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What You Missed: Open for Questions on Innovation for Global Development
Yesterday, the White House hosted a live video chat with Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator, U.S. Agency for International Development, Gayle Smith, Special Assistant to the President & Senior Director of the National Security Council and Tom Kalil, Deputy Director for Policy, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy & Senior Advisor for Science, Technology, [...]
Continue reading...President Obama Hails the Housing Agreement
10 February 2012 – 12:37 am PST
President Barack Obama delivers remarks announcing the finalization of a $26 billion settlement between mortgage providers, state attorneys general and the Justice Department, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, Feb. 9, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson) This morning, the federal government and the attorneys general of 49 states [...]
Continue reading...From the Archives: Bo After Blizzard
10 February 2012 – 12:37 am PST
In early February of 2010, back to back blizzards hit the Northeast, and dropped record amounts of snow on cities up and down the coast, including Washington, D.C. Our photographers braved the elements to capture some amazing images of the White House grounds blanketed in snow, including a few of the most famous Obama family member who didn't [...]
Continue reading...Everything You Need to Know: Waivers, Flexibility, and Reforming No Child Left Behind
10 February 2012 – 12:37 am PST
Explaining that our kids can’t wait any long for Congress to act, President Barack Obama announced today that ten states that have agreed to implement bold education reforms will receive waivers from the burdensome mandates of the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind. These waivers will give states the flexibility needed to [...]
Continue reading...We Can’t Wait: Taking Action on Alzheimer’s Disease
10 February 2012 – 12:37 am PST
Alzheimer’s disease, which today afflicts as many as 5.1 million people in the United States, devastates the lives of individuals suffering from the disease and places tremendous physical, emotional, and financial strain on their families and loved ones. We can’t wait to act. As the population of the United States ages, the time for bold [...]
Continue reading...Producers vs. Moochers, Freeloaders And Losers — The Cruel Pro-Rich Propaganda Of The Right
10 February 2012 – 12:34 am PST
“Producers” and “parasites.” Cruel language justifying extreme greed seems to be mainstream now. Even Presidential candidates feel free to disparage 99% of us! In today’s right-wing folklore government by We, the People is an evil thing that takes from “producers” and gives to “moochers,” “freeloaders,” and “losers.” Government and taxes “take money out of the [...]
Continue reading...Bachmann & Bin Laden at CPAC
10 February 2012 – 12:34 am PST
Michele Bachmann’s speech at CPAC 2012 wasn’t quite the start turn that her appearance in 2011 — when Americas Bachmannia infection started spreading. I guess that’s the difference between being a newly-announced presidential candidate and being a newly-dropped-out presidential candidate. (She was asked to leave. Twice. So, did she drop out or was she dismissed? [...]
Continue reading...Rubio’s Not Everybody’s "Darling" at CPAC
10 February 2012 – 12:34 am PST
I caught most of Sen. Marco Rubio’s speech at CPAC this morning, and it was very well received. Based on that alone, I’d be tempted to agree with his categorization as a “CPAC darling.” He’s rumored to be on the short list for VP, though he says he’s not interested. Of course, it probably didn’t [...]
Continue reading...Digging Holes at CPAC
10 February 2012 – 12:34 am PST
I knew it was going to be a good day when the first thing I saw at CPAC was Herman Cain’s bus. I’m going to give Herman the benefit of the doubt that he sat in the front of the bus this time. <!–break–> I got my laptop open just in time to catch the [...]
Continue reading...A Jarring Racial Awareness Profiled
10 February 2012 – 12:33 am PST
Although I am African, my family’s move to Rhode Island in the early 1980s led to a jarring racial awareness I had not previously experienced. It wasn’t until my teens that I realized that my grade school friend in Liberia was a blonde haired, blue-eyed Black girl! My first day of school turned up two [...]
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