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On the Shoulders of Giants

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By Paul Ortiz - Nov. 25 (News Analysis) - Senator Obama comes from a rich tradition of peoples who have fought and died for freedom in the Americas and in the broader Atlantic world. Yes, Obama's campaign was sophisticated and run on a base of youthful energy. Most of the tactics of this campaign however were borrowed from prior social movements, including the civil rights and labor movements, the women's movement and old-school political campaigning.

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Serious Error in Diebold Voting Software Caused Lost Ballots in California County

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Dec. 09 (News Report) - An investigation shows that the paper mail-in ballots were scanned properly by officials into the central-count optical-scan system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) -- a receipt printed out by the machine at the time they were scanned on November 1, three days before the election, indicates that the machine recorded the ballots. The ballots even showed up in preliminary tallies counted on election night on November 4 and in a report printed out on November 23. But some time after this point, the tabulation software inexplicably deleted the ballots without election officials ever knowing.

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Let's pretend Obama really was born in Kenya. What would happen then?

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Slate - By Brian Palmer - Aug. 06 (News Analysis) - Let's pretend, for just a moment, that the birthers had credible evidence that Obama was foreign-born. Then what would happen?

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No proposal to end taxes for seniors making less than $50,000

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Angie Drobnic Holan - Apr. 16 (News Analysis) - President Obama's campaign pledge to end taxes for seniors making less than $50,000 has fallen off the radar. It wasn't part of the tax cuts in the economic stimulus bill, also known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It wasn't in Obama's first budget outline, which was approved by Congress on April 2, 2009. And it's not part of any proposed legislation that we can find. Today, on Tax Day, Obama gave a speech in which he talked about his other tax promises and how he wants to reshape the tax code to make it simple and more efficient. But he never mentioned his promise of curtailing the income tax for seniors. The Obama administration has done other things for seniors. Thanks to the stimulus bill, for example, everyone who gets Social Security benefits will receive a $250 check from the government in May. But the bold promise to end taxes for seniors if they make less than $50,000 seems to be forgotten.

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With Lobbying Rules Waived, Lynn’s Earlier Pentagon Tenure Now at Issue

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Congressional Quarterly - By Josh Rogin - Jan. 25 (News Report) - Moreover, some allege that Lynn sought to relax accounting rules while in office and misled congressional staff on Defense budget matters. The Pentagon still has never achieved financial transparency. But with fiscal reform as a top priority in a time of economic crisis, Lynn’s Pentagon record has increasingly come under scrutiny.

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Stem cell division

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Peter Dizikes - May. 11 (Special Report) - No sooner had Obama issued his order than conservative lawmakers in state legislatures began proposing new restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, ranging from criminal penalties to bans on state-level funding. In fact, Obama's decision has emboldened conservatives to increasingly link stem cell research to abortion. Far from conceding the issue, they are in it for the long haul.

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Dawn of a Newt Age

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By David Corn - Feb. 20 (Special Report) - To be sure, in the decade since abruptly leaving the House after bitter gop losses in the 1998 election, Gingrich has been creating something of a double identity. He's been pushing reform projects that transcend his rep as a fierce partisan—for instance, working with Hillary Clinton on an initiative to computerize medical records—while simultaneously crafting policies that he believes can help the gop win. Most of all, the former history professor has burnished his reputation as an ideas man.

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White extremists lash out over election of first black president

Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Howard Witt - Nov. 23 (News Report) - Barely three weeks since America elected its first black president, noose hangings, racist graffiti and death threats have struck dozens of towns across the country. More than 200 such incidents -- including cross burnings, assassination betting pools and effigies of President-elect Barack Obama -- have been reported, according to law enforcement authorities and the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors hate groups.

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