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Reflections on some political and ideological questions today

19 hours ago ago from Coreys Views

The president doesn't simply register and reflect the balance of power; he influences it as well; no other person has as much power as the president. To identify him as a centrist Democrat akin to Clinton or Carter or Kennedy conceals more than it reveals; it's too neat. It doesn't help us understand him as [...]

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Substituting the Advice and Consent of the Senate with the Bureaucratic Power of the EPA

23 hours ago ago from Cheap Web Hosting Site

Substituting the Advice and Consent of the Senate with the Bureaucratic Power of the EPA When he travels to Copenhagen this week, President Obama is reportedly going to pledge to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020. The Obama Administration s various threats to act unilaterally - both in Copenhagen and at home via the EPA - to achieve this goal occur against the backdrop of this inescapable fact: ...

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Obama’s Birth Certificate and Vice President Biden Decision

8 hours ago ago from Political Debate Show

Obama's Kenya Birth CertificateSee also, The Constitution of the joined states of america, Amendment 20, Section 3 and Amendment 25, Section 4.Amendment 20, Section 3 If President shall not have been comparison prior to the time bound for the commencement of his term, or if the President elect shall have unsuccessful to qualify, afterwards the Vice President elect shall action as President until a President shall have qualified; and the ...

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The Long View: Wander Woman

1 hour, 45 minutes ago ago from mlq3

Originally published at Manuel L. Quezon III: The Daily Dose . You can comment here or there . The Long View Wander Woman By Manuel L. Quezon III Philippine Daily Inquirer First Posted 22:49:00 12/23/2009 BACK in 1986, an American editorial cartoon showed Ferdinand Marcos in pajamas, his fist raised in the air, a scowl on his face, and a blasé Hawaiian customs officer saying to him, “Yes, Mr. Marcos, besides martial law do ...

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Hesitating in the face of volley fire.

13 hours ago ago from Moe Lane

Back in the day which is to say, the days before reliable automatic weapons were present on the battlefield armies relied pretty heavily on volley fire and rigid discipline to win battles.  There were two reasons for this: first, of course, the more missiles you have in the air at once, the harder it is to get out of their way.  The second reason was psychological: charging in the face of steady fire even essentially unaimed fire is extremely ...

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Obama in Late Push on Health

2 hours ago ago from Wall Street Journal

WASHINGTON -- With the Senate set to pass its health bill on Christmas Eve, President Barack Obama is planning to step up his involvement in the final health-care legislation, White House and congressional officials say. At the same time, Republicans have ratcheted up their attacks on the legislation and begun approaching conservative Democrats to switch parties, in the wake of this week's unexpected defection of Democratic Rep. Parker ...

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Bill Lucey: Steps in Reconciling House and Senate Bills

4 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

So if everything goes according to plan, and the Senate approves the health care reform bill on Christmas Eve morning, what happens next? Since both the House and Senate have passed different versions, this historic piece of legislation must be reconciled between leaders of both houses before it's ready to be presented to the president. The Constitution, after all, requires that the House and Senate approve the same bill or joint ...

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BBC News - Sick Nigeria leader faces court action to oust him

9 hours ago ago from BBC

President Umaru Yar'Adua: No sign of his return from Saudi Arabia A senior opposition politician in Nigeria has begun legal action to try to force the country's sick president to step down on health grounds. President Umaru Yar'Adua has been seriously ill in hospital in Saudi Arabia for a month. Farouk Adamu Aliyu of the All Nigeria People's Party has asked the federal high court to rule whether the president has the ...

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Obama Reponds to Critics on Health Care, Says He's 'Enthusiastic' About Reform Bill

18 hours ago ago from Politics Daily

In an interview with the Washington Post , President Obama answered critics who see the Democratic health care bill headed for a final vote in the Senate on Christmas Eve as a watered-down, toothless version of the president's original plan. "Nowhere has there been a bigger gap between the perceptions of compromise and the realities of compromise than in the health-care bill," Obama said. "Every single criteria for reform I put forward is ...

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BBC News - US set for Senate vote on healthcare reform

1 hour, 27 minutes ago ago from BBC

Senators will vote on the bill in the early hours of Christmas Eve US senators are preparing to vote on the final Senate version of a historic healthcare reform bill. The legislation aims to cover 31 million uninsured Americans and could lead to the biggest change in US healthcare in decades. President Barack Obama said the process had been but that the final bill was greatly worthy of support . If approved, it would still ...

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