Thursday, November 26:

Charles Brown: FDA, mercury not affected by Obama's 'change' (1 comments) Obama promised change, such as higher ethical standards and a reduction in human mercury exposure. But at FDA, coziness with industry has resulted in the sabotaging of Obama's plans. Contrary to the President's campaign promises, FDA's new Commissioner, a product of the revolving door, and her deputy approve the continued use of mercury amalgam -- even for children and pregnant women --despite the risks of neurological harm.

Tuesday, November 24:

Rabbi Michael Lerner: Obama's Declining Popularity (13 comments) While Obama is still hailed around the world in almost messianic tones, recent polls indicate his approval rate is below 50% in the U.S. How could a man who aroused so much hope be losing support so dramatically? And what lessons can be learned for politicians all around the world?

Dave Lindorff: UK Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as February 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion (11 comments) In the UK, people are learning about the deceit and lies of their former prime minister. In the US, there's no such investigation, and most of the media won't even report on the UK probe.

Tuesday, November 24:

Huffington: Will The Unemployment Disaster Be Obama's Katrina? "At this point you have to wonder what Obama's attachment to Summers and Geithner is."

Richard Cohen - The missing Obama Governing has to be informed by moral clarity, by the sense that we always know the president's interior life -- his bottom lines. Obama's political career has been too brief for us to know his bottom lines by votes cast in any legislative body or decisions made as an administrator. He had little record but lots of rhetoric -- much of it morally stirring and beautifully written.

Tuesday, December 1:

Obama orders 30-35,000 more troops for Afghanistan, surge to begin by Christmas (2 comments) Here we go again, deja vu with Vietghanistan, as the ethically and intellectually bankrupt White House recycles the inane arguments of the past, that our national security is somehow direly threatened because of what may happen in one of their morbid fantasies about the future thousands of miles away.

Monday, November 30:

Eric Lotke: Obama's Jobs Summit and Bernanke's Reappointment: Connect The Dots How ironic that President Obama's jobs summit should be scheduled on the same date (Thursday, December 3) that the Senate Banking Committee has scheduled the reconfirmation hearing of Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke. Maybe someone can ask him about jobs.

Sunday, November 29:

Up to 9,000 Marines Set to Start Deployment to Afghanistan (3 comments) Days after President Obama outlines his new war strategy in a speech Tuesday, as many as 9,000 Marines will begin final preparations to deploy to southern Afghanistan and renew an assault on a Taliban stronghold that slowed this year amid a troop shortage and political pressure from the Afghan government, senior U.S. officials said.

Saturday, November 28:

Likudniks blast 'enemy of the Jews' Obama over settlement freeze "The Obama administration is an enemy of the Jews and the worst regime there ever was for the State of Israel," said Yossi Naim, the head of the Beit Aryeh regional council, at the Ra'ana meeting. "I announce to Obama: You won't be able to stop us."

Friday, November 27:

New Obama Policy Bars Lobbyists from Federal Advisory Panels Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street's influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts. The reaction from the lobbying community has been swift and overwhelmingly negative

The Salahis, Obama's Uninvited Guests, Prompt an Inquiry Michaele and Tareq Salahi, slipped past multiple layers of high-level White House security Tuesday night and managed to rub shoulders, literally, with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and the White House chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, among others, at Washington's most exclusive social event this year.

Wednesday, November 25:

Obama to Offer 17% Emissions-Cut Goal in Copenhagen The White House's proposed emissions cut marks the first time the U.S. has offered a 2020 target in the international negotiations. The reduction will be “in the range of 17 percent,” Carol Browner, Obama's top adviser on energy and the environment, said today.

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