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Follow  |   Public Spot created by fred-james the 15/01/2008  |  Visited : 23873  |  Channel: News, Politics, Society,   |  Abusive content
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President Obama names theologian Miguel H. Diaz U.S. ambassador to the Vatican

In the same week of his nomination of a Hispanic Catholic for the Supreme Court of the United States, President Obama has finally named Havana-born 45 year old Miguel H. Diaz, an associate professor of theology at St. John's University and the College[...]

thepublicsquare.blogspot.com   |   the 01/06   |   Add or View Comment
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Florida politics is wide open for ethnic and racial diversity

By Barbara Cheives Newspapers are running lists of potential candidates to fill the myriad legislative seats and statewide offices that will come available in the wake of Senator Mel Martinez opting not to seek reelection. Most of these lists have a common[...]

weblogs.sun-sentinel.com   |   the 17/05   |   Add or View Comment

Van Jones, Creator of Green For All, Takes His Message of Green Jobs and Sustainability to the White House as Green Jobs Czar

Green Jobs Now Since 2007, it’s been my pleasure to share details with you about Van Jones and his fabulous organization, Green For All. Simply put, they do great work. It’s also been my pleasure to refrain for engaging in politics here on Keyboard Culture[...]

keyboard-culture-global-warming.com   |   the 07/05   |    2 Comments 
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U.S. Soldier Killed Herself -- After Refusing Torture Duty

Peterson, 27, a Flagstaff, Ariz., native, served with C Company, 311th Military Intelligence BN, 101st Airborne. Peterson was an Arabic-speaking interrogator assigned to the prison at our air base in troubled Tal Afar in northwestern Iraq. According to[...]

feeds.digg.com   |   the 26/04   |   Add or View Comment

Hedge Fund Paid Obama Adviser Summers $5.2 million

By Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawrence Summers, a top economic adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama, was paid about $5.2 million by hedge fund D.E. Shaw in the past year, financial disclosure forms released by the White House showed on...[...]

feeds.digg.com   |   the 07/04   |   Add or View Comment

Jon Ward Tosses "The Global Imbalance Question" at Obama and Merkel at Same Time

My friend Jon Ward who blogs at Potus Notes for the Washington Times is traveling in the press pool with President Obama in Europe now. He just showed how good a journalist he is. Ward attended the conference my colleagues and I helped organize last week[...]

thewashingtonnote.com   |   the 06/04   |   Add or View Comment

Sacramento mayor threatens to sue over his suspension from receiving U.S. funds

Mayor Kevin Johnson, already attended by a large staff of volunteers, is trying to determine how to beef up his team of paid staffers. Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson threatened to sue the federal government Tuesday if he is not immediately taken off a[...]

sacbee.com   |   the 03/04   |   Add or View Comment

Take urgent action, Obama and Brown tell world leaders

US president cheered by No 10 staff as he and wife Michelle arrive for discussions with PM ahead of the G20 summit • Live blog: G20 summit and protests Barack Obama arrived in Downing Street this morning for talks with Gordon Brown as both the UK and[...]

guardian.co.uk   |   the 02/04   |   Add or View Comment

MediaShift: 'Fox & Friends' Hosts Not Liable for Repeating Associated Content Parody

As newspapers are closing or abandoning their print editions, online news sources are growing in importance -- as are sites that rely on user-submitted news stories. But with so much unfiltered news content available online, how do you separate the accurate[...]

pbs.org   |   the 01/04   |   Add or View Comment

Obama Vows to 'Dismantle' al Qaeda

Obama declares U.S. must push harder against the Taliban and al Qaeda.

feedproxy.google.com   |   the 31/03   |   Add or View Comment
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