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11:47:23 PM 190 Terror Convictions of Islamist Terrorists in Civilian Trials, Mr ...
National Review Online Blogs

Bill Burck is a former federal prosecutor and deputy counsel to Pres. George W. Bush. Dana M. Perino is former press secretary to President Bush. [more]

11:37:44 PM Kerry lays out plans for improved US-Muslim relations
Lobbying World

John Kerry (D-Mass.) set forth plans for improving US relations with the Muslim world. The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, ... [more]

11:37:32 PM Why JD Hayworth Will Beat McCain for US Senate
Intellectual Conservative - Phoenix,AZ,USA

Republicans and Tea Partiers in Arizona are very concerned about illegal immigration, and McCain's failed bill with Ted Kennedy attempting to liberalize ... [more]

11:34:22 PM Investigation of Mollohan a tangle of politics
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA

.... led a bipartisan investigation into complaints filed against Democrats and Republicans, including powerful House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, ... [more]

10:18:41 PM Lieberman: I'm trying to be less political in 2010
Lobbying World

Barbara Boxer's (D-Calif.). “Nobody's asked me to get involved, and I have no intention of getting involved in that race,” Lieberman said. ... [more]

10:17:56 PM John Kerry, Statesman
Firedoglake (blog)

This is the speech that should have been given to the Muslim world by President John Kerry in 2005. In the time between then and now, Kerry, the chairman of ... [more]

10:03:00 PM Keith Olbermann blames Bush, Cheney for 9/11 attacks
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA

.... Olbermann noted that when President Bush was warned by the CIA that terrorists were targeting the United States and may be planning to use airliners, ... [more]

9:37:50 PM Obama Names Envoy to 57-Nation Islamic Group to Improve Ties
BusinessWeek - USA

Rashad Hussain, who currently serves as White House deputy associate counsel, will be special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, ... [more]

9:12:55 PM Dems Eye 'Reconciliation' on Health Care, But Tactic Is No Smooth Solution
FOX News - USA

While Republicans are fiercely opposed to reconciliation, they used the tactic to push through former President Bush's massive tax cuts in 2001 and 2003 and ... [more]

7:50:51 PM Iran promises to speed up uranium enrichment with White House protests
Lobbying World

By Bridget Johnson - 02/13/10 01:18 PM ET Iran's parliament speaker said that attempts by the Obama administration to quell its nuclear program will only ... [more]

7:35:00 PM President Obama Addresses the US-Islamic World Forum
FOXNews

President Obama spoke via video conference to the US-Islamic World Forum in Doha, Qatar today. The President built on his speech to the Muslim world last ... [more]

6:08:52 PM The White House health care summit: Republican demands part 2
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Just days after sending a letter to the White House, which included a laundry list of questions for the President, Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) and ... [more]

5:58:25 PM Brown for President in 2012? No Joke, Supporters Say
Obama Accuses McCain of Same Old Republican Campaign Tactics

He's only been a senator for a week but the drumbeat already has begun for Scott Brown to run for president in 2012. AP Jan. 31: Republican Sen. ... [more]

5:38:44 PM Immigration vigil to be held on Presidents' Day
Lower Hudson Journal news

A coalition seeking to reform federal immigration laws will hold a vigil near the Putnam County office of Rep. John Hall on Monday. ... [more]

5:34:24 PM Obama's Global Popularity: More Challenges Ahead
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Additionally, President Bush's ultimately pointless military Shock and Awe campaign in Iraq cost the country three trillion dollars. ... [more]

4:06:37 PM Obama officially invites GOP, Dems to health-care summit
Hot Air - MD,USA

Howard Baker, Lee Hamilton, Bob Dole, and even Bill Frist comes to mind here, although Frist may have been too recent for the comfort of Democrats. .... [more]

4:03:57 PM White House: 9/11 Military Trial Possible
CBS News - USA

Both Attorney General Eric Holder and White House spokesman Robert Gibbs did not rule out a military trial when asked Friday about the Obama ... [more]

2:10:03 PM Pakistan's president backs better ties with India
Reuters - NY,USA

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Good relations between Pakistan and India are vital for fighting Islamist militancy, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari said on ... [more]

12:48:35 PM Obama keeps focus on deficit cuts in radio address
Reuters - NY,USA

US President Barack Obama gives an impromptu news conference in the briefing room of the White House in Washington, February 9, 2010. ... [more]

10:24:48 AM Weekend Talk Shows: Vice President Joseph Biden makes the rounds on Sunday
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

(N) 7:30 am KNBC Meet the Press National security; terrorism; jobs; the economy; healthcare: Vice President Joe Biden. David Brooks, the New York Times; ... [more]

9:54:48 AM Al Gore to appear at Barbara Boxer L.A. fundraiser this Saturday
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Senator Barbara Boxer, purportedly nervous about her re-election campaign, announced a contest urging supporters to donate a mere ten dollars for a chance ... [more]

9:21:39 AM Biden sees self-serving light
Charleston Post Courier

Or that it was President Bush who signed the agreement with Iraq that set the timetable for withdrawal? Mr. Biden's overdue opinion change on Iraq is .... [more]

8:19:40 AM White House releases economic report predicting high unemployment until 2015
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Counsel of Council on Economic Advisers Dr. Christina Romer held a press conference yesterday answering .... [more]

8:11:19 AM Iraq's political disarray threatens future, past | Philadelphia Inquirer |
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA

Philadelphia Inquirer And the election is unlikely to produce a decisive winner, said Brett McGurk, a Harvard University fellow who worked on Iraq policy for the Bush and Obama ... [more]

7:24:29 AM John Donne Versus Tom DeLay
NPR - Washington,D.C.,USA

How will we do so, so full of discord? I simply present two views, one by Elizabethan poet John Donne, one by Tom DeLay (R-TX), formerly US Congress. [more]

5:43:40 AM What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention
Wall Street Journal - USA

The Republican establishment is siding with Mr. Griffith, who only recently switched from Democrat to Republican. That support is perhaps understandable as ... [more]

5:33:03 AM White House projects long-term mass unemployment
World Socialist Web Site - Oak Park,MI,USA

By Joe Kishore The White House Council of Economic Advisers released its Economic Report to the President on Thursday, outlining the administration's ... [more]

3:57:53 AM President Obama Signs Law Raising Public Debt Limit from $12.4 Trillion
President McCain Sends Secretary of State Lieberman and Defense ...

ABC News (blog) .... that the Democrats held the majority in BOTH Houses of Congress during the economic collapse during the last 6 months of President Bush's tenure. .... [more]

2:55:15 AM Report: Immigration detentions dropped, greater share had criminal
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times Roughly one in four immigration detainees — or 27 percent — had criminal records between October 2008 and September 2009, the Syracuse University-based ... [more]

2:49:42 AM Judge Upholds Suit Against Williams & Jensen Involving Tom DeLay PAC
The BLT - Washington,D.C.,USA

... Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay's ARMPAC, after a federal judge refused to grant summary judgment against several of the plaintiff's claims. ... [more]

2:10:01 AM Feinstein's water plan complicates Boxer's re-election bid
McClatchy Washington Bureau - Washington,DC,USA

Barbara Boxer's search for San Joaquin Valley voters. By announcing plans to override scientists and boost irrigation deliveries, Feinstein gratified Valley ... [more]

1:32:14 AM The Invitations Have Gone Out. Who's Coming to the White House Health Care
FOXNews

FOXNews (blog) The White House has sent out its official invite for President Obama's February 25 bipartisan forum on health care. Here is the White House blog on the ... [more]

1:31:15 AM Obama's Middle-Class Tax Pledge in Question as Deficit Challenge Looms
FOX News - USA

But backing off his tax pledge is a big political risk. Former President George HW Bush infamously declared, "Read my lips -- no new taxes," during the 1988 ... [more]

12:23:26 AM Blame-Bush Tack Is Wearing Thin
Wall Street Journal - USA

One widely aired television ad in the recent Massachusetts Senate race showed a picture of Republican Scott Brown, and then shots of former President Bush ... [more]

12:21:29 AM In California, Sen. Boxer Has a Fight on Her Hands
Wall Street Journal - USA

Barbara Boxer comfortably sailed to re-election in 2004, thanks to her state's reliable liberal voter bloc, but she faces headwinds this year as Republicans ... [more]



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