Category Archives: Political

N. Korea To Abandon Nuclear Negotiations

By doris | Published: April 14, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) North Korea vowed Tuesday to bolster its nuclear deterrent and boycott six-party talks aimed at its denuclearization in protest of a U.N. Security Council statement condemning the country’s recent rocket launch. North Korea’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it “resolutely condemns” the action by the United Nations, [...]

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U.S.-Mexico Border To Get $400M Upgrade

By doris | Published: April 2, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (AP) The Obama administration plans to spend more than $400 million to upgrade ports of entry and surveillance technologies to help thwart drugs and arms smuggling along the U.S.-Mexico border. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Wednesday that the projects will help keep violence from spilling across the border. “Working [...]

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Clinton’s global listening tour

By doris | Published: February 20, 2009

Full Story At  msnbc.com SEOUL, South Korea – Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new campaign and message: The United States wants to listen. To that end, on her first overseas trip as secretary of state, Clinton is talking a lot. Her schedule is packed with so many town halls, ceremonial events, television shows and meetings [...]

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House seeks testimony from Peanut Corp. president

By doris | Published: February 11, 2009

Full Story At yahoo.com WASHINGTON – Lawmakers want to hear from the president of a small, family-owned company blamed for the national salmonella outbreak. Stewart Parnell, president of Peanut Corp. of America, was subpoenaed for a hearing Wednesday of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is conducting a wide-ranging probe of the outbreak that [...]

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Obama: ‘I screwed up’ on Daschle appointment

By doris | Published: February 4, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday admitted he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Tom Daschle as his Health and Human Services secretary, saying Daschle’s tax problems sent a message that the politically powerful are treated differently from average people.

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Obama’s half brother arrested on charge of marijuana possession

By doris | Published: January 31, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) — George Obama, the half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama, has been arrested by Kenyan police on a charge of possession of marijuana, police said Saturday.

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Obama’s First Act: Taxpayer Money To Fund Abortions Of Black Babies

By doris | Published: January 29, 2009

Full Story At prisonplanet.com The sickest irony amidst the euphoria of the inauguration of America’s first black President is that one of Obama’s very first actions in office will be to ensure that millions more black babies are aborted in third world countries, with American taxpayers picking up the tab. President Obama’s first act of [...]

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Obama reverses abortion-funding policy

By doris | Published: January 24, 2009

Full Story At CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama struck down a rule Friday that prohibits U.S. money from funding international family-planning clinics that promote abortion or provide counseling or referrals about abortion services.President Obama says he doesn’t want family planning to be used as a “political wedge.” President Obama says he doesn’t want family [...]

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Obama Tax Cuts Move Forward In Congress

By doris | Published: January 23, 2009

Full Storly At  CBS News (AP) Economic stimulus legislation at the heart of President Barack Obama’s recovery plan advanced in Congress Thursday over the persistent opposition of Republicans seeking deeper tax cuts than the administration and its Democratic allies favor. “We are very pleased with the progress,” said Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., after $275 billion [...]

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Clinton Confirmed As Secretary Of State

By doris | Published: January 22, 2009

Political Hotsheet Full Story At CBSnews.com The Senate has overwhelmingly confirmed Hillary Clinton to become secretary of state. The chamber voted 94 to two to confirm Clinton, a fierce rival of President Obama for the Democratic nomination. Though some Republicans had expressed concerns about conflicts of interest related to Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, [...]

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Obama To Sign Gitmo Closure Order Thursday

By doris | Published: January 21, 2009

Full Story At CBS News CBS/ AP) President Barack Obama plans to sign on Thursday an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and halt military trials of terror suspects held there, the Associated Press reported. The executive order was one of three expected imminently on how to interrogate and [...]

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Sober Obama speech draws on surprising sources

By doris | Published: January 21, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Barack Obama, who shot from obscurity to fame based on a single speech and then captured the White House in a campaign marked by soaring rhetoric, delivered a restrained, sober inaugural address Tuesday. Gone was the mantra-like “Yes we can” chanted by supporters, which Obama invoked as a [...]

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Sen. Kennedy OK after seizure at Obama’s luncheon

By doris | Published: January 20, 2009

Full Story At  Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, ill with a brain tumor, was hospitalized Tuesday but quickly reported feeling well after suffering a seizure at a post-inauguration luncheon for President Barack Obama. “After testing, we believe the incident was brought on by simple fatigue,” Dr. Edward Aulisi, chairman of neurosurgery at [...]

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Obama takes power, urges unity vs. ‘raging storms’

By doris | Published: January 20, 2009

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Bush Commutes 2 Border Agents’ Sentences

By doris | Published: January 19, 2009

Full Story At NYTimes.com WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday commuted the sentences of two former border patrol agents who had been sentenced to more than a decade in prison for shooting and seriously wounding a Mexican drug dealer in Texas in 2005. With a day left in his presidency, Mr. Bush exercised his constitutional [...]

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Inauguration Events Absorb King Holiday

By doris | Published: January 19, 2009

Full Story At  CBS News (CBS/AP) With the nation’s attention turned to President-elect Barack Obama’s anticipated inauguration Tuesday, the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day may have gotten lost in the shuffle in parts of the country. In Hempstead, NY, the annual parade marking the birthday of the famed civil rights leader was [...]

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Obama honors King on final pre-presidency day

By doris | Published: January 19, 2009

Full Story At Yahoo! News WASHINGTON – Fresh off a rollicking celebration in the shadow of Abraham Lincoln, President-elect Barack Obama is shaping the final day of his pre-presidential life around another giant figure, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Obama is taking part in a community renovation project in the Washington area to honor [...]

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Obama at concert: The dream of our founders will live on

By doris | Published: January 19, 2009

Full Story At  CNN.com WASHINGTON (CNN) — Inauguration revelry began Sunday afternoon as thousands of people packed the National Mall in Washington for a free concert featuring big stars. President-elect Barack Obama addressed a roaring crowd after 90 minutes of high-energy acts such as U2, Mary J. Blige, Usher and Beyonce. “Welcome to this celebration [...]

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Obama set to ride rails to historic inauguration

By doris | Published: January 17, 2009

Fulll Story At  CNN.com (CNN) — President-elect Barack Obama looks to President Abraham Lincoln for his inspiration, so it’s only fitting that the president-elect would retrace Lincoln’s 1861 trip from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Washington, D.C., to assume the presidency.President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural train ride replicates his hero Abraham Lincoln’s. President-elect Barack Obama’s inaugural train ride [...]

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Whistleblower in Blago Case: Corruption ‘Never Ceased to Amaze Me’

By doris | Published: January 10, 2009

ABC News When Pamela Davis agreed to wear an FBI wire in late 2003, she became a key part of the investigation that culminated in the arrest of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich for allegedly trying to sell President-elect Barack Obama’s Senate seat.The extent of Davis’ role as a whistle-blower and FBI informant exceeded her expectations. [...]

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