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Obama Keeps On Cleaning up Bush’s Mess

January 25, 2009

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Jan. 23 (Bloomberg) — President Barack Obama signed an executive order lifting the ban on sending U.S. government funds to organizations that provide abortion counseling with money from other sources as part of overseas family planning programs.
To clarify: Reagan (and then Bush, after Clinton dropped it) made it illegal for the US to give [...]

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Obama Becomes First President to Use a Blackberry in Office: Gets a $3,300 Sectera Edge

January 24, 2009

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Back in November I wrote a post about Obama more than likely having to give up his Blackberry thanks to email security vulnerabilities and the Presidential Records Act.
Looks like he’s going to get to keep it after all according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs:
“The president has a BlackBerry through a compromise that allows [...]

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Rush Limbaugh Says He Hopes Obama Fails

January 23, 2009

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Imagine if a prominent Democrat would have said this about Bush during such a precarious time in the Nation.  It would have been fodder for the right wing pundits for years.
I certainly hope we are slowly reaching a point in American history where blowhard bullies and shit stirrers like Limbaugh find themselves being tuned out [...]

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Obama to shut down Gitmo

January 22, 2009

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Prisoners are tortured at Gitmo. They are made to wear sensory deprivation goggles, headphones and breathing restriction masks. Their hands are bound and cuffed. They are forced to kneel for hours. Sensory deprivation and “self inflicted pain” are among the most devastating forms of torture the CIA has devised.

While Bush and Cheney were making their [...]

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At Last

January 21, 2009

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The dawn of a new Day

January 20, 2009

ShareI started blogging in late 2002.  I began blogging to add my voice to the chorus of dicontented rabble.  
We were in our infancy.  We were still figuring out what power our words held and how to effeciently unite and bring about real change.  Many of today’s most popular political blogs were born in those [...]

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