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Updates for June 3, 2010
Lott: Obama administration reacted poorly
By: Thomas Lott
It has been over a month since British Petroleum’s oil rig, Deepwater Horizon, caught fire. The incident killed 11 workers and triggered the largest oil spill in United States history….
Cutting the red tape
By: Mark Costigan | Columnist
In my opinion | The dirt mopper
I couldn’t be more thrilled that President Obama halted offshore drilling due to a public outcry. More than 45 demonstrations across the country demanded a stop to offshore drilling. First, the Energy Action Coalition organization called the even…
Updates for May 11, 2010
Values, morals, ethics cannot be legitimately taught by religion
By: Gerry Wachovsky
President Obama should nominate an atheist Supreme Court justice.
Updates for May 10, 2010
AP source: Obama chooses Kagan for Supreme Court
By: Ben Feller
President Barack Obama will nominate Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, a person familiar with the president’s thinking said Sunday night….
Updates for May 8, 2010
Age, gender could tip balance in high court pick
By: Mark Sherman
The most important number in President Barack Obama’s consideration of a Supreme Court nominee may be 50….
Updates for May 7, 2010
The National: Would you like tea or coffee with your politics?
By: Richard D. Oxley
Geoffry Ludt was anticipating the change he had heard so much about when Obama was elected president in 2008. A registered Democrat at the time, he was ready for the government to turn from the ways of George W. Bush….
Updates for May 5, 2010
Court should support ruling concerning Day of Prayer
By: David Rose
Recently, a U.S. District Court judge ruled a law requiring the president to set a national day of prayer unconstitutional. For nearly 60 years, this law forced our quite secular government to act in a very non-secular way, and despite Obama’s promi…
Updates for May 4, 2010
Obama sends federal aid
By: Staff Report
President Barack Obama has ordered that federal aid be given to Tennessee individuals affected by flooding that began Friday from continuous rain.
Updates for May 3, 2010
Poll finds high Republican enthusiasm
By: Dan Rogers
Dan Pereira, vice president elect of the Rutgers University Democrats, took a month off from classes last year to campaign for President Barack Obama. The Democratic victory further solidified to Pereira that campaigning is what he wants to do, he said…
Updates for May 2, 2010
Obama to do everything ‘humanly possible’ about spill
By:
The Associated Press
VENICE (AP) — No remedy in sight, President Barack Obama on Sunday warned of a “massive and potentially unprecedented environmental disaster” as a badly damaged oil well a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico spewed a widening and deadly slic…
Updates for May 1, 2010
Anger over Arizona immigration law drives US rallies
By: Sophia Tareen
Angered by a controversial Arizona immigration law, tens of thousands of protesters – including 50,000 alone in Los Angeles – rallied in cities nationwide demanding President Barack Obama tackle immigration reform immediately….
Obama takes direct aim at anti-government rhetoric
By: Mark S. Smith
President Barack Obama took aim Saturday at the angry rhetoric of those who denigrate government as inherently bad and said their off-base line of attack ignores the fact that in a democracy, government is us….
