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...deficit of trust,” he needs to engage the average American’s concerns of economic foul play more directly and more vividly. As Obama negotiates with Congress on a jobs bill and other long-term recovery efforts behind the scenes, he should use the bully pulpit to fight the forces that impede his agenda in the open. This year, Obama should fully embrace the role of the self-sacrificial, morally-driven protagonist of the political theater...
...most heartbreaking element of this situation is that many of the kids who attend these schools are fiercely intelligent, but the school system is slowly eating them alive, and every adult at the schools we visited, including myself, knew it. I use the expression “eating them alive” because that is the best way I know how to describe the situation. The crushing feeling is analogous to how it must feel for a creature to be eaten alive by a python. What makes the prospect so sickening is that the prey is still alive and conscious...
Government Professor Theda R. Skocpol called this idea “almost a textbook example of some of the things Obama is trying to do. It would reduce subsidies to the privileged, in this case banks, and...use the money to create broader benefits for the middle class and the poor...
...Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith] just tells me to use my long arms, get in the passing lane,” the freshman said. “I think that’s one of the reasons she puts me in. I see that as one of my key roles on the team...
...Federal authorities began monitoring Detroit's Ummah in 2007, using informants inside the group's main mosque. In court documents, authorities portray Abdullah, 53, as a mesmerizing figure whose sermons frequently included anti-U.S.-government rhetoric. He allegedly called his flock to wage a violent "offensive jihad" rather than a "defensive jihad" and taught that "every Muslim should have a weapon and not be afraid to use their weapon when needed." In January 2009, when Detroit officials evicted the Ummah from its mosque for failure to pay property taxes, police found firearms, knives and martial-arts weapons inside Abdullah...