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The First 100 Days of Obama's Second Term Aren't Off to a Popular Start
May 1, 2013 As President Obama begins the second hundred days of his second term, his approval ratings are hovering just below the 50 percent mark. That's not a good sign, if recent history is any guide. Looking at Gallup's tracking poll for presidents Obama, Bush, and Clinton, it quickly becomes clear that ...
Six Months After Sandy, the Government Hasn't Spent Nearly as Much as It Will
April 29, 2013 Since Hurricane Sandy made landfall six months ago tonight, the government and private insurers have paid out tens of billions of dollars in an attempt to restore affected communities. Results have varied. A brief review of the government's spending after the storm indicates that where and how much support has ...
Why the FBI Didn't Catch Tamerlan Tsarnaev
April 24, 2013 Reports that Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been added to the government's terror watch list seems to bolster the argument that the marathon bombing is the result of FBI error. But that revisionism fails to take into account the scale and complexity of how the government tracks terror suspects. The terror watch ...
Will the State Department Ever Listen to These EPA Concerns About Keystone?
April 23, 2013 In a letter responding to the State Department's draft environmental assessment for the Keystone XL pipeline, the EPA finds several areas it deems insufficient. Perhaps the third time's the charm on State doing something about it. The pipeline has become a focal point of the national — and, to some ...
How the Boston Bombing Suspects Became U.S. Citizens
April 19, 2013 In April 2002, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apparently arrived in the United States on a tourist visa with his sons Tamerlan, 15, and Dzhokhar, 8 — now the suspects in the ongoing Boston Marathon bombing manhunt. Over time, the family gained asylum. Tamerlan became a citizen. We spoke with David Leopold of ...
Another Ricin Letter Found in Washington, This Time Targeting Obama
April 17, 2013 The FBI is now investigating a second contaminated envelope sent to a mail processing facility in Washington, D.C. Its intended recipient appears to have been the president. According to Fox News, the FBI released the contents of the letters. The bulletin said both letters included the phrase: "To see a ...
Letter Sent to Senator Tests Positive for Ricin
April 16, 2013 In an eerie if incongruous reminder of the anthrax attacks after 9/11, a preliminary test appears to indicate that an envelope sent to a U.S. Senate office contained the poisonous protein ricin. Politico and CBS report that the recipient was Mississippi's Roger Wicker. Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana suggests that ...
Quiz: Which Budget Is Right for You?
April 11, 2013 Whose budget should you support based on naked self-interest: Paul Ryan's? The president's? A political group you've never heard of? The Atlantic Wire has created this handy quiz to help you decide whose budget is best for your actual life. We took a look at the various plans under consideration, ...
Obama's Last Weapon in the Fight for Gun Regulations: Emotion
April 9, 2013 President Obama, tired and clearly emotional, made another pitch for Congress to act on new gun restrictions Monday evening in Connecticut. His task was nearly impossible on its face: to translate the fury and urgency of the boisterous crowd in front of him into a wave that could sweep away ...
You're Not Really Following @BarackObama on Twitter
April 8, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The 29,503,030 people who follow Barack Obama's Twitter account might see his picture, see his name, see that little blue verified account badge and think they're following the President — but it's not him. All of the president's named social media accounts, in fact, have been handed over to a ...
