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11:33:49 PM A politically incorrect compliment? Obama praises GOP's Lindsey Graham
Motors ...

John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn. "It probably doesn't help him for me to compliment him," the president joked, to appreciative laughter, ... [more]

10:47:27 PM Crist and Rubio clash over Illegals and the Census
FOXNews (blog)

Moreover, it would actually incentivize politicians to perpetuate our broken immigration system by rewarding states with large illegal immigrant populations ... [more]

10:43:48 PM Boxer to Obama: Help small banks now
Total Buzz

Barbara Boxer who asked Obama if he could use an executive order to put in place his $30 billion plan to help community banks loan money to small businesses ... [more]

10:29:12 PM Argentina President: Won't Tolerate Telecom Monopoly
Wall Street Journal - USA

BUENOS AIRES (DOW JONES)--Argentina's president will seek congressional action if courts block an antitrust ruling finding a monopoly in local telephone ... [more]

10:22:12 PM Deacon Jones recalls a young Bruce Allen
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Jones, 71, was extremely close to George Allen and fondly remembers Bruce Allen, George's son and now Washington's general manager, who was a young boy when ... [more]

9:49:53 PM Congress Must Act in Wake of Court Ruling on Campaign Finance
American Enterprise Institute - Washington,DC,USA

If you think that is unlikely, you have forgotten Tom DeLay and the K Street Project--and don't think these kinds of threats will come only from one party's ... [more]

9:22:56 PM White House Shoots Down Regular Question Time Forums
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Despite the widespread popularity of President Obama's question-and-answer forums and the apparent boost they've given to his agenda, the White House shot ... [more]

9:02:30 PM Obama's Brilliance Shows Democrats' Incompetence to Push Their Agenda
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Heck, eight plus years later we are still hearing the bs about President Bush on 9/11 and how he rallied the country. And that isn't even the truth. .... [more]

7:42:04 PM Appeals Court says ICC Could Charge Sudan President with Genocide
Voice of America

Photo: AP Appeals court judges have ruled the International Criminal Court was wrong to decide Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir could not be charged with ... [more]

7:12:39 PM Dems questioning Obama are some of party's most vulnerable in 2010
Lobbying World

Blanche Lincoln (Ark.), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY) and Barbara Boxer (Calif.) have taken to the microphones to ask Obama questions and stress their Democratic ... [more]

6:20:10 PM Will John Kerry walk on the wild side? America needs a Council of Twelve
Lobbying World

John Kerry (D-Mass.) is calling for states to amend the Constitution to restore restrictions on corporate influence in politics. ... [more]

6:11:48 PM Resident Exclusive Interview with Blues Legend Professor Harp
The Resident - Pawcatuck,CT,USA

His inspiration was harmonica legend George Allen “Harmonica” Smith who lured him away from drums to the blues harp. Professor Harp was young and eager to ... [more]

5:38:24 PM A Pox on Both their Houses
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Under this self imposed, but stridently enforced (they don't call Tom Delay the Hammer for nothing) bipartisan legislative straightjacket, ... [more]

5:11:06 PM Proctor on FSU 100 Distinguished Graduates list
Historic City News - Saint Augustine,FL,USA

Former Governor Reuben Askew, former US Senator Mel Martinez, the former superintendent of the US Military Academy at West Point, astronaut Norm Thagard, ... [more]

4:40:28 PM White House proposes more credit for US small businesses
Plastics Today

By Anonymous As President Obama's focus has relaxed a bit on health care reform, it has increased on the poor overall US economy, and on job creation in ... [more]

4:34:49 PM Veiled wife costs man French citizenship
CNN International - Atlanta,GA,USA

Paris, France (CNN) -- France has denied citizenship to a man because he allegedly forced his wife to wear a full Islamic veil, the French immigration ... [more]

3:42:51 PM Not Just Numbers: The President's Budget and Real Life
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

They understand too that the deficit grew in large part because of the recklessly irresponsible tax cuts of the Bush years. People who just want to cut ... [more]

3:35:23 PM Obama invites GOP leadership to White House
Lobbying World

Together, the events mark a concerted effort by the White House to demonstrate the bipartisanship Obama has been calling for. White House Press Secretary ... [more]

3:30:06 PM And, oh yes, immigration reform
Irish Echo - New York,NY,USA

By contrast, in his last State of the Union address, President Bush focused in detail on the immigration issue. After addressing border security, ... [more]

3:04:26 PM Money talks in Dixie's Senate races
Southern Political Report - Atlanta,GA,USA

Mel Martinez (R-FL) this year, but his lesser known opponent, former state House Speaker Marco Rubio (R), has capitalized on his staunch conservatism, .... [more]

2:26:26 PM Congress: Kerry's constitutional fix
Abortion politics: Biden never refused communion

“As congressional Democrats mobilize to limit the impact of last month's Supreme Court decision gutting decades of campaign finance law, Senator John Kerry ... [more]

1:06:37 PM Obama Says Senate May Drop Cap and Trade, Pass Energy-Only Bill
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

John Kerry (D-Mass.), the lead author of the Senate climate and energy effort. Kerry said that he is getting closer to producing legislation with a limit on ... [more]

12:56:10 PM White House report: Develop more crops for biofuels
DesMoinesRegister.com

The White House could issue the greenhouse-gas rules as soon as today. One industry official welcomed the White House's plan. "A more coordinated effort ... [more]

11:58:20 AM Sen. Gregg: President Obama's Budget Proposal Is a 'Disaster'
FOX News - USA

GREGG: ... and you want to get a political event when you go out and make a speech in Nashua, New Hampshire. That's not what this money's for! ... [more]

11:54:04 AM Funding for Manned Lunar Missions Absent in FY2011 Budget Proposal
The Lipman Times

By Alec Rivera The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is deviating from President Bush's plans to put American back on the Moon, ... [more]

10:44:18 AM KEISSER: Chafe answers call to the Hall
Long Beach Press-Telegram

He then went to Whittier College, where the head coach was a fellow named George Allen. He played two seasons for Allen, who then gave him his first .... [more]

10:26:15 AM White House plan to scratch nuclear waste site plays to mixed reviews
TheDay - New London,CT,USA

By Patricia Daddona The Obama administration is dumping plans for underground storage of nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain while tripling taxpayer-backed loan ... [more]

10:24:27 AM None of this is Bush's fault
The North Star National

Someone needs to tell President Obama: If you think President Bush spent too much, then put a stop to it. But he doesn't want to stop. He wants to spend, ... [more]

9:04:46 AM Census has Crist and Rubio at odds
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA

Rubio, however, also said that the census should have an "accurate count" in order to know how "bad of an immigration problem we have. ... [more]

8:59:06 AM Mark Kirk Wins Illinois Senate Republican Primary, Will Face Alexi
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Huffington Post (blog) As expected, Mark Kirk handily won the GOP nomination for US Senate from Illinois, defeating his closest challenger Patrick Hughes by a landslide. .... [more]

8:55:15 AM Prime Minister Tony Liar
Socialist Worker Online

That included 2004 Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, who voted to authorize the invasion. When a Senate Select Committee reported in 2004 that ... [more]

7:53:01 AM Wave power companies in funding boost
stv.tv

Tom Delay, chief executive of the Carbon Trust, said: "The UK must urgently diversify, decarbonise and secure its energy sources and marine energy could ... [more]

7:35:57 AM China warns against Obama-Dalai Lama meeting
Reuters - NY,USA

The White House confirmed on Tuesday that Obama will meet the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader reviled by Beijing as a "separatist" for .... [more]

7:33:47 AM Should Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be detained in Guantanamo?
Loyola Phoenix - Chicago,IL,USA

It seems that the only reason the president dislikes the ideas of Guantanamo Bay and military tribunals is that President Bush did them first. ... [more]

6:48:03 AM Activists Push Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Atlanta Progressive News - Atlanta,Georgia,USA

Luis Gutierrez (D-FL) called the Comprehensive Immigration Reform for America's Security And Prosperity Act of 2009 (HR 4321). The sweeping legislation has ... [more]

5:29:37 AM Kerry backs amendment to restore giving rules
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

.... gutting decades of campaign finance law, Senator John Kerry joined calls yesterday for states to go a step further by amending the Constitution. ... [more]

5:27:16 AM FACTBOX-Five political risks to watch in Sri Lanka
Reuters - NY,USA

By Shihar Aneez and Bryson Hull COLOMBO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa won a landslide re-election on Jan. ... [more]

5:14:37 AM Chris Dodd: White House missteps on regulatory reform
Politico - Washington,DC,USA

Dodd chastised the White House for announcing its latest salvo against the Wall Street mere days after Democrats lost the Massachusetts Senate special .... [more]

4:57:07 AM Immigration officials warn people to avoid Haiti earthquake scam
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

Officials with the US Citizenship and Immigration Services met with members of Tampa Bay's Haitian community Tuesday evening at All Children's Hospital in ... [more]

2:48:06 AM Is Obama Ready to Be President?
Wall Street Journal - USA

An easy and constructive victory would be to join a growing number of House Democrats in calling for extension of the Bush tax cuts. ... [more]

2:40:06 AM Congress sacks White House claims of imminent touchdown on health bill
Washington Examiner

John Kerry, D-Mass., when asked if he thought health care passage was possible this year. Kerry said he believed the "best path forward" was for the House ... [more]

2:30:15 AM 'Most of the Saints Were Martyrs' - Bourbon Street Bumblers' Amazing
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA

American Chronicle Kilmer went on to lead George Allen's "Over the Hill Gang" to the Super Bowl. Allen later called it "the best trade I ever made." 15. In the 1971 preseason, ... [more]

2:17:37 AM CROWLEY: The president meets reality
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA

11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and three other top al Qaeda terrorists, Mr. Obama set out to show the world that President Bush and his destructive ... [more]

2:02:50 AM Report Cites Problems in Immigration System, Calls for Overhaul
FOX News - USA

By Diana Nguyen WASHINGTON -- Problems in the immigration justice system are pervasive and widespread, says a new report that calls for an overhaul of the ... [more]

1:58:13 AM White House urges Iran to inform IAEA on nuclear fuel
Reuters - NY,USA

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House urged Iran on Tuesday to inform the International Atomic Energy Agency if it has changed its mind and is now ready to ... [more]

12:41:15 AM Man who forced veil on wife can't become French
Reuters - NY,USA

.... to give citizenship to a foreigner who has forced his French wife to wear a full-face Islamic veil, Immigration Minister Eric Besson said on Tuesday. ... [more]

12:37:30 AM O'Brien: Fiorina tries to reboot her image
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA

.... who's running for the Republican nomination to take on Barbara Boxer for the US Senate, the politician address a conference room full of small business ... [more]

12:34:24 AM Obama: cap-and-trade may be separate in Senate bill
Reuters - NY,USA

Democratic Senator John Kerry, the leader of the group, told reporters "a lot of progress" was being made. But he added that there still is no deal on the ... [more]

12:31:04 AM The budget message from the President
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The public debt, as reported by the Bureau of the Public Debt, was just under $6 trillion when President Bush took office. The surplus Obama refers to are ... [more]



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