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Saturday, June 27th, 2009Barack Obama, May 21, 2009
I want to be very clear that our goal is to construct a legitimate legal framework for Guantanamo detainees – not to avoid one. In our constitutional system, prolonged detention should not be the decision of any one man. If and when we determine that the United States must hold individuals [...]
Midday open thread
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Despite multiple bombings in the past week, Iraq’s prime minister says the country is more than ready for U.S. forces to withdraw from the country’s cities by month’s end.
Naked former mayor alert.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer takes a long, hard look at members of the Senate Finance Committee who were doing some fishy [...]
New doubts about propriety of Sanford’s Argentina trade mission
Saturday, June 27th, 2009McClatchy’s Kevin Hall is out with a new article raising more questions about the propriety of Mark Sanford’s trade mission to Argentina last summer.
Sanford had personally suggested adding Argentina to the trade mission, which originally planned a trip to Brazil. He met with his Argentine lover during the trip, which cost South Carolina taxpayers about [...]
Argentina added to trade mission at Sanford’s request
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Whoa:
On Thursday, Sanford agreed to reimburse the state for part of a more-than $8,000 tab that enabled him to see his mistress on an official economic development trip to Argentina’s capital city. At a Cabinet meeting Friday, he told the head of the state Commerce Department he was sorry about the trip.
The department had initially [...]
Saturday hate mail-apalooza
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Not a bad week, but this stuff starts getting repetitive after a while. But there was one piece of hate mail so brilliant, I almost wept at its beauty. So I decided it deserved the day to itself and a poll. Check it out below the fold.
Obama on energy bill: "This is a jobs bill."
Saturday, June 27th, 2009In an unprecedented move, the White House retracted yesterday the embargoed text for the president’s usual weekly address, which it generally sends to news outlets the evening before the official Saturday remarks are posted on the White House website. The first address sent was focused on health care reform; the replacement discussed—and praised to the [...]
This Week in Science
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Austin has always been blue, now there’s a chance it could help turn the rest of the nation a healthy shade of luxuriant green. The Austin-American Statesman is reporting and sources at the Texas Environmental Defense Fund confirm to me that the city is seriously in the running to be the location of a new [...]
Some Don’t Miss Testimony from This Week’s Health Care Hearings
Saturday, June 27th, 2009There were a couple of stories this week coming from Congressional work on health care reform that didn’t find wide distribution in the public debate, but need to be heard.
The first came from Wendell Potter, a former head of corporate communications for CIGNA, the country’s fourth-largest insurer. Mr. Potter did conduct a lengthy and important [...]
Political Memo: Political Shifts on Gay Rights Lag Behind Culture
Saturday, June 27th, 2009Conflicting signals from the White House on gay issues reflect a broader paradox: as cultural acceptance of homosexuality increases, political divides remain.
Energy Bill Drives Out Health Care From Address
Saturday, June 27th, 2009President Obama changed the subject of his weekly address after the House passed energy legislation on Friday.
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