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OBAMA: IMMIGRATION DEBATE WILL SLIP INTO THE FALL

BY JULIE PACE AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster WHITE HOUSE COY ON OBAMA’S RUSSIA TRAVEL PLANS OBAMA: NYC OFFICIAL ‘WELL-QUALIFIED’ FOR [...]
Bam hides terror truth

Until Friday, there were two possible explanations for why the White House failed to immediately call the Benghazi attack an act of terrorism. One was incompetence, the other [...]
Six keys to Obama’s second term

Second terms are different, but President Obama has a chance for real achievements, says Towson Professor Martha Kumar. Presidential second terms have a bad name. The [...]
President Obama Must Carry a Human Rights Message to Myanmar or Risk Setting Back Momentum for Reform

Some human rights organizations and Burmese activist groups have derided President Obama’s decision to travel to Myanmar next week and become the first U.S. president [...]
Fiscal talks under way, Obama heads to Southeat Asia

President Barack Obama is about to head off to Southeast Asia to showcase a foreign policy achievement in Myanmar and reinforce the U.S. role as a counterweight to China. The [...]

Obama to Rice’s critics: ‘Go after me’

November 15, 2012 // 0 Comments

President Obama, assuming a tough-talking tone, warned Republicans Wednesday to lay off U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice over her controversial Sept. 16 comments on the Libya [...]

Obama to open talks with $1.6 trillion plan to raise taxes on corporations, wealthy

November 15, 2012 // 0 Comments

President Obama is taking a hard line with congressional Republicans heading into negotiations over the year-end “fiscal cliff,” making no opening concessions and calling [...]

Obama Reportedly in â€˜Throw-Down Modeâ€™ on Bush Taxes

November 14, 2012 // 0 Comments

Progressives have plenty of reason to be concerned about the upcoming fiscal cliff negotiations. There was the ugly “grand bargain” Obama reportedly agreed to in 2011, [...]

In Debt Talks, Obama Is Ready to Go Beyond Beltway

November 12, 2012 // 0 Comments

WASHINGTON — President Obama, emboldened by his decisive re-election and lessons learned over four years in office, is looking to the renewal of budget talks with [...]

The Hard Fiscal Facts

November 12, 2012 // 0 Comments

While the rest of America was holding an election last week, the gnomes at the Congressional Budget Office released the final budget totals for fiscal 2012. They’re [...]

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