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| QMI Agency Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:12 PM PST A former "Saturday Night Live" star has sparked outrage over an an essay she posted online calling for a "White History Month" and labelling U.S. president Barack Obama and actor Alec Baldwin “communists." Why Obama Can Move Left Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:12 PM PST Ron Brownstein : "In his victory, Obama reshaped the Democratic coalition by both addition and subtraction. Because so many of the blue-collar and older whites who formerly anchored the conservative end of the Democratic base abandoned Obama, and because more-liberal voters took their place, the coalition that reelected him was much more ideologically unified around a left-leaning agenda than ... How Twitter Distorts Politics Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:12 PM PST First Read : "We'll make one more point about Hagel's hearing yesterday: Twitter and all the instant analysis made a bad performance look even worse -- just like Twitter and instant analysis made Romney's Ford Field speech, Donald Verrilli's Supreme Court oral argument, and Barack Obama's first debate all seem worse. And what eventually happened in those instances? Romney went on to win the GOP ... Six Questions And Answers About The Obama Administration's Birth Control Rule Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:12 PM PST The Obama administration has unveiled proposed rules spelling out how birth control expenses will be covered for employees of religious-affiliated groups opposed to contraception. Obama bestows national medals for science, tech - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:11 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama is honoring 12 researchers and 11 inventors with the nation's top award for invention and discovery. Obama bestowed the national medals of science and the national medals of technology and innovation in a ceremony Friday in the East Room of the White House. Quote of the Day Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:11 PM PST "I hear you loud and clear, Barack Obama. You don't represent the country that I grew up with. And your values is not going to save us. We're going to take this country back for the Lord. We're going to try to take this country back for conservatism. And we're not going to allow minorities to run roughshod over what you people believe in!" -- Arkansas state Sen. Jason Rapert (R), at a Tea Party ... Kerry Says He Was Offered Job Before Rice Dropped Out Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:11 PM PST Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) told the Boston Globe that President Obama offered him the job of secretary of state a week before United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice withdrew her name from consideration. Said Kerry: "He called me, actually a week before Susan got out of the thing. He called me and said, 'You're my choice. I want you to do this.' He asked me to keep it quiet. I did. I sat on it." Energy Secretary Steven Chu steps down Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:11 PM PST U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a well-known figure in Silicon Valley, announced Friday that he is stepping down from President Obama's cabinet and is "eager to return to California" and an academic life of teaching and research. Obama Eyes Colorado Lt. Governor as Labor Secretary Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:10 PM PST Colorado Lt. Gov. Joe Garcia (D) is a leading candidate to become secretary of labor in President Obama's second-term cabinet, Reuters reports. "Garcia, a Hispanic former president of Colorado State University-Pueblo, would bring racial diversity and a Western flair to Obama's team. The president has faced criticism for failing to choose women and minority candidates for cabinet vacancies at the ... Obama offers faith groups new birth control rule Fri, 01 Feb, 2013 01:10 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) -- Facing a wave of lawsuits over what government can tell religious groups to do, the Obama administration on Friday proposed a compromise for faith-based nonprofits that object to … | |
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