Wouldn't it be great if the first thing Obama does as President is to pass the Puppy Uniform Protection Statute to help stop puppy mills? If you support this idea then you need to VOTE for it in Change.org’s “Ideas for Change in America” competition.
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Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Amy Goodman’s New Column, “Tutu, Obama and the Middle East”
As President-elect Barack Obama focuses on the meltdown of the U.S. economy, another fire is burning: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.You may not have heard much lately about the disaster in the Gaza Strip. That silence is intentional: The Israeli government has barred international journalists from entering the occupied territory.
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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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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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