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President Obama this morning will address the monthly jobs numbers that will be released today. Within the context of the nation’s unemployment rate, the president will announce investments into 66 new Recovery Act broadband projects nationwide. After his remarks, President Obama will fly to West Virginia, where he will attend the memorial service for the late West Virginia senator, Robert Byrd, who passed away this week. After the memorial service, the president will fly to Camp David, where he will spend the holiday weekend with his family. The Obamas will return to the White House on Sunday to watch fireworks...

For the purpose of this section, the term— (1) “oil” means oil of any kind or in any form, including, but not limited to, petroleum, fuel oil, sludge, oil refuse, and oil mixed with wastes other than dredged spoil...(d) National Contingency Plan (1) Preparation by President The President shall prepare and publish a National Contingency Plan for removal of oil and hazardous substances pursuant to this section....(2) Discharge posing substantial threat to public health or welfare (A) If a discharge, or a substantial threat of a discharge, of oil or a hazardous substance from a vessel, offshore facility, or onshore...

Chicago pool report #1 By Anne E. Kornblut White House Correspondent The Washington Post Shortly after takeoff, a surprise gaggle on Air Force One: with Bo, the presidential dog. His owner was just a few steps behind. President Obama watched and smiled as Bo ran down the aisle past a throng of cooing reporters. Obama cracked the old joke about needing a dog in Washington - since there's no such thing as a real friend. Someone told him that Bo had been spotted at the airport interacting with his bomb-sniffing relatives. "I didn't want him getting into it with the...

Barack Obama played golf for over four hours today at Andrews Air Force Base, according to the AP.Our troops in Afghanistan have been waiting months for reinforcements urgently requested by Obama's hand picked Afghan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal.Millions of Americans have lost their jobs under Obama--and they're not getting new ones--as unemployment has skyrocketed to 10.2% with no sign of abating anytime soon.Obama has blown out the budget and deficit.His foreign policy from the Middle East to Asia is in a shambles.His approval rating is below 50%, including in swing states he won last year like Iowa, Ohio and Virginia.He...

Only nine months ago, the Pentagon pronounced itself reassured by the early steps of a new commander in chief. President Obama was moving slowly on an American withdrawal from Iraq, had retained former President George W. Bush’s defense secretary and, in a gesture much noticed, had executed his first military salute with crisp precision. But now, after nearly a month of deliberations by Mr. Obama over whether to send more American troops to Afghanistan, frustrations and anxiety are on the rise within the military. A number of active duty and retired senior officers say there is concern that the president...

Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own -- when it was successful. These are not character traits that we should associate with Presidents.

BEDFORD, Ohio — An Ohio man who argued with his grown son over a messy bedroom said he overreacted when he called 911. Andrew Mizsak called authorities Thursday after his 28-year-old son — who's a school board member in the Cleveland suburb of Bedford — threw a plate of food across the kitchen table and made a fist at him when told to clean his room. The son, also named Andrew, lives in a room in his parents' basement. ___

An administrative judge has denied unemployment benefits to a woman who was fired from her job for keeping a journal detailing her efforts to avoid work. Emmalee Bauer, 25, of Elkhart, was employed by the Sheraton hotel company as a sales coordinator in Des Moines. While on the job, she kept a handwritten journal. A supervisor told her to stop writing on company time, but instead, Bauer wrote her journal, all 300 single-spaced pages, on her work computer. In the journal, portions of which were introduced during a recent hearing regarding Bauer's request for unemployment, Bauer describes her efforts to...

What's Moore up to this time? Helmer screens 'Slacker' at Toronto fest By STEVEN ZEITCHIK Could it be another election season dominated by Michael Moore? Filmmaker appears to be greasing the wheels for a hush-hush project called "The Great '04 Slacker Uprising," screening portions of the work for the first time at the Toronto Film Festival next month. Little is known about the pic, for which the director shot his 60-city student tour to college campuses and other venues ahead of the 2004 presidential election, documenting what fest literature calls the "the birth of a new political generation." While there...

Rush's guest host today: Mark Belling

WASHINGTON - Unemployment soared to record highs recently, not because of lack of jobs, but lack of motivation to work. Such is the legacy of today's "Slacker Generation." Andy Dandershaw, a self-described "free-thinker" still living with his parents at age 32, said he discovered his calling when Forest Gump said "Life is like a box of chocolates." "It made a lot of sense, like something kicked down a door in my mind." Anderstone said, "Eating chocolates sure beats work. Forest is happy, and he can run real fast. What else do you need?" Jeff Tamozzar, a computer engineer and scholar,...

LONDON, August 8 (AFP) — Doctors fear that the identity of a mysterious mute pianist found wandering on an English beach in April might never be known, a British newspaper reported today. "We have discounted a lot of the names and continue to look at those which remain. But there is no obvious lead — we haven't had someone bashing down the door saying, 'This is my son' or 'This is my brother'," an official at the Little Brook Hospital in Dartford, Kent, southeast England told The Independent. "Given the enormous amount of publicity about Piano Man, we think it...

The coming economic crisis. Unemployment. Health care for the poor. The almost 1,500 dead soldiers. The almost 100,000 dead Iraqis. Armstrong Williams and Maggie Gallagher. The Christian Conservative takeover of our nation. The missing 9 billion. The missing weapons of mass destruction. The impending invasion of Iran, and Syria. The total failure to protect us on 9-11.

Safe drunk dialing…. Slackertown is taking on the issue of drunk dialing head on. I know that stopping it is imposable. I am just hoping to offer a safer alternative. I have setup a phone number for safe drunk dialing. When you leave a voice mail on slackertowns answering machine it will be posted to the slackertown web site. This way you can come back and know just what you were thinking at 2 or 3 in the morning you know that great Idea you need to call every one and tell them. Now if it still sounds like a...

For more than a year we have been treated to disgusting and slanderous lies about our President by Michael Moore. He made aa Docufantasy called "Fahrenheit 9/11" where he smeared the President and decried that there was "no terrorism". He hijacked the Democratic Party and sat next to the worst President in the history of the US , Jimmy Buffoon Carter, during the Democratic Convention. Furthermore, Michael Morre embarked in a "Slacker Tour" in over 60 cities in the US repeating his lies and innuendo trying to get the 18-25 vote out to defeat the President. But you know what?...

Moore admires the Republican machine US activist Michael Moore has admitted that he secretly admires the Republican Party - because of its well oiled election machine. The controversial documentary maker and author spoke to the BBC's Panorama programme in Florida as the battle for the US election entered its final stages. But despite vowing to do everything he can to oust George W Bush from power, he also had a few critical words to say about some of the Democrat tactics in the election. Asked if he secretly admired the Republicans, the controversial author and documentary maker told the programme:...

Voted YES on adding sexual orientation to definition of hate crimes. (Jun 2002) Voted YES on loosening restrictions on cell phone wiretapping. (Oct 2001) Voted YES on expanding hate crimes to include sexual orientation. (Jun 2000) Voted YES on setting aside 10% of highway funds for minorities & women. (Mar 1998) Voted YES on prohibiting job discrimination by sexual orientation. (Sep 1996) Voted YES on spending $448B of tax cut on education & debt reduction. (Apr 2001) Voted YES on removing consideration of drilling ANWR from budget bill. (Mar 2003) Voted YES on reducing funds for road-building in National Forests....

LONDON (AP) -- The American general who was in charge of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison claimed she was being made a scapegoat for the abuse of detainees, and said her successor once told her that prisoners should be treated "like dogs." A spokesman for Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, accused of making the "like dogs" remark, categorically denied the charge. In an interview with British Broadcasting Corp. radio broadcast Tuesday, Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski said Miller told her last autumn that prisoners "are like dogs, and if you allow them to believe at any point that they are more than a...

Okay, we all know that Kerry has decided to take a week off from campaigning but the question is, will he actuall go the the job he has been neglecting for the past 8 or 9 months? All I could find was the following blurb right at the end of a story: During this week of unscheduled time off, Kerry said he will do some office work that has been neglected as he travels the country.

How much have Sen. John Edwards' presidential ambitions affected his current job? Here's one yardstick: This month, he has made more trips to early nominating states than to the Senate floor. Edwards, a North Carolina Democrat, has missed 38 of the 42 roll-call votes since the U.S. Senate returned from its August recess, Winston-Salem Journal reported Thursday. His record is hardly unusual for a presidential candidate. In fact, it is better than the three other Senate Democrats in the race. But Republican critics have seized upon his absences to argue that Edwards -- who announced this month that he won't...