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USA News, Aug 26, 2011


Republicans ask Obama to disclose $1 billion regulations
USA Today (blog)
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY House Speaker John Boehner wrote President Obama today seeking a list of all planned federal regulations with an economic impact of more than $1 billion. It's the same request Boehner made of Obama a year ago -- to no avail....
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USA Today (blog)
Obama's vacation: Lazy days, long dinners
USA Today (blog)
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY In between Libya's revolution, the financial markets' gyrations, the East Coast's biggest earthquake in a century and the impending wrath of Hurricane Irene, Obama finally had a full day to chill Thursday. ...
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USA Today (blog)
Obama campaign targets young, old, minorities
USA Today (blog)
By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY President Obama's re-election campaign is getting a jump on its potential 2012 Republican rivals by registering and mobilizing key constituency groups. The effort, dubbed "Project Vote," is aimed mostly at groups that favored ...
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USA Today (blog)
Election approaching, Obama turns his attention to boosting diversity of ...
Baltimore Sun
As the Washington Times aptly put it in an editorial headline, "Obama: Whites Need Not Apply." The only diversity sought by the White House is based on skin color, and whites, particularly white men, should get out of the way of others even though the ...
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For Some in GOP, a Tax Cut Not Worth Embracing
New York Times
The White House would like to extend it for another year. But Republicans in Congress are balking, arguing that such a cut adds needlessly to the nation's budget deficit, and should be replaced with an overhaul of tax policy instead. ...
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Be in the know: Today's political bullet points
CNN (blog)
... payroll tax cut extension sought by Democrats – note to White House: add a tax credit sweetener for the nation wealthiest to the deal and watch it sail through Congress. - USA Todayreports President Obama will include two things in his jobs plan. ...
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EDITORIAL: Obama's vacation gives critics fodder
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
Obama is hoping to emerge from vacation in better condition, especially politically, on one count as his often harshly criticized Libya strategy could be vindicated (as a USA Today analysis suggested) with Gadhafi gone and no American military ...
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18 Apps Joe Biden Wants Barack Obama to Buy [Modern Politics & Technology ...
TFTS (blog)
White House photographer Pete Souza surprised the following photograph of Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama enjoying an iOS moment. One can clearly see an iPhone being used there, but what is the VP showing to Obama? ...
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TFTS (blog)
White House Effort To Roll Back Rules Aims To Facilitate Telehealth
iHealthBeat
On Tuesday, the Obama administration announced a series of regulations that could be eliminated in an effort to save businesses about $10 billion over the next five years, USA Today reports (Wolf,USA Today, 8/24). Cass Sunstein, administrator of the ...
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Romney says would not put limits on emissions
Reuters
In June, a day after launching his second bid for the White House, Romney caused a stir by saying he thought humans had contributed to climate change to some extent. At that time he made a call for a reduction of "emissions of pollutants and greenhouse...
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Reuters
Is Science Just for Nerds? Ask will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas
ScienceBlogs (blog)
The 2010 Festival attracted over 500000 people of all ages and had strong support from the White House and Congress. When was the last time you saw a science special in prime time on one of the major networks? Better yet, when was the last time you ...
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Performance.gov goes live after lengthy preparations
GovExec.com
Peformance.gov links to related dashboard sites at USAspending.gov, Data.gov, Whitehouse.gov, Recovery.gov and USA.gov. The new site also invites feedback to improve usability. The launch drew praise from Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., chairman of the ...
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Romney accuses Obama of 'triple-D presidency'
The Hill (blog)
Mitt Romney (R) graded President Obama's time in office as a "DDD" presidency, testing out a new line of attack against the president as the race for the White House heats up. Romney, referring to the decision by Standard & Poor's to downgrade US debt ...
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Why I'm going to be arrested
Fellowship of Reconciliation (blog)
And so next week, I'll be in front of the White House, heeding the call of Tim and Tar Sands Action to call on President Obama to decline the granting of a “certificate of national interest” to the Keystone XL Pipeline from Canada's tar sands to Texas ...
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Fellowship of Reconciliation (blog)
Ron Paul on Libya: 'Victory for Empire, but loss for American Republic'
Daily Caller
Sure, he's been ruthless to his own people (it's the African dictator way), but where does the oxygen thief at the White House get off spending that kind of money and expending that kind of manpower on a such a tiny fish. Yet, Iran is the real cancer ...
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Restoring courage in St. Louis
The Rolla Daily News
We need to sweep Obama and the Socialists and Communists who he picked for his cabinet and czars out of the White House. We also need to take the Senate with a super majority. In 2009, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Big Sis, ...
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When Healthcare Reform Kicks In, Will Your Employer Stop Offering Insurance?
The Bay Citizen (blog)
Their findings conclude that 30 percent of employers may drop coverage. The White House called that study an “outlier.” Some 50 million Americans are uninsured and 7 million of them are living in California, according to Families USA, a consumer ...
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The Bay Citizen (blog)
Aug. 26 Open Line
Jacksonville Journal Courier
Just what we need; another Texas governor in the White House. Doesn't anyone remember the total disaster the last one caused? To the person who wrote in about men without shirts, you could always report it if it is offensive because, like the one said, ...
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Thanksgiving: Doomsday for Entitlements
The Spiritual Herald
Backing them are states burdened with massive Medicaid costs set to explode with 32 million more patients under the Affordable Care Act. “I'm afraid the politics of healthcare in particular may lead the different factions - the White House, Congress, ...
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The Spiritual Herald
Poll: USA in wrong direction, blame spread
Newsday (subscription)
That's a statistical dead heat with those who favor a change in the White House. And more Americans still blame former President George W. Bush rather than Obama for the economic distress. Some 31 percent put the bulk of the blame on Obama, ...
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BOOK REVIEW: 'Don't Let the Kids Drink the Kool-Aid': Does a Gigantic Left ...
HNN Huntingtonnews.net
Marybeth Hicks is a weekly columnist for the Washington Times, the editor of Family Events, a guest on many radio and TV shows and a frequent speaker. A former writer in the Reagan White House, she is the author of Bringing Up Geeks and The Perfect ...
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HNN Huntingtonnews.net
Biden: US needs more stimulus, business mad at S&P
Reuters
After roughly ten days abroad in China, Mongolia and Japan, the US vice president is likely to turn his attention to domestic policy as the White House prepares a major new initiative to boost job growth. The United States is struggling with ...
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Waiting for the earth to open
The Economist
I am tired of seeing fellow small business folks throwing in the towels because of the regulation chaos and the general small-business unfriendly White House. Small businesses employ the majority of Americans. Unlike big business, they do not have the ...
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AFL-CIO president slams Obama for weak, 'little nibbly' labor policies
Daily Caller
They say: We enjoy a special relationship with the Communist Party USA, founded in 1919, and publish its news and views. So……….we have Dick Trumka, AFL CIO leader bragging about being in the White House weekly and on phone daily… ...
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