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Results tagged “Obama”
Nov 10 2009, 1:14PM
Justice Department's GTMO Decision: What To Expect
Ahead of a November 16 deadline, the Justice Department is readying a decision on how to bring some of Guantanamo's most infamous detainees to trial.Officials insist that as of last...
Oct 5 2009, 9:40AM
Exclusive: How Democrats Won The Data War In 2008
Thanks to Catalist, the left has caught up
Jul 28 2009, 1:30PM
An End To The Birther Establishment? Republicans Vote "Yes" On Obama's Hawaiian Heritage
Republicans vote "yes" on Obama's Hawaiian heritage
Jul 14 2009, 5:53AM
Exit Steve Rattner
I know and like Steve Rattner, which doesn't make me especially unique. The New York financier is well known in Washington and New York, where he started the Quadrangle Group...
Jun 29 2009, 7:44PM
Obama's Warm LGBT Reception
Confronting skepticism from gays, Obama draws cheers
Jun 25 2009, 2:16PM
The MLB All-Star Game As Obama Referendum
President Obama will throw out the first pitch at the MLB All-Star Game in St. Louis July 14, becoming the fourth sitting president to do so (Kennedy, Nixon, and Ford...
Jun 15 2009, 2:00PM
Obama's Speech To The Doctors
President Obama spoke to the American Medical Association (AMA)--the leading organization of doctors--today in Chicago, and the reception he got wasn't particularly enthusiastic. AMA is very skeptical of the kind...
May 28 2009, 1:51PM
Obama Tries to Rally Grassroots for Health Care Fight
President Obama urged his supporters to "get the message out" on his health care reform principles, calling a forthcoming organizing drive "our big chance to prove that the movement that...
May 21 2009, 9:26AM
Cheney's Arguing With....George W. Bush
Jack Goldsmith, the onetime head of the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, calls it the "Cheney fallacy." In his comprehensive article about Barack Obama's national security...
May 19 2009, 6:40PM
What Will Change About Credit Cards
The Senate today passed a credit card reform bill that President Obama called for as a candidate and has pushed for both in a town-hall meeting in New Mexico last...
May 18 2009, 5:25PM
The Administration's 'Faux Consultation'
Civil liberties and human rights groups aren't happy with the Obama administration--most recently, for supporting military tribunals for detainees. Policy aside, some charge that the administration has neglected to seek...
May 18 2009, 4:27PM
Decoding Bibi And Barack
No international shatter zone is more sensitive to language than the Middle East, where even verb tenses can signal a change in policy. With that in mind, here's an exigesis...
May 15 2009, 3:04PM
White House Tries To Sell Military Commissions To Skeptical Allies
White House counsel Gregory Craig told administration allies on a conference call that the prime reason why Guantanamo detainees would be tried by military commissions is that regular federal courts...
May 15 2009, 12:04PM
Five Questions About The Administration's New Tribunal Policy
I've spent the morning canvassing some experts and analysts on both sides of the Military Commissions debate; in this too-simple dichotomy, one side believes that tribunals are inherently unconstitutional when...
May 13 2009, 2:20PM
Why Did Obama Reverse Course On The Torture Pictures?
I don't know. The White House says that President Obama concluded that the photographs' release could bring harm to United States troops. His spokesman, Robert Gibbs, very carefully and slowly offered...
May 13 2009, 1:28PM
And The Nominee Is....
If you can answer these questions to your satisfaction, you can produce your own short list. Forget speculation and leaks, forget the flavor of the week. Put yourself in President...
May 12 2009, 4:00PM
No New Nukes
Via Michael Crowley at TNR, it seems that the Obama administration has zeroed out funding for a nuclear warhead replacement program that his own Secretary of Defense considered vital to...
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