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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The president’s minimum wage hike isn’t high enough, sweatshop economics, more on jobs, and California manhunts.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Last week on Truthdig Radio in association with KPFK: The president’s minimum wage hike isn’t high enough, sweatshop economics, more on jobs, and California manhunts.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists take on the Senate Republicans’ filibuster of Chuck Hagel, the president’s State of the Union speech, North Korea’s nuclear test and the pope’s resignation.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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By Eugene Robinson — In his bid to be remembered as a transformational leader, President Obama is following the playbook of an ideological opposite, Margaret Thatcher. First you win the argument, she used to say, then you win the vote.
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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Adam Zyglis, Cagle Cartoons, The Buffalo News —
Posted on Feb 15, 2013
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By Richard Reeves — President Obama said "jobs" 47 times in his State of the Union message last Tuesday night, so we know what’s on his mind.
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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David Fitzsimmons, Cagle Cartoons, The Arizona Star —
Posted on Feb 14, 2013
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By Amy Goodman — For the first time in its 120-year history, the Sierra Club engaged in civil disobedience, the day after President Barack Obama gave his 2013 State of the Union address.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an assertion made by Sen. Marco Rubio during his SOTU response is questioned and the Republicans’ so-called Benghazi witch hunt makes its way into Treasury secretary nominee Jack Lew’s confirmation hearing.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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The only thing anyone is likely to remember about Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s State of the Union rebuttal is that he awkwardly paused during it to grab a sip of water.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama is a freer man than he has been at any point in his presidency. He is free from the need to save an economy close to collapse, from illusions that Republicans in Congress would work with him readily, from the threat of a rising tea party movement, and from the need to win re-election.
Posted on Feb 13, 2013
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AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Peter Z. Scheer — President Obama’s fifth State of the Union address was so wide ranging and inclusive, it’s almost difficult to recall the most ambitious proposals.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Here is President Barack Obama’s entire 2013 State of the Union address, as prepared by the White House.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including an excerpt from President Obama’s State of the Union speech and Chuck Hagel clears a big hurdle in the Senate.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Ben Fredericson (xjrlokix) (CC BY 2.0)
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“We reject the State of the Union. We reject the authority of the President to sign arbitrary orders and bring irresponsible and damaging controls to the Internet,” a statement posted to one of the websites affiliated with the group said. “There will be no State of the Union Address on the web tonight.”
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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Flickr/The Toad
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Ted Nugent, the musician and gun rights activist who last year told an audience at an NRA conference that he’d end up “dead or in jail” if President Obama was re-elected, will attend Tuesday evening’s State of the Union address as the guest of Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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AP/Charles Dharapak
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If President Obama reprises the environmental theme in Tuesday night’s speech, “he’ll join a long list of predecessors to warn that we’re leaving a mess for future generations. And if past is prologue, the green talk and pageantry may be the only things delivered on the president’s lofty words,” writes Peter Dykstra, publisher of The Daily Climate.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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James Vaughan (CC-BY-SA)
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North Korea carried out its third and largest nuclear test since 2006 on Tuesday, drawing international condemnation and a rebuke from China, the nation’s closest ally.
Posted on Feb 12, 2013
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A look at the day’s political happenings, including Nate Silver’s warning to Karl Rove and the latest Republican threat against defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel.
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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AP / Saul Loeb
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By Robert Reich — The President should make it clear that any Republican effort to hold the nation hostage to the GOP’s ideological fixation on the budget deficit and a smaller government will slow the economy, likely pushing us into another recession. And that those most imperiled are the middle class and the poor.
Posted on Feb 11, 2013
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Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss the war over drones that has erupted during confirmation hearings for John Brennan as CIA director. Should the president be allowed to use unmanned drones to execute a U.S. citizen overseas without due process or judicial review?
Posted on Feb 8, 2013
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White House/Pete Souza
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By Robert Kuttner —
President Obama seems to grasp that he has a lot more power to move public opinion than he used in his first term. He also understands that most of the GOP’s positions on the issues are unpopular with the public, divisive within the Republican Party and just plain bad policy. So will he maximize his advantage?
Posted on Jan 21, 2013
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Wikimedia Commons / Scrumshus
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Just in time for election year, the U.S. Senate successfully ushered a bill—the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, cleverly abbreviated as the Stock Act—through to passage, and it now awaits final approval from President Obama.
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By Lena Groeger, ProPublica —
Proposed new rules would require oil and gas companies to divulge the kinds and amounts of chemicals used in their underground hydraulic fracturing operations. But environmental and health advocates say drillers could exploit some loopholes.
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TalkMediaNews (CC-BY)
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Looks like that request President Obama made, in last month’s State of the Union address, to send him a bill to sign that would restrict members of Congress from taking financial liberties in their own investment activities wasn’t just a passing reference to score points with the public. Above, Rep. Eric Cantor.
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Up for consideration on this week’s “Left, Right & Center” are such considerable topics as President Obama’s State of the Union address and the state of play in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. On board for the discussion are regulars Matt Miller and Robert Scheer, as well as guest panelists David Frum and Chrystia Freeland. You know you want to listen.
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By Eugene Robinson — If you heard a loud “gulp” Tuesday night after President Obama’s State of the Union address, it probably came from Republican political strategists as they realized their party’s odds of capturing the White House this fall are getting longer.
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Taylor Jones, Cagle Cartoons, El Nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico —
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AP / Saul Loeb
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By Robert Scheer — I get angry because betrayal by the “good guys” for whom I have ended up voting has become the norm.
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By Joe Conason — Why the Republicans chose Mitch Daniels to deliver a rebuttal to President Obama’s State of the Union address is puzzling. Isn’t he the former Bush budget director who said the Iraq War would cost $50 billion when it ended up costing $3 trillion?
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Amy Goodman — In his State of the Union address, many heard echoes of the Barack Obama of old, the presidential aspirant of 2007 and 2008.
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AP / Charles Dharapak
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If you saw the broadcast of Tuesday’s State of the Union address, you might have caught Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner looking a little uneasy on his perch next to a solemn Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, which could have something to do with the state of his position at the White House.
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White House / Pete Souza
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Truthdig is back in full effect after a day of technical difficulties on Tuesday. And not to worry—it wasn’t the result of a covert sting operation by Gingrich’s camp. Meanwhile, check out our commentary and join the ongoing conversation about Tuesday night’s State of the Union speech, won’t you?
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AP / Saul Loeb
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During his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Obama primed the electorate with a speech that cast him as a champion of the American middle class—a wise, albeit predictable move during a year in which he’ll seek re-election. In their response, Republicans timidly disagreed that the economy has improved under his watch.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Obama’s community-minded worldview contrasts sharply with the highly individualistic and anti-government message that has been heard over and over from the Republicans seeking to replace him.
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By Ruth Marcus — The man once known as Governor Moonbeam sounded more like Governor Laser Beam when it came to addressing California’s fiscal crisis.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Bill Boyarsky — Eighteen years ago, the late Betty Friedan called her friend Ann Reiss Lane, a prominent Los Angeles civic activist. She was angry about the gun industry’s latest outrage—high-fashion ads marketing guns with grips made for a woman’s hand.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — A cynic might be justified in seeing a call for a sweeping reorganization of the federal government as the last refuge of a politician who doesn’t want to ruffle any ideological feathers.
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Fake news by Andy Borowitz —
In addition, Bachmann suggested slashing the federal budget by eliminating nine of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution. “I think you know which one I’d keep,” she chuckled.
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When “Left, Right & Center” aired Friday it was still unclear whether Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak would stay in power as mass protests persisted in the Mideast nation, but show regulars Robert Scheer and Tony Blankley ...
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By Ruth Marcus — The president talks the talk about fiscal responsibility. But the evidence suggests he’s not willing to spend the political capital to translate that talk into action.
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By Joe Conason — Complaints about President Obama’s State of the Union address on both sides of the political divide (which was obscured but not obliterated by the evening’s novel seating arrangements) seemed to miss its point and purpose.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Be ready for the paradoxical phase of Barack Obama’s presidency. Many things will not be exactly as they appear.
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Wikimedia Commons / Office of Congresswoman Michele Bachmann
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Here are two words that ought to strike fear into the hearts of many Americans: President Bachmann. Although it’s definitely a long shot, and she’d be up against none other than Sarah Palin, Rep. Michele Bachmann could have been positioning ...
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White House / Pete Souza
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If these CBS News poll numbers are to be believed, the president had a very big night. According to the network, “91 percent of those who watched the speech approved of the proposals Mr. Obama put forth during his remarks. Only nine percent disapproved.” (more)
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White House / Chuck Kennedy
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By Robert Scheer — What is the state of the union? You certainly couldn’t tell from that platitudinous hogwash that the president dished out.
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