Politics
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Your Take: Free Speech Works Both Ways
As an 8-year-old, I wanted to be a U.S. senator when I grew up. My parents were proud but warned me that it would be an uphill battle; there weren’t any black people in the Senate, and I would have to work extra hard to overcome prejudice. I remember thinking that my parents weren’t up…
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Out-of-Touch Romney: Move Back to Detroit
Picture it: Mitt Romney’s Boston campaign headquarters, in a post-Super Tuesday strategy session. Everyone’s high on Tuesday’s six-state sweep. They’re sitting around a conference table, trading ideas on how to add a dash of pepper-jack ranch dressing to a campaign that’s as blandly risk averse as an iceberg wedge salad. Primary goals: Knock off Rick…
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Living While Obama: Dinner With Contest Winners
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have dinner with (from left) John Loringer and Cathleen Loringer of Wauwatosa, Wis., and Judy Glassman and Mitch Glassman of Cambridge, Mass., on March 8 at the Boundary Road in Washington, D.C. The Loringers and Glassmans were winners of a Democratic-campaign contest to have dinner with the…
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Watch This: Mitt Romney Likes Grits
Some of the most awkward moments of the GOP primaries have involved Mitt Romney trying to connect with Americans in different parts of the country. There was the time he proclaimed that the trees in Michigan were the perfect height, his soliloquy about visiting national parks with his father and, of course, the time he…
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Watch This: Obama: 'Can I Hear an Amen?'
Listen to the introduction from Juan Smith that got the president to remark, “He was starting to get the spirit up here” and joke that he’d like to take the preacher on the road with him. Obama delivered a speech at the Daimler plant in Mount Holly, N.C., on Wednesday. Watch the video, courtesy of…
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Breitbart's Site Got Barack and Bell Wrong
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Obama's Day, March 8: Meeting with President of Ghana
THE WHITE HOUSEOffice of the Press SecretaryFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEDAILY GUIDANCE AND PRESS SCHEDULE FORTHURSDAY, MARCH 8, 2012 In the morning, the President will receive the Presidential Daily Briefing in the Oval Office. Later, the President will meet with senior advisors in the Oval Office. These meetings are closed press. In the afternoon, the President will…
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Julius Malema: South Africa's Enfant Terrible
The ruling by South Africa’s African National Congress last week to expel its rebellious youth leader sounded like the refrain of an exasperated parent: Julius Malema “has shown no remorse; is not prepared to be disciplined,” read the statement from the 100-year-old political party most famously led by Nelson Mandela. And with that, by stripping…
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Obama Calls for Youth Jobs, and Tech Firms Listen
When a proposed bill that would have allocated $1.5 billion to summer and year-round jobs for low-income and underprivileged youths failed in Congress earlier this year, President Obama urged the private sector to create around 250,000 positions for students and youths by this summer. Thirty-five companies pledged commitment to the initiative on Jan. 5, when…