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Michelle Obama Rejects Demonizing Twinkies In Her Anti-Obesity Crusade
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Michelle Obama Takes Anti-Obesity Drive to Food Makers
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Circling the Wagons: The Tea Party Has Liberals on the Run, or Does It?
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
A flock of Tea Partiers are descending on Washington this week like so many songbirds of spring. No one knows how many will travel to the capital, but organizers with the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition and Tea Party Nation expect busloads from around the country for a weeklong frenzy they are ...
Six Reasons Barack Obama is Still the Odds-on Favorite in 2012
By Carl M. Cannon
Less than six months after he took office, Barack Obama was labeled a "lame duck" president by a few overeager conservative commentators. Before his first year in the White House was up, some nervous liberals began pronouncing their hero more Jimmy Carter than J.F.K. Now, independents are apparently ...
Rockefeller Proposal Would Hamstring EPA Efforts to Cut Greenhouse Gases
By Tom Diemer
In a blow to the Obama administration's environmental agenda, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat, will press for a two-year moratorium on the EPA's power to regulate the greenhouse gases that pour out of coal-fired power plants and factories. The move by Rockefeller, a liberal on most ...
Harold Ford 'Stonewalled' Into Withdrawing?
By James Daubs
On the New York Times op-ed page and on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Tuesday, Harold Ford Jr., did what many New Yorkers feared he would do if elected to Kirsten Gillibrand's U.S. Senate seat: he made the weaker appear the stronger cause. He prevaricated. He dissembled. He put the best face on an ...
Evan Bayh Is Most Conservative Senate Democrat, Ratings Say
By Tom Diemer
The most conservative Senate Democrat? The most liberal Republican? Read all about it in National Journal's vote ratings, drawn up to measure the ideological range of this fightin' and feudin' 111th Congress. National Journal, an influential and deeply reported magazine and Web site, used its own ...
Obama Prods GOP to Compromise on Health Care Reform
By Tom Diemer
President Barack Obama forcefully challenged Republicans Saturday to follow up on the healh care summit by getting "serious about coming together" on a compromise that would break the stalemate on the reform legislation. "It is time for us to act," the president said in his weekly radio address. ...
Hey, Congress: You're Fired!
By Patricia Murphy
It's hard to believe that most members of Congress, if they worked at any private company in America, would still be employed after their last year on the job. How would Democratic and Republican leaders fare on the basic performance review that most workers encounter annually? When graded on a ...
ACORN Reorganizes, But Says It Will Still Fight for the Poor
By Tom Diemer
ACORN, the liberal community activist group targeted by right-wing media and stung by an unofficial undercover operation, is reportedly in the midst of a reorganization that will dissolve its national offices. A senior official close to the group tells Politico that ACORN's underfinanced national ...
Support for Obama and Democrats Slips Among 'Millennial' Generation
By Bruce Drake
One of the factors that fueled the resurgence of the Democrats in the 2006 midterms and particularly President Obama's 2008 campaign was the enthusiastic backing of the "Millennial" generation -- voters between 18 and 29. But a Pew Research Center study says that the Democrats' advantage over ...
Black Caucus Disputes Story on Corporate Ties, Fundraising Practices
By Tom DiemerBlack lawmakers are raising a ruckus about a recent New York Times story questioning the Congressional Black Caucus' ties to corporate interests -- some of them accused of exploitative practices in African-American communities, Politico reports. The caucus' chairwoman, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), ...
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