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May 21, 2009 - 10:49 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama takes on terror, critics

President Obama offered lots of reassurances, but not as many details in a major national security speech this morning -- reassurances that he'll do everything possible to keep America safe while still upholding the Constitution, but not the detail that...

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May 21, 2009 - 09:45 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Cheney more popular as he takes center stage

In the second of dueling speeches on national security today, former Vice President Dick Cheney is expected to lay out in the most detail yet his critique of President Obama's policy changes and his assertions that they are making America...

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May 15, 2009 - 10:42 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Phoenix

GOP '12 Notes

By David S. Bernstein

Here are a few items of interest about some of the folks on my latest Top 25 ranking of GOP 2012 Presidential Nominees. (Also, please note that my latest rankings cleverly included two #18s, but no #23. Oops. Please mentally renumber to compensate.)

--USN&WR's Washington Whispers informally surveyed Republican leaders for long-shot 2012 nominees, and gave a top four of my #1 Tim Pawlenty; #3 Mark Sanford; #7 Jon Huntsman, and #13 Eric Cantor. Also mentioned: #5 John Thune, #21 Jeb Bush, and unlisted Richard Burr.

--#2 Jim DeMint and #10 Rick Perry held what they dubbed "Tea Party 2.0," via teleconference yesterday... which is kind of like if the colonists had protested by sitting in their homes spilling tea on their floors.

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May 15, 2009 - 10:12 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Kerry and Lugar criticize Burmese junta

The leaders of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued a statement this morning calling for the release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “The Obama Administration and Congress are reviewing America’s policy toward Burma. At this critical time,...

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May 1, 2009 - 01:33 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama honors soldier-citizens

President Obama this afternoon honored immigrants who joined the US military and in return had their citizenship expedited. "You're part of a larger story, America's story," he said at a naturalization ceremony. "Much of the strength of this country is...

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March 26, 2009 - 09:43 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Pro-Obama group launches ad

President Obama's grassroots group announced today it is launching its first TV ad, a call to backers to contact Congress in support of his budget. "America is facing tough times," the announcer says. "Fortunately, President Obama has a plan...

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March 19, 2009 - 10:40 am
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Kerry holds hearing on resetting Russia relationship

Senator John F. Kerry convened a hearing today on US-Russia relations, saying that he "wholeheartedly" agrees with President Obama that it's time to "reset" the relationship. "In recent years, America’s relationship with Russia has reached arguably its lowest and least...

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March 6, 2009 - 02:54 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Phoenix

Homeless Got Cell Phones!?!?

By David S. Bernstein

You might think that a massive economic crisis with skyrocketing foreclosures and job losses would make people sympathetic to the plight of the poor and homeless. Well, maybe it makes some people sympathetic. Suckers, maybe -- not conservatives!

Andrew Malcolm, conservative nitwit and constant embarrassment to his employers at the LA Times, was looking at coverage of Michelle Obama's Thursday volunteer stint at a DC soup kitchen, and noticed an AP photo of one of the people in line snapping the First Lady's photo with his cell phone.

Outraged yet? If not, perhaps that's because you've actually been in a soup kitchen or shelter sometime in the past 20 years.

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March 3, 2009 - 06:40 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Globe

Obama thanks, praises unions

President Obama thanks Big Labor for its help pushing through his economic stimulus package in a video message tonight to the AFL-CIO executive council gathering in Miami. "We have already started to change America on behalf of working people," the...

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February 28, 2009 - 08:10 pm
NEWS FEED: Boston Phoenix

Top 25 For 2012 GOP Nod, Updated!

By David S. Bernstein

Mitt Romney is still the man, at least among the mostly young, mostly rabid conservatives at CPAC; he won the conference's straw poll for the next Republican Presidential nominee with 20 percent of the vote. That's three years in a row for Mitt.

As CPAC closes out to the dulcet tones of the right's dear leader, Rush Limbaugh, I have decided to update my ranking of the 25 most likely people to win the 2012 Republican Presidential nomination, made two months ago. I'll get to that below.

Just to wrap up for now about CPAC, however... The message from what I've seen is: Republicans -- and particularly George W.

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