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Credibility of UFO Witnesses at Mock-Hearing Impresses Former Congress Members

Alejandro Rojas | Posted 05.13.2013 | Weird News
Read More: Extraterrestrial Life, Ufos, Ufo, Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, Ufo Disclosure, Aliens, United Nations, Citizen Hearing on Disclosure Congress, National Press Club, Extraterrestrials, Video, Weird News News
Alejandro Rojas

While not all of the former Congress members at the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure last week were convinced that we are being visited by aliens, they all did say they were impressed by the high level of credibility of some of the witnesses they heard from.

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State Of Homelessness in America 2013 Unveiled By NAEH

Jean-Michel Giraud | Posted 04.19.2013 | Impact
Read More: Friendship Place, Jean-Michel Giraud, Permanent Supportive Housing, Representative Cleaver, State of Homelessness in America 2013, Homelessness Prevention and Rapid Re-Housing Program (HPRP), 100, 100000 Homes Campaign, Homelessness, Naeh, US Interagency Council on Homelessness, Linda Kaufman, Doubled Up, Barbara Poppe, National Alliance to End Homelessness, Emmanuel Cleaver, Ending Homelessness, Affordable Housing, National Press Club, Impact News
Jean-Michel Giraud

There was a feeling of expectation in the room at the National Press Club last week as the National Alliance To End Homelessness (NAEH) unveiled its S...

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The Glorious Gloria Explains It All

Barbara & Shannon Kelley | Posted 12.15.2012 | Women
Read More: Having It All, Ms Magazine, Gloria Steinem, Feminism, National Press Club, Equal Pay for Equal Work, Women's Issues, Childcare, Economic Stimulus, Women News
Barbara & Shannon Kelley

It happened again the other day: I was being interviewed by my introductory journalism class when I was asked 'The Question.'

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Andrea Stone

The Singing Soldier Who Really IS The Chairman Of The Board

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 10.10.2012 | Politics
Read More: Pentagon, Video, Department of Defense, Martin Dempsey, Bayonne, Singing, Hoboken, Frank Sinatra, Syria Violence, Defense Department, Syria, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Frank Sinatra may have been called the Chairman of the Board but the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is no slouch himself when it...

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Duncan Calls For Textbooks To Become Obsolete

AP | JOSH LEDERMAN | Posted 12.02.2012 | Home
Read More: Arne Duncan Education Secretary, Video, Arne Duncan, Digital Learning, Arne Duncan Education Reform, Arne Duncan Digital Textbooks, Digital Textbooks, National Press Club, Education Secretary, Home News

WASHINGTON -- Worried your kids spend too much time with their faces buried in a computer screen? Their schoolwork may soon depend on it. Education S...

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The Bernanke Fed's Policy of Paying Banks to Limit Loans Creates Unemployment

Robert Auerbach | Posted 11.17.2012 | Business
Read More: Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, James Bullard, Milton Friedman, Jim McTague, Ben Bernanke, National Press Club, Ralph Nader, Business News
Robert Auerbach

The Bernanke Fed's policy has contributed to unemployment by rewarding banks for not making loans to consumers and businesses. Eighty-five percent of ...

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Top Marine General Talks Of 'Most Challenging' Task

Posted 08.28.2012 | Politics
Read More: James Amos Marines, Women in Combat, Video, Marines, Military Sexual Trauma, James Amos, Military Sexual Assaults, Amos Marine Corps, u.s. Marines, Sexual Assault, Gen James Amos Marine Corps, National Press Club, Gen. James Amos, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Two months after the commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps unveiled a plan to stop an epidemic of sexual assault in the ranks, Gen. James ...

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Helen Thomas 92nd Birthday

Connie Lawn | Posted 10.14.2012 | DC
Read More: National Press Club, Helen Thomas, White House Media, Washington DC, Media, Press Club, White House Reporters, DC News
Connie Lawn

There are a dwindling number of veteran reporters left in the White House. We all have our experiences and advice to share!

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What if Sandra Fluke were a Woman of Color?

Mary Keck | Posted 05.21.2012 | Black Voices
Read More: Family Planning, Rush Limbaugh, Women of Color, Ron Paul, Sandra Fluke, Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Barack Obama, GOP Candidates, Bill Maher, Shirley Sherrod, Racism, Contraception, Newt Gingrich, Blunt Amendment, Healthcare, National Press Club, Bv-Politics, Black Voices News
Mary Keck

In the wake of the Sandra Fluke vs. Rush Limbaugh media frenzy, we've begun to ask some very interesting questions. The queries popping up over the Fluke-Limbaugh controversy has brought a question to my mind: What if Sandra Fluke were a woman of color?

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Andrea Stone

Janet Napolitano: Homeland Security, Economic Security Go 'Hand-In-Hand'

HuffingtonPost.com | Andrea Stone | Posted 01.30.2012 | Politics
Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Global Supply Chain, Cargo, Video, Economy, Davos, Janet Napolitano, Homeland Security, Supply Chain, Janet Napolitano Homeland Security, Dhs, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A top administration official on Monday signaled that the focus of homeland security in 2012 would shift in emphasis to business and the...

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GOP Hopeful Attacks Big Contenders

AP | BY STEVE PEOPLES | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics
Read More: Video, Jon Huntsman, Newt Gingrich 2012, 2012 Election, Mitt Romney 2012, Gop 2012, Mitt Romney, Elections 2012, Newt Gingrich, National Press Club, Jon Huntsman 2012, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Jon Huntsman says the leading Republican presidential candidates, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, are feeding a deficit of trust in polit...

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Women's Media Center Announces Girls' State Of The Union Video Contest

Women's Media Center | Posted 11.16.2011 | Women
Read More: Gloria Steinem, She Source, Contest, Girls' State of the Union, National Press Club, State of the Union, The Women's Media Center, Women News

Who? The Women's Media Center invites girls from all over the United States, ages 14-22, to create a 1-5 minute Girls' State of the Union video...

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Cain Manages Crisis With Denial, Humor, Song

AP | LAURIE KELLMAN | Posted 12.31.2011 | Black Voices
Read More: Herman Cain Humor, Herman Cain Sings, Herman Cain National Press Club, Election 2012, Herman Cain for President, National Press Club, Herman Cain, Video, Black Voices News

WASHINGTON — It's one of the starkest tests of viability for any presidential candidate: crisis management, the ability to step past an explosiv...

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Jon Ward

Can Herman Cain Sing His Way Out Of Trouble?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 12.31.2011 | Politics
Read More: Herman Cain 2012, Video, Herman Cain National Press Club, 2012 Election, Gop 2012 Primary, Gop 2012, Herman Cain, Sexual Harassment, Elections 2012, Republican Presidential Primary, Gop 2012 Presidential Candidates, Herman Cain Sexual Harassment, National Press Club, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Herman Cain escaped. The Republican presidential candidate made it off the stage at the National Press Club on Monday relatively unsc...

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The Bernanke Fed Is in a Deep Hole With a $1.6 Trillion Time Bomb

Robert Auerbach | Posted 10.29.2011 | Business
Read More: Charles L. Evans, Elizabeth A. Duke, Narayana Kocherlakota, Daniel K. Tarullo, Sarah Bloom Raskin, Jim McTague, Richard W. Fisher, Ben Bernanke, Arthur Burns, Chapman University Law School, National Press Club, Janet L. Yellen, Charles I. Plosser, G. William Miller, William C. Dudley, Business News
Robert Auerbach

The Bernanke Fed's policy has created a $1.6 trillion time bomb that has contributed to high unemployment and may explode under the Fed's new policy a...

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Jon Ward

Bachmann Says Washington Is 'Deceiving' American People In Debt Ceiling Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Jon Ward | Posted 09.27.2011 | Politics
Read More: Gop Presidential Candidates, Minnesota, Michele Bachmann 2012, Debt Ceiling, Ronald Reagan, John Boehner, Marcus Bachmann, President Barack Obama, President Obama, Elections 2012, Obama Debt Ceiling, Barack Obama, Rep. Michele Bachmann, Michele Bachmann, George H.W. Bush, Spending, Michele Bachmann for President, Gop Primary Election 2012, Republican Presidential Primary, Reparative Therapy, Republican Party, National Press Club, Debt Ceiling Debate, Republicans, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann on Thursday said the debt ceiling debate is just the latest chapter in a long history...

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As Western Papers Suffer, D.C. Bureaus Die Out

High Country News | Kate Sheppard | Posted 08.27.2011 | Denver
Read More: Dc Bureau, Rocky Mountain News, Salt Lake Tribune, Albuquerque Journal, Western Coverage of Dc Politics, Death of Newspapers, Deseret News, National Press Club, Las Vegas Sun, Denver Post, Denver News

The Washington, D.C., office of the Salt Lake Tribune's Thomas Burr and Matt Canham resembles most newsrooms. A few pieces of art cling haphazardly to...

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U.S. Culture Slightly Less Entrepreneurial Than Indonesia: Survey

The Huffington Post | James Sunshine | Posted 07.25.2011 | Business
Read More: BBC World Service, India, Thomas Friedman, Bbc, Australia, Innovation, United States, Entrepreneurship, Small Business America, Canada, National Press Club, China, Business News

Americans have long been comforted by the belief that they live in the world's most entrepreneur-friendly country. But among the 24 countries surveyed...

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Government Claims It's Getting Easier To Apply For Federal Jobs

AOL Jobs | Wyatt Kash | Posted 07.19.2011 | Business
Read More: Job Announcements, John Berry, Hiring Practices, Job Applicants, Unemployment Crisis, Office of Personnel Management, Jobs, Hiring Reform Initiative, National Press Club, Business News

The director of the federal government's Office of Personnel Management reported new figures today indicating that agencies are making it easier to hi...

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The Spiritually Viral Hunger Fast

Jim Wallis | Posted 06.08.2011 | Religion
Read More: Evangelicals, Tax Cuts, National Press Club, Budget Debate, National Council of Churches, Christian Groups, National Association of Evangelicals, Catholic Bishops, Sojourners, Service Employees International Union, World Vision, Biblical Story of Esther, Salvation Army, Prayer Fasting, Passing the Baton, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Catholic Church, Religion News
Jim Wallis

The hunger fast for a moral budget has gone spiritually viral. Ten days ago, we announced that the budget debate had become a moral crisis. We now have more than 30,000 participants and are still growing.

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Public Response to Obama's YouTube Comment on Drug Legalization Shows Progress

Rob Kampia | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Debate, Incarceration, Youtube, Marijuana, Joycelyn Elders, Drug Use, Public Health, Reform, Criminal Justice, Marijuana Policy Project, Mpp, Marijuana Legalization, National Press Club, Barack Obama, Arrest, Politics News
Rob Kampia

It wasn't long ago that discussing drug legalization was akin to considering whether it should be legal to dump toxic waste on your property line. But now, the marijuana issue is finally legitimate.

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Richard Dreyfuss Holds Media Accountable

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Richard Dreyfuss, Diane Ravitch, Newton Minnow, Gabrielle Giffords, Civility, Political Incivility, National Press Club, Edward R. Murrow, Media News
Mike Smith

Actor Richard Dreyfuss, 63, is applying his passion to a new act: calling the collective media to task.

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Chu: Will America Miss Its "Sputnik Moment" on Energy?

David Ferris | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Stephen Chu, Obama Cleantech Strategy, Doe, US China Competition, Cleantech, Sputnik Moment, 1957, Arpa-E, Energy Department, President Obama, R&D, Energy Secretary, China, National Press Club, Green News
David Ferris

America is at a "Sputnik moment," Energy Secretary Stephen Chu said today. The government's next moves will determine whether the country leads the clean-tech race -- or loses it to China.

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On Biography

Nigel Hamilton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Siddharta Mukherjee, International Biographers Organization (BIO), Biographers Groups, Education, Emperor of All Maladies, National Press Club, Biography, Books News
Nigel Hamilton

In the Arts section of the New York Times, Charles McGrath tells of the oncology doctor with the looks of a Bollywood star, Sid Mukherjee. His new boo...

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Jason Linkins

National Press Club Panel Will Help Reporters Become Flacks

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Eat the Press, Public Relations, Media Criticism, Journalism, National Press Club, Media News

Journalism: is there a future in it? Probably not, who knows? But if you're stuck in a thankless reportorial job and want to get down to the busines...

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