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Saturday, 30 April 2011
National Briefing | ROCKIES: Utah: Suit Challenges Wilderness Plan
Utah sued the federal government on Friday over an Obama administration plan to make millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible for federal wilderness protection.
Many FBI agents said lack ability in cyber cases
About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded in a new report.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42808410/ns/technology_and_science-security/
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Arab League's backing of no-fly zone over Libya ramps up pressure on West
The league's move represents an extraordinary step by the leading Arab organization, historically reluctant to sanction a member, and provided fresh evidence of the reformist spirit recasting Arab politics.
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Appeals court grants stay, NFL lockout back on
Order comes hours after teams opened doors to players and some basic football operations began 
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Court Lifts Federal Stem Cell Ban
In a victory for the Obama administration, a federal appeals court has set aside a lower court ruling that would have blocked the use of federal funds for embryonic stem cell research.
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Obama Doctrine: Leading From Behind
Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doctrine. Doctrines involve ideas, but since there are no discernible ones that make sense of Obama foreign policy — Lizza’s painstaking two-year chronicle shows it to be as ad hoc, erratic and confused as it appears — this will have to do.And it surely is an accurate description, from President Obama’s shocking passivity during Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution to his dithering on Libya, acting at the very last moment, then handing off to a bickering coalition, yielding the current...
To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doctrine. Doctrines involve ideas, but since there are no discernible ones that make sense of Obama foreign policy — Lizza’s painstaking two-year chronicle shows it to be as ad hoc, erratic and confused as it appears — this will have to do.And it surely is an accurate description, from President Obama’s shocking passivity during Iran’s 2009 Green Revolution to his dithering on Libya, acting at the very last moment, then handing off to a bickering coalition, yielding the current...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/29/obama_doctrine_leading_from_behind_254583.html
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Dems opt for pragmatism on secret donors
President Obama has� a history of having changed his position on the way campaigns are funded ? evidence of a very pragmatic approach to running campaigns.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42825806/ns/politics-decision_2012/
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Friday, 29 April 2011
Storms? Toll Rises as Scale of Damage Becomes Clear
As President Obama visited Alabama, power remained out for hundreds of thousands and the death toll reached 339.
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Gay marriage defeat leaves couples crestfallen
Ken Goodman's fondest wish was to return to Silver Spring with the man he has been with for 15 years and get married in front of his childhood friends and his parents.
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Paul Ryan tells constituents he supports ending the oil subsidies that he voted for
QUESTION: The subsidy for the oil companies that the federal government gives. They?ve gotta stop.RYAN: Sure.
QUESTION: End the oil company subsidies?
RYAN: I agree.
QUESTION: ?and you will gain a lot of that money in the red back.
Well, if he really agrees, then why did he vote to extend them? Ryan claims he wants to get rid of the subsidies as part of a long-term effort to reform the tax code, but given that there's Democratic support for getting rid of them, why not take the bird in hand and end the subsidies now? Why is he protecting the oil companies?
Oh yeah. Here's why. Republicans got more than three-quarters of the oil and gas money contributed to political campaigns in 2010. That's more than $16 million, and that's only including the stuff that needed to be disclosed. Clearly, it was money well spent.
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Atlas Whined: 'Shrugged' producer may drop sequels to film nobody watched
'Atlas': Audiences apparently shrugged, too
So, the "first installment" of what promised to be a trilogy based on Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" is sinking like a stone at the box office. And the guy that paid the bills may be about to do his own little version of going Galt as a result:
Twelve days after opening "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," the producer of the Ayn Rand adaptation said Tuesday that he is reconsidering his plans to make Parts 2 and 3 because of scathing reviews and flagging box office returns for the film."Critics, you won," said John Aglialoro, the businessman who spent 18 years and more than $20 million of his own money to make, distribute and market "Atlas Shrugged: Part 1," which covers the first third of Rand's dystopian novel. "I'm having deep second thoughts on why I should do Part 2."
Aglialoro's intimation of some sort of critical conspiracy glosses over a couple of unflattering details about the film's box office performance. His film is, in short, the mother of all tank jobs, which lost nearly half of its box office from week one to week two, despite actually adding 166 screens in the second week. Its per-screen average was by far the lowest of the second-week releases in the top 25 films, and has sunk to an abysmal $200 or so per day as of earlier this week (down from over $2000 on its opening weekend).
The film's anemic performance is despite the fact that right-wing political elements played a role in marketing the film, and the film was even adorably opened to the public on April 15th, presumably to take advantage of American anti-tax fervor.
Critics, virtually all of whom also wrote of the film's shortcomings in its first weekend, were more than a little unkind, to be sure. But for the film to tank that badly from week one to week two, something other than a critical conspiracy theory had to be at work, as well.
Aside from Aglialoro's entertaining conspiracy theory, two other reasons for the failure of "Atlas Shrugged" appear considerably more likely. Either (a) the community of people intrigued by libertarian fantasy is quite a bit smaller than Aglialoro anticipated or (b) the word-of-mouth was nonexistent because the film sucked every bit as much as the critics said it did.
Libertarians love to pontificate on the beauty of the market to determine winners and losers. At this point, it is safe to label this film as an unequivlocal loser.
Indeed, the marketplace has spoken. Perhaps Aglialoro, if he were true to the movement's message, should step up and say so.
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Thursday, 28 April 2011
Obama gambles on remake of national security team
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama reshuffled his top national security aides on Thursday, altering the chemistry of a team that will help set strategy on the war in Afghanistan, turmoil in the Middle East and defense budget battles in Washington. 
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Push for Pentagon cuts tops Panetta's agenda
President Barack Obama's choice of expert budget-cutter Leon Panetta to lead the Defense Department is a clear signal that the White House perceives the nation's deficit crisis, not the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as its toughest challenge.
Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42796899/ns/politics-more_politics/
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Political Memo: On Trail, Trump Basks in Spotlight
President Obama?s decision to weigh into the debate over the authenticity of his citizenship added a layer of complexity to Donald Trump?s arrival in New Hampshire.
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Public not so keen on GOP ideas
So, you have your choice of headlines and polls. From Gallup, we have Americans Divided Over Ryan vs. Obama Deficit Plans, noting that Republicans love the Ryan plan, Democrats hate it and indies are split. What is also evident, though not in the headline, is that those making over 75K, whites, and those over 30 prefer Ryan, while 18-29, under 75K and non-whites prefer the Democratic/Obama alternative.
And from this, you might conclude the Ryan gamble is paying off. But not so fast. Check out:
Town Halls Gone WildAdd to that Greg Sargent:House G.O.P. Members Face Voter Anger Over Budget
Medicare Plan puts GOP on Defensive
GOP lawmaker Dan Webster's town hall turns ugly
Paul Ryan heckled by angry protestors: This will generate a lot of chatter today: According to WTMJ in Wisconsin, Ryan himself got a real earful at a town hall meeting from protestors who are furious over his proposal to end Medicare as we know it.It's early in the process, and when low-information voters are given a choice between a GOP and a Dem alternative, it's easy to pick sides even if you don't know what's in the budget.Seniors held up signs saying ?hands off my Medicare,? and chanted that Ryan should ?stop lying,? according to the report. Also note that Ryan was forced to leave in a different vehicle than he arrived in.
After you know? We'll see. But if you want examples of what the public does know, check out the GOP governors who represent the enaction of GOP principles. The latest to poll poorly once he implemented his program is PA's Tom Corbett.
Big Jump In Disapproval For Pennsylvania Governor, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; Gov's Budget Unfair, Voters - Especially Women - Sayand if you want to know how the GOP responds to pressure, look no further than John Boehner.
So maybe it wasn?t the best timing in the world: Even as House Republicans face tough questions at their town hall meetings about Rep. Paul Ryan?s budget plan, Speaker John Boehner has given an interview in which he said Ryan?s plan was an idea ?worthy of consideration? and that he wasn?t ?wedded to it.?Pity the poor Speaker. The more the public knows about GOP policies, the worse Republican leaders do with the public, from John Boehner on down.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/5_ntFNdUuE0/-Public-not-so-keen-on-GOP-ideas
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More than half of California children Latino, census shows
More than half the children in California are Latinos, according to new census statistics that show the nation's most populous state rapidly approaching the day when Hispanics overtake whites as the largest minority.
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Gas prices, Japan and leadership likely to dominate at Obama's news conference
President Obama is planning a news conference at 12:30 Friday afternoon that the White House announced will focus on high energy prices. He will also no doubt address the massive earthquake in Japan, which has spawned a tsunami whose waves have hit Hawaii and Alaska.
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Wednesday, 27 April 2011
A successor to Gates is a quandary for Obama
On five occasions the past three weeks, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has tried to nail down his departure from the Pentagon by telling members of Congress in budget hearings and in speeches to cadets at West Point and the Air Force Academy that this would be his final appearance before them ...
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Who would lead the Democratic National Committee?
If Kaine runs for the seat being vacated by fellow Democrat Jim Webb, President Obama will be charged with picking a new man (or woman) to run the DNC - one of the most public faces of the party on the verge of the 2012 election.
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Holding Bernanke Accountable
David Leonhardt, New York Times
On Wednesday at 2:15 p.m., Ben Bernanke will do something that previous Federal Reserve chairmen considered a terrible idea. He will hold a news conference.Mr. Bernanke spent much of his academic career arguing that the Fed should be less opaque, and, as chairman, he has put his ideas into action. Now it’s time for those of us in the media to hold up our end of bargain. In the spirit of democratic accountability, we should ask hard questions — and we shouldn’t let him get away with the evasions and half-answers that members of Congress too often allow Fed...
On Wednesday at 2:15 p.m., Ben Bernanke will do something that previous Federal Reserve chairmen considered a terrible idea. He will hold a news conference.Mr. Bernanke spent much of his academic career arguing that the Fed should be less opaque, and, as chairman, he has put his ideas into action. Now it’s time for those of us in the media to hold up our end of bargain. In the spirit of democratic accountability, we should ask hard questions — and we shouldn’t let him get away with the evasions and half-answers that members of Congress too often allow Fed...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2011/04/27/holding_bernanke_accountable_254462.html
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Justices Reject Request for Fast Health Law Ruling
The Supreme Court on Monday turned back an unusual request from Virginia to put the state?s challenge to the new federal health care law on a fast track.
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