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President Obama Brushes Back His Activist Left
Posted by Time: Michael Scherer on April 8th, 2013
Time: When President Obama released his first budget to the nation in February of 2009, he spent his afternoon meeting with the liberals from the Congressional Black Caucus at the White House. On Wednesday, when he releases his fifth budget, he will privately dine instead with a dozen Republican Senators.
This change is not just a matter of the White House social calendar. While Obama’s first budget was hailed by progressives as a breath of fresh air, his latest is earning scorn from those same quarters...
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Keystone XL Pipeline Not A Climate Change Cure
Posted by Time: Michael Scherer on March 16th, 2013
Time: Barack Obama has seen protesters from his motorcade for years: McCain and Romney campaign supporters, health care reform opponents and all manner of Tea Party acolytes. But when he left Argonne National Laboratory in a cold rain outside Chicago on Friday, there was another breed altogether: environmentalists bearing bright hand-painted signs with messages like, “No XL Pipeline.”
In a matter of months, the Obama Administration will have to decide whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline, a 2,000...