My life is busier than ever these days and The Dem Daily has been neglected… Here’s a few recommended weekend reads:
First Lady Steps Into Policy Spotlight in Debate on Health Care
Windfalls for Bankers, Resentments for the Rest
Looking Back in Anger at the Crisis
Legislators, drivers refuse to yield to proven risks of cellphone use
Ted Kennedy: ‘The Cause [...]
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Filed under: In The News
First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to graduates at California’s smallest, youngest public university, UC Merced on Saturday and praised them “for their struggle to succeed.” Obama urged the ”jubilant members of her audience to give back to their communities.”
Students at UC Merced “bombarded the first lady’s office with letters, e-mails and even hundreds of Valentine’s cards [...]
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Filed under: California, Democrats, Education, In The News, Michelle Obama, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, YouTube
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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Filed under: Democrats, In The Blogosphere, In The News, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama, Sen. Ted Kennedy
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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Filed under: AP News, Britain, Democrats, In The Blogosphere, In The News, International, Michelle Obama, News Media, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, President Barack Obama, Time Magazine, World News
President Barack Obama is in the midst of his first trip abroad and and a new Gallup Poll shows that he is “enjoying a 61% job approval rating at home for handling foreign affairs, up seven points since February.”
The poll results on foreign affairs show his approval rating is just a bit higher that the approval [...]
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Filed under: Democrats, Economy, Foreign Policy, In The News, Michelle Obama, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Polls, President Barack Obama, Recession
(A moment away from my book to write a guest post.)
It turned out to be a lie. A very strange lie. A “journalism 101″ moment, where basic facts were ignored to make an ideological point — which utterly belies the concept of “responsible journalism.”
That was the essence of last Wednesday’s posting on my blog, which [...]
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Filed under: California, Corruption, Hart Williams, In The News, Los Angeles, News Media, OP/ED's, Opinions, Political News, Politics, SoCal, Wingnuts
Look at the symbolism in one photograph: One young girl smiling, one congratulating her daddy, the new President reaching out with his open hands and the First Lady with the Lincoln Bible in her hand.
For those of us who’ve spent a lifetime time to reach this day it was, and is, beyond words. John, Martin [...]
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Filed under: In The News, Stuart O'Neill
I’ve missed a lot of big news today… Including the very unpresidential act commited by John McCain at the 68th annual Sturgis Rally at Buffalo Chip campground, when he exploited his wife, Cindy McCain in front of a ”tens of thousands” of cheering bikers:
The Buffalo Chip beauty contest, that McCain was referring to is an “infamously [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, In The News, John McCain '08, Pamela Leavey, Political News, Politics, Presidential Election, Republicans, Sexism, Women's Issues
Going through some life changes around here and adapting to a new schedule and still finding time to slack off for my mental health (needed some extra time, yesterday, after the FISA bill passed the Senate), so I have been shirking my Round-Up duties. But, I don’t want to get out of practice (being [...]
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Filed under: In The News
I’m no doctor and I don’t play one on TV. And I am most definitely not in the business of health insurance-except for getting health care through my job as a teacher. So someone who knows more than me please answer this question. Is it possible to expand health insurance access in [...]
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Filed under: Election '08, Healthcare, Iraq, Politics, Senate
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