Castro Visits Three Members of Congressional Black Caucus

April 8, 2009

California Democrat Laura Richardson said “Castro ‘looked directly into our eyes’ and asked how Cuba could help Obama in his efforts to change the course of U.S. foreign policy.” The 82-year-old dictator hasn’t been seen in public for three years, but seemed cognizant that some in Washington are pushing for reopened relations.

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Mosquito Coast in Real Life: Somali Pirates Capture Family Fleeing Consumerism

April 8, 2009

French citizens (and bloggers) Chloé and Florent Lemaçon their son three year old son Colin are captured by Somali pirates as they flee the evils of consumerism for pirate infested waters. “In France, officials expressed fury over the couple’s failure to avoid waters in which 15 crews were taken hostage last month alone.” Ransom demanded.

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Hastings: Obama Needs to Promise Less, Deliver More

April 7, 2009

President Barack Obama was the star of the G20 summit in London. On Friday at the Nato meeting in Strasbourg, he called on Europeans to do more to aid the struggle against Al Qaeda. On Saturday in Prague, he proclaimed a vision of a world free of nuclear weapons. In Ankara yesterday, he sought to […]

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Details on Obama's Iraq Trip: Maliki Meeting, Rally With Troops

April 7, 2009

US President Barack Obama has been meeting Iraqi leaders and visiting US troops on an unannounced visit to Iraq. Mr Obama flew into Baghdad at the end of a Europe trip that included economic and Nato summits and a visit to Turkey. Speaking on his first trip to Iraq as president, Mr Obama said it […]

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Vermont Becomes First State to Legalize Gay Marriage Legislatively

April 7, 2009

MONTPELIER — Vermont has become the fourth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to do so with a legislature’s vote.

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President Makes Surprise Visit to Baghdad at End of European Tour

April 7, 2009

ISTANBUL, April 7 — President Obama made a surprise visit to Iraq Tuesday afternoon, landing on Air Force One in Baghdad at 4:42 p.m. local time after concluding an eight-day overseas tour through Europe. The unannounced visit to a war zone was a closely guarded secret that was kept from many of the president’s staff […]

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Nuclear Illusionist: Obama's 'Moral Authority' Strategy Won't Deter Tehran or Pyongyang

April 7, 2009

“Rules must be binding. Violations must be punished. Words must mean something.” So declared President Obama Sunday in Prague regarding North Korea’s missile launch, which America’s U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice added was a direct violation of U.N. resolutions. At which point, the Security Council spent hours debating its nonresponse, thus proving to nuclear proliferators everywhere […]

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Death Toll From Italy Earthquake Passes 200

April 7, 2009

L’AQUILA, Italy (Reuters) – The death toll from a devastating earthquake in central Italy rose to 207 on Tuesday and aftershocks hampered the race to dig possible survivors out of the debris. Rescuers worked under floodlights through the night and thousands of people whose homes were wrecked sheltered in tents and cars.

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Congress, Inhofe Push Back on SecDef's Reforms

April 7, 2009

That didn’t take long. It’s only been a few hours since Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed a radical overhaul of the Pentagon’s arsenal. And already, Congress is lashing out at the plan. Republican Senator James Inhofe, for one, called it “gutting our military.”

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SecDef Gates' Defense Deja Vu

April 7, 2009

Just as it has consumed the press, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’s decisions on hardware will completely preoccupy Congress. A major food fight is sure to break out over the capping of F-22 production at 187 very expensive, but not particularly impressive, fighter jets.

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