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President Barack Obama delivers remarks on health insurance reform during his event at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., Friday, March 19, 2010.
Photos   Politics   US   Washington   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
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Dana Milbank: Obama down in polls, and is letting down his party
WASHINGTON — President Obama, in trouble at home, is quite literally heading for the border. | His approval rating is in the 40s, vulnerable Democratic candidates don't want to be seen with him ... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
President Barack Obama delivers a statement on his budget that he sent to Congress, Monday, Feb. 1, 2010, in the Grand Foyer of the White House in Washington. From left are, Council of Economic Council Chair Christina Romer, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the president.
Democracy   Democrats   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
 The Examiner 
New Poll: Even Democrat Voters Not Buying What Obama's Selling
A brand new poll just out from Democracy Corps, the Democrat polling organization founded by Democrats James Carville and Stan Greenberg, revealed that President Obama's State of the Union job creatio... (photo: AP / Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
A US Army (USA) National Guard (NG) aircrew member of the "Cajun Dustoffs" looks out of a USA UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at the flooded streets of New Orleans, Louisiana (LA). In the background, another USA UH-60 flies over the neighborhood. They prepari  The Business Review 
Flood insurance vote expected next week
Reporter- Pittsburgh Business Times  |  | A U.S. House of Representatives vote on flood insurance reform was expected next week as opponents of market rates for the coverage struggled with a... (photo: US DoD)
Flood   Insurance   Photos   Pittsburgh   Vote   Wikipedia: Flood  
Old (left) and new (right) air traffic control towers at Memphis International Airport (MEM). Photo taken from Airways Boulevard at Winchester.  The Business Review 
Airport changes viewed as positive for economic development, corporations
Alan Howell | MBJ | Business travelers have fewer options these days at Memphis International Airport | Staff writer- Memphis Business Journal  |   |   |  | Memphis’ re... (photo: Creative Commons / Thomas R Machnitzki)
Airport   Business   Development   Photos   Travel   Wikipedia: Memphis International Airport  
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro cheers during a motorcycle rally organized in support of the government in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, Feb. 24, 2014. Since Feb. 12, opponents of President Nicolas Maduro have been staging countrywide protests that the government says have resulted in scores of deaths deaths and more than one hundred injured. The demonstrators blame Maduro's administration for the country's high crime rate and economic troubles. The Columbus Dispatch
Maduro hopes holidays calm nation
Friday February 28, 2014 6:48 AM | Comments: 0 Tweet | CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelans began a weeklong national holiday yesterday, and although some protests still si... (photo: AP / Rodrigo Abd)
Nicolas Maduro   Photos   Politics   Venezuela   Wikipedia: Nicolás Maduro  
File - Chuck Hagel (US Secretary of Defense) in bilateral discussion with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, 26 February, 2014. CounterPunch
The Strategy of Global Corporate Imperialism
Empires as National and Cultural Megalomaniac Dreams | Once upon a time, national entities and cultures aspired to build empires. The impulse was the erroneous assumption... (photo: NATO / NATO)
Capitalism   Human Rights   Imperialism   Photos   Wikipedia: Imperialism  
File - Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment, cordon off a road after a route clearance patrol locates an improvised explosive device May 31, 2012 in Afghanistan. The Times Of India
Al-Qaida plots comeback in Afghanistan: US
WASHINGTON: Al-Qaida's Afghanistan leader is laying the groundwork to relaunch his war-shattered organization once the United States and international forces withdraw fro... (photo: US Army)
Afghan War   Al Qaida   Photos   War on Terror   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
Tea Party protesters walk towards the United States Capitol during the Taxpayer March on Washington, September 12, 2009. China Daily
Tea Party vows to move US Congress to right
WASHINGTON - The largest group in the conservative US Tea Party movement celebrated its fifth anniversary on Thursday with a pledge to push Congress further to the right ... (photo: Creative Commons / Freedom Fan)
Boston Tea Party   Photos   Tea Party movement   US Congress   Wikipedia: Tea Party movement  
Trees are reflected on a board displaying photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the country's successful long range rocket launch outside North Korean embassy in Beijing Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013. BBC News
N Korea tests missiles amid S Korea-US exercises
North Korea has fired four short-range missiles into the sea, South Korean defence ministry officials say, in a move widely seen as a response to South Korea's milit... (photo: AP / Andy Wong)
Korean Crisis   North Korea - South Korea   North Korean missile tests   Photos   Wikipedia: List of North Korean missile tests  
In this April 5, 2010 file photo, Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, of England, presents a lecture titled, "Out of a Black Hole" at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. Belfast Telegraph
Diet hope for motor neurone disease
A high-calorie diet may slow down the deadly progression of motor neurone disease, research has shown. | The condition, suffered by top physicist Professor Stephen Hawkin... (photo: AP / Dave Einsel, File)
Health   Medicine   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Neurodegeneration  
Liam Neeson Belfast Telegraph
Liam Neeson joins the Entourage
Liam Neeson is to appear in the Entourage movie, after being spotted on set. | The Taken star was photographed filming a scene with Jeremy Piven's character Ari Gold in L... (photo: AP / )
Actors   Film   Hollywood   Photos   Wikipedia: Liam Neeson  
Traders crowd the post that handles Berkshire Hathaway on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, June 25, 2010 Chicago Sun-Times
Stocks edge higher, but S&P; 500 ends shy of record
Updated: February 26, 2014 6:06PM | NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market is struggling to take it to the next level. | For a third straight day the Standard & Poor’s 500 ... (photo: AP / Richard Drew)
Dow Jones industrial average   New York   Photos   US Stocks  
Traders and Specialists work on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange Friday, April 9, 2010, in New York STL Today
How the Dow Jones industrial average did Wednesday
For a third straight day the Standard & Poor's 500 index traded above its record close but failed to hold on to its gains. The Dow Jones industrial average edged high... (photo: AP / David Karp)
Dow Jones industrial average   Market   Photos   Stock Exchange   Wikipedia: Dow Jones Industrial Average  
Sushi The Business Review
Japanese tsunami brings sushi to L.A.
Photo by Scott Bridges | Chef Hiro's famous Bonito with green onion |  |  | Illuminated by hundreds of glowing orbs dangling under an undulating rustic wood cei... (photo: WN / RTayco)
Japan Tsunami   Los Angeles   Photos   Sushi   Wikipedia: Sushi  
File - A Soldier assigned to the 115th Military Police Company of the Rhode Island Army National Guard stands watch in a guard tower at Camp Delta, Joint Task Force Guantanamo as a Navy shuttle bus passes by. Al Jazeera
Guantanamo: Making the unbearable a little less unbearable
A federal appeals court in Washington, DC recently ruled that Guantanamo detainees could bring legal challenges to their conditions of confinement. The court's decision i... (photo: US Navy / Tech. Sgt. Michael R. Holzworth)
Guantanamo Detention   Human Rights   Photos   War On Terror   Wikipedia: Guantanamo Bay detention camp  
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The Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii), also called the Pasadena Oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus sect. Quercus, native to Southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico. It is a small tree growing to 10 m tall, generally evergreen, but may be drought-deciduous during the hot, dry local summers, and has a rounded or elliptical canopy. The bark is thick, furrowed, and light gray-brown. The leaves are leathery, 3-6 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, of a blue-green color, and may be flat or wavy, with smooth margins. The flowers are catkins; the fruit is an acorn 1.5-2.5 cm long, maturing 68 months after pollination.
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Clams inside an aquarium at the Manila Ocean Park, as seen in this December 30, 2008 photo.
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The Engelmann Oak (Quercus engelmannii), also called the Pasadena Oak, is a species of oak in the white oak section Quercus sect. Quercus, native to Southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico. It is a small tree growing to 10 m tall, generally evergreen, but may be drought-deciduous during the hot, dry local summers, and has a rounded or elliptical canopy. The bark is thick, furrowed, and light gray-brown. The leaves are leathery, 3-6 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, of a blue-green color, and may be flat or wavy, with smooth margins. The flowers are catkins; the fruit is an acorn 1.5-2.5 cm long, maturing 68 months after pollination.
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Obama could pull all troops from Afghanistan
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