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Cornel West Comments On Obama's Nobel Peace Prize: Hard To Be War President With Peace Prize

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tavis Smiley, Cornel West, Torture, Recession, Iraq, Obama, Cornel West on Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Administration, Los Angeles, Eric Holder, Afghanistan War, Nobel Prize, Princeton, Iraq War, Military, Afghanistan, Torture Investigation, Economy, Politics News

Dr. Cornel West spoke at the Central Library in Los Angeles Friday, Oct. 9, and weighed in on what winning the Nobel Peace Prize will mean for Preside...

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Video: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Says the Semantic Web Has Arrived and the Obama Administration is "Onboard"

Andy Plesser | Posted 10.10.2009 | Technology

Read More: Semantic Web, Finland, Obama Administration, data.gov, World Wide Web, Steve Lohr, Tim Berners-Lee, Technology News
Andy Plesser

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.

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Kenneth Feinberg, Obama's Pay Czar, Steered Citi Toward Phibro Sale

Yahoo! News | Steve Eder and Karey Wutkowski | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Bailout Bandits, Phibro, Andrew Hall, Banks, Obama Administration, Pay Czar, Kenneth Feinberg, Citigroup, Obama Pay Czar, Business News

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- The U.S. government's "pay czar" played a critical role in Citigroup's(C.N) decision to sell off its lucrative commod...

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Major Garrett: The One Fox News Reporter The White House Respects

Time | Michael Scherer | Posted 10.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Obama Administration, White House, Fox News, Fox, Major Garrett, Media News

In the course of reporting a story for this week's TIME magazine, which is about the White House's determination to take the fight to its critics, I c...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Mortgage Loan Modification: More Offers Extended, Fewer Homeowners Accepting -- Are Homeowners Losing Hope?

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 10.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Mortgages, Treasury Department, Loan Modifications, Mortgage Modification, Making Home Affordable, Mortgage Servicers, Behavioral Economics, Home Affordable Modification, Mortgage Crisis, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Homeowners, Business News

While the Obama administration and reporters trumpet the fact that the administration is about a month early in reaching its stated goal of modifying ...

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Team Obama: Afghan Taliban Not a Threat to U.S.

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Afghanistan, Taliban, Barnett Rubin, Joseph Biden, Stanley McChrystal, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, World News
Robert Naiman

The top official in the Obama Administration, who is actually a leading scholar with long experience in Afghanistan, is leading the charge against sending more troops.

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Why Were There No Afghans At Obama's Afghanistan Meetings? Commentary

Kabul Press | Robert Maier | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Barack Obama Afghanistan, Obama, Afghanistan, World News

President Obama has been meeting with a lot of people about Afghanistan in recent days. As a man whose short political career has been spent primarily...

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Obama V. Press: White House Calling 'Em Out

Time | Michael Scherer | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Robert Gibbs, White House, White House Press, President Obama, Obama Fox News, Gibbs Press, Obama Administration, Obama Press, Gibbs Calls Out Press, Obama Fox Lies, Obama Calls Out Press, Obama News Media, Politics News

There was never a single moment when White House staff decided the major media outlets were falling down on the job. There were instead several such m...

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White House Looking To Adjust War Strategy To Focus On Al Qaeda In Pakistan

New York Times | Peter Baker and Erik Schmitt | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Obama Administration, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Obama National Security, Pakistan, World News

President Obama's national security team is moving to reframe its war strategy by emphasizing the campaign against Al Qaeda in Pakistan while arguing ...

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Colorado's Endangered Species (PHOTOS)

Posted 10.07.2009 | Denver

Read More: Black-Footed Ferret, Grey Wolf, Prairie Dogs, Wolverine, Endangerd Species Act, Slideshow, Obama Administration, Colorado, Denver, Lynx, Denver News

State and federal agencies are beginning to re-evaluate a number of species in Colorado (and across the nation) to determine if they are threatened or...

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Cap-and-Trade Versus the Alternatives for U.S. Climate Policy

Robert Stavins | Posted 10.07.2009 | Green

Read More: Market-Based Environmental Policies, New Source Review, Carbon Tax, National Journal, Endangerment Finding, Regulation, Obama Administration, Hamilton Project, Global Climate Policy, Japan, CAFE Standards, Sulfur Dioxide, Cap-and-Trade, Environmental Politics, Ozone Depleting Substances, RECLAIM Program, Leaded Gasoline, Waxman-Markey, Green News
Robert Stavins

One of the key merits of the cap-and-trade approach is that the program can provide cost-effectiveness, while achieving meaningful reductions in greenhouse gas emissions levels.

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Pay Czar Kenneth Feinberg Plans To Cut Salaries, Increase Stock Compensation

wsj.com | By DEBORAH SOLOMON | Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: CEO Pay, Bailout, Economy, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Pay Czar, Wall Street Pay, Kenneth Feinberg, Executive Compensation, Business News

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's pay czar is planning to clamp down on compensation at firms receiving large sums of government aid by cutting...

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The Lesson of Kevin Jennings

Jonathan Tolins | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sean Hannity, Kevin Jennings, Gay Issues, Education, Fox News Attacks, Obama Administration, Van Jones Obama Administration, Politics News
Jonathan Tolins

The cynical attempt by the right to destroy Kevin's career and reputation, simply to score political points and raise money, is a disgrace.

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There Will Be No Trade War

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 10.05.2009 | Business

Read More: Smoot-Hawley, International Trade, Free Trade, Obama Administration, The Great Depression, Protectionism, China, Tires, Dorkings, Wto, China Tire Tariff Wto, Business News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

If you were going to start a trade war against the United States, it is unlikely that your first salvo would be on chicken parts, or as the Chinese rather charmingly first announced, on dorkings.

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My Hamid Karzai Daydream

Jamie Metzl | Posted 10.01.2009 | World

Read More: Al Qaeda Pakistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, Obama Administration, Us Forces, Hillary Clinton, US Foreign Policy, Taliban Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghan Taliban, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Afghanistan War, Afghan Election, World News
Jamie Metzl

Just back from Afghanistan, I began to daydream about Karzai speaking directly to the American people to take responsibility for his government's failings and seek support for U.S. engagement in the country.

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Sebelius, Whitehouse Hold White House Live Chat

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sebelius Live Chat, White House Live Chat, Health Care Debate, Sheldon Whitehouse, Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Questions, Whitehouse Live Chat, President Obama, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Politics News

The White House has announced that it will hold a live chat with Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) today at 5:30 PM ET,...

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Obama Administration Opposes Shield Law Protecting Reporters

New York Times | Charlie Savage | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Media Shield, Reporter Confidentiality Bill, Shield Law, Congress Shield Law, Obama Shield Law, President Obama, Obama Administration, Congress Media Shield Bill, Obama Media Shield Bill, Reporter Protection Bill, Politics News

The Obama administration has told lawmakers that it opposes legislation that could protect reporters from being imprisoned if they refuse to disclose ...

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No Good Times for Big Business -- They're Mad as Hell and Not Gonna Take It Anymore

Esther J. Cepeda | Posted 10.01.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Norman Bobins, David Chavern, Monetary Policy, Bank Regulation, Federal Oversight, Fiscal Policy, Obama Administration, Bush Administration, William Doyle, Executive’s Club of Chicago, Government Oversight, Economy, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, The Private Bank, Recession, Chicago Business, Best Buy, Brad Anderson, Economic Recovery, Potash Corp, Privatebancorp, Chicago News
Esther J. Cepeda

Big Business is not as interested in making big plans or big money with big ideas as they are in blaming Washington for all that ultimately ails you.

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Inventing the Latest Health Care Scares

Rick Horowitz | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: GOP and Health Care, Right-Wing Radio and Health Care, Rush Limbaugh, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Health-Care Scare Tactics, Congress, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilley, Republicans, Republicans and Health Care, Fox News and Health Care, Democrats, Health Care, Public-Option Opponents, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Politics News
Rick Horowitz

The health care debate has birthed an entirely new tense: In case the Present Tense and the Past Subjunctive and the Future Conditional aren't enough to satisfy you, now there's the Cataclysmic Hypothetical.

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Austan Goolsbee Calls Sarah Palin A Wingnut In Comedy Routine (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: d.c.'s Funniest Celebrity, White House, d.c. Funniest Celebrity Goolsbee, Austan Goolsbee, Austan Goolsbee Comedy, d.c.'s Funniest Celebrity Contest, Sarah Palin, Joe the Plumber, Political Comedy Routines, Comedy, Obama Administration, Comedy News

White House economic adviser Austan Goolsbee won first prize in the 16th annual "D.C.'s Funniest Celebrity" contest last night. In his performance he...

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Sun Tzu and the Art of 11-Dimensional Chess

Matt Osborne | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rahm Obama, Obama Strategy, Rahm Emmanuel, Public Option, Rahm Emanuel, The Art of War, President Obama, Obama Administration, Rahm Emanuel Health Care, Obama, Obama Health Care, Barack Obama, Sun Tzu, Political Strategy, Politics News
Matt Osborne

Contrary to what some progressives may tell themselves, they were goaded into action by Obama -- not the other way around.

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JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon: Banks Shouldn't Be Too Big To Fail, Except When They Are

bloomberg.com | David Reilly | Posted 09.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Bloomberg, Treasury Department, JPMorgan Chase, Financial Reform, Barney Frank, Too Big to Fail, Banks, David Reilly, Obama Administration, Jamie Dimon, Business News

Sept. 30 (Bloomberg) -- It was surprising to hear JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Jamie Dimon say, "It would be a very bad long-term policy error...

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China, Iran and Sanctions: What's a Rising Power to Do?

Elizabeth Lynch | Posted 09.29.2009 | World

Read More: Sanctions, Gasoline, Obama Administration, Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Oil, Nuclear, China, U.N. Security Council, Britain, France, Iran, U.K., U.N., Russia, Gas, Mid East Trade, World News
Elizabeth Lynch

Why is China so hesitant to support sanctions against Iran? History, geo-politics and economic ties are what set China apart from its Security Council brethren.

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Your Tax Dollars Are Paying for the SBA to Post Videos on YouTube!

Susan Wilson Solovic | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Small Business, SBTV.Com, Youtube, Federal Reserve, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, Obama Administration, Funding, Sba, Business News
Susan Wilson Solovic

Small business owners who are hanging on for dear life won't find any answers on the SBA's YouTube channel.

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Simon Johnson: Financial Reform Efforts Entering Crucial Period

washingtonpost.com | Simon Johnson and James Kwak | Posted 09.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Health Care Reform, Financial Crisis, Obama Administration, Treasury Department, Senate Finance Committee, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Barney Frank, Business News

The next couple of months will be crucial in determining the shape of the financial system for decades to come. And so far, the signs are not encourag...

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