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Steve Clemons: Thoughts on George Mitchell Resignation

I have thought for some time now that the Obama administration’s experiment with George Mitchell had failed. Continue reading

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Jeff Biggers: Darkness at Noon: Georgia Dumps Peaches for Prisons With Immigration Law Today

Will the Peach State now become the Prison State? When Gov Continue reading

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Project On Government Oversight: The Two Tribes of Open Government?

By Danielle Brian I thought “open government” was such a simple concept — that the “what” and the “why” were not really complicated. We want to see what the government is doing so that we can make sure it is doing it well and doing it for the right reasons. Boy, was I wrong. Continue reading

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Martin Lewis: Tea-Bag Party Castigates Obama For Not Sharing Bin Laden Kill Credit

The Tea-Bag Party today lambasted President Obama for his refusal to give credit to others for the death of Osama Bin Laden. Party spokesman Tetley Lipton said “It’s all very well for Obama to claim credit for himself merely because he was the person who instructed the CIA to step up the search, and gave the order for the surgical strike — but he gets well paid for that sort of thing. Also, it was one of his election pledges so he HAD to do it Continue reading

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Pat Choate: Getting Past the ‘Birther’ Myth

The ‘birther’ controversy is one of those political myths that just will not go away. Continue reading

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Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points — Budget Standoff Continues

The American media lost interest in the war in Libya faster than they’ve ever done so before, not to even mention the eerie radioactive glow emanating from the milk aisle back home in West Coast grocery stores. Instead, they have been going bonkers all week over the prospect of a government shutdown situation. Will a deal be reached? Continue reading

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Anju Bhargava: The Dharmic American Community Answers Obama’s Interfaith Challenge

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” –President Obama The President’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge will help magnify, value and encourage America’s religious and cultural diversity Continue reading

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Christina Patterson: Why, in Spite of Everything, I Still Love Obama

Sometimes, you need to go away to keep your love alive. Perhaps it’s the change of air. Perhaps it’s the change of view Continue reading

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Obama’s Mystifying Non-Response on Libya

If Toni Morrison, the Nobel-prize winning African-American novelist, can refer to Bill Clinton, a white man, as America’s first black president, then surely the process can happen in reverse. Is it possible that Barack Obama is not the first black president but just another white guy who preceded him? It’s a contentious statement, so let me explain. Continue reading

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Pat Choate: The Back Room Politics of Patent Reform

President Obama took a political swing through the Western United States in mid-February and was a guest of Intel and several other Big Tech corporations. On February 18, he went to an Intel facility and spoke with the employees about what his Administration is doing about “Winning the Future.” He could not have chosen a more fitting venue. Continue reading

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