in a speech that will amount to a nationally televised kickoff to his re-election campaign, will present the country with a populist economic vision that he intends as a sharp contrast to his eventual Republican rival this November.

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My old boss from many years ago at Congressional Quarterly , John Bicknell, writes in Roll Call today that Obama’s choice to adopt Harry Truman’s “give ‘em hell” strategy would work better if it was still 1948: Perhaps most importantly, despite the economic problems the country faced in 1948, underlying support for continuing the New Deal was strong. Obama faces an even tougher economy, and his economic program inspires little loyalty beyond the Democratic base. Keep reading this post . . .

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Why Obama Can’t Win With Truman’s Strategy

The Christian Science Monitor – As the country wrestles with a looming debt crisis as well as what the Pentagon insists are growing security threats post-9/11, President Obama rolled out a new, more “realistic” national defense strategy Thursday.

US tells Egypt to halt raids on NGOs (AP)

On December 29, 2011, in Uncategorized, by AlexisChristensen28

AP – The Obama administration is demanding that Egyptian authorities immediately halt raids on non-governmental organizations in the country, calling the action “inconsistent” with longstanding U.S-Egypt cooperation.

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US tells Egypt to halt raids on NGOs
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