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President Barack Obama shoots clay targets with a shotgun on the range on Aug. 4, 2012 at Camp David, Maryland.
Obama Skeet-Shooting: Picture-Proof — JFK-Styled Video Next?
The proof is in the picture. After President Barack Obama allowed in a recent interview that he and friends shoot skeet “all the time” up at Camp David, cynics started to question why there are no photos of the...
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President Barack Obama hugs his campaign manager, Jim Messina, during an unannounced stop at campaign headquarters in Chicago.
Obama’s Campaign Turns to ‘Action’
Updated at 9 am EST. President Barack Obama is converting the machinery of his re-election campaign into a tax-exempt nonprofit group to push his second-term legislative agenda, a Democratic official confirmed. The new group, Organizing for Action, will be headed...
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President Barack Obama is Time Magazine's Person of the Year.
Obama Time’s `Person of the Year’
President Barack Obama, who won re-election last month and is the “author of a new America,” is Time magazine’s Person of the Year for a second time, the publication said today. The president joins 12 others who have been honored...
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Former U.S. national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski speaks during a forum on U.S. and Saudi relations April 27, 2009 in Washington.
Brzezinski: Time to `Crack the Whip’ — Need Sec’y of State w/ `Influence’
Zbigniew Brzezinski, former President Jimmy Carter’s hawkish national security adviser, says that, to the rest of the world, the U.S. looks “leaderless” in the so-called fiscal cliff debate. “We look a little bit disorderly, indecisive, leaderless and that’s a real...
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Cass Sunstein, Director of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget.
Sunstein’s Solution for Simplified Federal Forms: Focus Group Them
The government is taking another stab at making the complex more simple. Cass Sunstein, leaving his office today as the nation’s top regulatory official in President Barack Obama’s White House, issued an order to federal agencies to simplify government forms...
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Volunteers help to wrangle an Uncle Sam balloon at the National Independence Day Parade in Washington.
Fireworks for the Fourth and Friday
Get ready for two blasts of fireworks this week: the holiday pyrotechnics tomorrow and another blast Friday — when the government reports the jobs tally for June. The Labor Department may report that employers increased payrolls by 90,000 workers in...
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Victor Motley, left, and Sharyn Kenchen, volunteers with Organizing for America, President Obama's re-election campaign arm, make phone calls to potential supporters in the group's Richmond headquarters.
Off-Shoring, the Attack and Defense
Vice President Joe Biden, attack-dog-in-chief, has joined the off-shoring chorus. And Camp Romney is fighting back. Biden, campaigning in Waterloo, Iowa, home of a large Deere & Co. manufacturing facility, accused Republican Mitt Romney today of “making a lot of...
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