May 19, 2013

Edition: U.S.

White House Petitions

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Chinese Web Users Love Petitioning the White House

The Atlantic | David Wertime | Posted 05.09.2013 | World

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The White House surely has a full plate already. But it can add one more item to its long to-do list: respond to Chinese petitioners....

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Make A Lawmaker 'Wear' The Logos Of Their Financial Backers

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics

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Leave it to the innovative hive mind of Reddit to find creative ways to get results. It started on Wednesday, when an article about a NASCAR-inspi...

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Petition Suggests Lawmakers Should Wear Logos Of Financial Backers

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 03.21.2013 | Politics

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From the depths of the White House's "We the People" petition website comes this cause created on Tuesday, hoping to force congressional lawmakers to ...

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Military Tuition Assistance Petition On White House Website Hits 100,000 Signatures

The Huffington Post | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.14.2013 | Politics

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A petition on the White House's website protesting the suspension of the military's popular tuition assistance program has garnered enough signatures ...

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Down With Daylight Saving Time?

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 03.07.2013 | Green

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On March 10, Americans will set their clocks forward an hour in the biannual ritual known as Daylight Saving Time (DST). But the hour of reckoning cou...

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Maybe White House Petitions Aren't Totally Useless

www.slate.com | Posted 03.06.2013 | Impact

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At first the concept seemed thrilling: Get enough people on the Internet to sign on to a petition—any petition—and the White House would respond. ...

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Should 'Ignition (Remix)' Be Our New National Anthem?

The Huffington Post | Kia Makarechi | Posted 03.05.2013 | Entertainment

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R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)" turned 10 recently, and a group of intrepid fans have found quite the way to celebrate the occasion: Change the national...

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White House Petitions: Death Stars And Other Ridiculous Requests

Mother Jones | Posted 01.18.2013 | Politics

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As White House officials were busy pondering new gun violence prevention measures, preparing for the coming debt-ceiling showdown with Republicans, an...

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White House Announces Big Change For Petition Program

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics

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The White House announced Tuesday that petitions submitted through its online platform will now need 100,000 signatures to warrant an administration r...

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Birther Queen's Big Inauguration Plans

The Huffington Post | John Celock | Posted 01.16.2013 | Politics

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Birther queen Orly Taitz has announced a trip to Washington for President Barack Obama's inauguration next week, and also is unveiling a new White Hou...

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Mark Ruffalo Calls for White House to Declare War on Climate Change

A. Siegel | Posted 03.15.2013 | Green

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Sparked by the White House's thoughtful (and wonderfully hilarious) rejection of the petition to build a Death Star, actor Mark Ruffalo has posted a White House petition calling for a declaration of war on climate change.

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'The Administration Does Not Support Blowing Up Planets'

The Huffington Post | Ethan Klapper | Posted 01.11.2013 | Politics

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Sorry, folks. The Obama administration will not be building a Death Star. The White House responded Friday night to a petition on its website urgi...

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White House Pushed To Weigh In On Marijuana Legalization

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics

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The White House weighed in once more Tuesday on the issue of marijuana legalization, responding to a trio of highly popular petitions submitted to its...

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Petition To Try Feinstein For Treason Crosses Threshold

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 01.08.2013 | Politics

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A petition submitted to the White House's "We the People" website calling for Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) to be tried in a federal court for trea...

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Activists Mobilize Around Catholic 'Hate Group' Petition On White House Website

Religion News Service | David Gibson | Posted 01.08.2013 | Religion

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By David Gibson Religion News Service (RNS) The White House's novel online system for allowing citizens to petition the administration on any numb...

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You Want A Joe Biden Reality Show, Just Admit It

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 01.09.2013 | Politics

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If there's one thing that unites Americans of all political persuasions, it's that everyone enjoys watching Vice President Joe Biden. Please note ...

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Push To Classify Westboro As Hate Group Takes White House By Storm

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 12.27.2012 | Politics

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Users of the White House's "We the People" digital petition platform have flooded the site in support of an effort to officially designate the Kansas-...

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Gun Control Push Breaks White House Record

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 12.17.2012 | Politics

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A pro-gun control petition submitted on Friday through the White House's "We the People" platform has quickly emerged as the most popular cause ever c...

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'Today IS The Day': Petitioners Flood White House Website After Shooting

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 12.14.2012 | Politics

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Petitioners took to the White House website en masse on Friday, telling President Barack Obama that now -- hours after a gunman opened fire on element...

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There Is Now A White House Petition To Stop All The White House Petitions

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.20.2012 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Just days ago, the White House "We The People" online petition tool became the venue of sour grape-chewing secession enthusiasts, who to...

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What Is the Democratic Function of the White House's We The People Petition Website?

J.H. Snider | Posted 12.20.2011 | Technology

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The recent story in the WSJ ridiculing the "we'll-take-any-question politics" of the White House's new petition website is a chatty, well-written article, bereft of any curiosity about democratic function.

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The White House's New We the People Petition Website

J.H. Snider | Posted 12.11.2011 | Technology

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The president should be applauded for launching this democratically enhancing but politically risky initiative. However, We The People will probably only have a short life.

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New White House 'We The People' Petition Portal Launched, With Predictable Results

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.22.2011 | Politics

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A few weeks ago, the White House announced plans for its "We The People" project, which would allow ordinary Americans to use an online portal at the ...

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