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Obama's bowling: 'Three strikes,' 144
The Swampby Mark Silva "Three strikes and a nine?'' The president's bowling game apparently has come a long way from his gutter-hugging campaign days, according to the White House. Spokesman Robert Gibbs, asked how President Barack Obama plans to celebrate his.......Tags: Sports, Bowling, White House, National Government, Hillary Clinton
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Sonia Sotomayor: 'More perfect union'
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, honoring the newest member of the U.S. Supreme Court today, hailed the seating of Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor as "another step toward that more perfect union that we all seek.'' And Sotomayor, the first......Tags: Sonia Sotomayor, Local Government, Judges, Court Administration, Justice System
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New GI Bill: 'Investment' in the future
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama today called a newly enacted GI Bill offering college tuition assistance for veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan "an investment in our own country.'' The new bill, the most comprehensive education benefit........Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Veterans Affairs, Social Issues, Government, Barack Obama
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Henry Gates: Harvard for sergeant's kids
The Swampby Mark Silva Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he's looking forward to his next talk with Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley, maybe lunch, maybe dinner with the families, maybe getting the officer's kids into Harvard -- if the......Tags: Sports, Chris Rock, Arts and Culture, Boston Red Sox, Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
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Public health-care option optional: WH
The Swamp"The public option... is not the entirety'' of health-care reform, the president says in the encounter shown above in Colorado, where a young man challenges the president to an "Oxford-style'' debate on competition in health-care. by Andrew Zajac The...Tags: San Francisco, Democratic Party, Health Insurance, Colorado, Washington (U.S. state)
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Obama: Two wars, one promise
The Swampby Mark Silva President Barack Obama, who has pledged to bring the troops home from Iraq while the American deployment in Afghanistan grows, faced the Veterans of Foreign Wars today in Phoenix. The U.S. has placed more than 60,000 troops......Tags: Sports, Arts and Culture, Pakistan, Local Government, Lobbying
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Hawaii, president's birthplace: 50 today
The Swampby Mark Silva Fifty years ago today, the United States welcomed Hawaii to the union. A little less than two years later, Barack Obama was welcomed to the world, born in Honolulu -- even if Tom DeLay is still looking......Tags: Wildlife, Conservation, Sarah Palin, Government, Hawaii
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Kennedy's salutes: Reagan, Clintons too
The Swampby Mark Silva In a town where the notion of bipartisanship is a cliche that often finds little rooting in reality, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy's career was remarkable for his success in crossing the aisle of a Senate that had......Tags: Arts and Culture, Regional Authority, Medical Research, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid
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Torture probe 'offends hell out of' Cheney
The Swampby Mark Silva Former Vice President Dick Cheney, whose administration authorized and legally justified interrogation tactics for detainees captured in its "war on terror,'' has this to say about the Obama administration's investigation of interrogations...Tags: National Security, Dick Cheney, Lawyers, Heads of State, Police Investigations
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Bernanke: Economic recovery coming
The Swampby Mark Silva This just in from Jackson Hole: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke declared today that the nation's economy stands on the verge of a long-awaited recovery from a brutal recession, the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression........Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Heads of State, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington (U.S. state), Wyoming
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Kennedy's Senate seat: Critical vacancy
The Swampby James Oliphant Sen. Edward M. Kennedy didn't live to see his last public wish granted. Last week, during what turned out to be his final days, Kennedy sent a letter to Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Democratic leaders of......Tags: Lawyers, Local Elections, Democratic Party, Judges, Edward M. Kennedy
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Kennedy: 'Greatest senator' -- Obama
The SwampTelevision note: MSNBC will air a planned documentary, The Kennedy Brothers, at 9 pm EDT tonight, in addition to its already scheduled time of 7 pm Thursday as noted below. CNN's Larry King Live will devote its show at 9......Tags: Arts and Culture, Mel Martinez, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Arizona
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