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Earlier today, President Obama gave a long-awaited and long-winded speech on the NSA. The Washington Post has the transcript . Here are my thoughts: Obama says we need more "balance" between security and liberty.
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If Obama’s threat sounds familiar it’s because it is.
Hollande Wants to "Get Things Done" by Decree, Not by Passing Laws Via translation from Les Echos , inquiring minds may be interested to note Holland wants to "get things done" in 2014 by decree or order, not by passing laws. The first cabinet meeting of the year was held on Friday. François Hollande recalled the objective of reducing public deficits, without new taxes.
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ABC News reports White House Declares Obamacare Website Fixed, But Problems Persist Two months after the troubled launch of its signature health care initiative, the Obama administration on Sunday announced that its online insurance marketplace now functions smoothly for the “vast majority†of consumers seeking to shop for and enroll in coverage. Today “is not a magic moment but a process of continual improvement over time,†said Julie Bataille, communications director for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which manages the website
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SongFacts comments on Stuck In The Middle With You by Stealers Wheel. Also known simply as "Stuck In The Middle", this Stealers Wheel classic was co-written by the group’s guitarist Gerry Rafferty and keyboard player Joe Egan. In his obituary of Rafferty for the January 5, 2011 issue of the Daily Telegraph , Martin Chilton said of this song that it was "Written as a parody of Bob Dylan’s paranoia, it ridiculed a music industry cocktail party, with the lyrics: ‘Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with you.’ To Rafferty’s utter disbelief his parody, composed as little more than a joke but with a catchy pop arrangement, struck gold, selling more than a million copies.
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