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Who Is Van Jones?

The story of how the President’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs became the biggest, scariest villain of the right wing (this week, anyway) is also the story of how the right wing information delivery process works now. Here’s the biography of Van Jones : he was a bookish black kid from Tennessee who went to Yale Law and moved to San Francisco and became a radical. Then he decided to use his law degree and smarts to clean up and make things better from inside the establishment

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Rev. Wright — Oprah Can’t Help Poor People

Filed under: Oprah , Barack Obama , Politix , Exclusives Oprah may appear to be all-powerful — but according to Reverend Jeremiah Wright, she doesn’t have as much pull as we thought.Barack Obama’s former pastor was in D.C. yesterday, where he went on the Oprah offensive, saying she’s only “an entertainer, … Permalink

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Right’s Idiotic ‘Indoctrination’ War Hurts School Kids

President Obama announced that he will give a speech welcoming America’s young students into the new school year. Conservatives, happy to fight about anything this man does, came out swinging against the President’s “socialist” intentions.

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Glen Beck Plays Communist Da Vinci Code

Glen Beck explains how the Rockefeller building, and the son of the oil tycoon, was a communist fascist.

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How will Rupert Murdoch justify not covering Obama’s address to Congress next week?

Fox has made it perfectly clear that it's not going to cover any of Obama's primetime press conferences. Ever. Fox TV (not Fox News) has walked away from that traditional obligation.

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How will Rupert Murdoch justify not covering Obama’s address to Congress next week?

Sneak Attack!

Barack Obama's daughter Sasha hides behind the sofa in the Oval Office. Somebody call the Secret Service. Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Obama won’t insist on public option, aides say

In a move that is sure to raise the hackles of his party’s liberal base, President Barack Obama will not insist that Congressional legislation to reform healthcare include the so-called public option to compete with private health insurers, according to a report Wednesday. Buried in a Politico report Wednesday was the fact that Obama officials have allegedly decided not to insist on a public option in a planned speech the President is set to deliver on healthcare.

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Jon Voight: Mad as Hell, Not a Fan of Health Care

Possibly delusional and hate-filled actor Jon Voight appeared on Fox News’ Huckabee this weekend and slammed Barack Obama for being arrogant, forcing his policies on America and essentially playing God when it comes to health care .

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Jon Voight: Mad as Hell, Not a Fan of Health Care

American commander: US on the road out of Iraq

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military is packing up to leave Iraq in what has been deemed the largest movement of manpower and equipment in modern military history – shipping out more than 1.5 million pieces of equipment from tanks to antennas along with a force the size of a small city. The massive operation already under way a year ahead of the Aug.

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Obama Vacation Tip Not All That

Filed under: Barack Obama President Barack Obama is usually quite the gracious tipper, but stories of him dropping dollars in Martha’s Vineyard are a tad exaggerated. It sounded like a good economic indicator when it was reported today that the Prez tipped the clerk at a … Permalink

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