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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Obama Team Tilts Toward Gates

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Consortium News - By Jason Leopold - Nov. 20 (News Analysis) - Beyond keeping Gates, Obama appears headed toward staffing much of his foreign policy team with people tied to the Clinton administration, including many who were strong supporters of the Iraq War, most notably Sen. Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State. [See Jeremy Scahill’s “This Is Change?”] That trend has raised concerns among Obama supporters who had hoped Obama meant what he said when he declared during the campaign that “I don’t want to just end the [Iraq] war, but I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place."

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The Morning After, Voting Problems Remain

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

TruthOut - By David Herbert - Nov. 19 (Investigative Report) - Dozens of volunteers fielded calls from harassed or confused voters in a command center complete with a 20-foot-high wall of digital maps and statistics. Upstairs, teams of lawyers hunched around conference tables littered with soda cans and cups of cold coffee, working the phones and dispatching legal teams to troubled polling stations.

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Hell froze over in Salt Lake City

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Nov. 19 (News Report) - Obama trailed McCain by about 1,900 votes before the provisionals, cast mostly by people who moved but didn’t change their voter registration, and absentees were added. The final result gave Obama a 296-vote victory, which equates to less than one-tenth of 1 percent. Any questions?

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Mark Ritchie: Day 10 held hostage in Franken-Coleman recount saga

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

minnpost.com - By Jay Weiner - Nov. 14 (News Report) - Minnesota's secretary of state today lashed out at both Senate campaigns for continuing to spread inaccurate information about challenged ballots despite clarifications of the facts. And Mark Ritchie seemed to budge – a bit – on whether rejected absentee ballots will be considered by the State Canvassing Board come Tuesday – and next month, when that decisive body determines the winner of the Al Franken-Norm Coleman U.S. Senate race. The bad info: At a news conference this afternoon, Ritchie specifically mentioned the allegations – first shot down by MinnPost's David Brauer – that some Minneapolis ballots were lost in an election official's car. Then, there is the second allegation – now discredited – from the Al Franken campaign that an absentee ballot in Beltrami County was rejected.

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Kids, Parents, and Political Realignment

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Culture11 - By Joseph Knippenberg - Nov. 14 (Special Report) - there’s a generational difference between twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings. Someone in his or her late thirties could, for all intents and purposes, be a political product of the Reagan era. Anyone over thirty could well have come of age during a time of Republican Congressional dominance. To the degree that we persist in voting how we started voting, the over-thirty support for McCain could be the result of what happened in the 80s and early 90s.

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Palin Keeps Attacking Obama: "No Present Button"

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Nov. 13 (News Report) - The presidential campaign is over, but Sarah Palin -- still at the epicenter of media attention -- continues to take digs at Barack Obama.

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Obama’s Operation May Become the Model of Fundraising

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Congressional Quarterly - By Emily Cadei, Shawn Zeller - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - Opponents of fundraising restrictions say Obama’s financial success is proof that campaign finance laws don’t work and, moreover, aren’t necessary. But supporters of financial limitations contend that the 2008 race underscores the need for a public finance overhaul. And they argue that while Obama’s small donor model signaled the current system’s doom, it also could be the key to overhaul. “The bottom line is that it is impossible to judge the Obama fundraising numbers without some idea about what the system is supposed to accomplish,” Richard Hasen, an election law professor at Loyola Law School, wrote in a recent article on the legal Web site FindLaw.

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Fear of a black president: Mississippi edition

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Gene Expression - By Razib - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - there is a good deal of circumstantial evidence suggesting that racial resentment eroded Obama's support among white voters. His gains relative to Kerry were significantly smaller in states with large numbers of African-Americans--a pattern disguised in the overall vote totals by his strong support among African-Americans themselves. In the former Confederacy he gained only slightly over Kerry among white voters, despite making big gains in two key swing states, North Carolina and Virginia. The only states in the country in which he lost more than a point or two of white support were Louisiana, Alabama, Arkansas, and Mississippi.

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Christian right regroups after Obama victory

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Eric Gorski - Nov. 09 (News Analysis) - Pundits declared evangelicals among of Election Day's losers. Conservative Christian leader James Dobson confessed he was grieving. Barry Lynn of Americans United for Separation of Church and State said religious right leaders "kept their own flock in line, but the majority of Americans were unmoved." But few are writing obituaries this week for the Christian right, which has been wrongly considered dead after setbacks like the demise of the Moral Majority and crumbling of the Christian Coalition.

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Voting Vendor May Be Ousted

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

www2.tbo.com - By Christian M. Wade - Nov. 08 (News Report) - Yet another new voting system for Hillsborough County? That's a possibility as the county tries to determine what role the newly purchased optical-scan voting machines - and the system's owner, Premier Election Solutions - played in Tuesday's election fiasco.

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Florida elections chief vows to purge felons and dead from voter rolls

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Sentinel.com - By Sally Kestin, John Maines, Megan O'Matz - Nov. 08 (News Report) - The Sun Sentinel reported before the election that Florida's registration rolls included more than 33,000 felons whose voting rights had not been restored and 600 people who have been dead as long as two decades. The newspaper has since identified more than 28,000 other dead people still on the rolls.

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Reform Groups Call On Obama To Change Campaign Finance Laws

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Nick Baumann - Nov. 07 (News Report) - Barack Obama has only been President-elect for 36 hours, but seven major government reform groups are already making demands. In a joint press release Thursday morning, the Brennan Center for Justice, the Campaign Legal Center, Common Cause, Democracy 21, the League of Women Voters, Public Citizen and US PIRG set out a "government integrity reform" agenda for the next Congress.

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GOP Criticizes Emanuel as Chief of Staff

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Town Hall - By Amanda Carpenter - Nov. 07 (News Analysis) - RNC Operatives and other Republicans say Obama’s decision to tap Rep. Rahm Emanuel for the position is an indication of a “broken promise" of bipartisanship and civility.

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