Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
AP News reports today there should be some relief at the pumps once again after “rising nearly every day for the past two months and climbing 67 percent so far this year.”
Gas prices were up for a 54th straight day Sunday, by 0.1 cents, to a new national average of $2.693 a gallon, according to [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Iran is spinning out of control. The whole world is watching as Stuart noted below.
Will Bunch posted this tonight… For What It’s Worth:
Shots were fired at the protests today and at least one person is reported to be dead. President Obama spoke on the situation there tonight with an “emphasis on non-violence“:
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Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve been doing a lot of driving in recent weeks, back and forth from the north eastern tip of Maine to the Massachusetts/New Hampshire border, and I have one more trip scheduled for the end of this week. Sadly, I have noticed as I have been logging a lot of miles on my frequent trips [...]
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Posted on April 12th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
The identity of the First Puppy leaked yesterday and everyone wanted to know, “Who let the dog out?”
The puppy, a “6-month-old Portuguese water dog given to the Obama girls as a gift by that Portuguese water dog-lovin’ senator himself, Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts.’
The Obama girls have named their puppy “Bo,” because, “their cousins have [...]
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Oh my! The some members of media are in a tizzy… Michelle Obama touched the Queen!
Howard Chua-Eoan reports in Time:
The rules are set in stone, and so the eagerly watching British media sputtered when the First Lady of the United States, Michelle Obama, briefly put her hand on the back of Queen Elizabeth II as the two [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Via AP News:
Concerned about the faltering war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama plans to dispatch thousands more military and civilian trainers on top of the 17,000 fresh combat troops he’s already ordered, people familiar with the forthcoming plan said Thursday.
President Obama will to lay out his “revamped strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday” and [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
AP News has a great piece on Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of the web to promote the State Department:
In less than three months, Clinton’s State Department has embarked on a digital diplomacy drive aimed at spreading the word about American foreign policy and restoring Washington’s image. Part of a broader Internet outreach by [...]
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Posted on February 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Barack Obama will take to the podium in a little over an hour to deliver his first State of the Union Address. The big pre-SOTU story tonight is this one from AP News:
“Officials: Most troops out of Iraq in 18 months“:
AP reports that the Obama administrations’s withdrawal plan, which should be released early this week, ”calls [...]
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Posted on February 18th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Following fast on the heels of President Obama signing the stimulus bill on Tuesday came the news that he “would send an additional 17,000 American troops to Afghanistan this spring and summer, putting his stamp firmly on a war that he has long complained is going in the wrong direction.”
The new order from the Obama [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
California for all intents and purposes is in the toilet economically speaking. Things have gone from bad to worse out there, as Governor Schwarzenegger is now preparing to send out 20,000 pink slips. That will leave many more Californians singing the blues.
If there’s any bright news at all coming from the state that’s been hit [...]
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