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• Secret Service puts 3 on leave over gate crashing

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - The head of the Secret Service asserted Thursday that the security breach at last week’s White House state dinner was an aberration but has put three uniformed officers on leave. President Barack Obama says his confidence in the agency remains unshaken.
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 3:01am EST
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• AFP’s Hot Air Tour Goes Global

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  In one week President Barack Obama will travel to Copenhagen, Denmark for the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference.  It is a near certainty the President will commit the United States to an energy rationing scheme that makes us accountable to U.N. bureaucrats, kills jobs here, dramatically raises the price [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:30pm EST
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• Thanksgiving happier for Palin than Obama

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  What a difference a year has made for Barack Obama and Sarah Palin, mused New York Daily News columnist Michael Goodwin. Last November, Obama was fresh off his historic presidential election and Palin had been sent packing to Alaska. Now, his approval rating is below 50 percent and Palin [...]

  Posted: November 26, 2009, 6:03am EST
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• Obama could lock in Afghanistan decision Monday

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House said President Barack Obama could use an unusual evening war council session Monday to lock in his long-awaited decision on whether to commit tens of thousands of new U.S. forces to the stalemated war in Afghanistan.
  
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  Posted: November 24, 2009, 9:38pm EST
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• Colorado Fox affiliate — Anti-Obama billboard stirs controversy

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  The billboard, located at 4855 Miller Road, shows two cartoonish images of Obama wearing a Muslim turban and reads “PRESIDENT or JIHAD?” It also says “BIRTH CERTIFICATE - PROVE IT!” alluding to the conspiracy theory which claims Barack Obama was born in Kenya rather than Hawaii, which would disqualify him for [...]

  Posted: November 23, 2009, 2:00pm EST
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• Obama: Too much debt could fuel double-dip recession

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  BEIJING (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave his sternest warning yet about the need to contain rising U.S. deficits, saying on Wednesday that if government debt were to pile up too much, it could lead to a double-dip recession.
  
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:10am EST
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• ATR — Obama’s $250,000 Tax Pledge Timeline

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  President Barack Obama’s central campaign promise was a “firm pledge” not to raise “any form” of taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year. Rather than immediately and unequivocally re-affirming the tax pledge during interviews, this timeline of statements by Obama and White House staff and advisors raises questions understandably [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 9:36pm EST
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• McClatchy — White House allies say Obama bungled Guantanamo closing

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  WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama’s decision to close the Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military prison by Jan. 22 was followed by a series of mistakes and missteps by his administration that will delay the prison’s closure for months, according to a report from a policy organization with close ties to the [...]

  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:13am EST
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• Meghan Cox Gurdon: The Wall separates Reagan from Obama

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  If you knew nothing more of Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama than what each man said about freedom at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, it would still be painfully obvious which of the two was a fierce defender of liberty, and which the avatar of toothless internationalist generalities.
  
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  Posted: November 13, 2009, 9:09am EST
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• Obama Lied, His Tax Pledge Died — John Kartch

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  By formally endorsing the House healthcare bill today, President Barack Obama effectively announced that the central promise of his 2008 campaign was a lie. During the campaign, Obama made a “firm pledge” not to raise “any form” of taxes on families making less than $250,000 per year:
  
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  Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:59am EST
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• Eagle Forum — Obama Makes Polygamy a 21st Century Issue

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  No sooner had we celebrated the exit of Barack Obama’s Green Jobs Czar, Van Jones, because of his Communist connections, another off-the-wall Administration embarrassment surfaced. President Obama nominated for commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) a woman who signed a radical manifesto endorsing polygamy. We thought our nation had [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 2:12am EST
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• 58% Say Next President Likely To Be Republican — Rasmussen

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  Fifty-eight percent (58%) of likely voters say it is at least somewhat likely the next president of the United States will be a Republican, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. The number has been trending in this direction since Democrat Barack Obama took office in January and is [...]

  Posted: November 09, 2009, 1:15am EST
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• House approves bill to overhaul healthcare

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  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House of Representatives narrowly endorsed on Saturday the biggest healthcare overhaul in decades, giving President Barack Obama a crucial victory in a battle that now moves to the Senate.
  
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:34am EST
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• House narrowly passes landmark health care bill

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  WASHINGTON (AP) - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation Saturday night to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions on the insurance industry. Republican opposition was nearly unanimous.
  
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  Posted: November 08, 2009, 5:33am EST
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• National Review editorial — Three Strikes against Obamacare

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  Barack Obama promises that if the Democrats’ health-care plan is passed, Americans will enjoy wider and better insurance coverage without: 1. being forced out of their current insurance; 2. being subject to government rationing, including the outright denial of life-saving care; 3. spending themselves and future generations into deeper debt. [...]

  Posted: November 07, 2009, 2:36am EST
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