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Barack Obama Will Be Assassinated By Second Monday In November

Anorak News (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Of course you usually get a day named in your honour only when you're dead

Has Obama broken his first campaign promise?

Salon.com (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

In June, during his campaign for presidency, Barack Obama promised that he would institute a "windfall profits tax " on US oil companies. "I'll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we'll use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and other bills," he said at the time. Of course, crude was above $140 a barrel back then, and U.S. consumers...

• Obama Abandons Windfall Profits Tax on Oil Companies; Liberals Smell a Corporate Rat - Political Punch
• Obama: Remember that Whole Windfall Profits Tax Thing? Nevermind - American Pundit
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Obama picks Richardson for commerce

Financial Time (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Barack Obama nominated Bill Richardson, the governor of New Mexico and a former rival in the Democratic presidential primaries, as his secretary of commerce in the first high-profile appointment of a Latino to his administration

Barack Obama begins well by copying Abraham Lincoln

Telegraph Blogs - Daniel Hannan (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

No doubt I'll go off Barack Obama soon enough, but so far I'm still an Obamacon . I like the confidence he has displayed in bringing opponents into his administration; and I like, even more, his evident historical consciousness: he called in Doris Kearns Goodwin, the author Team of Rivals to discuss exactly how her subject, Abraham Lincoln, had set about reconciling his former adversaries. ...

NBC’s Mitchell Lauds Obama’s ‘Effortless’ Creation of PC Cabinet

NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

When it comes to building a quota Cabinet that fulfills liberal demands for “diversity,” Barack Obama is far smoother than the “artless” and “calculating” Clintons were back in 1992, NBC’s Andrea Mitchell argued Wednesday afternoon on MSNBC. In contrast to the Clintons, Obama’s approach is “effortless. They’re creating a mosaic, but they’re not doing it by self-consciously creating that mosaic,” Mitchell...

The Barack Obama Day

Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

[Guest post by DRJ] Perry County, Alabama, voted over 70% for Barack Obama in the November election and now its Commissioners have voted to honor him with The Barack Obama Day: “The Perry County Commission voted 4 to 1 to observe the second Monday in November as “The Barack Obama Day.” County offices will close and its [...]

Obama picks Bill Richardson to head Commerce Department

The Atlanta Business Chronicle (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

President-elect Barack Obama named New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson to be secretary of commerce in his administration.

Poll Says Most Approve of Obama's Picks Thus Far

Daniel Molokele (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new national poll suggests that Americans think President-elect Barack Obama's getting it right when it comes to his Cabinet picks, especially Hillary Clinton and Robert Gates. A poll shows 71 percent of Americans approve of Barack Obama picking Hillary Clinton for secretary of state. Seventy-five percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey approve of Obama's...

• Poll shows public approves of Obama's Cabinet picks - Political Ticker
• Obama cabinet picks get kudos - Political Intelligence

Barack Obama Day

Time (Free subscription) | yesterday

Commissioners in Alabama's Perry County approve a measure to close county offices the second Monday in November to celebrate their new annual holiday in honor of the president-elect.

Barack Obama: The billion dollar man

The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago

Barack Obama could become the first presidential candidate to have raised 1 billion £660 million by the time he reaches the White House in January.

Obama Doesn't Quite Top Yahoo! Searches of 2008

Switched (Free subscription) | yesterday

Filed under: Computers , Celebrities The polls are in, and it turns out the winner should actually be dancing from one: the term " Britney Spears " was officially more searched for than " Barack Obama " in 2008. While Obama's presidential victory got more attention than any other story on yahoo.com this year, the more toxic of the two had more total hits. In fact, Obama came in third in overall searches,...

Shanoff Hails Obama’s Misplaced Priorities Fanhood

Can't Stop the Bleeding (Free subscription) | 5 hours ago

Eschewing such obvious choices as Stephon Marbury, Sean Avery or Roger Clemens, Dan Shanoff’s pick for Sportsman Of The Year is none other than President Elect Barack Obama, “as close to a sports fan like you or me as has ever been in the White House.” Were he alive, Dick Nixon might well disagree. Here is [...]

Barack Obama's 78 Percent Approval Rating

MyDD (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

Wow. President-elect Barack Obama gets soaring marks for his handling of the transition and his choices for the Cabinet, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, even at a time the public is downbeat over the economy. More than three of four Americans, including a majority of Republicans, approve of the job Obama has done so far -- broad-based support he'll need as he faces tough decisions ahead. By 69%-25%,...

Experts warn Barack Obama of a nuclear Iran

As in the days of Noah (Free subscription) | yesterday

Iran poses the greatest foreign policy challenge to Barack Obama, the President-elect, with Tehran on course to produce a nuclear bomb in the first year of an Obama administration, a coalition of top think-tanks gave warning yesterday.Mr Obama must keep his promises of direct talks with Tehran and engage the Middle East region as a whole if he is to halt a looming crisis that could be revisited on...

• Experts warn Obama of a nuclear Iran - Ya Libnan | Lebanon News Live from
• Hey Obama, Welcome to the World of a Nuclear Iran - Environmental Republican
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Obama jackets banned from La. classroom

NObama - Not Now, Not Ever (Free subscription) | yesterday

PINEVILLE, La. — Two students were barred from class in central Louisiana after wearing jackets that featured a photo of President-elect Barack Obama. Responding to a complaint from their mother, the principal of Pineville Junior High School said the same guidelines have been applied for years against oversize photos on students’ clothing and that the decision [...]

UFO Group Launches Campaign for Presidential Disclosure

osahar | 09/10/2008

We don't need to tell you that the next President of the United States is going to have a lot to do. He has to fix the economy, the environment, and Wall Street. And he's going to have to explain the whole UFO thing to the US public. Yup. The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), an organization dedicated to ending the "government imposed Truth Embargo regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human

• The Next President Will Be Forced to Disclose the Truth About UFOs - Autopia

Amaral in Vigo: “Justice is Possible for Madeleine McCann”

xklamation | 05/10/2008

Amaral in Vigo: “Justice is Possible for Madeleine McCann” The Former Coordinator of the Judiciary Police talked about the different paths taken by both the Portuguese and English police forces, of the sensation that it was an investigation destined to be archived, of the role of the media in a case who turned out to be extremely mediatized… “I thought, after my removal – said Mr. Amaral – that if