Obama "it once was"

Vietnam Vet, Tim Koscinski has a story to tell

Woodlands Monocle (blog) - ‎14 hours ago‎
I hope the USA can turn all the negatives around that have been created by the Obama administration and make this the GREATEST COUNTRY AS IT ONCE WAS. Freedom, quality jobs, health care and as a senior citizen I hope the politicians take us ...

The Universal Notebook: No hope for Kiribati

The Forecaster - ‎19 hours ago‎
On the positive side, the growing season in Maine is now a week or two longer than it once was. Anyone who doesn't think human activity is the cause of these dramatic changes is an even bigger fill-in-the-blank.
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Bad bargain? Manufactured homeowners feel the financial strain

PBS NewsHour - ‎Jan 2, 2016‎
STEPHEN FEE: The Dodd-Frank financial reform law passed by congress and signed by President Obama in 2010 provided consumer protections for borrowers of high-cost loans, barring things like balloon payments - oversized payments due at the end of a ...

Syrian refugees find a safe haven in Amish country

PBS NewsHour - ‎Dec 31, 2015‎
Last fall, President Barack Obama committed to accepting 10,000 Syrian refugees over the next year. But following the November terrorist attacks in Paris, more than two dozen U.S.

MAKING POLITICS PERSONAL

WND.com - ‎Jan 1, 2016‎
Although HIV/AIDS is no longer the automatic death sentence it once was due to advanced treatment, it doesn't mean Uncle Sam has the right to play Russian roulette with our lives.
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Will Bill Clinton Help Hillary In 2016? How 2008 Taught Her To Use The Former ...

International Business Times - ‎Dec 29, 2015‎
But in 2008, when Hillary Clinton was running against Barack Obama, her husband was viewed as a distraction who could overshadow the sometimes-wooden candidate, and was given specific areas of involvement to occupy him, Politico reported.
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Do endorsements matter anymore?

PBS NewsHour - ‎Dec 30, 2015‎
For the most part, “endorsements are pretty meaningless these days, with the amount of news coverage on television and everything else,” said Steve Schale, a Democratic consultant who ran President Barack Obama's general election campaign in Florida in ...
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Trump in '08: “I Know Hillary & I Think She'd Make a Great President.”

American Spectator (blog) - ‎Dec 29, 2015‎
Analyzing the Democrat primary fight between Hillary and Barack Obama, Trump wondered if the two would form "a dream ticket".

Americans held hostage in Iran to finally receive compensation

Las Vegas Review-Journal - ‎Dec 29, 2015‎
After close calls that Lankford said were undone, sometimes at the eleventh hour, the long-awaited provisions on awarding compensation to the former hostages and their families were included in a massive spending bill approved by Congress and signed ...

Streaming 2015: HBO Now, Go90, The NFL And The President (And GloZell)

MediaPost Communications - ‎Dec 30, 2015‎
All of those moves, plus some others like the growing aggressiveness of Hulu as a content creator indicated (as did stats) that the idea of cutting cable service and opting for streaming instead was not quite as contrary of an idea as it once was ...
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From Stoned Rabbits to Sober Teens: The Best Marijuana Data from 2015

HIGH TIMES - ‎Dec 29, 2015‎
Since 2012, the world of marijuana has been changing at a dizzying speed, and this year was no different. If 2014 was a watershed moment for the legalization movement, 2015, despite its bumps and bruises (looking at you, Ohio) was the year marijuana ...

opinions | Talmudic advice: Make sure your children learn a trade

Jweekly.com - ‎Dec 31, 2015‎
President Obama argues that everyone must have access to college, and presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have competing proposals for making public universities tuition-free.
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A More Practical Model for Law Schools

Harvard Business Review - ‎Dec 24, 2015‎
The JD is no longer the ticket it once was to a stable career and high earnings. With skyrocketing levels of student debt and limited job opportunities, potential law students ... Even President Obama has suggested that it is worth discussing the ...
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No Denying It, Climate Change Is Happening Now

CounterPunch - ‎Dec 29, 2015‎
In southern Florida, which will likely return to being what it once was - a giant coral reef - by the end of this century, huge resort hotels are still being constructed right near the ocean, and people are still buying homes that they will not be ...

How about a holiday truce in the war -- on each other

Sun Sentinel - ‎Dec 24, 2015‎
Resolving differences has become far more difficult than it once was. In bygone times, you thought of your opponent as, ... President Obama isn't just a bad president; he hates America and hates white people. Conservatives aren't just traditionalists ...

Memo to the fever-swamp firing squad this campaign season

Enid News & Eagle - ‎Dec 23, 2015‎
Obama poisoned the well of bipartisanship early in his administration when he shoved Obamacare down Republican throats. So we are stuck with this deeply flawed law ... at ... At least not like it once was. You can't tell Assad that if he uses chemical ...

Selfless Portrait: Man Leaves $150M to City of Elkhart

Indianapolis Monthly - ‎Dec 25, 2015‎
That year, President Obama visited the town to promote his $800 billion–plus stimulus plan. By March, unemployment spiked to 20.3 percent.
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A Dose of Nuance: What the American Jewish Left has against Israel

Jerusalem Post Israel News - ‎Dec 24, 2015‎
President Obama spoke by video; President Rivlin attended in person. A list of entirely unsurprising speakers all denounced, among other sins, Israel's role in the current ... The Haaretz conference and the reactions it elicited present an appropriate ...

Pethokoukis Podcast: Will the robots take our jobs? A Q&A with Martin Ford

American Enterprise Institute - ‎Dec 23, 2015‎
You know, food is a lot cheaper now than it once was as a result of all that. So it was a great thing. And so the skeptic will say, isn't this just going to .... Obama basically says the same thing. So the point is that, you know, our approach to this ...
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Some Christmas Eve Morsels

TPM (blog) - ‎Dec 24, 2015‎
Going into a 2012 Romney v Obama election day, the chance to gain or lose up to 5% of your vote means everything. But in the case of Trump we're ... (If this weren't the case, his show would not have been as successful as it once was.) If you are a ...
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