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Obama Hails Phony Stimulus Jobs as Faux GDP Boon

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President Obama on Friday hailed the “amazing growth” in phony stimulus jobs, especially from nonexistent congressional districts, as a “sure sign that we’re seeing a make-believe recovery and an encouraging spurt in faux GDP.”
Faux gross domestic product usually trails other false economic indicators, the president said, but with projected unemployment plummeting, the federal government’s top [...]

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Obama: Palin Book Shows Need for Public Option

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Decrying the lack of “choice and competition” in the U.S. memoir market, President Obama today backed a House bill to create a “single-writer public option” autobiography to serve the needs of an estimated 47 million Americans who can’t afford Sarah Palin’s $28.99 hardcover “Going Rogue.”
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Obama Says Jobs Summit Won’t Hike Deficit

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As he left for a weeklong trip to Asia, President Obama announced he would hold a U.S. “jobs summit” in December, and promised that the convention of experts in government, business and academia would figure out how to get tens of millions of Americans employed and “won’t add a dime to the deficit.”
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Journalists Raise Funds for Troubled Fort Hood Shooter

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Journalists across the nation, moved by the plight of a troubled Muslim psychiatrist whose “understandable emotional turmoil” broke out in gunfire last week at Fort Hood, Texas, will hold a major fundraising event in the coming weeks in honor of the accused shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.
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Obama Plans Joint Library with Bush

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As President Obama marked the one-year anniversary of his election by blaming his predecessor for the failure to convert the promise of “hope and change” into legislation and policy, a top White House official reported ongoing talks with associates of George W. Bush about “presidential library co-location.”
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Obama Marks Election Anniversary with Sabbatical

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President Obama marked the one-year anniversary of his election by announcing he would take a nine-month sabbatical “to rest and refresh after a grueling year of staggering accomplishment.”
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Obama girls get H1N1 shot, but still exhaling CO2

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After a week of national angst over Barack and Michelle Obama’s delayed vaccination of their daughters against the H1N1 virus, Americans let out a collective sigh of relief at news that the girls finally got the shot. However, an unnamed top White House official said today that the danger has not completely passed, because the [...]

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