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Reports: Why Obama’s Strategy Won’t Succeed

Reports: Obama on His Own

A/V Booth: Obama: ‘I’m Open to Every Demonstrably Good Idea’ About Job Market

A/V Booth: Good Grief, Barack Obama!

Reports: We ‘Support’ the Troops by Burdening Them More

A/V Booth: Friedman, Stewart Critique Obama’s Afghanistan Plan

Reports: Here We Go Again

A/V Booth: Obama Makes It Official: 30,000 More U.S. Troops to Head to Afghanistan

Reports: Is It Time for Financial Institutions to Give Back?

Cartoons: Finishing the Job

Cartoons: Good Luck

Reports: Time for Our Second Bill of Rights

Ear to the Ground: Michael Moore to Obama: ‘Say It Isn’t So’

Ear to the Ground: Larry’s List: Cyber Monday Edition

Reports: Addicted to Nonsense

A/V Booth: Palin Still Gets Huckabee’s Vote (Against Obama)

Ear to the Ground: Abbas: Obama Hasn’t Helped Mideast Peace Process

Ear to the Ground: Obama Hints at ‘Comprehensive’ Afghanistan Plan

Reports: Obama Risks Losing His Judicial Prize

Reports: Refuse Allegiance to Coal

Reports: Enough G-2 Talk Already

Reports: The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)

A/V Booth: Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Signals a ‘Critical Moment’ for Afghanistan

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Is Joe Biden a Jedi Master?

Reports: Who Are You and What Have You Done With the Community Organizer We Elected President?

Reports: The Demilitarization of the White House

Ear to the Ground: Dobbs Blames It on Obama

Ear to the Ground: Israel Deals Peace Process Another Blow

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’: Deep Presidential Bowing (in Bed)

Ear to the Ground: Obama Has Tough Love for China

Reports: Bring Them Home, Mr. President

A/V Booth: The Socialist Threat Comes to ‘South Park’

Cartoons: In a Hole

Reports: Getting Out of Afghanistan With Grace

Ear to the Ground: Obama Calls for Intel Investigation After Fort Hood Shooting

Reports: Gorbachev’s Sermon on the Mount

Reports: A Disappointing Year With Obama

Ear to the Ground: Victims and Survivors Honored at Fort Hood Memorial Service

Ear to the Ground: North and South Korean Navy Boats Clash at Sea

A/V Booth: Obama to Tribal Nations: ‘You Will Not Be Forgotten’

Reports: Learning to Speak Anew in a Tribal World

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Plouffe Weighs In on Obama’s First Year

Reports: McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: GOP Scores a Win in Virginia Governor’s Race

Ear to the Ground: Europe Balks at Sending More Troops to Afghanistan

Ear to the Ground: Lobbyists Decamp From D.C.

Ear to the Ground: Danish PM Hopeful About Copenhagen Climate Summit

A/V Booth: ‘The Daily Show’: For Fox Sake!

Ear to the Ground: White House: Stimulus Made, Saved Nearly 650,000 Jobs

Ear to the Ground: Obama Trims (Some) Fat with Weapons Bill

Cartoons: Four-Letter Word

Ear to the Ground: Climate Expert to Obama: Come to Copenhagen

A/V Booth: Afghanistan: Fraud, Opium and Taliban

A/V Booth: Obama Pushes Climate Bill in Cambridge

Ear to the Ground: Senate Votes in Favor of Expanded Hate-Crime Measure

Reports: Obama Can’t Lose the Young

Ear to the Ground: Federal Deficit Hits Record $1.42 trillion

Ear to the Ground: More Obama Talk From the Nobel Jury

Ear to the Ground: Clinton Says She Won’t Run for President Again

Reports: He’s Earned It—for Now

A/V Booth: Nobel Committee Secretary Explains Why Obama Won

Ear to the Ground: What Does the Nobel Mean for Obama?

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Nobel Surprise; the Dollar’s Down

Ear to the Ground: Obama Pushes Consumer Watchdog Agency

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Ear to the Ground: McChrystal Draws Support, Scorn on Capitol Hill

Ear to the Ground: Obama Expected to Address Gay Rights Group

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Better Socialism Through Performance Art

Ear to the Ground: Obama Meets With NATO Chief on Afghan Strategy

Ear to the Ground: Obama: No Preconditions on Mideast Peace Talks

Reports: Saving the Obama Revolution

A/V Booth: Turning the Tide on Climate Change

A/V Booth: Obama on Racist Rhetoric, Health Care Craziness and Rude News

Ear to the Ground: Ex-CIA Heads Ask Obama to Drop Interrogation Investigation

A/V Booth: Carter Sticks to His Guns, Repeats Racism Charge

Reports: All U.S. Presidents Need a War to Call Their Own—and Obama Has His

Cartoons: Blue Red Black White

Ear to the Ground: Obama Counters Carter’s Race Claim

Reports: Obama’s Presidency Isn’t Too Big to Fail

Ear to the Ground: Fact-Checking Obama’s Health Care Speech

Cartoons: WTC, etc.

A/V Booth: Wilson’s Apology (Plus a Campaign Plug)

A/V Booth: Obama’s Choice: Is It Really Such a Tough Call?

Ear to the Ground: Obama’s Back-to-School Speech Ruffles Feathers on the Right

Ear to the Ground: Kennedy Remembered by Family, Friends and the President at Funeral

Reports: Victory at the Cost of Sanity in Obama’s Forever War

Ear to the Ground: Rumble Brews Over Kennedy’s Replacement

Reports: Progressives Are the Key to Reform

A/V Booth: Obama Salutes Muslims Preparing for Ramadan

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Afghan Election, Blackwater’s Role

Reports: Lesson of Vietnam Lost in Afghanistan

Reports: Pulling the Plug on the Public Option

Ear to the Ground: Georgia Republican Worries Dems Will Declare Martial Law

A/V Booth: ‘Daily Show’: Stokin’ the Fear at Crazytown Hall Meetings

Ear to the Ground: Obama Jumps Into Health Care Fray

Reports: Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

Ear to the Ground: Sotomayor Makes the Senate Cut

Reports: What Are the Birthers Really After?

Ear to the Ground: Bill Clinton Reportedly Wins Freedom for 2 U.S. Journalists in N. Korea

Reports: Obama’s Dangerous Dance With Crowley and Gates

Reports: Let’s End the Score-Settling

Reports: America the Great ... Police State

Ear to the Ground: Obama Invites Prof. Gates, Sgt. Crowley to White House

Ear to the Ground: Obama Boosts America’s Public Image

A/V Booth: Barack Who?

Reports: Deep-Sixing the F-22

Reports: War Without Purpose

Ear to the Ground: Obama Wants to Send Unemployed Back to School

Ear to the Ground: Explosives-Laden Truck Detonates, Kills 25 in Afghanistan

Reports: So This Is What Victory Looks Like?

Ear to the Ground: Obama and Medvedev Set New Tone for U.S.-Russian Relations

Reports: A Settlement Stalemate With No End in Sight

Reports: Foreclosure Fiasco

Reports: The AMA’s Unhealthy Obsession

Reports: Tuning a Culture to a ‘Calling’

Reports: Learning to Live With the Devil We Know

Reports: The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Reports: America’s Foreign Policy Phobias Are Overblown

Arts and Culture: Flickr User Banished for Criticizing Obama

A/V Booth: ‘Colbert Report’ Invades Iraq

Reports: Hold Your Applause

Reports: Prop. 8 and the Misery of the Law

Reports: Obama’s Cairo Speech: Significant, Eloquent—and Perhaps Just the Beginning

Reports: What Will Obama Say in Cairo?

Arts and Culture: Obama Goes to Hollywood (Again)

A/V Booth: Maddow 1, Limbaugh 0

Ear to the Ground: Obama Sends Rebs a Wreath

A/V Booth: The Obama/Cheney Throwdown

Reports: Obama Can’t Duck the Tough Ones

Reports: In Praise of Empathy

Ear to the Ground: Obama Defends Gitmo’s Closure, Cheney Rebukes It

A/V Booth: Bibi and Barack Talk Mideast Peace

Reports: Obama Scores at Notre Dame

Ear to the Ground: Obama Sparks Abortion Protests at Notre Dame

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Pelosi Waffles, Obama Falters

Reports: Some Educational Action Items for Obama

Ear to the Ground: Obama Leaves Polar Bears Out in the Cold

Reports: Israel’s Bad-Faith Negotiating Position

Reports: When Rationing May Be Rational

Cartoons: Where’s the Sterno?

Reports: Buying Time on Immigration

Reports: Buying Brand Obama

Reports: Combating Epidemic Ignorance

Ear to the Ground: Special Frenemies

Reports: Specter Comes Full Circle

Reports: Enough With This ‘100 Days’ Nonsense

Reports: Obama Has Missed His Moment

Reports: What to Make of the Ironic Mr. Obama

Reports: Europe Needs No Part in Doomed Afghan War

Ear to the Ground: There’s Gold in Them Waves

Reports: Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

Reports: Up, Up and Away: The West’s Hysterical Reaction to North Korea

Reports: Don’t Underestimate the Tea-Baggers

Ear to the Ground: There’s No Place Like Home, Unless You’re Chris Dodd

Reports: Armey’s Tea Party Army

Reports: The Pirates Might Prefer Fish to Guns

Ear to the Ground: Castro Hails Obama Actions, Wants More

A/V Booth: ObamaTube: Passover/Easter Edition

Reports: Getting to Zero Starts With One Man

Arts and Culture: Obama Flick Coming to a Theater Near You

Reports: The Father of Guantanamo

Reports: Pelosi’s Balancing Act

Reports: U.S. Muslims Still Under Siege

Reports: It’s Now a ‘Soft War’ in Afghanistan, but It’s Still a Disaster

Reports: Crazy Like a Fox?

Arts and Culture: Dylan: Obama’s ‘Like a Fictional Character, but He’s Real’

Ear to the Ground: House Passes Mega-Budget ’09

Ear to the Ground: Blagojevich Racks Up 16 Felony Charges

Reports: America’s ‘Long War’ Will Be as Bloody and Pointless as Europe’s

Ear to the Ground: How Many World Leaders Does It Take to Change a Light Bulb?

Ear to the Ground: Another Nominee in Tax Trouble

Reports: Seattle’s Lessons for London

Reports: Boycotting Obama at Notre Dame Is Vulgar Zealotry

Reports: Where’s the Outrage Over Workers Getting the Shaft?

A/V Booth: Obama Takes Americans’ Questions in Virtual Forum

Ear to the Ground: Move Over, President Karzai, Here Comes Your Prime Minister

Ear to the Ground: Wouldn’t Let Geithner Quit Even if He Tried, Obama Says

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: AIG Angst; Happy New Year, Iran!

A/V Booth: Obama Talks Banks, Bonuses and Basketball on Leno

Reports: Socialism Without a Soul

Ear to the Ground: Biden Talks Afghanistan in NATO Huddle

A/V Booth: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Economic Blues, Obama’s Successes

Arts and Culture: OMG, Brad Pitt in D.C.!

Ear to the Ground: Is the Limbaugh Love-In a Deliberate Distraction?

Reports: The Rebirth of Education

Ear to the Ground: Limbaugh and Steele Lock Horns in GOP Rumble

Ear to the Ground: Limbaugh Holds Court at Conservative Conference

A/V Booth: Obama Pushes His Budget Plan

Ear to the Ground: Obama Calls Bush About Iraq

A/V Booth: Iraq Withdrawal Lite

Reports: Africa’s Good Friend

Ear to the Ground: GOP Throwing Jindal Under the Bus?

Reports: Getting Warmer

Ear to the Ground: Jindal Disses Obama’s Economic Plan

Reports: Sen. Burris: Symbolism Over Substance

A/V Booth: Obama: Let’s Get to Work

Ear to the Ground: Obama Gets Aggressive on Cutting the Deficit

Arts and Culture: Spike Lee Throws Down in N.Y. Post Cartoon Controversy

Ear to the Ground: First Blagojevich, Next Burris?

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