Obama putting $3.4B toward a 'smart' power grid

President Barack Obama made a pitch for renewable energy Tuesday, announcing $3.4 billion in government support for 100 projects aimed at modernizing the nation's power grid.

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Biden reassures Central European fears with trip

Vice President Joe Biden made significant strides during a trip to Central Europe this week in relieving anxieties the Obama administration stirred up last month when it scrapped a Bush-era plan for missile defense.

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Axelrod: Afghanistan plan deeper than troop surge

A senior White House adviser said Friday that President Barack Obama's talks on Afghanistan with top national security advisers earlier in the day ran much deeper than the question of sending more troops into the war.

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GOP says Democrats' climate proposal does little

The climate change proposal developed by congressional Democrats and endorsed by President Barrack Obama does little to reduce global warming and saddles Americans with high energy costs, Republicans said Saturday.

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US, Russia call for nuke cuts in sweeping agenda

The United States and Russia set a newly ambitious course for global cooperation Wednesday as presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev ordered negotiators into immediate action on a treaty to further reduce nuclear weapons.

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For Obama, the pros and cons of picking Clinton

Memo to Barack Obama: Now that you've named three people to help you pick a running mate, they surely will list the pros and cons of Hillary Rodham Clinton. And no doubt some kibitzers will do the same without your encouragement.

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President Barack Obama has said the US must uphold moral standards when waging wars that are necessary and justified, as he accepted his Nobel Peace Prize.

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Obama Promises Kept - Some Don't Want You To Know.

No. 15: Create a foreclosure prevention fund for homeowners Create a $10 billion fund to help homeowners refinance or sell their homes. "The Fund will not help speculators, people who bought vacation homes or people who falsely represented their incomes."

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The United States of America is trying to persuade its NATO partners to commit 10,000 additional troops for Afghanistan as part of President Obama's strategy for the region. President Obama previously indicated a quick close to the Afghanistan war.

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Another ditty for the Twitty

Okay I was on Swamijims seed with title suggestions from cookin mama (thank you - humbly bowing) - The Twelve Days Of Palin, modeled after the Twelve Days of Xmas.It was funny so I started posting one of my own rendition of a Spoof on the tune to Gilligan's Isle.

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The house that Reagan built | GOP [The right] laid bare

Navy Pilots are generally not gamblers. Of all his mission critical decisions, Palin is one John McCain most likely would love a do over.

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Chamber's Attack on Green has Some Members Seeing Red

As if Iraq and Afghanistan weren't enough, President Obama has engaged in yet another war, and this one might be felt a little closer to home. Obama's foe? The U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

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The Price of Gasoline and the President

Over the last nine months since Barack Obama has taken office I have waited. I have waited for the price of gasoline to drop. During the election with the $4.00 price tag for a gallon of gasoline I heard Senator Obama call for a windfall profits tax on the Oil Companies.

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In April, after the Obama White House released memos documenting the Central Intelligence Agency's use of what the Bush administration called "enhanced interrogation techniques" and what everybody else called "torture," former Vice President Dick Cheney made a show of demanding t …

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President Obama plans to nominate Ben S. Bernanke to a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, administration officials said Monday night.The nomination, while expected, comes after Mr.

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You think "death panels" are bad? In this animated editorial cartoon, Mark Fiore imagines what other sinister surprises opponents of health care reform might "discover" in President Obama's plan.

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LIVINGSTON, Montana (CNN) -- Spend a day in this tiny town about 23 miles or so from where President Obama will be holding a town hall meeting on Friday, and it's easy to see why his health-care push is facing big problems in Big Sky country -- even from the people he's trying to …

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Former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel (R), a senior administration official-in-waiting either later this term or in President Obama's second term (if there is one), is taking another step into Obama's national security team.

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The physicist Stephen Hawking is defending Britain's National Health Service after an editorial in Investor's Business Daily said Mr. Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K.," where the health service would have deemed his life "essentially worthless."

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This article points out the various misleading, exaggerated, or simply untrue stories that are being used by opponents of the Obama administration and those with vested interests in stopping reform so they can keep "their" slice of the money that we spend on health care.

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Barrack Obama speaks at a series of "Town Hall" meetings to explain what he is seeking to do through reform of the health care system.

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President Obama's top homeland security and counterterrorism official took all three terms off the table of acceptable words inside the White House during a speech Thursday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

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US favorability ratings around the world, survey of 25 countries.

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"We acknowledge now with President Obama that we have made mistakes in the United States, and we along with other developed countries have contributed most significantly to the problem that we face with climate change," she said.

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Our health-care crisis and our energy crisis are complex dilemmas made of many complex problems. But our biggest problem in both health care and energy is essentially the same simple problem: we use too much.

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As US President Barack Obama presses ahead with his Middle East peace intiatives, America's new tone and new modesty are going down well in the region.

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Fred Hoff, head of the Syrian desk in George Mitchell's US Middle East mission, posed a question to Israeli's leaders, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and defense minister Ehud bark when he met them Monday, July 13: Is the incumbent government prepared to restart talks with Syr …

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With the Halloween masks on, it is difficult to see the real faces and read the minds of Pakistan's power holders.

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In response to the increasingly aggressive and usurious practices of credit card companies President Obama has thrown his support behind efforts to protect consumers from unfair treatment.

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As Americans realize that their sipping of the Obama "hope" kool-aid is fastly vanishing from their view, so it goes in Latin America as well.

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