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Biden Due In Chicago For Fundraising Events

Just one day after his predecessor was in town promoting his autobiography, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is due in Chicago for two re-election campai… Continue reading

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Brent Budowsky: Now Obama Must Lead Democrats and the Nation

Yes, President Obama inherited a mess. But it is unacceptable that in the third year of his presidency he still blames his predecessor and does bus tours to promote jobs programs that do not exist. Continue reading

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Wade Norris: Obama Administration to Polar Bear Scientist/Truth Teller — Shut Up, And You Are Suspended!

The president is proving once again that he is much better than his predecessor George Bush as a president — when it comes to getting to more oil in … Read more: Environment , Polar Bears , Esci , Arctic , Climate Change , Ekos , Oil , Science , Colorado , Boulder , Energy , Barack Obama , Denver News Continue reading

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Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy: The Time Is Now To Stop Faith-Based Hiring Discrimination

Seventy years ago this week, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802 marking the first time a president took steps to ensure equal employment opportunity in federal defense contracts — affirming that an individual’s race, color, religion or national origin should not deny that individual an equal employment opportunity in federal defense contracts Continue reading

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No Jobs, No Leadership: Obama’s Big Fail

You can parse the numbers however you like, but the latest snapshot of the labor market released by the government on Friday tells a dismal story that is already familiar beyond the realm of professional economists and policymakers: The American economy is in grave trouble. We have no engine for growth, no good reason for businesses to believe that actual human beings will soon have more money to spend, which means employers are inclined to hunker down and keep their costs low by limiting their writing of paychecks. In short, a feedback loop of declining fortunes. Continue reading

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William Bradley: Jerry Brown Returns (Again!) Only to Drop Back Into Stealth Mode

Governor Jerry Brown is back. Again. For the third time Continue reading

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Leon T. Hadar: Obama on the Middle East: No Game Changer

Wishful thinkers who had expected President Barack Obama to lay out a new U.S. grand strategy for the Middle East — the so-called Obama Doctrine — during his much-anticipated address at the State Department on Thursday were bound to be disappointed Continue reading

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Nathaniel Zelinsky: Obama Got It Right

I just sat with 50 other Yale students for over an hour to hear the president speak about a grave issue of national security. We all stopped studying for exams in order to listen to the important announcement, and what one hell of an announcement it was. By now, most American’s know that a team of U.S. Continue reading

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Leon T. Hadar: Muddling Through in the Middle East Is Not a Substitute for Strategy

President Barack Obama’s response to Libya’s civil strife has been hailed as a model of foreign-policy pragmatism. Based on lucid cost-benefit analysis of U.S. Continue reading

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Michael Ratner: To Hell with the Constitution: Obama Goes To War

How is it that Congress isn’t screaming at President Obama for usurping its power to take this nation to war against Libya? (Even Bushes #41 and #43 had their wars in Afghanistan and Iraq authorized.) And if Congress isn’t screaming, then why aren’t we? Continue reading

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