Archive for February 27th, 2009
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Obama outlines ambitious agenda for ‘lasting prosperity’
President Obama on Tuesday outlined an ambitious agenda that requires “significant resources,” even as he aims to halve the deficit by the end of his first term.
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Iraq War may end, but fighting doesn’t (AP)
AP – The Marines based at Camp Lejeune now know when their missions to Iraq will end, but they also know their deadly days of fighting overseas are far from over. -
Mortgage deductions: Wealthy on the losing end
The Obama administration hopes to tap the rich to help pay for its ambitious programs. Specifically, that would include slashing mortgage interest deductions for high-income taxpayers.
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Green jobs in focus as task force on middle class begins work
President Obama’s task force on the middle class formally began its work Friday, focusing its first meeting on green jobs and how they might strengthen the economy and the middle class.
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Obama thinks big in budget
President Obama last week — his sixth in office — showed his hand on how he hopes to shape the government’s federal budget and the U.S. economy along the way.
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Growing excitement, expectations for green jobs corps
When Rita Bryer sees 300-foot-tall wind turbines sprouting up from the prairie near her home in western Oklahoma, she can’t help but wonder about the view from the top, where blades the size of semi-trucks spin.
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VIDEO: Michelle: The new cover girl? (Politico)
Politico – Move over Beyonce, Angelina, and yes, maybe even Oprah because there’s a new Cover Girl in town: Michelle Obama.
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White House set to reverse health care conscience clause
The Obama administration plans to reverse a regulation from late in the Bush administration allowing health-care workers to refuse to provide services based on moral objections, an official said Friday.
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Obama’s rude shock to six-figure earners
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama tempered his pledge to substantially raise taxes for high earners with an important proviso: He’d simply restore rates to their levels during the Clinton Administration. The implication was that families in the upper brackets would see their total tax bite go back to the levels of the 1990s, but no higher.
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Obama takes in Wizards’ win over Bulls
Stretching every bit of his 7-foot-6 wingspan, JaVale McGee rose high above the rim to slam in Caron Butler’s alley-oop pass, then raised his hand to his forehead and saluted one particular front-row spectator: President Barack Obama.
