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breaking: Tom Daschle withdraws from consideration
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Aziz Poonawalla
UPDATE: Tom Daschle has officially withdrawn his name from consideration. I heard it on Twitter first, actually. It turns out that Tom Daschle has even more explaining to do: Daschle’s tax problems were even more substantial than earlier reported. The report indicates that Daschle’s failure to pay more than $101,000 taxes on the car and…
Obama mail
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Aziz Poonawalla
President Obama’s email address is the new status symbol in Washington DC – and the circle of who knows his email address is very, very selective indeed. There’s a great article in the NYT about Obama’s email, which includes this gem: Mr. Obama presumably knows not to send his bank account information to those ubiquitous…
What the GOP voted against
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Aziz Poonawalla
via Clammyc at Daily Kos, here is a partial list of what the House Republicans voted unanimously against in refusing to support the stimulus package that passed without them. An increase in the maximum benefit under the former food stamp program (now called the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program or SNAP); An expansion of broadband internet…
Obama’s Intelligence Director Dennis Blair and East Timor genocide
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Aziz Poonawalla
Gary Farber sounded the alarm last month about President Obama’s nominee for National Intelligence Director, Denis Blair, who was complicit in genocide in East Timor during the Clinton Administration. Unfortunately, no questions were asked about East Timor during Blair’s confirmation hearing. Blair also refused to categorically state what the attorney general already said explicitly, that…
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