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3 hrs ago | Newsday.com

Karzai renews call on Taliban to lay down weapons

Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons and participate in rebuilding the battered country, as part of reconciliation efforts he has said will be his main objective during his second term.

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Related Topix: Hamid Karzai, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, World News, Asia, Afghanistan

8 hrs ago | Los Angeles Times

Democrats work on multibillion-dollar jobs package

Reporting from Washington - Troubled by the rising jobless rate, President Obama and the Democratic majority in Congress are assembling a new jobs package that would devote billions of dollars to projects meant to put people back on payrolls in 2010 and keep them working.

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Related Topix: US House of Representatives, Representative Betty Sutton, Democrat, Ohio

12 hrs ago | ClipSyndicate

Couple Crashes White House Dinner Party

You've heard of wedding crashers. But how about state dinner crashers? Well, that's exactly what happened at the White House this week.

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Related Topix: Video, US News

Thu Nov 26, 2009

WWLP

Auto insurance may parallel healthcare

Thousands of drivers on the nation's roads don't carry auto insurance, despite laws in all but two states requiring it.

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Related Topix: US News, Barack Obama, Insurance, University of Pennsylvania, Healthcare Law, Law, W.

snafu-ed.blogspot.com | Iria

Palin Punk'd By Canadian Comedian Again

Sarah Palin has been tricked by a second Canadian comedian. Last year, she was "punk'd," made to think she was talking to French president Nicolas Sarkozy when in reality it was The Masked Avengers, a Quebec comedy duo. At a recent stop on her "Going Rogue" book tour, Sarah Palin told Canadian comedian Mary Walsh that Canada should get rid of its public health care system (which will go over poorly with Canadians; more on that later)

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Related Topix: Snafu, Pop/Rock, Nicolas Sarkozy

KXAM-TV Austin

China to slow emissions growth

China announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output a ' a commitment from the world's largest polluter that builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month.

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Related Topix: World News, China, Asia, Global Warming, US News, Barack Obama, Wen Jiabao

WDTN-TV Dayton

Obama, GOP differ over jobs, economy

President Barack Obama and a top House Republican acknowledged in holiday messages Thursday the economic struggles facing Americans this Thanksgiving but offered starkly different recipes for relief.

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Related Topix: US News, Republican, US House of Representatives, Mike Pence, Barack Obama, Life, Holidays, Thanksgiving

www.boston.com | Hesed

Editorial: R.I. bishop errs in targeting Patrick Kennedy

Among Catholic politicians, Patrick Kennedy is both an obvious target, because of his prominence, and a deeply ironic one, because of the decades of loyalty and support the Kennedy family has given to the Catholic Church. Though they may not always have lived strictly by church teachings, Patrick’s father, uncles, aunts, and grandmother were all devout Catholics whose intensive commitment to worship drew others into the church. The Kennedys accorded priests and bishops an honored position in their lives. Edward Kennedy’s dying appeal to the pope proves that the church was never far from the late senator’s mind.

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Related Topix: US News, US House of Representatives, Patrick Kennedy, Democrat, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Pope Benedict XVI, Opinion

Wed Nov 25, 2009

Slam Sports

Ex-CNN host Lou Dobbs considers US Senate run en route to possible White House bid

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is seriously considering running for U.S. Senate in New Jersey in 2012 as a stepping stone to a possible White House bid - a congressional matchup that would pit one of illegal immigration's biggest critics against a champion for immigrant rights.

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Related Topix: Immigration Reform, US News, New Jersey, Robert Menendez, US House of Representatives, Democrat, US Senate, New Jersey Government

snafu-ed.blogspot.com | Iria

Dana Perino Forgets 9/11 Occurred Under Bush

As you may recall, former White House press secretary Dana Perino has a poor memory when it comes to history. For example, she had no knowledge of what the Cuban Missile Crisis was. She also apparently forgot about 9/11, perhaps conveniently.

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www.latimes.com | Hesed

Google won't exclude distorted Michelle Obama image from its site

A crudely altered photograph of Michelle Obama, which often comes up as the first result on a Google image search of her name, will not be removed from the company's search process despite protests that the depiction is racist and repugnant.

"It's offensive to many people, but that alone is not a reason to remove it from our search index," Google Inc. spokesman Scott Rubin said Tuesday. "We have, in general, a bias toward free speech."

The image, which depicts the first lady as having monkey-like features, is posted without explanation on a blog called Hot Girls -- which also contains several legitimate photographs of Obama.

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Michelle Obama, Blog News

Tue Nov 24, 2009

WSJV-TV South Bend

Palin heads to Fla. town that feted her in 2008

Sarah Palin, who says the 2012 presidential election isn't on her radar, took her "Going Rogue" book tour to the biggest of the battleground states Tuesday, including a stop in the retirement community where tens of thousands of people gave her star treatment in the 2008 presidential election.

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Related Topix: US News, 2008 Presidential Election, US Governors, Sarah Palin, John McCain, The Villages, FL

KEX-AM Portland

Obama to announce Afghanistan decision within days

President Barack Obama will announce his decision on whether to send more U.S. troops to Afghanistan "within days" after he held a final strategy session with top aides, the White House said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden

www.timesonline.co.uk | Hesed

Barack Obama dream fades as China visit fails to bring change

Even his allies feel let down by the president’s lack of progress both in Asia and at home.

It was not just that the US media have suddenly turned a lot more sceptical about a president with grand ambitions to reshape politics at home and abroad — even one previously friendly newspaper noted dismissively: “Obama goes to China, brings home a T-shirt.”

Nor was the steady decline in the president’s approval ratings — which fell below 50% for the first time in a Gallup poll last week — the main cause of White House angst. Obama remains more popular than either Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton a year after their elections, and both presidents eventually cruised to second terms.

The real problem may be Obama’s friends — or rather, those among his formerly most enthusiastic supporters who are now having second thoughts.

The doubters are suddenly stretching across a broad section of the Democratic party’s natural constituency. They include black congressional leaders upset by the sluggish economy; women and Hispanics appalled by concessions made to Republicans on healthcare; anti-war liberals depressed by the debate over troops for Afghanistan; and growing numbers of blue-collar workers who are continuing to lose their jobs and homes.

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Related Topix: US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Travel, China Travel, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, History in the News

Kansas.com

Capital Culture: 60 years of Us dinners for India

American presidents have entertained India's leaders over fine wine and even finer food for the past 60 years - at grand White House dinners with hundreds of guests in black-tie, at an intimate Sunday lunch and away from Washington's prying eyes near a storied Civil War battlefield.

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Related Topix: World News, India, Asia, Home, Home Listing, Life, Food, Dining, US News, Barack Obama, Manmohan Singh

Mon Nov 23, 2009

Asbury Park Press Online

Sarah Palin's book tour his NC's Fort Bragg

Sarah Palin brought her book-signing tour to North Carolina's Fort Bragg on Monday and hundreds greeted the former Republican vice presidential candidate in a campaign-like gathering.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Bragg, US Army, Fort Bragg, NC, US Governors, Sarah Palin, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

The Topeka Capital-Journal

Moore won't seek reelection

U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore confirmed Monday a decision not to seek a seventh term in 2010.

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Related Topix: US News, Dennis Moore, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Kansas, Johnson County, KS, Nancy Pelosi

The Boston Globe

Congress focuses its anger on Fed

Suddenly, the Federal Reserve is everybody's punching bag. Strip the Fed of its bank regulation powers, some in Congress are demanding.

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Related Topix: US News, Ben Bernanke, George Bush, W., Ron Paul, Republican, US House of Representatives

www.kdvr.com | Hesed

Anti-Obama billboard in suburban Denver, Colorado stirs controversy; asks for birth certificate

Call it Freedom of Speech. A billboard recently erected in Wheat Ridge compares President Barack Obama to a terrorist and questions his U.S. citizenship.

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 the office of President.

The words "WAKE UP AMERICA! REMEMBER FT. HOOD!" appear on the bottom of the billboard.

The sign belongs to a car dealership.

"Since Fort Hood, I've had it," owner Phil West told FOX 31 News Friday. "You can't suggest things. You can't profile. You gotta call a spade a spade."

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Related Topix: Wheat Ridge, CO, US News, Barack Obama

Sun Nov 22, 2009

www.theglobeandmail.com | Hesed

Obama inspires; Palin connects

There are two great political speakers in the America today. Sarah Palin is the other one.

Barack Obama's speaking skills are his signature talent. He's a platform performer, a speechmaker in the great tradition, a kind of teleprompter Cicero. The campaign to become President owed more to Mr. Obama's oratorical mastery than to any other element. His speech on race in America, necessitated by revelations of the ugly thoughts and sentiments of his hometown preacher, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, was the most important event of his campaign. If it had failed, his candidacy would have been doomed. Under pressure – the great test of the real speechmaker – he delivered.

The other great speech of the U.S. campaign season was Sarah Palin's on receiving the vice-presidential slot on the McCain ticket. This was a speech delivered under even greater pressures than that of Mr. Obama. John McCain's choice of Ms. Palin had been early and widely criticized, and in some quarters ferociously reviled. She had never really been under the national spotlight before. The entire media were focused on her with an intensity almost unseen in the annals of vice-presidential politics. If she'd been just “okay,” or messed up, John McCain's campaign was over. It was the highest of high-stakes gambles.

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Related Topix: US News, Barack Obama, John McCain, Opinion

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