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The American Prospect
by Terence Samuel

This week, Barack Obama named his first nominee to the Supreme Court, then headed west to Las Vegas and Los Angeles to raise money for Democrats in the 2010 midterms. Taken together, these two seemingly disparate acts mark the end of a certain period of innocence in the Obama administration: The ‘blame Bush’ phase of the Obama administration is over, and the prolonged honeymoon that the president has enjoyed with the country and the media will soon come to an end as well. Obama is no longer just the inheritor of Bush’s mess. This is now his presidency in his own right. … Old wounds will be opened, and old animosities will be triggered as the process moves along. Already we see the effect in the polls.” (05/29/09)

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First, Muslims; next, maybe you

Steven Greenhut
by Orange County Register

05/31/09

Government officials seek to control whatever it is they don’t understand. In my experience, they don’t understand much, so they try to regulate, tax, monitor and control everything. And now we learn that the Obama administration, clueless about the nature of conservative activism in this country, wants to monitor it very carefully...

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