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News From Tuesday, January 26, 2010
11:52:45 PM Obama to freeze salaries of top White House officials
Reuters - NY,USA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is to freeze salaries of senior White House officials and other top political appointees, ... [more]

11:35:35 PM Fight broken up by gun shots; immigration agent charged
Chicago Breaking News - Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

A federal immigration enforcement agent was charged early today after allegedly firing off two pistol rounds to break up a fight outside a West Dundee bar, ... [more]

11:27:35 PM Voters not showing interest in race for Schwarzenegger's job as governor
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The 2010 election season is here, and there is much talk and speculation on races at the Federal level for the Senate seat held by Barbara Boxer, ... [more]

11:26:26 PM TREASURIES-Prices edge up as political jitters sap stocks
Reuters - NY,USA

Last week, the president's announcement that he would seek to pass sweeping reforms to curb risky lending at banks hammered stocks. ... [more]

11:11:25 PM Obama gets numbers from Congressional Budget Office
Motors ...

If Obama keeps President Bush's tax cuts in place and extends other expiring tax breaks, the 2010 deficit would grow to more than $1.6 trillion, ... [more]

11:06:50 PM The Selling of the Precedent
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Swift Boaters diminish John Kerry's war record. Saddam definitely had WMD. Health care reform will create death panels. A few old e-mails are enough to ... [more]

10:57:35 PM Jack Abramoff nemesis' role cited in film
United Press International

Bob Ney, R-Ohio, and to force from office then-Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Rodgers' actions helped the Democrats regain the House and Senate .... [more]

10:51:59 PM Tea Partiers shaking up races across country
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Charlie Crist was once thought to be a shoo-in for the GOP nomination to take over the Senate seat vacated by Republican Mel Martinez. ... [more]

10:22:11 PM White House: spending freeze may slow Obama agenda
Reuters - NY,USA

"The president's objectives haven't really changed," said Rob Nabors, deputy director of the White House's Office of Management and Budget, on a conference ... [more]

10:01:47 PM Colts president Bill Polian on Pro Bowl requirements: 'It's stupid'
Motors ...

Polian said he's unhappy with NFL demands that the Colts' seven Pro Bowl players appear at the all-star game in Miami on Sunday (even though they are not ... [more]

9:38:05 PM In Race and Politics, Context Helps
President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense ...

Consider the table below, comparing Obama with the last president, Bush; the last Democratic president, Bill Clinton; and the last president to take office ... [more]

9:31:39 PM Obama's State of the Union: Immigration? Gays in the military?
Motors ...

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed a few more subjects that may surface in the State of the Union tomorrow night, including immigration and ... [more]

8:27:44 PM White House says spending freeze will not kill recovery
Reuters - NY,USA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House said on Tuesday that a proposal to freeze domestic spending that President Barack Obama will unveil in his 2011 ... [more]

8:15:53 PM Kerry wants House to pass Senate health care bill
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

By Lisa Wangsness, Globe Staff WASHINGTON -- Senator John Kerry said today his preferred route to completing health care reform is for the House to pass the ... [more]

8:10:19 PM Fort Hood heroes honored as President Obama's State of the Union guests
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

She has been accepted to Yale, but is awaiting word from a few other colleges before making up her mind. "I'm not really into politics that much," she said. ... [more]

7:29:28 PM Kerry: Jobs bill no threat to climate plans
Lobbying World

John Kerry (D-Mass.) said Tuesday that Democratic plans to pack billions of dollars in energy programs into upcoming jobs legislation will not sap momentum ... [more]

7:29:01 PM Reporter's Notebook: The Daily Briefing
FOXNews

"If Congress can put the coalition together on the way forward," then the White House will pursue immigration reform, says Gibbs. ... [more]

7:21:37 PM Hoyer: Despite Party Switch, Voter Anger Remains the Same
Reform

“President Bush either threatened to or did in fact veto legislation and we could not override his veto.” As a result, “We have not gotten to a place that ... [more]

6:37:59 PM An interview with DWTS champ Cheryl Burke
TheDay - New London,CT,USA

And, OK, her stint trying to make over politico Tom DeLay into a dancing machine didn't quite work. Their run was cut short when he got stress fractures in ... [more]

6:32:57 PM White House Disputes Report Giving Obama Failing Grade on WMD Preparation
FOX News - USA

White House spokesman Nick Shapiro refuted the criticisms in a 19-page report card published Tuesday by the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass ... [more]

6:30:58 PM Poll: Rubio outshines Gov. Crist in Senate race
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Both men are running to replace Republican Mel Martinez, who stepped down last year before serving out his first term. In a recent interview with a public ... [more]

6:14:56 PM Khloe Kardashian meets President Obama during White House visit with
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News Teammate Kobe Bryant had the honor to present President Obama – an avid basketball fan – with a No. 1 Lakers jersey bearing his name. ... [more]

5:51:44 PM Senator John Kerry to Address Inaugural Summit of One Young World in London
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- US Senator John Kerry is the latest addition to the list of distinguished politicians, scholars and business people who will ... [more]

5:31:25 PM Mel Martinez: Crist still has 'resonance' in Florida
Tampabay.com

Mel Martinez did an interview with WMFE 90.7 FM's Mark Simpson and touched on numerous subjects including the intense primary between Marco Rubio and .... [more]

5:09:48 PM UNEDITED: 1/26/10 News Release From Alan Mollohan
WTOV9.com - Steubenville,OH,USA

.... a bipartisan and professional approach in considering complaints against Democrats and Republicans, including then Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX). ... [more]

4:44:03 PM Haiti Relief Supplies Sit at Airport--Why?
OpEdNews - USA

President Bush you may recall, did absolutely nothing for several weeks to help the Katrina victims in New Orleans. It appears the same style of 'Bush ... [more]

4:35:55 PM H&R Block Names Multi-Cultural Vice President
CNN/Money - USA

H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) announced today that Luis Altuve has joined the company as the vice president of multi-cultural business development. ... [more]

4:15:59 PM French identity debate: beyond burqas
GlobalPost - USA

But in November, Immigration Minister Eric Besson launched a debate on the identity question writ large, with a central question posed at local town-hall ... [more]

3:21:19 PM Kerry and Graham Renew Bipartisan Energy on Climate Bill
Red, Green, and Blue - San Francisco,CA,USA

After all, the House already passed the Waxman-Markey bill in 2009, and the Senate has its own promisingly tri-partisan gang of three (Democrat John Kerry, ... [more]

3:11:39 PM Middle Class Benefits Proposed by President Obama
Wall Street Pit

By Pete Davis|Jan 26, 2010, 2:30 AM|Author's Website I am very concerned about the strength of our economic recovery during the second half of this year, ... [more]

2:57:04 PM Sen. John McCain Backs President Obama's Proposed Budget Freeze
ABC News - United States

John McCain will support President Obama's plan to freeze much of the federal budget for the next three years, but said the president must also promise to ... [more]

2:27:50 PM Morning Roundup: Ramsey Sings 'Rocky Top(less)' and Other Developments
Nashville Scene - Nashville,TN,USA

Bill Frist blogging from Haiti. ... The TRA refuses to let Piedmont Natural Gas raise rates on consumers even if they use less gas. ... [more]

2:24:26 PM White House OKs Taiwan arms package
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

By Bill Gertz The Obama administration has agreed to sell a new package of arms to Taiwan in a move that is expected to be met with an angry response from ... [more]

2:14:09 PM Obama's policies hurting America
Beaver Dam Daily Citizen - Beaver Dam,WI,USA

In spite of all this, President Bush did not blame former President Clinton for all these problems. President Bush got to work to get the economy back on ... [more]

1:41:03 PM Gingrich: Obama Is 'Probably a One-Term President'
FOX News - USA

Over time, it became sort of one of the major political moments of the year, where the president comes in, for a brief period, he gets the country's ... [more]

12:54:49 PM Haiti, moving forward
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA

BY JOHN KERRY Led by the United States, the United Nations and humanitarian relief agencies, the world is rushing to help Haiti recover from the devastating ... [more]

12:44:07 PM Legal Haitian immigrants should be able to bring their children to US
The Gloucester County Times - Woodbury,NJ,USA

The Star-Ledger - NJ.com (blog) Last week, the US government loosened immigration requirements for Haitian orphans awaiting adoption by American families. As a result, 53 children received ... [more]

12:28:17 PM Poll: GOP primary for US Senate seat in Fla. a tie
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Mel Martinez's term. Martinez retired to spend more time with his family in Orlando. LeMieux, who managed Crist's successful gubernatorial campaign in 2006, ... [more]

12:25:09 PM UK awards big offshore wind-power concessions
Petroleum Economist - London,England,UK

.... deployment for Round 3 by as much as 40% [from the government's estimate] over the coming decade," says Tom Delay, the Carbon Trust's chief executive. ... [more]

10:54:30 AM With State of the Union looming, President Obama vows to reverse
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News BY Kenneth R. Bazinet President Obama will elaborate more on his plans to help the middle class in his State of the Union address on Wednesday. ... [more]

10:22:08 AM Zogby Poll: More Americans Felt Safer Under Bush than Obama
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA

When it comes to air travel, do you feel safer under President Obama, or did you feel safer under President Bush? Only 22 percent of voters say they feel ... [more]

10:18:29 AM Illegal immigration is costing taxpayers billions
Vineland Daily Journal - Vineland,NJ,USA

I would like to share another important state and national issue concerning illegal immigration, because this issue is so grossly ignored by the main media ... [more]

10:11:21 AM Local psychiatrist interested in run for Kerry's Senate seat
The Daily News of Newburyport - Newburyport,MA,USA

John Kerry's seat in 2014 as a Republican opponent. Ablow was spotted over the weekend in New York City with Republican strategist Roger Stone. ... [more]

8:47:06 AM Liberal Repub Joins Race for Nomination Against Boxer
Human Events - Washington,DC,USA

Barbara Boxer this November. At first glance, the seasoned observer of Golden State Republican politics is tempted to shrug and say “Who cares? ... [more]

8:44:40 AM Liberal progressives' dissatisfaction with White House forces Democratic
Daily Caller

Daily Caller By Jon Ward - The Daily Caller 01/26/10 at 1:57 am Tension between liberal progressives and the White House ran high over the weekend when MSNBC personality ... [more]

8:42:05 AM Ministers to lead rally for immigration reform.
Denver Post

Several Denver-area ministers will lead a prayer vigil and rally for immigration reform today in Civic Center downtown. The group will gather in front of ... [more]

8:31:46 AM Japanese Parties Agree to Hearing on Political Funding
Wall Street Journal - USA

By TAKASHI NAKAMICHI TOKYO—Japan's ruling parties bent to pressure from the opposition camp and agreed to hold special parliamentary sessions next month on ... [more]

6:49:55 AM Illegal immigration
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA

Mike Delph, R-Carmel, is taking his third shot at trying to reduce illegal immigration in Indiana, but he is going in a different direction in the 2010 ... [more]

6:39:58 AM How Liberals Will Try to Destroy Scott Brown
American Thinker - Berkeley,AZ,USA

The former group includes Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Tom DeLay, Rush Limbaugh, as well as neo-cons and social conservatives as a whole. ... [more]

6:32:07 AM Flushed from win in Kennedy's state, GOP eyes Boxer's seat
Ventura ...

Barbara Boxer. If a Republican can win in a liberal “blue” state like Massachusetts, the thinking goes, it can happen anywhere. And by anywhere, they mean ... [more]

6:13:55 AM From John Edwards, lessons on celebrity and politics
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

He was on the ticket with John Kerry, who lost, it's true, but he was still on the ticket. As Spiro Agnew or, for that matter, Eliot Spitzer proved, .... [more]

5:45:47 AM Uganda President: Cnooc Welcome To Enter Uganda's Oil Sector
Wall Street Journal - USA

LN), Uganda President Yoweri Museveni said the Chinese company is welcome to enter the country's oil sector, according to his office. ... [more]

5:34:48 AM Parsing 2010 Prospects in the Senate
CQPolitics.com - Washington,DC,USA

Mel Martinez (R-Fla.) said that he would not seek re-election. He has since resigned. Within the span of one week in early January, Sens. ... [more]

5:31:37 AM 'Hysteria has been scaled back – perhaps permanently'
WND.com - Grants Pass,OR,USA

Barbara Boxer admitting cap-and-trade legislation may be a decade away, 2010 is shaping up to be the year in which the global-warming hoax died, ... [more]

4:54:40 AM Lakers hailed by chief: Obama welcomes NBA champs
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Team visits White House, and the Bulls fan takes the opportunity for a bit of trash-talking. Lakers All-Star guard Kobe Bryant presents President Obama with ... [more]

4:49:00 AM NY Times Wrote Up Four Immigration Protesters, All But Ignored Tens of ...
NewsBusters - USA

By Tim Graham (Bio | Archive) As the new year began, The New York Times offered a 780-word article to a protest for illegal immigrants – with four marchers ... [more]

4:14:44 AM Five Reasons Rudy '12 Might Outperform Rudy '08
Race 4 2012 (blog)

The Bush Establishment which had taken over the GOP had been molded in the image of its president; after eight years, President Bush had most certainly ... [more]

3:49:07 AM The battle over Bernanke
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

We're sorry to report that one of California's Democratic senators, Barbara Boxer, facing a tough-re-election, has decided to join the crowd in the ... [more]

3:20:42 AM Prop. 8 trial focuses on gays' political power
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

By Maura Dolan Reporting from San Francisco - A political scientist hired by defenders of Proposition 8 testified at a federal trial Monday that gays have ... [more]

3:20:17 AM WATCH: White House Launches New iPhone App (PHOTOS, VIDEO)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The iPhone has welcomed a new free app, and it belongs to the White House. "Today, we're excited to announce the new White House App available for Apple ... [more]

2:23:50 AM Some Democrats Balk At Second Term For Bernanke
89.3 KPCC - CA,USA

For many Democrats, it's not easy to embrace the man that former President Bush appointed to head the Federal Reserve. Late last week, more and more of them ... [more]

1:59:28 AM US Legislative Immigration Update January 25, 2010
Rright Side News - Kennesaw,GA,USA

Although most consider health care to be the issue that nationalized this election, immigration was another reason 52% of voters in the Bay State supported ... [more]

1:55:23 AM White House Proposes Budget Freeze »
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

By Kenneth R. Bazinet President Obama will propose a three-year freeze beginning next year to all non-security discretionary spending in the federal budget, ... [more]

1:18:51 AM Crew, Bush avoid arbitration with new deal
MLB.com - USA

By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com MILWAUKEE -- As the Brewers' union representative, Dave Bush knows better than most ballplayers that business and baseball often ... [more]

1:00:08 AM Boxer, pushing bigger child-care tax credit, gets boost from Obama
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Barbara Boxer of California and Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke, Sen. Barbara Boxer, and Los Angeles Mayor Antonio ... [more]

12:41:27 AM Finishing health reform right with majority rule
Don ...

Because every single Republican in the Senate continues to say NO to health reform, and because the House is rightly unwilling to pass the flawed Senate ... [more]

12:35:25 AM William McKenzie: Dems not the only ones facing choices
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

First, they tried that with Tom DeLay and fell out of favor. Second, the conservative-only approach would be as much a mistake philosophically as the ... [more]

12:24:58 AM Lawyer sentenced in Norfolk for role in immigration fraud ring
Virginian Pilot - Hampton Roads,VA,USA

By Tim McGlone A Chicago-area lawyer was sentenced Monday to eight months in federal prison after admitting her role in a widespread immigration fraud ring. ... [more]

12:10:49 AM Democracy Subverted - The Supreme Court and Corporate campaign spending
Cherry Creek News (blog)

In the face of a Democratic filibuster against some of President Bush's most radical judicial nominees in 2005, then-Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist ... [more]

12:03:15 AM White House Expects Bernanke Confirmation This Week
RTT News - Williamsville,NY,USA

.... right to the confirmation of Ben Bernanke for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, the White House Monday expressed its continued support. ... [more]



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