Posted on July 3rd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Sarah Palin announced today that she was not running for re-election and stepping down from her office as Governor by the end of the month:
The top speculation is that Palin is resigning so that she can focus solely on running for the Republican nomination in 2012. But there’s plenty of other speculation too.
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Posted on May 30th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
From the Ebony Showcase Theatre in Los Angeles on April 15th 1987 — BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Etta James perform ‘Midnight Hour’:
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Posted on May 17th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
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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Posted on May 11th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
Did you watch Wanda Sykes “comedic performance ” at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday night?
She was a hoot! Absolutely hysterical. I enjoyed every minute of it. But you know, you can’t please everyone and as usual, on cue, some people are offended. Some people think Wanda “crossed the line.” She really lit [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
In his weekly internet and radio address today, President Barack Obama called for on Congress to pass a credit card reform bill that would “stop credit card companies from imposing certain late fees,” by Memorial Day.
Coming in on the side of consumers, Obama said that “it is past time for rules that are fair and transparent.”
“Instead [...]
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Posted on April 26th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
On Saturday, Mexican President Felipe Calderon declared an emergency in Mexico in the wake of the country’s swine flu outbreak. The emergency declaration gives Calderon the ”powers to order quarantines and suspend public events.”
Dr. Margaret Chan, the director-general of the W.H.O., said on Saturday that the deadly swine flu virus outbreak in Mexico (and the U.S.) constitutes a [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
On Countdown yesterday, David Schuster, sitting in for Keith Olbermann, took “Fox News to task for so aggressively promoting the right wing’s anti-Obama tea parties,” and he “pointed out that ‘tea bagging is not a spontaneous uprising.’” Watch:
Dave Johnson has a very informative post on Seeing The Forest: “A Warning About The Tea Parties.”
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Posted on April 2nd, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
It’s OK to hug a queen:
You go Michelle!
Protocol… Schmotocol…
As usual the media has made much ado about nothing.
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Posted on March 16th, 2009 by Pamela Leavey
I’ve had enough. Have you had enough? Take Back The Economy.
I’s like to know, “Who Stole Our Country, and How are We Going to Get It Back?“
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Posted on March 8th, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
On The Rachel Maddow show in Feb 17, 2009 she had a overwhelmingly fascinating long interview with Professor Gillespie of MIT about the use of unrelated technologies to find Osama Bin Laden.
This is sort of like watching ‘Numb3rs’ on CBS where most of the crimes are solved using mathematics. This time the Professor and [...]
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Posted on March 1st, 2009 by Stuart O'Neill
This has to be the only time I’ve seen this type of interview where three black men of leadership spoke and one didn’t get the message. Steele.
He actually thinks he was elected on merit. Really! Watch and enjoy the weirdness. (personal comment at the end)
[It was my duty to keep a watch and update the [...]
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