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Wednesday 10: Barackonomics
Spin CycleObama pledged to scour the federal budget for savings in a news conference yesterday, but couldn't name a single federal program he would cut. He seems to have decided to play a higher profile role in reassuring the country......Tags: Politics, Illegal Immigrants, Eliot Spitzer, Steve Levy, Robert Gates
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Michelle Obama geneaology off-limits
The SwampA surviving shack along road once known as Slave Street on a South Carolina plantation. Michelle Obama's great-great-grandfather, who was born around 1850, lived as a slave, at least until the Civil War, on the sprawling rice plantation. (Tribune......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights, Slavery, Population and Census, White House
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DHS's Chertoff's home cleaned by illegals
The Swampby Frank James Incoming Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano may want to have her department's immigration agents check the immigration status of any cleaning-company workers she may hire to keep up her future Washington-area home. That's one...Tags: Illegal Immigrants, Michael Chertoff, Immigration, Employees, Maryland
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Substance: Questions Caroline doesn't have time for
Spin CycleCaroline Kennedy's Senate candidacy seems to be based on her name, her celebrity, and her support among some Democratic powerbrokers and non-Democrat VIPs like Bloomberg. She gives every appearance of considering substance -- where she stands -- beside...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Illegal Immigrants, Immigration, State Budgets, Steve Levy
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Substance: Caroline answers some questions
Spin CycleAfter a week spent touching base with New York powerbrokers in her quest for Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, Caroline Kennedy today began answering some substantive questions to sketch out where she stands on the issues. In an item yesterday,......Tags: Private Health Care, Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, State Budgets, Terrorism
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Utah led nation in population growth
The Swampby Frank James Utah's population grew the fastest of all states in the 12 months which ended July 1, 2008, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, partly because it's in a region -- the west -- which generally leads the......Tags: Florida, Idaho, Population and Census, Population, North Carolina
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Top-Five Gaffes of Campaign 2008
The Swampby Mark Silva It could have been a certain candidate for vice president's inability to name any newspapers that she reads. Or it could have been those thousands of dollars of campaign-purchased designer-wear that the self-styled "soccer mom'' from Alaska....Tags: Sarah Palin, Movies, Bill Clinton, Trinity United Church of Christ, David Letterman
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Happy New Year -- Nine for '09
Spin CycleThe ball has dropped. The revelers are gone. The first babies are born. Dry trees move outside. Diets begin. The calendar is flipped. In other words, time to face forward. Here are nine big topics guaranteed to sober you......Tags: Bill Clinton, State Budgets, George W. Bush, New Year's Day, Mark Teixeira
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Obama's free advice from Boston U profs
The Swampby Frank James When you're president or president-elect, you get a lot of gratuitous advice. And so it is that some Boston University professors have some ideas for President-elect Barack Obama, some serious, some not some serious. Hat tip to......Tags: Interior Policy, State Budgets, Trade Policy, Scientific Exploration, NASA
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Obama, Baucus still back Geithner
The Swampby Frank James The Obama presidential transition issued a statement responding to disclosures that Tim Geithner, President-elect Barack Obama's choice for Treasury Secretary, once employed an immigrant domestic worker with an expired work authorization...Tags: Max Baucus, U.S. Presidential Transition (2009), State Budgets, Immigration, White House
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Clemency: Bush commutes border agents' sentences
Spin CycleBush commutes the sentences of two border patrol agents, who convicted in a controversial shooting of a drug smuggler. Correction: The original version of this post said Bush had pardon the agents. In fact, he commuted their sentences.......Tags: Illegal Immigrants
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Obama, Bush: High and low at hand-off
The Swampby Mark Silva One new president rides in on a high note of public approval, one old president leaves low. On the eve of his inauguration as 44th president, Barack Obama dropped in on wounded veterans of a war that......Tags: Chesley B. Sullenberger III, Illegal Immigrants, Joe Biden, White House, George W. Bush
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