What Obama's 27-Year-Old Speechwriter Learned from Bush

Jon Favreau got out of college just in time to make history. But the kid writing all those pretty speeches has some surprising influences.

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Bill Clinton: Obama Administration Role Possible

Is there a position for a carouser, in the Obama Administration...

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Ebony's Obama Collector's Edition to Hit Stands

The first interview with President-elect Barack Obama since winning the Nov. 4 election, will be featured in the January 2009 issue of Ebony, and hits newsstands on Dec. 9.

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Karl Rove: Obama Security Team Represents 'Continuity'

President Bush's former political director says the national security team named by President-elect Barack Obama "represents, to a substantial degree, continuity" especially in hot spots like Iraq and Afghanistan.

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Right Wing Conspiracy Theorists Won't Give Up On Obama

The people over at the "We The People Foundation for Constitutional Education Inc." must have money to burn.Or in this case, money to throw away.The group ran a full-page ad in the Chicago Tribune on Monday as an open letter to President-elect Barack Obama rehashing the misinformation about Obama's citizenship.

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Center for Defense Information - What's Wrong with the U.S. Military

Coinciding with the arrival of Obama and his deputies in Washington, the Center for Defense Information is releasing “America’s Defense Meltdown -- Pentagon Reform for President Obama and the New Congress,” a primer on what is wrong with our defense system written by men with long and honorable experience in the bowels of the military services and

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"Mary Beth Maxwell, Labor Secretary?"

The Wall Street Journal reports on Obama's possible pick for Labor Secretary, Mary Beth Maxwell: For the rainbow cabinet of the nation's first African American president, Mary Beth Maxwell is the perfect labor secretary you've probably never heard of: a gay woman, community organizer and labor leader with an adopted African American son.....

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Put Up Or Shut Up - A Call to Conservative Arms

A CNNMoney.com article reports that Obama's "Making Work Pay" payroll tax credit could put as much as $1000 in your pocket. How many GOP voters, Obama haters, and racists will be sending theirs back?

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Alabama Town To Have ‘Obama’ Holiday

A small central Alabama county where Barack Obama received more than 70 percent of the vote on Election Day has created an annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.

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After Sharp Words on C.I.A., Obama Faces a Delicate Task

The president-elect must take charge of the agency in what is proving to be one of the more treacherous patches of the transition.

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Entertaining Take on Obama's Preference for No "Girly" Dogs

Hey, the Pres-elect wants a big, rambunctious "man's" kind of dog. Anything wrong with that? Wash Post columnist doesn't think so -- on the other hand....

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Getting a grip on Python: Six ways to learn online

Google's new App Engine uses Python as its primary programming language. Ars goes in search of the best Python programming resources on the web.

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