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Medicare Premiums To Rise 25% Next Year

wsj.com | Jane Zhang | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Medicare Advantage, Humana Inc., WellCare Health Plans Inc., Health Care Reform, Premiums, Obama, Medicare, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Health Care, Seniors, Obama Administration, Business News

Premiums that seniors pay for Medicare Advantage plans will increase an average of 25% next year, largely because insurers, in response to new federal...

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HRC's Solmonese: Dinner Attendees "More Politically Aware," Have "Better Sense of What's at Stake"

Pam Spaulding | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: LGBT Rights, Obama Administration, Human Rights Campaign, Hrc, Politics News
Pam Spaulding

It's rare to see the whole diversity/class/power dynamic that vexes the LGBT movement opened up since it's a third rail topic that tends to give some with privilege a case of defensive agita.

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Green News Report -- October 13, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Glaciers, Copenhagen 2009, Nuclear Power, Obama Administration, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Lindsey Graham, Green News Report, Kerry-Boxer, Barbara Boxer, PG&E Corp, John Kerry, Philippines Typhoon, Green News, Climate Change, Chamber of Commerce, Extreme Weather, Global Warming, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Rising waters, shrinking glaciers; Slouching to Copenhagen; A Republican breaks ranks? ... PLUS: Even energy companies are...

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Pay Czar: AIG Asked To Withold Some Bonuses

AP | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Aig, Obama Administration, Kenneth Feinberg, Treasury, Business News

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's pay czar has asked American International Group to withhold some of the millions in bonuses promised to its em...

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JPMorgan Interest-Only Loan Periods: Bank Works With Administration On Breaks For Borrowers

bloomberg.com | Jody Shenn and Dawn Kopecki | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: JPMorgan Chase, Treasury Department, Making Home Affordable, Home Mortgages, Loans, Obama Administration, Business News

Banks will push the Obama administration to expand its mortgage-modification program to allow interest-only periods on reworked loans, seeking to brin...

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Glenn Beck Compares Fox News To Jews During Holocaust (AUDIO)

Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jews, News Networks, Brutal Dictator, The Glenn Beck Show, Holocaust, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Obama, The White House, Republican Party, Obama Administration, Politics News

Leave it to Glenn Beck to take things too far. On his radio show Tuesday Beck drew a rather over-the-top analogy between, of all things, Fox News and ...

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McChrystal's 40,000 Troop Hoax

Robert Naiman | Posted 10.13.2009 | World

Read More: Andrew Bacevich, Afghanistan, Stanley McChrystal, Obama Administration, Times of London, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Barack Obama, Afghan Taliban, World News
Robert Naiman

Even if Obama were to approve General McChrystal's request, the 40,000 troops wouldn't arrive in time to significantly affect the 12-month window McChrystal says will be decisive.

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How Deep Is D.C. Corruption? So Deep That When Obama Tries to Clean It Up, Lobbyists Publicly Spaz

David Sirota | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ron Kirk, Lobbyists, Obama Administration, Washington DC, K Street, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Sirota

Some might say that hey, it's not a big deal for lobbyists to serve on advisory panels, because those panels are only "advisory." But that label is deliberately deceptive.

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Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck Defend Fox News Against White House Criticism (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 10.13.2009 | Media

Read More: White House, Glenn Beck Video, Obama Fox News, President Obama, Obama Administration, Beck Defends Fox News, White House Fox News, Video, Republicans Fox News, Fox News, Bill O'reilly Video, Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, O'reilly Defends Fox News, Media News

Fox News hosts Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck both defended their network tonight against White House criticism that the cable network is an outlet for ...

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Stimulus Aided Teachers, Laborers: Report

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 10.13.2009 | Business

Read More: Jobs Creation, Unemployment, Stimulus Package, Teaching Jobs, Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, Government Spending, Obama Administration, Teachers, Business News

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's stimulus plan spared tens of thousands of teachers from losing their jobs, state officials said Monday ami...

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A Bitter Taste

Javier Sierra | Posted 10.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Justice, Epa, Clean Water, Environment, Obama Administration, Enforcement, Anapra New Mexico, Lead Poisoning, Safety of Perchlorate in Water, Environmental Violations, Nytimes Toxic Water, Green News
Javier Sierra

At the end of the 31st annual Hispanic Heritage month, Latinos in the US are still waiting to celebrate a crucial victory --getting rid of the toxic water that poisons so many of our communities.

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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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