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Obama Pushes Lobbyists Off Federal Advisory Boards - White House initiative to limit influence could affect thousands (127 comments)
'Draft Dick Cheney 2012' - new group tries to convince fomer VP to run (146 comments)
How Bad Could Obama Screw Up and Still Beat Sarah Palin? (131 comments)
In Which Fox Edits Lies into the News (76 comments)
Sen. Lindsey Graham censured by local Republican Party for bipartisan efforts - S. Carolina rift highlights debate over GOP (26 comments)

Huckabee: 'Less than likely' I'll run in 2012

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 4:06 PM EST (Politico)

Mike Huckabee, the former Republican governor from Arkansas who has his own Fox show told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday" that a 2012 presidential bid is "less than likely" and depends on whether Roger Ailes, the head of Fox News, keeps liking his show.

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American politics turns into one big 'reality' show

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 3:11 PM EST (Independent.co.uk)

Seeded by Carloz

What's the difference between an American politician and an American talk-show host? Right now the answer is, to all intents and purposes, almost none. In the US especially, politics and the media have always been joined at the hip.

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Bailing on Bin Laden

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:26 PM EST (Lawyers, Gun$ and Money)

Seeded by Carloz

I should hope that the absurdity of conservative commentary on Afghanistan is self-evident, but to summarize briefly, the Obama administration is currently under wingnut fire for a) under-resourcing the Afghanistan mission, and b) failing to do exactly what Stanley McChrystal w …

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Sen. Lindsey Graham censured by local Republican Party for bipartisan efforts - S. Carolina rift highlights debate over GOP

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:34 AM EST (The New York Times)

Seeded by Carloz

The county party, which has traditionally been considered moderate, voted by a wide margin to censure Mr. Graham in harsh terms.

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Jesse Ventura Claims MSNBC Bought His Silence For Opposing Iraq War

Seeded on Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:13 AM EST (mediaite.com)

Seeded by Carloz

In the midst of promoting his TruTV show "Conspiracy Theory," Jesse Ventura casually dropped what sounded like a conspiratorial claim of his own.

entertainment, jesse-ventura, msnbc, iraq-war, conspiracy-theory

The GOP's suicide pact

Seeded on Sat Nov 28, 2009 7:49 PM EST (The Washington Post)

Seeded by SuperSaiyan

Some people can't stand prosperity, my father used to say. Today, he might be talking about Republicans, who, in the midst of declining support for President Obama's hope-and-change agenda, are considering a "purity" pledge to weed out undesirables from their ever-shrinking party.

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State Dinner-party crashers not only got close to the President, they managed to shake his hand! Should they or Secret Service staffers be punished?

Sat Nov 28, 2009 6:23 PM EST

By Carloz

The White House released a photo showing that, contrary to initial Secret Service reports, Michaele and Tareq Salahi did manage to get close to President Obama. In fact, they were able to shake hands and speak with him, as the picture clearly shows.

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Theism v. Atheism: Realism, Not Accommodation

Seeded on Sat Nov 28, 2009 10:54 AM EST (The Huffington Post)

Seeded by Carloz

...if it is our goal to educate everyone on earth to the power and wonders of science (as it is the Skeptics Society and www.skeptic.com) and to employ science to solve social, political, economic, medical and environmental problems (as it is my personal goal), then we need as ma …

religion, evolution, atheism, theism

Illegal and above the law

Seeded on Fri Nov 27, 2009 6:21 PM EST (The Boston Herald)

Seeded by Jim Mahoney (Clipped by Jim Mahoney)

Another fine example of the law and the exceptional B.S. treatment of Illegals in this the great state of Ma. The one where Paul Revere yelled about the Red Coats and the Teaparty happened.

us-news, aliens, immigration, criminals, american-policy, illegals

Will The Media Call Obama's China Trip A Success Now?

Seeded on Fri Nov 27, 2009 5:59 PM EST (Firedoglake)

Seeded by Carloz

During last week’s trip by the President to China, the 24-hour media seemed all to ready to pronounce it a failure based on their own evidence that Obama had not changed the entire US-China relationship in a matter of minutes.

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