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Visitor Records — As part of President Obama's commitment to government transparency, we are providing records of White House visitors on an ongoing basis online. In December 2009, we will begin posting all White House visitor records for the period from September 15th onwards under the terms of our new voluntary disclosure policy.
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Washington Post, Townhall.com, New York Times, msnbc.com, TPMDC, Political Punch, Washington Wire, DealBook, Swampland, Riehl World View and Dr. Melissa Clouthier
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Transparency like you've never seen before — Today marks a major milestone in government transparency — and an important lesson in the unintended consequences of such vigorous disclosure. — We previously announced that the White House in December of this year would …
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Hot Air, MoJo Blog Posts, The Swamp, The Money Game, TPMDC, Josh Gerstein's Blog, The Huffington Post, The Impolitic and Townhall.com
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Right Wing Falsely Asserts Right Wing Boogeymen Bill Ayers And Jeremiah Wright Visited The White House — Early this evening, the White House voluntarily released nearly 500 visitor records of “individuals visiting the executive mansion between Inauguration Day and the end of July.”
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White House visitor records show CEOs, celebs, familiar names — The White House late Friday afternoon released 500 records of visitors and hailed the move as a historic moment in transparency. — The 500 visitors reflect 110 disclosure requests processed by the administration …
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The Politico
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A Tip On Using the White House Visitor Logs, Just Posted — By: Stephen Spruiell
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Gavin Newsom quits race for California governor — San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has been seen as a leading contender to be the next governor of California, announced today that he is quitting the race. — Newsom is withdrawing from the Democratic primary amid lackluster poll numbers and meager fund-raising receipts.
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Newsom pulls out of governor's race — (10-30) 15:49 PDT SAN FRANCISCO — Lacking both money and political momentum, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom withdrew from the California governor's race today. — “With a young family and responsibilities at City Hall, I have found it impossible …
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Gavin Newsom drops out of California governor's race — The San Francisco mayor makes the decision amid lackluster poll numbers and meager fund-raising receipts. Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, expected to run, is left with little Democratic primary opposition. — Gavin Newsom repeatedly told …
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Steele: Hoffman win is a GOP win — Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele said Friday that a victory by Doug Hoffman, the third-party candidate in the Nov. 3 New York special election, is a win for the GOP. — The actual Republican nominee, Dede Scozzafava, trails Hoffman …
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What the NY-23 Special Election Is Really About
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American Power
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Biden campaigning for Owens in NY 23
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The Page, Hot Air, And So it Goes in Shreveport, The Next Right, TPMDC and The Daily Politics
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Pelosi Health Care Bill Blows a Kiss to Trial Lawyers — The health care bill recently unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi is over 1,900 pages for a reason. It is much easier to dispense goodies to favored interest groups if they are surrounded by a lot of legislative legalese.
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Michelle Bachman on Pelosi Health Care Bill: “This Is the Crown Jewel …
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Weasel Zippers
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CREW LAWSUIT RESULTS IN RELEASE OF NOTES OF CHENEY'S FBI INTERVIEW IN WILSON LEAK CASE — 30 Oct 2009 // Washington, D.C. - Today, after successfully winning a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, under court order, CREW received documents related to former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview …
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New York Times, Emptywheel, Reuters, TalkLeft, MoJo Blog Posts, TPMMuckraker, The Atlantic Politics Channel, Firedoglake and At-Largely
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22 Things Dick Cheney Can't Recall About the Plame Case
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Emptywheel
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$160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That ‘Calculator Abuse’ — Posting its results late this afternoon at Recovery.gov, the White House claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved because of the $159 billion in stimulus funds allocated as of Sept. 30.
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Schools Are Where Stimulus Saved Jobs, New Data Show
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ProPublica, White House.gov Blog Feed, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, GOP Leader Blog, TPMDC and Washington Monthly
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Deal Reached in Honduras to Restore Ousted President — MEXICO CITY — A lingering political crisis in Honduras seemed to be nearing an end on Friday after the de facto government agreed to a deal that would allow Manuel Zelaya, the deposed president, to return to office.
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Reports of a Deal in Honduras Are Premature
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MSNBC Airs Uncensored Breast Self-Exam — This reminds me when Fox News plays a constant b-roll of girls in bikinis during, say, Spring Break while proclaiming, “Ohhhh, isn't that terrible! That's so inappropriate!” — MSNBC's Dr. Nancy — who's show gets terrible ratings …
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Lieberman In '94: The Filibuster “Ails Washington” And Should Be Eliminated — WHAT'S YOUR REACTION? — Senator Joseph Lieberman's (I-Conn) threat to filibuster health care legislation that includes a public option for insurance coverage has sent minor shock-waves throughout Washington.
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Lieberman Marching Further Right in 2010
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The Politico, The New Republic, MyDD, Raw Story, Wonkette, The Caucus, No More Mister Nice Blog, Indecision Forever, TPMDC, Washington Wire, The Page, Ben Smith's Blog, Glenn Thrush's Blog, Think Progress, The Political Carnival, Lawyers, Guns and Money, rubber hose, Alan Colmes' Liberaland, Scorecard's Blog, Washington Monthly, The Note, Gateway Pundit and Guardian
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Ayn Rand's Revenge — A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand's libertarian epic “Atlas Shrugged,” Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collectivism, leads the country's capitalists on a retributive strike.
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Attention Bush Apologists: Reagan Greeted Fallen Americans at an Air Force Base, Idiots — It appears my post yesterday got the teabaggers all riled up. — Apparently, their position is that George W. Bush's refusal to honor fallen Americans as they return to this country for the last time …
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Gore Vidal: Thirteen-year-old Roman Polanski rape victim was a ‘hooker’ — Author Gore Vidal says he refuses to feel any sympathy for Roman Polanski's rape victim, whom he dubs a “hooker.” — In an interview with The Atlantic, the controversial 83-year-old author of such books as …
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Source: Afghan election talks break down — Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his election opponent, Abdullah Abdullah, have broken down, a Western source close to the Afghan leadership told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Friday.