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Obama wraps up peaceful Hawaii trip (AFP)
Yahoo! News - 7 days ago
Honolulu, Hawaii (AFP) – US President Barack Obama grabbed a few last hours of peace on a surprisingly calm Hawaii holiday Monday before he returns to the political fray and looming battles with Republicans. Obama spent the Christmas and N…
Read more >>Indonesia lightly cuts 2 Australians prison terms
The Daily Caller - 25th Dec 2010JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia has cut some time off the Prison terms of 7,300 inmates, including two Australian women convicted of Drug Smuggling. Holiday remissions are traditional in Indonesia for some inmates with good behavior, exc…
Read more >>Happy Holidays Congress
Examiner.com - 17th Dec 2010Well, I just finished estimating my taxes for 2010. As predicted, I will pay triple the taxes I paid in 2009. Why, because I am a member of the now long forgotten working poor. I have no Children; I will not qualify for the Earne…
Read more >>Michele Bachmann & Allies: Obama Doesn't Say 'God' Enough
The Huffington Post - 8th Dec 2010
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and her colleagues on the Congressional Prayer Caucus penned a letter to President Obama Monday, attacking him for his alleged failure to the use the word "God" and "Creator" more in his public speeches, especiall…
Read more >>President Obama under fire for National Motto blunder
Examiner.com - 7th Dec 2010On Monday, Congressman J. Randy Forbes, along with 42 Bipartisan Members of the Congressional Prayer Caucus sent a letter to President Obama requesting that he issue a correction for misstating the National Motto. In a Speech that the Presid…
Read more >>Odinga says Obama is his cousin
BBC News - 28th Nov 2010Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama. Mr Odinga told the BBC's The World Today that Senator Obama's father was his maternal uncle. Mr Obama's father - a Kenyan also called Barack -…
Read more >>Military Pegs Hourly Air Force One Cost at $180G, as Obama Sets Travel Record
Fox News - 24th Nov 2010The U.S. Military has provided an updated estimate on that cost, first published by a Taxpayer Watchdog group and confirmed by FoxNews.com, and the number is staggering -- $181,757 per hour. That's the Price Tag for shuttling around President Obam…
Read more >>Yes, the TSA scanners and gropedowns are outrageous. No, they are not an excuse to revert to ethnic profiling
Crooks and Liars - 22nd Nov 2010What is it about Conservatives that they manage to take every real and legitimate issue Americans face and not only propose, but adamantly pursue, policies that reflexively rely on lizard-brain idiocy guaranteed to make things worse? Take as the l…
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