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Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
Two GOP senators want the Energy Department’s (DOE) internal watchdog to investigate a planned $730 million loan for a company to manufacture high-strength automotive steel in Michigan.(full story at thehill.com)Sens. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) are asking DOE Inspector General Gregory Friedman to probe whether Severstal North America — a subsidiary of Russian steel giant OAO Severstal — should receive public financing to retool and expand facilities in Dearborn, Mich.
Bill Daley, the former Clinton aide brought on ten months ago to help the Obama administration find its footing, has been demoted from his position as White House Chief of Staff, the Wall Street Journal reports.(from dailycaller.com)Longtime Obama aide Pete Rouse will replace Daley in his day-to-day management responsibilities. White House aides tell the Journal that while Daley’s new role is not yet fully defined, he will be expected to concentrate more on reaching out to outside power brokers.
It is, the paper notes, unusual for a Chief of Staff to relinquish responsibilities.
“The challenge we have right now is fixing our politics. Making sure that we’ve got the kind of politics and governance here in Washington which is responsive to the needs of the people, not the needs of special interests, that brings out the best in us and not the worst in us,” Obama said at a Washington, D.C., fundraiser.(from AP via weaselzippers.us)“That is probably the biggest piece of business that remains unfinished. That’s probably the area where we’ve been most stymied over the last three years. My legislative record, our administrative record, I’ll put up against any president in their first term,” he said.
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The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin (1917)
Beer Hall Putsch: Hitler's Nazis fail to overthrow the German government (1923)
FDR unveils the Civil Works Administration for the unemployed (1933)
The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note for $2.9 million (1973)
President Barack Obama comments those killed in the Fort Hood shooting rampage on November 5 by Major Nidal Malik Hasan (2009)
b: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (1901), Dorothy Day (1897), Samuel Irving Newhouse, Jr. (1927); d: Vyacheslav Molotov (1986)