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Alexander Cockburn, Truthout: "As Obama and his counselors ponder potential nominees, the air is filled with counsel that Obama should avoid a protracted fight and should pick 'a moderate' - i.e., pro-business, pro-government - nominee.... The left has put up no preferred nominee, expressing concerns that the Republicans might filibuster. So, why not provoke just such a filibuster with a decent candidate?"

http://www.truthout.org/this-will-be-obamas-legacy58652

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Obama space policy not grounded in reality

Freedom Politics
by Thomas J. Lucente Jr.

04/18/10

As President Barack Obama has been dancing around the space issue, one thing is certain, science is taking a back seat to politics, jobs and economic development. His plan is nonsensical, a mixing of compromises to supporters and target dates so far away they are useless, such as landing on an asteroid by 2025 and orbiting — not landing on — Mars in the 2030s. The 2030s? Is he for real?

http://tinyurl.com/y46haxp



Taxpayers take another hit from Obama

OpenMarket.org
by Hans Bader

04/16/10

Taxpayers will pay billions more due to an executive order signed by President Obama that effectively restricts federal construction contracts to the minority of construction firms whose workers are unionized. That will encourage them to jack up their prices, by shielding them from having to compete with lower bids from non-union construction firms...

http://tinyurl.com/y7tfk6h



The huge, hidden tax you pay for government

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Clyde Wayne Crews and Ryan Young

04/15/10

Taxpayers rushing to fill out and file their form 1040 today may think their obligation to the federal government is complete. But it’s really just beginning. Although Americans paid more than $900 billion in income taxes last year, there’s a far larger tax bill hidden from view. That tax is regulation...

http://tinyurl.com/y3pqjba


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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