Obama won't let media do their job
Source: CNN
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 10:06:58 -0700 | political-news
Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. ... My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use."...
Navarrette: Obama won't let media do its job
Source: CNN
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 19:26:20 -0700 | political-news
Transparency promotes accountability and provides information for citizens about what their Government is doing. ... My Administration will take appropriate action, consistent with law and policy, to disclose information rapidly in forms that the public can readily find and use."...
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Source: The Progressive
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 07:32:46 -0700 | political-news
Wong, a native-born American of Chinese descent, traveled abroad and was denied re-entry to the United States because of the Chinese Exclusion Act...Because of his fortitude, the Supreme Court ruled that the Citizenship Clause of the 14th Amendment signifies that...
Legislature to conduct special session
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 07:19:13 -0700 | political-news
This recurring problem happens because legislators have their priorities backward. They spend most of the session working on lower-priority pet bills and leave the budget the most important task to the end. Here are some of the bills that legislators...
Bush: I won't try 'to enhance my standing'
Source: USA Today
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 06:43:28 -0700 | political-news
When Rose told the oft-criticized Bush he doesn't seem like a turn-the-the-cheek kind of guy, Bush said: "Well, I turned it." For one thing, Bush said, anything he voiced about contemporary issues would inevitably be compared to President Obama, and...
Analysis: Once a beacon, Obama under fire over civil liberties
Source: Reuters
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 02:31:17 -0700 | political-news
Topics President Barack Obama pauses during remarks at the House Democratic Issues Conference in Lansdowne, Virginia, February 7, 2013. He may have been the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review and taught constitutional law at the University of...
Truce! Britain and France finally agree on one thing - that the French are the most arrogant ...
Source: Mail Online UK
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-15 03:49:07 -0700 | political-news
That's the verdict of a sweeping new US survey about the attitudes of European countries towards each other. Not surprisingly, many national stereotypes are reinforced in the poll. Britons not only find their neighbours across the channel the most arrogant,...
Seattle's grant of $500K to schools will expand arts education
Source: Seattle Times
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 18:38:25 -0700 | political-news
In an announcement today, Mayor Mike McGinn said the money will come from higher-than-expected revenue from admissions taxes, and will also be used to purchase instruments and art supplies for classrooms. Two yeras ago, the city and school district received $1 million from the Wallace Foundation...
Elizabeth Warren Demands Answers, Republican Hypocrisy Called Out, and More
Source: Truthdig
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 17:24:12 -0700 | political-news
Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is doing what many of our elected officials have failed to do the past few yearsshe's demanding the federal government explain why not a single Wall Street bank has been prosecuted in the wake of the...
Letters: North County, May 15, 2013
Source: San Diego Union-Tribune
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 21:05:01 -0700 | political-news
More views on Benghazi hearings Your editorial What did the president know, and when did he know it? (May 12) did a fine job of following the Republican party line on Benghazi. Unfortunately, it also suffers from the fundamental flaws...
Bidder 70 Preserves Our Wilderness, One Civil Disobedience at a Time
Source: Village Voice
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 15:42:06 -0700 | political-news
Only in the United States would the president auction off protected wilderness to energy and mining companies to help the government turn a profit. Only in the U.S. would a college student show up to the auction and outbid the...
McConnell to Reporters: Ask Yourself ‘How Would I Be Writing This Story if This Were a GOP ...
Source: Newsbusters
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 15:36:35 -0700 | political-news
Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his Republican Senate Leadership spoke to the media Tuesday after a closed policy luncheon. The Senate Minority Leader began the event by saying, "I want to make a few observations about the administration's abuse of power,"...
Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox
Source: New York Observer
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 15:44:57 -0700 | political-news
The Department of Homeland Security appears to have shut down the ability to use Dwolla, a mobile payment service, to withdraw and deposit money into Mt...Chris Coyne, cofounder of OKCupid, posted a screenshot of an email he received from Dwolla,...
Rep. Steve King: Gang of 8 Immigration Bill ‘Destroys the Rule of Law'
Source: CNSNews.com
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 15:44:26 -0700 | political-news
Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) said immigration reform being considered in the Senate destroys the rule of law by granting amnesty to illegal aliens. It destroys the rule of law, King said at a Tuesday press conference outside Capitol Hill. And...
NAACP's Bond Calls Tea Party ‘American Taliban', MSNBC's Roberts Barely Challenges
Source: Newsbusters
Seattle :: WA :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 19:45:00 -0700 | political-news
Thomas Roberts is an openly liberal host who frequently makes disparaging comments towards conservatives and the Republican Party. And as it the modus operandi at the network, he frequently brings on fellow liberals to bash conservatives, often without the benefit...
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