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What Obama Is Up Against

Russ Baker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Central Intelligence Agency, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan, Military Industrial Complex, Harry Truman, President Obama, George W. Bush, Obama, Bob Woodward, Bush Administration Torture, Robert Gates, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, National Security, Gerald Ford, Nancy Pelosi, Congressional Oversight, Fdr, Hamid Karzai, Bill Clinton, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Bush Administration, Dwight Eisenhower, Cia, Military Spending, Stanley McChrystal, Jimmy Carter, Prescott Bush, Allen Dulles, Lyndon Johnson, Iraq, Torture, Politics News

We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command. But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national security" is concerned.

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Dwight D. Eisenhower vs. Andrew J. Hall

Les Leopold | Posted 10.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Andrew J. Hall, Financial Crisis, Dwight Eisenhower, Wall Street, Bailout, Wealth, Citigroup Bailout, Economic Crisis, Business News

The way in which oil speculator Andrew J. Hall is going to get his $100 million demonstrates clearly why we need to return to the 91 percent top bracket income taxes of the Eisenhower years.

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In the Know: Scandalous Political Affairs

Karin Tanabe | Posted 11.10.2009 | Style

Read More: Marilyn Monroe, John F. Kennedy, John Edwards Affair With Rielle Hunter, Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford, Dwight Eisenhower, John Ensign, Sex, Washington DC, Sanford Affair, John Ensign Affair, Scandal, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Washington Scandals, DC Scandals, Political Scandals, Style News

Many Washingtonians are au courant with their employers' bedroom lambadas, but it's an ethical dilemma to be the confidant in a headline-worthy affair.

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Max Blumenthal: President Ike's Other Message

New York Times | MAX BLUMENTHAL | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Republican Party, Dwight Eisenhower, Max Blumenthal, Politics News

IN this summer of town hall disruptions and birth-certificate controversies, a summer when it seemed as if the Republican Party had been captured by i...

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Love, Politics and The Media

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 09.07.2009 | Politics

Though we have elevated women to prime political positions, the media has cast female politicians in an odd, almost asexual maternal role. They're not allowed to wander off the territory.

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Obama On Track To Break Records With Congressional Support

Congressional Quarterly | Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capitol Hill, House of Representatives, Jimmy Carter, Senate, Congress, President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, President Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Obama, Congress Votes, Politics News

As his presidency approaches the half-year mark, Barack Obama is on pace to be the most successful Oval Office occupant in more than half a century wh...

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Gloating Over Obama's Honeymoon End

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 07.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dwight Eisenhower, Presidential Honeymoon, Gerald Ford, Bill Clinton, President Obama, Jimmy Carter, John Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Politics News

Just as President Obama's second quarter nears its end, the predictable happened: the gloat over his reported light dip in popularity has begun with a vengeance.

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CNN's Navarrette Gets Iran Wrong

Sanjeev Bery | Posted 07.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Iran, Ruben Navarrette, Cnn, Obama, cnn.com, Barack Obama, Stephen Kinzer, Sanjeev Bery, Eisenhower, Iranian Democracy, Cia, Ayatollah Khomeini, All the Shah's Men, Mossadeq, Mohammad Mossadegh, British Colonialism, Iran Protests, Reza Pahlavi, Decolonization, Britain in Iran, John Kerry, Iran Election, Shah of Iran, Operation Ajax, Savak, San Diego Union-Tribune, Ahmadinejad, Dwight Eisenhower, Mossadegh, Navarrette, Media, Shah, Kerry, Khomeini, Bery, Media News

While tempting, the calls to get tougher with the Iranian government fail to consider the legacy of 25 years of U.S. intervention against Iranian democracy.

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"No Sense of Decency" Welch v. McCarthy: A Smear Undone

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Communism, Joseph Welch, George Clooney, Dwight Eisenhower, Joseph McCarthy, Edward R. Murrow, Politics News

The dramatic moment marked a turning point in the so-called McCarthy Era. It came during one of the first nationally televised Senate hearings, known as the Army-McCarthy hearings.

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The Rush and Cheney Show Accelerates Military Desertion of the GOP

Jon Soltz | Posted 06.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: US Military, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Donald Rumsfeld, Joseph Hoar, Wesley Clark, Hugh Shelton, John Shalikashvili, Al Qaeda, Dick Cheney, Politics, Politics News, Military, Dwight Eisenhower, Paul Eaton, Newt Gingrich, Republican Party, Republicans, Politics News

For decades, the conventional wisdom was that the Republican Party was the party of the military. However, as Republicans have abandoned ideals that make our military strong, big names now support Democrats.

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Three Cheers for Robert E Rubin

Norman Horowitz | Posted 06.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rhodes College Seidman Award in Economics., Robert E. Rubin, Dwight Eisenhower, Wall Street, Economics, Citigroup, Secretary of Treasury, Politics News

As an Electrical Engineer who has functioned in the business of Television for almost 50 years, it surprises most people that I have been fascinated b...

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The American Way of War

The Real News | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

The American Way of War is Eugene Jarecki's latest book. Jarecki is an award-winning dramatic and documentary filmmaker whose previous film Why We Fig...

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New York's Department of Veterans' Affairs: Where's the Outrage?

Luis Montalvan and Aaron Glantz | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Affairs, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, James Peake, Pensions, Va, New York State, War in Iraq, Michael Bloomberg Mayor, New York City, New York, Social Security Disability Claims, Afghanistan War, Veterans, Bloomberg, Iraq War, Albany, Dwight Eisenhower, Times Union, Disabilities, Veterans Issues, Senator Hillary Clinton, President Eisenhower, Disability, Hillary Clinton, Senator Clinton, Iraq, Politics News

Internal audits at the VA regional headquarters has revealed over half of all disability claims processed through the New York office had been illegally tampered with.

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President Obama: Set Cuba Free

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.21.2009 | World

Read More: Communism, Ernest Hemingway, Dwight Eisenhower, Fidel Castro, Cuban Embargo, Inauguration, Ussr, Guantanamo, Moscow, Marxism, Bolivia, Che Guevara, Havana, Barack Obama, Paris, Cuba, 100 Days, World News

Releasing Cuba from 50 years of prison could be one of President Barack Obama's most sensible, easiest, and most applauded early acts.

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Will Obama's Presidency End the Progressive Movement?

Rupert Russell | Posted 02.20.2009 | Politics

Progressive billionaires, bloggers and grassroots activists mobilized less against a conservative president than a complicit mainstream media and a Bush-enabling Democratic establishment.

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Obama's Military Blind Spot?

Steve Clemons | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Power, Dwight Eisenhower, Robert Gates, Richard Nixon, Edmund Burke, Mike Mullen, Nixon Center, Barack Obama, Foreign Policy, Politics News

Obama would be wise to read up on Eisenhower, on Nixon, on Edmund Burke and others -- and realize that military answers to problems are leading the US to greater calamity, global irrelevance, and impotence.

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Time for Tax Hikes

Larry Beinhart | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eisenhower, Debt, Pelosi, Truman, National Debt, Dwight Eisenhower, Economics, Taxes, Obama, Roosevelt, Politics News

Unless we rebuild the economy it will not generate enough money to create the revenue stream to pay our debts. Why are we so resistant to raising taxes?

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Trouble Buying That Illinois Senate Seat? (A Cheaper Alternative for Holiday Gift-Giving)

David Quigg | Posted 01.10.2009 | Politics

I cannot be bought. Not for less than 20 bucks. So there's no need to worry that my judgment has been tainted by the fact that a publisher sent me a ...

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Obama and "The Chicago Way"

Martin Nolan | Posted 01.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: James Wright, Lynn Sweet Chicago Sun-Times, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Mies Van Der Rohe, Boston, Richard J. Daley, Harvard FacultyClub, The Front Page, Sean Connery, Warren G. Harding, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Nelson Algren, Steve Neal, Theodore Roosevelt, James T. Farrell, Happy Days Are Here Again, Sy Hersh, Richard M. Daley, Willa Cather, Grover Cleveland, Stud Terkel, Al Capone, Saul Bellow, Kurt Vonnegut, H.H. Richardson, John Kass, Finley Peter Dunne, Franklin Roosevelt, Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Barack Obama, Howard Hawks, Blackstone Hotel, Dwight Eisenhower, David Thomson, Rahm Emanuel, Mike Royko, Chicago Tribune, Carl Sandburg, Theodore Dreiser, John Dos Passos, Abraham Lincoln, 1968 Demorcatic National Convention, Chicago News

How does Barack Obama fit into political Chicago? I found out at another convention, Boston's in 2004.

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'Yes We Can' Create a Sane Food Policy in the U.S.

Bruce Friedrich | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Charlie Stenholm, Whole Foods, Time Magazine, Pew Foundation, Center for Public Integrity, John Carlin, Pew Commission, Larry Summers, Joe Klein, Barack Obama, Clinton Administration, Farm Bill, Michael Pollan, John Salazar, Colin Peterson, Union of Concerned Scientists, Dwight Eisenhower, Dan Glickman, Secretary of Agriculture, John Podesta, Rosa DeLauro, Obama Transition, National Economic Council, Eric Schlosser, Bill Moyers, Politics News

In January, we will have a president who understands and cares about the broader implications of our food policy. This will be an impressive first.

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The Republican Presidential Recession Record

Jeff Madrick | Posted 01.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Lyndon Johnson, Recession, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Politics News

Eisenhower: 2 recessions; Nixon and Ford: 2 recessions; Reagan: 1 recession; George H.W. Bush: 1 recession; George W. Bush: 2 recessions; Democrats: 1 recession. Eight to one, you decide.

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Ghosts of Transitions Past

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 12.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, War in Vietnam, Richard Nixon, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, Obama Transition, Lyndon Johnson, Barack Obama, Carl Brauer, Presidential Transitions, Politics News

President-elect Obama appointed old hands to his top economic posts, explaining Wednesday that "the vision for change" comes from him. That's a way to deal with a central problem of transitions.

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