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• "The hunt is on"

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  Obama expected to sign Till bill | clarionledger.com | The Clarion-Ledger: "President Barack Obama is expected to sign later this week legislation that would include funding to pursue and prosecute those responsible for killings during the civil rights era. 'There are perpetrators out there,' said...
  
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:15am EST
  

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• Gitmo terrorists going to Illinois

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  Gitmo terrorists going to Illinois The Obama administration will announce plans later on Tuesday to acquire an Illinois prison and to send a limited number of detainees there from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, a U.S. official said. President Barack Obama has directed the government to proceed with buying [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 2:42pm EST
  

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• Cochran: Coast included in funding package

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  Cochran: Coast included in funding package U.S. Senator Thad Cochran said Sunday several South Mississippi projects are funded in an omnibus FY2010 appropriations package that will be forwarded to President Barack Obama. Cochran, ranking Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted Sunday with the Senate, which approved the package in a 57-35 [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:52pm EST
  

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• Fat cats, easy pickings

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  BBC News - Barack Obama criticises 'fat cat' bankers: "President Barack Obama has criticised 'fat cat' bankers who pay themselves large bonuses. In an interview with CBS's '60 Minutes' programme, he said he did not run for office to be 'helping out a bunch of fat cat bankers on Wall...[...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 7:06am EST
  

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• I knew Thad was bringing home goodies for Xmas!

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  Cochran: Coast included in funding package - Local - SunHerald.com: "U.S. Senator Thad Cochran said Sunday several South Mississippi projects are funded in an omnibus FY2010 appropriations package that will be forwarded to President Barack Obama. Cochran, ranking Republican on the Senate...
  
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  Posted: December 14, 2009, 6:45am EST
  

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• Malpractice

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  It has been close to a year since Barack Obama took the oath of office as president, and Mississippi remains a state without United States Attorneys appointed by this new president.  We have an opening for a federal district judge that has also remained vacant.  Names were submitted to the [...]

  Posted: December 12, 2009, 7:39am EST
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• Was Obama’s Oslo speech a significant sign the President is moving to the center?

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  Was Obama's Oslo speech a significant sign the President is moving to the center? Based on his speech in Oslo, Barack Obama is now being celebrated by some on the right as at least a partial convert to their cause and way of thinking. Abe Greenwald in the National Review writes a [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 9:38pm EST
  

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• RoM - Another Switch to the GOP – Number 9

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  Another Switch to the GOP – Number 9 Mississippi Republicans welcomed the ninth Democratic elected official to switch parties to the GOP this year since the Innauguration of President Barack Obama. At a press conference featuring Governor Haley Barbour and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the GOP announced that five-term [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:19pm EST
  

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• Another Switch to the GOP – Number 9

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  Mississippi Republicans welcomed the ninth Democratic elected official to switch parties to the GOP this year since the Innauguration of President Barack Obama. At a press conference featuring Governor Haley Barbour and Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele, the GOP announced that five-term Neshoba County Chancery Clerk Larry McMillan has [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 2:41pm EST
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• Obama aide: Money wrong merger motive - “Greatness” should be goal

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  Obama aide: Money wrong merger motive - "Greatness" should be goal "I don't have an instantly negative attitude toward mergers," John Wilson Jr. said Tuesday. "But greatness has to be the result, and here it appears the motivation was financial." Wilson, who was appointed executive director of President Barack Obama's HBCU initiative' [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 1:18pm EST
  

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• Afghanistan: no quick drawdown

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  Obama: Afghanistan troop drawdown won't be steep - Yahoo! News: "President Barack Obama said Thursday that the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, set to start in 19 months, will be gradual, and U.S. aid to that nation will last for years. 'We're not going to see some sharp cliff,'" [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:34am EST
  

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• AP examines costs of new HC bennies

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  Print Story: New health care benefits come at a price - Yahoo! News: "President Barack Obama's health care overhaul — now looking like a real possibility — should give uninsured Americans options they've never had before. But it won't be a free ride. As with the Medicare prescription drug benefit...[...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:29am EST
  

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• Job creation with TARP funds? GOP against it

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  From AP's write on SunHerald.com: President Barack Obama is promoting help for highways and small businesses, bridges and energy-efficient homes in a broad pitch to get Americans back to work and roll back the double-digit unemployment that's approaching a quarter-century high, an administration...
  
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  Posted: December 08, 2009, 9:47am EST
  

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• Allow me to introduce Poplarville's luckiest man

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  Miss. man gets probation for Facebook threats | hattiesburgamerican.com | Hattiesburg American: "A black man from Mississippi who posed as a white supremacist and sent racist death threats over the Internet in the aftermath of President Barack Obama's election has been sentenced to three years of...
  
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  Posted: December 04, 2009, 8:10am EST
  

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• Gingrich to Speak at Millsaps

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  by Adam Lynch December 3, 2009 Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will carry his jobs summit to Millsaps College today at 4 p.m. Gingrich's Web site describes the event as "a real jobs summit," to rival President Barack Obama's jobs summit held at the White House today. [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 7:30pm EST
  

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• The Magnolia military and Afghanistan

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  Afghan Troop Surge's Impact on Mississippi | Mississippi Public Broadcasting: "Mississippi's military and defense industry are preparing for the troop surge announced by President Barack Obama last night. MPB's Carl Gibson reports on how 30-thousand more troops in Afghanistan will affect...
  
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  Posted: December 02, 2009, 8:04am EST
  

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• President Obama’s Address on the War in Afghanistan (Transcript)

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  December 1, 2009 Following is transcript of President Barack Obama's Tuesday night speech on the war in Afghanistan, released by the White House on Tuesday: Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our armed services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 3:12am EST
  

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• Harper aide says Democratic policies hurtful to U.S. families

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  Harper aide says Democratic policies hurtful to U.S. families Evan Gardner, a field representative for 3rd Congressional District Rep. Gregg Harper, R-Pearl, conveyed the congressman's views on health care legislation, cap and trade legislation and President Barack Obama's deficit spending Wednesday morning to a small crowd at the Brookhaven-Lincoln County Chamber [...]

  Posted: November 20, 2009, 2:53pm EST
  

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• From The Man Who Thinks There Is A 48th Congressional District in Mississippi…

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  We bring you President Obama’s holiday plans: It is being reported that Barack Obama plans to spend his holidays in Texas to watch the Bluebonnet Bowl. He said this year’s matchup of Philips College from the Southwest Conference and Sewanee (also known as The University of the South) from the Southeastern [...]

  Posted: November 17, 2009, 3:16pm EST
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