Posted on April 24th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
President Obama’s first months in the Oval Office have strengthened his “standing with the American public, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, giving him political capital for battles ahead.”
As his 100th day as president approaches next Wednesday, the survey shows Obama has not only maintained robust approval ratings but also bolstered the sense that he is a [...]
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Posted on April 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
On Thursday, the Department of Justice released “four secret memos used by the Bush administration to justify torture.” The ACLU is calling for the DoJ to “appoint an independent prosecutor to investigate torture under the Bush administration.”
The memos describe “brutal interrogation techniques” used by the C.I.A.:
In dozens of pages of dispassionate legal prose, the methods approved [...]
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Posted on November 24th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
Let’s look at one segment of why the automakers were big targets last week in Senate and Congressional hearings. There was one glaring reason, according to the politicians, that showed the incompetency of the automaker CEO’s. The executives flew corporate jets to the hearings. They took huge amount of flack for being insensitive and wasting [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2008 by Stuart O'Neill
NBC News notes that Sen. Barack Obama is joined in Washington, D.C. today by top aides David Plouffe, David Axelrod and Robert Gibbs. In addition, his vice presidential search team leaders, Caroline Kennedy and Eric Holder, are also in D.C. today.
Could a decision on Obama’s running mate be near?
“The convergence of all the senior staff [...]
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