1. Brennan: All Transferred Detainees Who Returned to Terrorism Were Released by Bush, No Recidivism for Those Released ... 13 hours ago   permalink

Brennan: All Transferred Detainees Who Returned to Terrorism Were Released by Bush, No Recidivism for Those Released ...
Blogs.abcnews.com

In a letter to congressional leaders sent Monday night, White House adviser John Brennan, the assistant to President Obama for homeland security and counterterrorism, argued that President Obama had made "significant improvements to the detainee review process" under President Bush and pointed out that all the former detainees released ...

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Obama Adviser Claims Former Gitmo Detainees Accused Of Terrorist Activity Were All Released Under Bush. The Quiet Revolution: Obama Has Remade the State in More Ways Than You Can Imagine   —  These days, liberals don’t know whether to feel betrayed by or merely disappointed with Barack Obama. They have gone from decrying his willingness to remove the public option from his health care plan to worrying that, in the wake of Democrat Martha Coakley’s defeat in Massachusetts, he won’t get any plan through Congress. On ...

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Obama takes another dig at Las Vegas   —  President Barack Obama took another dig at Las Vegas at his New Hampshire town hall Tuesday after similar remarks got him into hot water last year. Obama said that people should not "blow a bunch of cash in Vegas" during a tough recession. Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman called for Obama to apologize after he made comparable comments last February.

2. Column: Why I'm speaking at Tea Party convention 7 hours ago   permalink

Column: Why I'm speaking at Tea Party convention
Blogs.usatoday.com

In Washington today, politicians too often just stand their ground. Liberal strategist Bob Beckel and conservative columnist Cal Thomas provide a better model.

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3. How Serious Is Chris Dodd About Real Reform? 12 hours ago   permalink

How Serious Is Chris Dodd About Real Reform?
TAPPED

With negotiations on financial regulatory reform continuing at the Senate Banking Committee, all eyes are on Chair Chris Dodd -- does his decision not to run for re-election make him more or less likely to pass a good bill? Yesterday, an article in the Financial Times seemed to confirm many in the reform community's worst fears, suggesting that ...

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4. Obama Administration Secured Help of Abdulmuttalab's Family to Get Him to Share Intelligence 6 hours ago   permalink

ABCNews.com / Political Punch

The family of the failed Christmas Day bomber, Umar Farouq Abdulmuttalab, played a pivotal role in getting their son to start cooperating with federal authorities in sharing information about Al Qaeda, a senior administration official said Tuesday evening.

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5. WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY. 15 minutes ago   permalink

WONDERING WHY REUTERS WITHDREW ITS “BACKDOOR TAXES” STORY.
Pajamasmedia.com

"Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

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JIM GERAGHTY: An Incorrigible Way Of Counting Unemployment.   —  "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

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RAHM EMANUEL COMPARES DEMOCRATS TO RETARDED PEOPLE, then apologizes to retarded people.   —  "Glenn also has a rather dry sense of humour, which I'm guessing not enough people pick up on." -- Andrea See

6. Deficit Fever 23 minutes ago   permalink

Deficit Fever
Www.ourfuture.org

Suddenly, you can't turn around without getting a panicked lectureabout the deficit. But in all the discussions about the horrifying, worse-than-terrorism, scarier-than-nuclear-war threat to everything we hold near and dear, nobody ever seems to discuss the fact that much of the deficit is due to unemployment. (Gosh, it turns out that if ...

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7. CHART: Tracking maternal mortality rates 55 minutes ago   permalink

Www.californiawatch.org

California’s maternal mortality rate has increased over an 11-year-period from 1996 through 2006, the most recent data available. The national maternal mortality rate was 13.3 per 100,000 in 2006.

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8. Obama backs down from Vegas dig 8 hours ago   permalink

Obama backs down from Vegas dig
Www.politico.com

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid chided President Barack Obama Tuesday for making Las Vegas a “poster child” for excessive spending. “I just spoke to the White House and told them that while the president is correct that people saving for college need to be fiscally responsible, the president needs to lay off Las Vegas and stop ...

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9. Eye Witness News – The Lech Walesa Story 15 hours ago   permalink

Founding Blogger / Founding Bloggers

Last week, Nobel Laureate, Presidential Medal of Freedom winner, and former president of Poland, Lech Walesa, traveled to Chicago to endorse a political candidate for governor of Illinois. Who he endorsed doesn’t matter.  The fact that he is here endorsing anyone at all should be considered newsworthy. Unfortunately for Chicago residents, and ...

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10. Indiana Republicans Find Their Coats 3 hours ago   permalink

Politics.theatlantic.com

It's a cold winter, but Indiana Republicans managed to recruit a top-tier candidate to take on Sen. Evan Bayh: Dan Coats, the former Republican senator from Indiana and ambassador to Germany, now a Washington policy adivser and a lobbyist. Bayh succeeded Coats in 1998. The news of Coats's political comeback was first reported by the Howey ...

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DAN COATS TO challenge Evan Bayh…. Coats explores Senate run against Bayh   —  WASHINGTON – Former Fort Wayne resident Dan Coats, a member of Congress for 18 years and most recently a Washington lobbyist, is forming an exploratory committee to run for the Republican Senate nomination and a chance to challenge Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.

11. Polls in Britain Point to a Tightening Race 2 hours ago   permalink

Www.bythefault.com

With a general election in the United Kingdom due by June 3, 2010, polls now indicate a tightening race. The latest poll by The Independent shows the Conservative party down to 38 percent, down seven points since December, with Labour up two points to 31 percent. The Liberal Democrats polled third with 19 percent. Based on these projections, the ...

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12. GOP Still Short On Women 7 hours ago   permalink

GOP Still Short On Women
Hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com

With the political winds at their backs, GOPers have experienced a recruiting boost of late. But party strategists acknowledge that the GOP remains woefully underrepresented among women.

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13. No Mars, Bitches 3 minutes ago   permalink

Booman Tribune / Booman Tribune

Dave Chapelle's vision of a black presidency was amusing in part because the premise seemed so preposterous. It turned out not to be preposterous at all. Meet President Barack Obama. Not only does Obama's presidency look nothing like Chapelle's, but there is no Mars, bitches.

14. Illinois Update: Andrzejewski Get-Out-the Vote Effort ‘On Fire’; MORE: Exit Polls 7 hours ago   permalink

Theothermccain.com

7:40 p.m. ET – Partial exit-poll reports indicate Andrzejewski “coming on strong,” says my source, with Dillard “dropping fast.” The campaign was still pushing GOTV at 6:30 p.m. CT, focusing on the Metro East suburbs of St. Louis downstate. “We can get another thousand votes out of there in the next half-hour.&#

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15. Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats 2 hours ago   permalink

Daily Kos / Daily Kos

David Streitfield writes : The number of Americans who owed more than their homes were worth was virtually nil when the real estate collapse began in mid-2006, but by the third quarter of 2009, an estimated 4.5 million homeowners had reached the critical threshold, with their home’s value dropping below 75 percent of the mortgage balance. ...

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Tuesday Night TV and Open Thread   —  I'm sure many of you are watching the season premiere of "Lost." I've never seen it, and I'm not sure I'll start, but if you really think I should, let me know in comments. Here's a cheat sheet . The Denver auditions of "American Idol" are on first, and for sure, I'll be watching them. The Oscar nominations came out today . ...

Paradox / The Left Coaster
How I’d Love to Take the Train   —  Glenzilla recently professed to being mystified at a cheap low trick often flicked at provocative writers, the charge of being “angry.” If one obviated bedrock democracy principles like habeas corpus for nothing but ridiculous fear of course we should all be angry, but the primary thrust of the charge is to make the proponent of truth doubt ...

16. Ochocinco News Network? Bengals' WR to break the news 45 minutes ago   permalink

Ochocinco News Network? Bengals' WR to break the news
Www.usatoday.com

The Cincinnati Bengals receiver is planning to form his own social news network on Twitter, using his player contacts around the league to develop news about other teams. The idea grew out of his partnership with Motorola, which will provide the technology.

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17. Possible way to zap Citizens United decision 2 hours ago   permalink

Possible way to zap Citizens United decision
S.W. / Oh!pinion

W e had hoped to be able to recommend MovetoAmend.org to you wholeheartedly as a means for fighting back against a mortal threat to our democracy, the Supreme Court’s execrable Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission decision. Unfortunately, because of MovetoAmend.org’s own tentativeness about fighting this menace, we can ...

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Possible way to zap Citizens United decision Breaking News   —  Citizens United, Shareholder Rights, and Free Speech: Restoring the Primacy of Politics to the First Amendment, Part II Citizens United, Shareholder Rights, and Free Speech: Restoring the Primacy of Politics to the First Amendment, Part I

18. Congress 1 hour ago   permalink

Congress
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19. Bad economic talk 1 hour ago   permalink

Bad economic talk
John Aravosis (DC) / AMERICAblog News

An Econ 101 student could tell you that this is flat out wrong , and rather dangerous, talk. The government should not cut spending during an economic downturn, or the economic downturn will turn even worse. At a town hall meeting there today President Obama tried to hammer home his message that the federal government needs to rein in its ...

20. Star Of David In Gaza Field Causes "Stir" 2 hours ago   permalink

Star Of David In Gaza Field Causes "Stir"
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report

Is there nothing the evil Juice will stoop to?Satellite photograph shows 60-meter Jewish symbol carved into Palestinian land. Click image to enlarge Too funny.....heh...