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Bloggers Matthew Yglesias and John Hawkins Prove Politics Is Broken
By Matt Lewis - Politics DailyPolitical bloggers have the job of reporting on -- and analyzing -- politics, but they are also becoming a sad reflection of our bitter and broken political system. On Friday, two blog stories came to light that serve to illustrate the decline of domestic political bonhomie. To be sure, we will not be talking about either of these stories a month from now. Still, they provide a snapshot of the current state of political discourse. On the conservative side, RightWingNews' John Hawkins asked several conservative bloggers to help compile a list of "The 25 Worst Figures in American History." ...
Nancy Pelosi's Fate Could Be Decided Here: The View From Oregon
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyWEST LINN, Ore. -- Bullseye Coffee -- a café, a yarn shop and a postal box rental center all in one homey room with local art (all for sale) on the walls -- is a prime spot to chart how the economic doldrums are shaping this election year. Perched over a laptop computer Wednesday morning with her cat's-eye glasses sliding down her nose, Kelly O'Keefe was revising her resume (yet again) and trolling the Web dreaming of a job with social significance and willing to settle for almost anything. Unemployed since she graduated from Ohio's Antioch College in 2008, O'Keefe, a native Oregonian, ...
British PM Meets Obama: The Key Talking Points
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (July 20) -- British Prime Minister David Cameron makes his first official U.S. visit today. Behind closed doors, he and President Barack Obama are expected to engage in blunt, tough talks on everything from the BP oil leak to the war in Afghanistan. Here are the key talking points that will dominate this trans-Atlantic summit: The Lockerbie Bomber The ongoing oil-for-terrorism scandal is sure to be high on the Cameron-Obama agenda. There are allegations that BP lobbied the U.K. government to free a Libyan intelligence agent convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, so it could secure ...
Mexico Nabs Alleged Mastermind of US Consulate Killing
By Hugh Collins - AOL News(July 2) -- Mexican police arrested the man they believe masterminded the killing of an American woman employed by the U.S. consulate. Jesus Ernesto Chavez -- known as "The Camel" -- planned the attacks and provided the necessary guns to the killers, who shot dead three people as they left a birthday party, Mexico's Ministry of Public Security said on its website. Chavez, who worked for an armed gang known as "The Line," told authorities he was ordered to arrange the killing by gang members living in the United States. They were angered because Lesley Enriquez, who worked for the U.S. ...
Opinion: Obama's Flimflam Plan to End Homelessness
By Michael Medved - AOL News(June 30) -- Last week's unveiling of the president's ambitious new "Opening Doors" program might have produced a deafening national chorus of hoots and guffaws, except for the embarrassing fact that the press paid scant attention to this sweeping initiative to end homelessness. In the midst of soaring deficits, a teetering world economy, a failing war in Afghanistan, a catastrophic oil spill, a surging Republican opposition and a chief executive with precipitously plummeting approval ratings, who could report with a straight face on a costly fresh effort that solemnly promises to "wipe out" ...
Valerie Jarrett: Obama Aide Knows First-Hand a Single Mom's Struggles
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyIt's hard to quantify Valerie Jarrett's role in the White House, other than to say she has walk-in privileges to the Oval Office, and is perhaps the only top aide who feels it's her duty to relay bad news to the president. Her portfolio is broad enough, and when she was made head of a new White House Council on Women and Girls, the media elite greeted the news with a collective yawn. The women's outreach office created during the Clinton administration had lapsed once the Bush administration took power, and nobody was quite sure what the office did anyway. The goals outlined by President Obama ...
Elena Kagan Memos: Clinton Library Papers Reveal Savvy Political Insider
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailySupreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is making courtesy calls on senators to smooth the way for her confirmation hearings, with a White House team in tow to manage the process. With a background in politics, policymaking and dealing with the press, however, Kagan is a seasoned strategist herself, with stints in campaigns and at the Clinton White House. One rap on the nominee to replace retiring Justice John Paul Stevens is that she has never been a judge. But she does know how government works at the highest levels: the sausage-making behind high-minded presidential initiatives and the inner ...
Is Kagan Gay? It's All the Talk, and That's a Shame
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyLet's face it. To the world at large, being gay is a terrible thing to be. People whisper the word, gossip about it, trade in innuendos about it, as if being gay were a crime. That brings us to Elena Kagan. Here she is: a brilliant, accomplished, fabulously successful lawyer and professor, dean of the Ivies, academic par excellence, and a good-time gal, a former smoker who plays poker and can swing a bat. She's a New Yorker, a child of the Upper West Side of Manhattan, dutiful daughter of dutiful liberal parents, and soon-to-be Supreme Court justice. Who could ask for anything more? Well, ...
Elena Kagan: Obama's Inevitable Court Choice (She's Harvard)
By Walter Shapiro - Politics DailyNowhere in the Constitution does it say that members of the Supreme Court must be lawyers. But a long line of activist presidents – both Democrats and Republicans – have altered the original intent of the Framers so that a degree from an Eastern elitist law school is now almost a constitutional necessity. If Elena Kagan (Harvard Law '86) is confirmed for the Court, all nine justices would have received their legal training at Harvard or Yale. This is one of those moments when you sense that American democracy is more of a rigged game than they taught you back in high school civics ...
Obama, Michelle Criticize Media and Popular Culture in Graduation Speeches
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyPresident Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama zinged the media and popular culture in separate graduation speeches delivered over the weekend at historically black universities, where both paid tribute to U.S. civil rights icon Dorothy Height, who died April 20 at the age of 98. Obama told students at Hampton University in Virginia that not everything "on blogs, and on cable, on talk radio" would pass a truth meter and Mrs. Obama urged graduates to not be seduced by a culture that celebrates "fleeting reality show fame rather than the hard labors of lasting success." (Read the transcript of ...
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