Obama takes aim at deficit
Chicago Tribune Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:14 AM PST
Ending Iraq War, raising taxes on wealthy are keys WASHINGTON â€" President Barack Obama will offer a plan this week to cut the federal deficit by half by the end of his first term in office, largely by winding down the war in Iraq and raising taxes on people making more than $250,000 a year, an administration official said Saturday. |
NY Post cartoon of dead chimpanzee stirs outrage
The Wahpeton Daily News Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:10 AM PST
NEW YORK (AP) â€" A New York Post cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police drew outrage Wednesday from civil rights leaders and elected officials who said it echoed racist stereotypes of blacks as monkeys. |
Obama to name director of health centers agency
The Wahpeton Daily News Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:10 AM PST
WASHINGTON (AP) â€" President Barack Obama will name a nurse from North Dakota to run the government’s community clinics program. A nurse by training, Mary Wakefield now directs the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota. |
Frozen for history
Daily Pilot Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:09 AM PST
The school grounds seemed like a ghost town for a good 20 minutes Tuesday morning as every student, and nearly every staff member at Estancia High School, stood or sat in front of a TV listening to President Barack Obama. |
Obama upholds detainee policy in Afghanistan
International Herald Tribune Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:08 AM PST
The notion that detainees have no right to dispute their imprisonment was a key argument of the Bush administration. |
NAACP Wants NY Post Editor And Cartoonist Fired
WCBS-TV New York Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:06 AM PST
The head of the nation's oldest civil rights organization on Saturday urged readers to boycott the New York Post, calling a cartoon the tabloid published an invitation to assassinate the president. Earlier this week, the newspaper apologized to anyone who might have been offended by the image, which some say likens President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police in ... |
Got stimulus support?
Daily Pilot Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:04 AM PST
Waving signs bearing slogans like “New Jobs, Green Jobs,†a group of local activists visited Rep. John Campbell’s district office in Newport Center on Wednesday to urge the congressman to support President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan. |
Obama wants deficit cut in half
The Conroe Courier Sun, 22 Feb 2009 05:03 AM PST
WASHINGTON â€" Barack Obama wants to cut the federal deficit in half by the end of his first term, mostly by scaling back Iraq war spending, raising taxes on the wealthiest and streamlining government, an administration official said Saturday as the president worked to finalize his first budget request. |
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