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SPEECH President Barack Obama at Notre Dame
May 19, 2009The following is the text of President Obama's Notre Dame commencement speech from May 17, 2009. Thank you, Father Jenkins for that generous introduction. You are doing an outstanding job as president of this fine institution,...
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Obama expected to press Netanyahu on Palestinian state
May 19, 2009In his meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House today, President Obama was expected to press the right-wing Israeli leader to endorse a two-state solution to the Palestinian conflict and to come...
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Clean coal a contradiction in terms
May 19, 2009The coal industry and their army of lobbyists always made sure that enough palms were greased in Washington so that whatever rules and regulations were passed always favored them. To have friends in high places was...
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Medicaid funds for abortion? Far from restored
May 19, 2009Original source: (WOMENSENEWS)--The end of Barack Obama's first term as president will almost coincide with the 50th anniversary of the invention of the birth control pill. The pill changed women's lives, sexual relations and reproduction irrevocably....
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Netanyahu out of step with Obama
May 19, 2009JERUSALEM, (IPS) - A day before he enters what some Middle East analysts are calling not the Oval office but the lion's den, Benjamin Netanyahu, re-incarnated as Israel's leader, is determined not to be easy meat...
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