Rove-Linked Crossroads GPS Launches $650,000 False Ad Campaign On Gas Prices (VIDEO)

Think Progress By Josh Israel  on Mar 23, 2012 at 4:00 pm This week, Crossroads GPS announced a $650,000 nationwide television adcampaign called “Deflect.”  The 30-second spot falsely blames Obama administration actions for the rise in gasoline prices since 2009. Crossroads GPS is a tax-exempt 501(c)(4) group, affiliated with the American Crossroads super PAC. Karl [...]

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Republicans Attack Obama For Not Cutting Medicare Advantage

. Now Republicans are attacking Obama for not cutting Medicare Advantage by Jed Lewison for Daily Kos Wed Apr 20, 2011 at 08:10 AM PDT AP: Obama administration eases pain of Medicare cuts Millions of seniors in popular private insurance plans offered through Medicare will be getting a reprieve from some of the most controversial [...]

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How The U.S. Rapidly Froze Libyan Assets

How the U.S. rapidly froze Libyan assets Washington Post By Robert O’Harrow Jr., James V. Grimaldi and Brady Dennis Thursday, Mar 24, 2011 The Treasury Department team had been working nonstop on a plan to freeze Libyan assets in U.S. banks, hoping they might snare $100 million or more and prevent Moammar Gaddafi from tapping [...]

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DOJ Meeting Shows Obama Is ‘Serious’ About Combatting Gun Violence

Brady Campaign: DOJ Meeting Shows Obama Is ‘Serious’ About Combatting Gun Violence TPMMuckraker Ryan J. Reilly | March 16, 2011, 3:20PM A coalition of pro gun-control groups met with Obama administration officials at the Justice Department Tuesday to discuss ways to prevent gun violence. The meeting at DOJ headquarters, the first in a series of [...]

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President Obama Prays For Peace In The Middle East

President Prays for Peace in the Mideast The Caucus – The Politics and Government blog of The New York Times By- HELENE C. COOPER February 3, 2011, 12:06 pm WASHINGTON — President Obama, in wide-ranging remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, said Thursday that he was praying for the violence in the Middle East to [...]

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Gun Rights Battle Heads To Bars, Churches, Doctors’ Offices And Day Care

Gun Rights Battle Heads To Bars, Churches, Doctors’ Offices And Day Care TPM Muckraker Ryan J. Reilly and Melissa Jeltsen | January 28, 2011, 9:40AM After ignoring the issue of gun control for his entire presidency to date, aides to President Barack Obama said Wednesday he’d take up the issue within the next few weeks. [...]

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Obama’s Israel Policy: Speak softly and carry a very big carrot

by Maidhc Ó Cathail, Foreign Policy Journal, December 4, 2010 Even those familiar with the long and shameful history of America’s appeasement of Israel were taken aback by the Obama administration’s extraordinary offer to Netanyahu. In exchange for a paltry one-off 90 day freeze on illegal settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank (excluding East [...]

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Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Combat

Biden Visits Iraq To Mark Formal End To U.S. Combat LARA JAKES and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA | 08/30/10 11:22 AM | BAGHDAD — Vice President Joe Biden returned to Iraq Monday to mark this week’s formal end to U.S. combat operations and push the country’s leaders to end a six-month postelection stalemate blocking formation of a [...]

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BP Disaster Continues Despite Cheerful Happy Talk

A poet once wrote: “When you’re chewing on life’s gristle, don’t grumble. Give a whistle. And this’ll help things turn out for the best.” This famous Python ditty appears to be the government, BP and media spin on the oil disaster at this point, and it could be the biggest display of wishful thinking, denial [...]

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Dan Ellsberg on WikiLeaks & the Essential Democratic Question: Who Will Tell the People?

John Nichols, The Nation, July 29, 2010 The Obama White House was quick to condemn the publication Sunday evening of more than 91,000 secret documents detailing the monumentally misguided and frequently failed attempt by the United States to occupy Afghanistan. National Security Adviser James Jones took the lead in attacking WikiLeaks for making the details [...]

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