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Obama Administration Denies AP Requests For Syria Evidence

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“The AP’s Zeina Karam and Kimberly Dozier wrote that ‘the U.S. government insists it has the intelligence to prove it, but the public has yet to see a single piece of concrete evidence produced by U.S. intelligence — no satellite imagery, no transcripts of Syrian military communications — connecting the government of President Bashar Assad to the alleged chemical weapons attack last month that killed hundreds of people.’  The Obama administration has released videos to make its case, but the AP noted that its requests for additional evidence the government claims to possess have been denied.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-calderone/obama-administration-ap-syria_b_3890207.html

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Obama Calls Income Gap ‘Wrong’ — After Widening It

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“The Census Bureau’s official measure of income inequality — called the Gini index — shows similar results. During the Bush years, the index was flat overall — finishing in 2008 exactly where it started in 2001.  It’s gone up each year since Obama has been president and now stands at all-time highs. It’s worth underscoring that the growing income gap under Obama isn’t the result of the rich getting fabulously richer. Nor is it any sort of indictment of ‘trickle down’ economics. Instead, it is the direct result of Obama’s historically weak economic recovery, which has left the rest of the country falling behind while the wealthy have managed to make gains.”

http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/073013-665705-income-gap-grew-sharply-under-obama.htm

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Obama’s Backers Seek Big Donors to Press Agenda

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“President Obama’s political team is fanning out across the country in pursuit of an ambitious goal: raising $50 million to convert his re-election campaign into a powerhouse national advocacy network. In private meetings and phone calls, Mr. Obama’s aides have made clear that the new organization will rely heavily on a small number of deep-pocketed donors, not unlike the ‘super PACs‘ whose influence on political campaigns Mr. Obama once deplored. At least half of the group’s budget will come from a select group of donors who will each contribute or raise $500,000 or more, according to donors and strategists involved in the effort.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/us/politics/obamas-backers-seek-deep-pockets-to-press-agenda.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2&

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Move Over, Obamacare. Here Comes Obamaschool

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“The president gave a speech on August 22 in Buffalo outlining his proposal to ‘reform’ the student loan program. He acknowledged that the program has some problems, but assured the audience they are easily fixed. Just take the principles behind Obamacare and apply them to education. The president personally ‘guaranteed’ that his proposals would make college more affordable.  We don’t have a 2,000 page bill in Congress yet, but it’s all quite familiar: government will take even tighter control of higher education just as it has taken even tighter control of medicine, and use Obamacare as its operating manual.”

http://www.mises.org/daily/6518/

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Professor Francis Boyle: IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!

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Professor Francis Boyle: IMPEACH OBAMA NOW!

“You’ve seen them all over the country. Overpasses full of signs and people calling for the Impeachment of President Obama. Some have even got arrested for expressing this action against America’s Commander-in-Chief. Like presidents before him Obama is facing congress to engage yet another sovereign nation in acts of war.  The last time Professor Francis Boyle joined us he had returned from convicting former president Bush of War Crimes at an international tribunal.  Now, Professor Boyle is calling for Obama’s Impeachment and he is here to talk to us today to provide you with his reasons why.  Dr. Francis Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law.”

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9 Myths About Obama’s Drone Killings Debunked

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9 Myths About Obama’s Drone Killings Debunked

“The Obama administration has launched more drone strikes in recent weeks than any time since 2009, according to human rights lawyers and overseas media reports. Attacks in Yemen killed more than 37 people, Reuters reported. Nearly all of their identities remain unknown.  The killings are a bleak reminder that Syria is not the only war President Obama is pushing. Despite the president’s recent pledges to make the drone program more transparent to the public, it remains not only secretive and unaccountable, but also at odds with U.S. and international law.”

http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/9-myths-about-obamas-drone-killings-debunked-video?paging=off

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Obama tells Russian LGBT activists he is proud of their work

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“President Barack Obama on Friday told Russian rights activists that he is ‘proud of their work,’ saying Russia must remember to let civil society function freely.  Meeting with nine activists, including two representing LGBT groups, Obama said ‘it’s important to remember that in every country, here in Russia, in the United States, around the globe, that part of good government is making sure that we’re creating space for civil society to function.’  This included ensuring ‘freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and making sure that people can join together and make common cause around the issues that we care deeply about,’ he added.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/09/06/obama-tells-russian-activists-he-is-proud-of-their-work/

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Obama will address country on Syria; calls crisis ‘threat to global peace’

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“President Barack Obama, facing hardened international opposition to a strike against Syria and returning home to a skeptical American public, will address the country Tuesday to make his case.  Obama said that he would tell Congress and the public in coming days that any American strike would be ‘limited and proportionate.’ He did not directly answer a question about whether he would go forward with an attack without the approval of Congress.  Military officials on Friday told NBC News that the White House asked the Pentagon for an expanded list of potential targets in Syria, and one senior official warned that it could represent ‘mission creep.'”

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/06/20354377-obama-will-address-country-on-syria-calls-crisis-threat-to-global-peace?lite

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Syria strike may hinge on Nancy Pelosi

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“While Boehner backs military action — a rare point of agreement with Pelosi in the hyper-partisan House — it’s unclear how many votes he will deliver from his party members. Passage may well rely on strong support by the president’s own party.  Pushing for military action against Syria, even in a limited way, would seem an awkward position for Pelosi, whose party won control of the House in 2006 by tapping into public frustration with President George W. Bush over the war in Iraq.  Her view that Obama could order a strike on Syria without congressional approval also puts her at odds with a number of fellow Democrats.”

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pelosi-syria-20130906,0,4958953,full.story

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Syria Resolution Intentionally Vague, Obama Can Put Boots On The Ground

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Syria Resolution Intentionally Vague, Obama Can Put Boots On The Ground

“JUDGE ANDREW NAPOLITANO: It’s a tremendous amount of wiggle room for a couple of reasons. As a practical matter, as your previous guest Aaron just said, when you send missiles into a country, you need boots on the ground to guide the missiles where they’re going to land. So Secretary Kerry may very well shrewdly have been mincing words. The government considers military troops out of uniform, out of uniform, or CIA in their nonuniform garb not to be ‘boots on the ground.'”

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