Recent Barack Obama News
Huge (1.2 inches) single-celled organism discovered
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 7 hours ago
Not politics, just cool:Slowly rolling across the ocean floor, a humble single-celled creature is poised to revolutionize our understanding of how complex life evolved on Earth.A distant relative of microscopic amoebas, the grape-sized Gromia sphaerica was discovered once before, lying motionless at... (original story)
Open Thread for Night Owls, Early Birds & Expats
Posted from Daily Kos 8 hours ago
Rep. Jerrold Nadler, chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, introduced H.R. 1531 in Congress Friday. The resolution, according to a press release from the Congressman... ...is in response to President Bush’s widespread abuses of power an... (original story)
The cover of TIME, circa 2004
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 8 hours ago
Just came upon this, apparently folks discovered it this past September (that'll teach me not to check my ThinkProgress). Freaky. (original story)
Over There
Posted from Talking Points Memo 9 hours ago
Tom Hayden on the US-Iraq Status of Forces Agreement and the fate of Iraq's detainees.... (original story)
Open Thread and Diary Rescue
Posted from Daily Kos 9 hours ago
Tonight's rescue team is HansScholl, ItsJessMe, shayera, vcmvo2, and watercarrier4diogenes, with srkp23 editing. boatsie, reporting live from Marin County, one of the richest regions in the US, describes the local food bank's struggles to meet demand, in Dispatches from the Field: Local Food Crises. (ItsJessMe) dreaminonempty analyzes maps in great detail in order to show how certain groups affected the presidential vote in Maps: Obama and White Evangelicals. (vcmvo2) JohnnyRook describes how scientists have made some startling conclusions in Climaticide Update: Lack of Radioactivity in Himal... (original story)
Another Mystery
Posted from Talking Points Memo 10 hours ago
Have you ever seen this guy before? His name is Mike Duncan. He's the head of the Republican party, chairman of the RNC.... (original story)
Cool police dashboard cam shot of meteor of western Canada
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 10 hours ago
It seems like there's a lot of non-political cool news today, such as this meteor that landed in western Canada last night: Here's another look: (original story)
Cooking the polls
Posted from Daily Kos 15 hours ago
So yesterday, in the midst of some friendly jousting between my friend Jerome Armstrong and I, he made a serious accusation against pollster Research 2000's daily tracking poll. I will give R2K the "Zogby Award" for 2008. This is the award that goes to the pollster that, given the final result, is consistently off until the final days before the election, when they poll to make it more in line with the other poll projections. So congratulations, Markos, on your R2K success. Let's look at the results, taking the results from 10/25, when the results were at its supposed "outlier" place, and... (original story)
Senators Pay Tribute To Convicted Felon
Posted from Daily Kos 15 hours ago
Watch the U.S. Senate give convicted felon Ted Stevens a standing ovation. And here's Harry Reid's contribution to the love-fest: I rise to say farewell to our distinguished colleague, the senior senator from the state of Alaska. For Ted Stevens, public service has been more than a career. It's... (original story)
MSNBC was having far too much with Palin's turkey fiasco
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 15 hours ago
As you may have read, Sarah Palin yesterday gave a press conference in front of a guy slaughtering turkeys, on camera. It's not clear if Palin totally understood what was taking place behind her, especially since she was the place to pardon a Thanksgiving turkey. But either way, the video is hilar... (original story)
Krugman: "The prospects for the economy look much grimmer now than they did as little as a week or two ago"
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 15 hours ago
Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize winning economist at the New York Times, thinks we're in trouble. And that's, well, troubling. as I've said before, when smart people like Krugman start to get scared, regular folks like us ought to get really scared. My take after this excerpt:There is, however, anothe... (original story)
Musings Over Morning Coffee
Posted from Daily Kos 15 hours ago
Stories That Never Grow Old. One of the remarkable things about this gap between when Obama won – an across the board rejection of Bush, conservative and Republican politics – and when Obama takes over is the fear it engenders in those with a stake in "more of the same". Guiltier than m... (original story)
Boeing to announce job cuts
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 15 hours ago
Unfortunately it's not the 800 people announcement but something much larger and not the "usual 4 or 5%" cuts. For those who can't yet notice the trend, cuts are being made throughout the US across many industries. This is not a north versus south, east versus west or any other regional issue. Th... (original story)
Obama raised $500 million online
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 15 hours ago
This really did change the political game:Barack Obama raised half a billion dollars online in his 21-month campaign for the White House, dramatically ushering in a new digital era in presidential fundraising.In an exclusive interview with The Post, members of the vaunted Triple O, Obama's online op... (original story)
Friday Morning Open Thread
Posted from AMERICAblog News| A great n... 15 hours ago
Good morning.I don't know why I watch the TODAY Show in the morning. It just irritates me. Today, NBC's David Gregory was interviewed by Matt Lauer -- as if David Gregory has anything interesting to say. He's one of the biggest tools in t.v. news. His little piece this morning was about Obama not bringing enough "change" in his appointments. Yes, that's the big scoop David Gregory reported because, get this, that's what the Chair of the Republican National Committee told David Gregory. Wow. What a scoop. It's amazing that these people get paid to pump out the most banal and uninformat... (original story)
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