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Obama knocks BP for paying out dividends after spill
Obama warned BP officials Friday against “nickel-and-diming” the economic victims of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill even as the company spends billions of dollars to pay out dividends and millions for an ad campaign to burnish its image.


Barack Obama – United States – President – Oil spill – Gulf of Mexico

California Rep. Darrell Issa takes on role as Obama’s chief antagonist
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the man who radically changed California politics by helping fund the 2003 recall effort that lead to the removal of Democratic Gov. Gray Davis and the election of fellow Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger, has become one of President Obama’s chief antagonists.



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Senators question Obama’s choice of Clapper as national intelligence director
President Obama plans to nominate retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper Jr. as his next director of national intelligence, officials said Friday. The announcement is expected to come during a Rose Garden event on Saturday.



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Why Is BP’s CEO Still on the Job?
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post

‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ May Haunt Republicans

Obama Should Heed His Campaign Rhetoric
Jay Ambrose, OC Register
The self-contradictions are catching up with the Obama administration. We will be transparent, they said. Only they aren't. We will be accountable. Anything but. You will find us nonpartisan and above politics as usual, they insisted. Hardly.The job offer to keep Rep. Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania out of a Senate primary is instructive on this score.  

A Response to Peter Beinart
Abraham Foxman, New York Review of Books
He sees an Israel that is clearly moving to the right, that has less regard for the “other,” no matter who that may be, and that is unwilling to take seriously efforts toward peace. Beinart seems to be suffering from the same problems we have seen in the Obama administration, ignoring what Israel has gone through over the last decade and thereby misreading what Israelis are thinking today.Israelis, to a large extent, and this is shared by many in the American Jewish community (another of Beinart’s targets), feel frustrated that all their efforts toward…

That Stubbornly High Unemployment Rate
Felix Salmon, Reuters
No single datapoint — not even the monthly payrolls report — can in and of itself mark the beginning of the end of the recovery. But this month’s numbers are still depressing, coming in well below lofty expectations, and having no silver lining: there were no upward revisions to previous months, there was no big fall in the unemployment rate, there was no obvious reason to believe that the 411,000 temporary employees hired in May to work on Census 2010 would otherwise have found private-sector employment.The really recalcitrant number here is the…