Obama
July 2, 2009
- White House Press Secretary, Robert Gibbs fields questions from CBS's Chip Reid with Helen Thomas in uncontainable support (ctrl-click to launch video). Image Credit: Edmund Jenks (2009)Chip Reid And Helen Thomas Take WH Gibbs DownTransparency, openness, townhall, open forum, staff communications, dissenting views, Gibbs snarky push-offs and giggling were all elements in this White House ...
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June 30, 2009
- Cap and Trade C-Span Debate -- Representative John Boehner - Ohio, reading Representative Waxman's 300+ page amendment (Ctrl-Click to launch video). Image Credit: C-SPAN Obama Wants HIS Government To Help You Sell ... Your House The man who worries about being able to address, and make more efficient, the 7% of all electricity usage here in this country with the push to change the ...
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June 29, 2009
- Aretha Franklin's Inauguration Day performance was made extraordinary by her church hat. Bomb Magazine released a chapbook featuring poems about that hat and all it means. My poem "Bolt" is included. And, yes, "Rock Steady" is my favorite Retha song.http://bombsite.powweb.com/wp-content/uploads/THINK.pdf
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June 26, 2009
- I received this email yesterday. What do you think I should do? I would like to invite you to send your complete manuscript to us. Please send your complete manuscript to the below mentioned mailing address.Please include:* Your Complete Manuscript* Any pictures you want considered for the manuscript (if you don't have pictures yet, please include a note that you will be including pictures in the ...
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June 17, 2009
June 9, 2009
- Please --- someone tell me that there is not a blog and a twitter going around following the President of the United States of America cataloging everything he eats! Get a grip people!! Does anyone else realize how absolutely absurd this is, or am I in the minority here? So the man likes his pizza - we fly a guy in from St. Louis to Washington D.C. to make pizza? One simple little, itty bitty ...
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June 4, 2009
- A couple of weeks ago, I wrote briefly about the May 12th White House Briefing on Art, Community, Social Justice, National Recovery I had helped to organize. Now, a detailed report on the briefing has been released. You can download it from the Cultural Recovery page of my Web site. The report is the next best thing to having been there, summarizing all we heard from administration ...
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June 4, 2009
- President Barack Obama spelled out what he expects of the Israeli government in his Cairo speech, issuing a challenge that most commentators here believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has no way of meeting [I wrote on Global Post today].Obama’s speech, carried live on all three main Israeli television stations, made clear his firm opposition to any sort of building in Israel’s West Bank ...
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June 1, 2009
- Doesn't the person who saved the life of the President of the United States deserve a name? The woman who attempted to assassinate Gerald Ford, Sara Jane Moore, has her name out there. Although we still know little about her. But we hear nothing about the person who foiled Moore's second shot. He was just a bystander. Just a bystander? To correct a common error, Sara Jane did get off one shot at ...
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June 1, 2009
- "The Vigilante", a masked government agent, is assigned to investigate the case of the "100 Tears of Blood", a cursed string of rare blood red pearls sought by a gang led by the unknown "X-1" that may have been smuggled into the country. Image Credit: Columbia Pictures Bond Vigilantes In The Age Of Obamanomics In a free and open market society, many ...
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