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Who cashed in during 2008?

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Politico - By Kenneth P. Vogel - Sep. 04 (News Report) - The analysis... found at least 73 staffers were paid more than $150,000 during the 2008 election cycle, a two-year period spanning 2007 and 2008. CQ’s analysis didn’t include salaries paid to Senate campaign staffers, because those campaigns are not required to report their finances to the FEC electronically, making their records much more difficult to access and search.

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Healthcare Flashbacks

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Aug. 10 (News Analysis) - The drug industry is now set to spend up to $150 million in TV advertising in response to the White House's concessions on health care reform. Now let's flashback to what Obama was saying during the 2008 Presidential campaign about health care reform and Big Pharma. We'll be adding new material throughout the day.

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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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CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

CNN - By Mike Ahlers - Jul. 10 (News Report) - A preliminary report on the mysterious deployment of an evacuation chute aboard a Barack Obama campaign plane last summer appears to close the book on one potentially embarrassing possibility — that Secret Service agents inadvertently tampered with the chute mechanism during preflight security checks. "An internal (Secret Service) investigation … revealed that no (Secret Service) personnel or … support personnel interfered with or altered the aircraft's … tailcone evacuation slide," a National Transportation Safety Board report says.

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Is Internet Voting Safe? Vote Here.

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Kevin Poulson - Jun. 05 (News Report) - Arizona did something very interesting in the 2008 general election: it accepted votes over the internet. Is it a good idea, or not?

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FEC dismisses complaint on Palin's clothes | adn.com

Wed, 20 May 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Anchorage Daily News - May. 20 (News Analysis) - This means that the FEC will allow political parties to buy candidates whatever they want at whatever cost, and that the candidates and their families may keep these purchases. Despite the fact that Governor Palin and the RNC claimed the clothing would be donated to charity, it is not clear this ever happened, and in any event, according to the FEC, the law does not require it.

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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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‘Can You Get in Here?’ Echoes Obama 100 Days of No Small Plans

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Bloomberg - Apr. 27 (Special Report) - “The most important thing to look at is not simply the external accomplishments or difficulties, but rather what we have seen about the leadership style of this man,” Goodwin says. “That is the foundation that will determine the rest of his presidency. We have seen somebody who remains pretty steady under a lot of crises.”

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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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The Raw Story | ACORN spokesman, Fox host get into shoutfest over 'lies'

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Raw Story - By David Edwards, Stephen C. Webster - Mar. 19 (News Analysis) - Bill O'Reilly has not announced his retirement from Fox News. However, one could be easily led to think he's considering it, watching America's Newsroom anchor Megyn Kelly seemingly audition for the angry host's traditional role as the network's screamer. Speaking with ACORN spokesman Scott Levenson on Thursday, Kelly began the 'discussion' with Levenson by claiming, "Scott, a lot of people, a lot of our viewers, think your group is corrupt, you've been found guilty of fraud in several states and they don't want you having anything to do with the census. What say you?" Levenson tries to respond and clearly state his points while Kelly continues to interrupt, and harass him. "The election was four months ago, Megyn, and not one person voted in the election that was not supposed to vote," Levenson said, but the Fox anchor never seemed to listen. He tried to explain that workers during the election were hired across the country for about $12 an hour, and that a handful of individuals -- not the ACORN organization -- were prosecuted for crimes "with ACORN cooperating with prosecutors in each case." It's like calling Fox News a bunch of thieves if an employee is picked up for larceny, he tried his best to point out.

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Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth - WSJ.com

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Douglas Schoen, Scott Rassmussen - Mar. 13 (Special Report) - Overall, Rasmussen Reports shows a 56%-43% approval, with a third strongly disapproving of the president's performance. This is a substantial degree of polarization so early in the administration. Mr. Obama has lost virtually all of his Republican support and a good part of his Independent support, and the trend is decidedly negative

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Justices seem to be leaning in favor of Prop. 8

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

San Francisco Chronicle - By Bob Egelko - Mar. 06 (News Report) - The California Supreme Court, which last year declared the right of gays and lesbians to marry, appeared ready Thursday to uphold the voters' decision to overrule the court and restore the state's ban on same-sex marriage.

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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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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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Voting Machine Audit Logs Raise More Questions about Lost Votes in CA Election

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Wired - By Kim Zetter - Jan. 13 (Investigative Report) - Humboldt County officials deleted at least 27 batches of optical-scan ballots from GEMS during the November election process -- a common practice when officials make a mistake and have to re-scan a batch -- yet the audit log shows that only one batch was "aborted" (aborting a batch is a different procedure from deleting a batch, which might explain why the log recorded this action and not the others).

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Election '08 - In the Eyes of The World

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Global Pulse - Jan. 04 (Special Report) - A New Year's Day special half-hour report: How the world covered Barack Obama's historic victory, and how the next president sees the global challenges ahead. SOURCES: Russia Today, Russia; Comedy Central, U.S.; Once Noticias, Mexico; Al Alam, Iran; TV5, France; FCI, Japan; TRT, Turkey; CNN, U.S. Deutsche Welle, Germany; BBC World, U.K.; Al Jazeera English, Qatar; CCTV, China; PressTV, Iran; KBS News, South Korea; CBS News, U.S.; NBC News, U.S.; ABC News, U.S.; South Asia Newsline, India; Telesur, Venezuela; TVE, Spain, Media Line, Israel

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Burris sought death for innocent man

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By Ben Protess - Jan. 02 (News Report) - While state attorney general in 1992, Burris aggressively sought the death penalty for Rolando Cruz, who twice was convicted of raping and murdering a 10-year-old girl in the Chicago suburb of Naperville. The crime took place in 1983.

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Blagojevich Names Burris to Fill Senate Seat

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Wall Street Journal - By David Kesmodel adn Douglas Belkin - Dec. 30 (Breaking News) - Embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich named Roland W. Burris, the former attorney general of Illinois, to fill the U.S. Senate seat vacated by President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday despite calls by Senate Democrats that they won't seat Mr. Burris.

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Total Information Awareness

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Republic - By James Grimmelmann - Dec. 11 (News Analysis) - Barack Obama deployed a campaign database that made the GOP's data-gathering efforts look like the work of amateurs.

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Shannyn Moore: Sarah Palin: The Gift That Keeps On Taking

Wed, 10 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Dec. 10 (News Report) - Details of expenditures to make an Alaska Governor, Sarah Palin, presentable to the people of America trickle out like rain off a roof. But rain off a roof this time of year in Alaska makes for some remarkable icicles. Each drop of information layers on the last, and the label of "Governor Grifter" seems appropriate. John McCain's choice seems to have earned him at best a "Senator Sucker" nametag. The New York Times is reporting $165,000 was paid to the stylists who traveled with the campaign and created the glamour girl few of us recognized. "Wardrobegate" initially reported $150,000 of RNC donations was spent on clothing for Sarah Palin. That figure has now been upgraded to $173,000. Stores that only exist in catalogs in Alaska had her full attention; Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Kate Spade, Brooks Brothers, Escape Skin Care & Day Spa, and now...Victoria's Secret-shhhhh, don't tell.

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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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Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation

Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Jeremy Scahill - Dec. 05 (News Analysis) - What is new is that some people seem to just now be waking up to the fact that Obama never had a comprehensive plan to fully end the occupation.

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Obama's Windfall Taxes Shift: First Broken Promise?

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By David Ivanovich - Dec. 03 (News Report) - The Obama team's decision to drop the idea of forcing oil and natural gas companies to pay a tax on their windfall profits has caused a firestorm among liberals and small business coalitions.

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The Fight Over Gay Adoption Heats Up

Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Time - By Michael Lindenberger - Nov. 27 (News Analysis) - Despite the good news for gays contained in the ruling, the decision is hardly the last word on the issue.

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NewsTrust - Presidential Election 2008 - Most Recent Stories: News

Who cashed in during 2008?

Healthcare Flashbacks

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

CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time - Blogs from CNN.com

Is Internet Voting Safe? Vote Here.

FEC dismisses complaint on Palin's clothes | adn.com

Stem cell division

‘Can You Get in Here?’ Echoes Obama 100 Days of No Small Plans

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

The Raw Story | ACORN spokesman, Fox host get into shoutfest over 'lies'

Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth - WSJ.com

Justices seem to be leaning in favor of Prop. 8

Dawn of a Newt Age

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

Voting Machine Audit Logs Raise More Questions about Lost Votes in CA Election

Election '08 - In the Eyes of The World

Burris sought death for innocent man

Blagojevich Names Burris to Fill Senate Seat

Top 10 Religion Stories

Total Information Awareness

Shannyn Moore: Sarah Palin: The Gift That Keeps On Taking

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

Obama Doesn't Plan to End the Iraq Occupation

Obama's Windfall Taxes Shift: First Broken Promise?

The Fight Over Gay Adoption Heats Up