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Obama Tells NASA To ‘Stay On The Ground’ – Plans to Ax Moon Mission (Orlando Sentinel)
NASA’s plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there — that is, if President Barack Obama gets his way.
When the White House releases his budget proposal Monday, there will be no money for the Constellation program that was supposed to return humans to [...]
Obama And The GOP Look For The Middle Ground (L. A. Times)
President Obama today called for bipartisanship in dealing with the nation’s ills in a rare public confrontation with Republican congressional leaders, who said afterward that they were willing to search for common ground.
The televised session in Baltimore could have been like Daniel entering the lion’s den, but in keeping with the goals, it was more [...]
The Fastest Growing Cities In Amercia (Business Week)
Tired of reading about how rotten the real estate market is? Here’s some good news that shows that even during the worst of the recession plenty of American cities, towns, and suburbs continue to grow.
One such place is Atascocita, Tex. A mostly residential community 20 miles from Houston, it gained more than 1,800 households in [...]
Hillary Clinton Raises Prospect Of Resignation (Telegraph)
Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, has complained of the tiring natue of her job and said she will step back from the role before the end of Barack Obama’s presidency.
Mrs Clinton said she would not serve a full eight years if President Barack Obama is re-elected in 2012. There has been speculation in [...]
Children Face Felony Sexting Charges In Indiana (The Smoking Gun)
A pair of Indiana middle school students are the latest minors to face felony charges for allegedly “sexting” naked photos to each other. The students–a 13-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy–were charged in connection with an incident last week at Ben Franklin Middle School in Valparaiso. The students are each facing felony child exploitation and [...]
After Obama Speech, Democrats Confused About Path Ahead (Washington Post)
A day after President Obama called on them to renew efforts to pass his ambitious agenda, congressional Democrats remained in disarray Thursday about how to move forward, with at least some pointing at the White House as the cause of the legislative standstill gripping Capitol Hill.
Democrats left town early Thursday weighing their next steps on [...]
AND NOW THE GOOD NEWS! GDP Expands at 5.7% Rate (Wall Street Journal)
The U.S. economy surged at the end of 2009, a bigger-than-expected gain driven more by slower inventory liquidation than by consumer spending. Gross domestic product rose a seasonally adjusted 5.7% annual rate October through December, the Commerce Department said Friday in its first estimate of fourth-quarter GDP.
Economists surveyed by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast 4.8% [...]
Voters To Obama: Less Talk, More Action (Yahoo! News)
When Al Melquist voted for Barack Obama in 2008, the unemployed software engineer was drawn to the politician’s charisma and promise of solutions for the nation’s economic woes and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
In the time since, Melquist has given up looking for work. The house in Las Vegas where he lived sits empty and [...]
Voter Views on State Of The Union Points (Rasmussen Reports)
During his State of the Union address tonight, President Obama touched on a number of topics that Rasmussen Reports has current polling data on measuring the attitudes of the American people.
In his speech, for example, the president called for taxing banks to repay bailouts. Most Americans like the general idea of a tax on large [...]
Senator John McCain Responds To The State of the Union (Video/The Atlantic Politics Channel)
If 2008 had turned out differently, Sen. John McCain would have been addressing Congress, confronting a sour Democratic majority whose initiatives he would have vetoed several times over. But it didn’t, and so McCain took to YouTube tonight to respond to President Obama’s State of the Union address.
McCain’s response was mostly about spending, and he [...]
