May 7, 2012
"As a national security representative told Lucy Dalglish, director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, “We’re not going to subpoena reporters in the future. We don’t need to. We know who you’re talking to."

— Edward Wasserman writes about the Obama administration’s harsh line on prosecuting whistleblowers in the Miami Herald. The assertion is that there’s been little coverage of the charges due to a shift in focus from journalists to the sources themselves, which so far, looks to be working for the feds.

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Filed under: obama journalism politics whistleblowers media 
April 3, 2012
"We somehow expected President Obama to be both the head of state and the leader of a social movement. And it just led to wholesale confusion."

— Van Jones saying smart things in an interview with the Washington Post.

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Filed under: van jones obama liberalism government politics washington post 
February 13, 2012
Step one to understanding Obama’s 2012 budget.

Step one to understanding Obama’s 2012 budget.

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Filed under: Obama 2012 budget politics economics finance 
February 7, 2012
"The Republicans, to be sure, are still plenty full of crazy. The ideological zeal remains almost fully intact, but the political zeal – the sheer bloody-minded insistence that steadfastness would invariably bring triumph – is always the first to flag."

— In another interesting example at the Obama administration’s penchant for long-term strategy objectives, it seems as if Republicans would be best served by sitting on their hands and giving Obama nothing to define himself against, keeping him from playing the lesser of two evils card for the rest of the year.

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Filed under: Obama GOP Republicans New York Magazine Jonathan Chait 
January 25, 2012
"The conservative article of faith that hard work and determination guarantee economic security is a now a cruel lie. People lose jobs because of shifts in global trade patterns, because of new technologies, and because of macroeconomic currents beyond their control. This is the nature of a dynamic capitalist economy, and to acknowledge it and the need for government countermeasures is in no way to repudiate the considerable virtues of the system."

— Yglesias on Obama’s economic proposals during the State of the Union.

(Source: Slate)

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Filed under: Obama State of the Union sotu politics economy jobs 
January 25, 2012
nationalpost: State of the Union 2012: Breaking down the language The National Post’s graphics team looks at key words and how many times they’ve been used in State of the Union addresses going back to 2001:

nationalpost:

State of the Union 2012: Breaking down the language

The National Post’s graphics team looks at key words and how many times they’ve been used in State of the Union addresses going back to 2001:

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Filed under: politics sotu state of the union obama 
January 24, 2012
State of the who?

State of the who?

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Filed under: Drudge Report sotu State of the Union Obama politics government Barack Obama Matt Drudge Gingrich 
January 24, 2012

Obama’s going to use this song during his entrance to the State of the Union tonight, right?

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Filed under: Obama State of the Union A More Perfect Union music Titus Andronicus The Monitor 
December 14, 2011
No veto on NDAA

Looks like the White House just released a statement saying there’ll be no veto of the National Defense Authorization Act, you know, the one with all of that indefinite imprisonment and crazy police state-y language.

Which really just means it’s time to freshen up that passport, dust off your jacket, gas up the car and line up at the Canadian border.

At which point you’ll vanish forever and be charged with whatever. 

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Filed under: NDAA politics Obama White House National Defense Authorization Act 
December 6, 2011
What I’m hoping to get out of Obama’s speech today.

What I’m hoping to get out of Obama’s speech today.

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Filed under: Obama Teddy Roosevelt Politics 
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