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News Why It Took Penny Pritzker 4 Years To Win Commerce Secretary Nomination
Penny Pritzker’s nomination as commerce secretary has been more than four years in the making. The 53-year-old Jewish hotel chain heiress from Chicago was rumored to be named to the post ever since Obama first took office, in 2009. While some see the pick as a slam-dunk — not only is Pritzker close to Obama,…
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Breaking News Steven Spielberg’s ‘Obama’ Debuts at White House Roast
President Barack Obama poked fun at the media, his critics and himself on Saturday at the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, a star-filled event where journalists and celebrities mixed with the Washington elite. He capped the speech by playing a taped piece with Hollywood director Steven Spielberg who did a spoof claiming his new…
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Culture The Tsarnaev Brothers Are Many Things. But Cowards? Not So Much.
“A heinous and cowardly act,” President Obama called the Boston Marathon bombing soon after its occurrence. Heinous, it certainly was. But why cowardly? To do what the two Tsarnaev brothers did —construct and transport homemade bombs that could have gone off in their hands at any moment, fling them out the windows of a speeding…
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Breaking News Obama Taps Howard Shelanski To Be New White House Regulatory Czar
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Thursday he would pick Howard Shelanski, an antitrust expert, as his new regulatory czar, a powerful White House position charged with reviewing regulations proposed by government departments. Shelanski, who is both an economist and a lawyer, is currently in charge of a team of economists that reviews competition and…
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Breaking News White House Needs Jewish Support in Fight To Ease Sequester Cuts
In the battle to end the across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration, it’s all hands on deck. Increasingly for the Obama administration, which is deadlocked over the budget with the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, that means reaching out to Jews. In conference calls and in appearances at Jewish events, administration officials are soliciting Jewish support…
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The Schmooze EarthDay Wisdom From The Stars
Celebrities being the arbiters of good taste when it comes to good deeds and causes, they were out in hordes on the Twitter-sphere to remind us to reduce, recycle, and be better people on this 43rd annual Earth Day. #Earthday! Go plant a tree! clean up after yourself! Love the place u live in and…
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News Obama To Ask Congress Again To Pass Gun Control Legislation
President Barack Obama is set to make a fresh plea on Monday for a reluctant Congress to pass new gun control legislation – one of his top domestic policy priorities – as he travels to Connecticut, where December’s school massacre took place. Initial momentum for tougher U.S. gun control laws sought by Obama after the…
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Opinion Is Israel Losing Young Democrats?
Some people find numbers intimidating. If you are among them, skip the first four paragraphs. When it comes to Americans favoring Israel over the Palestinians, Israel wins by a wide margin — 54% to 8%. Alas, if that’s as far as you read, you will be woefully underinformed. For that number is only for Americans…
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