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AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais
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By Robert Scheer — What’s alarming is the ease with which an otherwise deadlocked Congress that can’t manage minimal funding for job creation passes a bill that threatens the foundations of our republican form of government.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — It was gratifying to hear a despotic leader blame the United States for the rise of a democratic protest movement against his regime.
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AP / Winslow Townson
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By Robert Scheer — Newt Gingrich’s hypocrisy concerning economic matters will prove more troubling than his sexual affairs as his chances of becoming president increase.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama has decided that he is more likely to win if the election is about big things rather than small ones.
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Patrik Hedström (CC-BY)
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On Wednesday, federal law enforcement officers arrested a 21-year-old Idaho man suspected of firing on the White House late last week. At least one bullet struck the building but no one was hurt. The suspect, Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, has an alleged fixation on things presidential, but officials have not yet determined a motive.
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White House / Lawrence Jackson
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Skirting good ethics and the law of the land, White House Cabinet officials are touring the nation on behalf of President Obama’s campaign fundraising machine, which has already taken in more cash than all the Republican presidential candidates combined and nearly three times as much as the president’s richest competitor, Mitt Romney. (more)
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DonkeyHotey (CC-BY)
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By William Pfaff — The program to oust the Occupy Wall Street movement from its sites of occupation is now under way. The Occupied, who own the police, have grown tired of the Occupation.
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bbc.co.uk
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So he “stepped in it” during Wednesday night’s GOP presidential debate. Others might say he choked or even ate it. But despite Rick Perry’s Texas-sized blunder, he’s not giving up his White House dreams. (more)
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By Amy Goodman — More than 10,000 people gathered in Washington, D.C., last Sunday with a simple goal: Encircle the White House.
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U.S. State Department
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By William Pfaff — The United States simply does not know how to disentangle itself from this menacing situation.
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White House / Chuck Kennedy
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President Obama and the Democratic National Committee have raised more from the financial industry than all the Republican candidates combined. However, without the DNC, Mitt Romney has raised almost twice as much as the president from that sector, according to analysis by The Washington Post. (more)
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White House / Chuck Kennedy
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Can President Obama take advantage of the egalitarian sentiment let loose in the country by the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations? The best response comes not from polls but from history.
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Wikimedia Commons / Harald Dettenborn (CC-BY)
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It all comes down to Chelsea now. Hillary Clinton may have made an impressive run on the White House in the 2008 campaign, but she’s not harboring hopes of redoubling her efforts when her rival-turned-boss Barack Obama is out of the picture in 2016. In fact, Clinton isn’t planning to ... (more)
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By David Sirota — The White House’s reported “kill list” reminds us that government death panels in general are anything but rare—they are all around us, making blood-curdling decisions to kill people all the time.
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AP / Mike Carlson
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By Robert Scheer — If a Republican were president, there would be millions of properly coiffed middle-class Democrats and independents at those Occupy Wall Street marches, and no questions asked as to what they really want.
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bbc.co.uk
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What started as a peaceful demonstration in downtown Cairo took a violent turn later Sunday when Coptic Christians protesting last week’s attack on one of their churches clashed with military forces and other civilians. (more)
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By David Sirota — Like most people living through this jarring age of economic turbulence and political dysfunction, you can probably recall a moment in the last few months when you thought to yourself that our lawmakers and corporate leaders are all crazy.
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AP / J. Scott Applewhite
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By Robert Scheer — Why are Ben Bernanke and Barack Obama just now discovering that there is a jobs crisis in this country?
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — You can’t accuse a big capitalist of “class warfare.” That’s why the right wing despises Warren Buffett and is trying so hard to shut him up.
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AP / Evan Vucci
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President Obama rolled out a plan on Monday to reduce the federal deficit by $3 trillion over the next decade by combining cuts to benefit rights and war savings with tax increases. (more)
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Nate Beeler, Cagle Cartoons, The Washington Examiner —
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By Eugene Robinson — Don’t fall for it. There’s no “new tone” coming from the Republican-controlled House. It’s just a remix of the same old song.
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Gulfstream
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White House Budget Director Jack Lew revealed Monday that the administration plans to raise $467 billion in tax revenue from people making more than $200,000 a year, investment fund managers, the oil and gas industry and owners of corporate jets. (more)
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The Republican presidential debate last week should have taught us that we are no longer in the world of civics textbooks. Does the President finally understand that?
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Peter Z. Scheer — By far the most stirring line in the president’s jobs speech Thursday was his acknowledgment that “the next election is 14 months away and the people who sent us here—the people who hired us to work for them—they don’t have the luxury of waiting 14 months.”
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vegatripy (CC-BY-ND)
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By Andrew Becker and G.W. Schulz, CIR —
The Office of Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Homeland Security was envisioned as the center of gravity in a new era of domestic security, but it has done little to improve the accuracy and quality of the nation’s intelligence data.
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On Monday the president celebrated working people and the contributions of unions to our society and he previewed some of the proposals in his forthcoming jobs plan at an AFL-CIO-sponsored speech in a GM parking lot.
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White House / Samantha Appleton
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The president will officially unveil his plan to create jobs and rescue the economy at a joint session of Congress on Thursday, but he offered a sneak peek Monday to union workers in Detroit. It comes down to bridges and taxes. (more)
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By Joe Conason — If stepping up to help our neighbors and community on 9/11 would somehow dishonor the Americans killed in those infamous attacks—as feverish critics of President Barack Obama now scream—then what do they think actually happened on that day 10 years ago?
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Bush White House / Paul Morse
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By Eugene Robinson — Thank you, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, for emerging from your secure, undisclosed locations to remind us how we got into this mess: It didn’t happen by accident.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Call it the Party-of-Government Paradox: If the nation’s capital looks dysfunctional, it will come back to hurt President Obama and the Democrats, even if the Republicans are primarily responsible for the dysfunction.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — President Obama’s promised jobs plan needs to be unrealistic and unreasonable, at the very least. If he can crank it all the way up to unimaginable, that would be even better.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The trolls have gamed the system. There is no economic, political or environmental reform that can be implemented to impede the march of the corporate state.
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By David Sirota — Today, many reject the fact that black people typically face bigger obstacles to economic and political success than whites. Instead, they insist that whites are oppressed.
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Flickr / Loozrboy (CC-BY-SA)
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Hundreds of environmental activists have shown up outside the White House this week—prepared to risk arrest—to protest a proposed transnational oil pipeline project they say will do more harm than good. More than 200 people have already been arrested.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Robert Scheer — The administration has rushed to the aid of the banks once again and is attempting to intimidate the few state attorneys general who have the gumption to protect the public interest they are sworn to serve.
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tarsandsaction (CC-BY)
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By Amy Goodman — The White House was rocked Tuesday, not only by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake, but by the protests mounting outside its gates.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — President Obama has only one option as he ponders a world economy teetering on the edge: He needs to go big, go long and go global.
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Flickr / Shadia Fayne Wood / tarsandsaction
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Author, activist and founder of the global environmental movement 350.org Bill McKibben was arrested outside the White House on Saturday along with 64 others protesting the construction of a pipeline from Canada’s tar sands sites to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico. (more)
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U.S. Army / Staff Sgt. Isaac A. Graham
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By William Pfaff — Global domination is a political policy that cannot possibly succeed. The world is not open to domination by a single state. The effort to establish it will destroy the United States itself.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The mood of the White House crowd and past experience suggest that a new Obama—or, in many ways, the old Obama of 2008—is about to appear.
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White House / Samantha Appleton
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — The world is looking to the United States to help power a recovery and provide leadership at a time when we are suffocatingly inward-looking—and when ultraconservatives are so dogmatic about slashing government that they are prepared to boot away our nation’s influence.
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Photo graphic by PZS from President Eisenhower's official portrait
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By Bill Boyarsky — Obama’s Eisenhower nostalgia is troubling. That was half a century ago—before the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps and federal aid to education.
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White House / Pete Souza (with a notable modification)
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average has plummeted by 760 points since the terms of the debt ceiling deal were announced Monday. If austerity was supposed to encourage economic growth, someone forgot to tell Wall Street. (more)
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Office of the Speaker of the House
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By Richard Reeves — Whatever they tell us, the men and women who run the country are governing for themselves and by themselves.
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AP / Richard Drew
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By Robert Scheer — The die has been cast. Obama’s deal to raise the debt ceiling is a disaster in the making.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By William Pfaff — Few Americans know, or much care, about the opinions foreigners hold of the United States. This was displayed during the ignorant and solipsistic debate over when or whether the United States will pay its debts.
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White House / Pete Souza
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By Eugene Robinson — It’s supremely galling. It’s unbalanced, unfair and mostly unwise. For President Obama and the Democratic Party, it’s a comprehensive defeat. But it’s not the end of the world.
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