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• TEA Party film debuts tomorrow

  
  monoblogue — Authority: 429
  I don’t know if I have a cameo in this or not, but TEA Party: The Documentary Film  makes its premiere tomorrow in Washington, D.C. With all of the videotaping going on during that historic day, the film certainly will be interesting. I can guarantee this because I saw a half-hour preview last week online as did ...
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• Door-To-Door Mortgage Modification

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The Chicago Tribune’s Mary Ellen Podmolik has an interesting story about how communities in southwest Chicago uses volunteers to deal with the home foreclosure epidemic. What happened is that upset residents met with Bank of America officials back in July and brokered a deal where volunteers are given the names ...
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• A Problem That Requires More Than Tollbooths

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The Wall Street Journal’s Gary Fields has a comprehensive piece on hard times in the transportation construction industry: unemployment in the transportation and material-moving construction sectors has gone from 7.9 percent in October 2008 to 11.6 percent in October 2009. This leads to a familiar battle cry: ...
  9 hours ago

• War Surtax Is Nice Idea As Far As It Goes

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  Dave Obey With Barack Obama planning to announce an increase of 34,000 troops to Afghanistan tonight, The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus reports on Wisconsin Democrat Dave Obey’s proposal for a war surtax. The House appropriations chairman is proposing a one percent surtax for those who make over ...
  10 hours ago

• Can The Fort Hood Massacre Lead To National Security Reforms?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The Washington Post’s Spencer S. Hsu and Carrie Johnson report that White House counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan will review what federal agencies could have done to prevent the Ford Hood massacre. The FBI and Pentagon are faulted for not sharing sketchy e-mails with military personnel that were sent by ...
  11 hours ago

• Charles Johnson breaks from the right

  
  The League of Ordinary Gentlemen — Authority: 680
  Well you saw this coming even if you didn’t read the interview I did with him a few weeks back.  James Joyner parses out Johnson’s list and I have to say, I agree with James on pretty much all his points except for his take on anti-Obamaism vs. anti-Bushism.  In any case, read Joyner on this one. Related ...
  12 hours ago

• FamousDC - December

  
  FamousDC — Authority: 532
  Chris BerardiniBrittany CooperJennifer CooperSara DiazBrandon EnglishEmily LeamanKathie LeggRebeccah ProppNicole SaccoReid WilsonShare on FacebookRelated posts:FamousDC - DecemberFamousDC - OctoberFamousDC Hot ClicksRelated posts: FamousDC - December FamousDC - October FamousDC Hot Clicks
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• Pointy Ears and All

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 575
  As pundit assessments go, John F. Harriss take-down on President Obama in Politico is somewhat predictable -- hes a pushover, hes not an American exceptionalist, hes arrogant, etc. etc. -- and there are a few nuggets of truth in there. But where he goes off the track is when he gets into psychological analysis ...
  15 hours ago

• Closing Bell: J Stone

  
  FamousDC — Authority: 532
  Share on FacebookRelated posts:Closing Bell: HomecomingClosing Bell: Couldn’t Stop a One Car ParadeClosing Bell: AloneRelated posts: Closing Bell: Homecoming Closing Bell: Couldn’t Stop a One Car Parade Closing Bell: Alone
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• Counting chickens?

  
  monoblogue — Authority: 429
  As Yogi Berra most famously said, this is a case of deja vu all over again: There is great news in my race to take the First Congresssional seat back from the tax-and-spend party of Pelosi. Likely voters in the First District were polled the week before Thanksgiving.  Like all Americans, they were concerned ...
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• Only A Fraction Of Stimulus Cash Has Been Used

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  ProPublica’s Christopher Flavelle reports that $136 billion in stimulus money has been spent and $84 billion in stimulus tax cuts has been allocated. That means there’s $284 billion left to spend in stimulus money (as well as $128 billion in remaining tax cuts) — more than twice the federal spending outlined ...
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• Obama’s Failure On Foreclosures

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  On some early Obama administration issues — labor market recovery, Afghanistan, health care reform — it seems folly to render an even temporary verdict on whether the White House has done a good job. That’s not the case with the epidemic in home foreclosures — thus far it’s been a clear failure. The New ...
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• Getting Into The Weeds of Monsanto’s Empire

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The Washington Post’s Peter Whoriskey reports that 93 percent of soybeans and 80 percent of corn grown in the United States grow from seeds genetically altered by the Monsanto company. Yet this market share is only now being scrutinized by the Justice Department’s anti-trust division: Obama anti-trust ...
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• More Cheney 2012

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 575
  Newsweek s Jon Meacham posits that Dick Cheney should run in 2012. Gallup is not asking about him in its prospective polling, and his daughter Lizs recent Fox News Sunday allusion to a presidential run provoked good-natured laughter, as though the suggestion were just a one-liner. Float the hypothetical in political ...
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• Should an Independent Regulatory Agency Head Be Visiting the White House This Often?

  
  Technology Liberation Front — Authority: 563
  by Adam Thierer & Berin Szoka Move over, health care reform, climate change, and the economy. Judging by White House visits by various government agency heads, the Obama administration instead appears preoccupied with the re-regulation of communications, media, and the Internet. The Administration has just ...
  2 days ago

• Rumor: Penn State vs. WVU at FedEx Field in 2011

  
  William World News - William F. Yurasko's blog — Authority: 433
  Im not big on rumor-mongering, but when it involves Penn State playing close to D.C., I jump. PSUGirl heard on Twitter that West Virginia is being recruited by the Washington Redskins to host Penn State in a 2011 game at FedEx Field in Landover, Md. That would be two seasons in a row that the Nittany Lions would ...
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• Short Takes

  
  Bark Bark Woof Woof — Authority: 575
  The train wreck in Russia that killed a number of people is blamed on a bomb. Irans parliament is digging in for less cooperation on nuclear issues. One of the first goals of the Marines in Afghanistan will be a Taliban bastion. A report from the Senate says Osama bin Laden was "within our grasp." ...
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• Tough On Terror, Easy On Guns

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  Todd Tiahrt In a story this summer on youth homicides in Chicago, I reported that the obscure “Tiahrt amendment” Congress passed in 2003 has made the job of tracking gun buyers — and possible murderers — much harder for the federal government. Yesterday, in a Washington Post op-ed , Michael Bloomberg ...
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• Interior Dept: Drill, Baby, Drill!

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  Government Executives’ Katherine McIntire Peters picks up on the fact that the same day Barack Obama pledged to cap carbon emissions, Interior Sec. Ken Salazar announced 38 sites where the federal government will lease land for oil and natural gas drilling. This development of fossil fuels is managed by ...
  4 days ago

• Obama Bans Lobbyists From Federal Advisory Boards! What Are Federal Advisory Boards?

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 436
  The Washington Post’s Dan Eggen reports that the White House ethics counsel has told federal agencies that they can no longer have registered lobbyists on their federal advisory boards. Federal advisory boards, Eggen explains, are a bureaucratic labyrinth of about about 1,000 panels featuring a total of 60,000 ...
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