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September 12, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Obama's plan has to clear a politically divided Congress, which could scuttle it entirely or enact bits…
September 11, 2011
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) - 'God is our refuge and strength,' Obama intoned, 'a very present help in trouble. Therefore, we…
September 10, 2011
OPINION - It still remains to be seen if those soaring words can in fact produce jobs for the 14…
September 9, 2011
TALKING POINTS MEMO - Obama's uncle Onyango Obama was arrested in Massachusetts last month, charged with failing to yield, operating…
September 9, 2011
The White House continued on Friday to insist that it wants the President's new jobs bill to be considered as…
September 9, 2011
NEW YORK (AP) - First lady Michelle Obama says she hopes to still be playing tennis when she's 90...
September 9, 2011
theGRIO VIDEO - TheGrio's Todd Johnson watched Pres. Obama's jobs speech in Brooklyn with a small group of African-American voters...
September 9, 2011
OPINION - Perhaps the president's African-American critics expect too much when they demand that he explicitly mention black unemployment...
September 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama, looking to jolt both the U.S. economy and his presidency, proposed a $447 billion plan…
September 8, 2011
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September 8, 2011
Mother Jones - The Brookings/PRRI study uses "reverse discrimination"--an unfortunate term that suggests a difference in kind, not in degree--to…
September 8, 2011
Think Progress - But even as the Willingham case receives the most notice, many of Perry's decisions regarding execution have…
September 8, 2011
TPM - West didn't show any signs that he's planning to seek common ground with Muslims, as he criticized Herman…
September 8, 2011
A West Side democratic state legislator has suggested after a heated town hall meeting that he may support a measure…
September 8, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - The underlying political strategy: If Obama can't get his ideas passed heading into his re-election year, he…