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* The Republican Party is planning to hold anti-Obama protests on April 15th, run by a lobbyist partner of Ralph Reed with financing from the Koch family (oil industry), and heavily promoted on Fox News. Newt Gingrich has contributed talking points.

* It is unclear why the Republicans are pretending the protests are an authentic grass roots movement or why they are referring to protests as "tea parties" since 95% of America actually received a tax cut.

* The principle organizers are two innocuously-named right-wing think tanks about which little is known: Americans for Prosperity, and Freedom Works.

Former Democratic Governor Rod Blagojevich receives 16-count felony indictment. Blagojevich appointed Burris to replace Obama in the Senate.

Seven U.S. states now experiencing double-digit unemployment: Michigan, South Carolina, Oregon, North Carolina, California, Rhode Island, and Nevada.

Public-private partnership. Government to offer low-interest loans to encourage private investors to aid banks by purchasing "toxic assets".

Federal Reserve will print and spend $750B purchasing mortgage-backed securities in order to reduce mortgage rates and encourage lending.

Wilkerson: ''The fourth unknown is the ad hoc intelligence philosophy that was developed to justify keeping many of these people called 'the mosaic philosophy'. Simply stated, this philosophy held that it did not matter if a detainee were innocent.''

Colin Powell's chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson says that 1. many of the detainees at Guantanamo were -completely- innocent, 2. that the White House knew it, and 3. that the White House kept the innocent detainees deliberately.

CIA prisons: Red Cross finds Bush administration lied when it repeatedly claimed that it had not committed torture.

To benefit small business owners, Obama will buy $10-20 billion in SBA loans from banks in order to free up banks to continue lending to small businesses.

Congress passes omnibus spending bill providing annual budget for every Cabinet department except for Defense, Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs.

Obama to change how government contracts are awarded to make the process more competitive and save about $40 billion a year.

Reacting to Rahm Emanuel, Rush Limbaugh asserted: ''I'm not in charge of the Republican Party, and I don't want to be. I would be embarrassed to say that I'm in charge of the Republican Party in the sad-sack state that it's in.''

RNC Chair Michael Steele has apologized to Rush Limbaugh for calling him an entertainer whose show is ugly and incendiary.

Under Bush, the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes--far more than previously known--that recorded interrogations and treatment of terror suspects.

Nine legal opinions written by the Justice Department (specifically the Office of Legal Counsel, which serves as legal adviser the President) after 9-11 and released today reveal a lack of respect by the Bush administration for the U.S. Constitution.

Charlie Savage has claimed that CIA Director Leon Panetta admitted during his confirmation hearing that the Obama administration MIGHT continue BUSH'S EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION PROGRAM. source: www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/us/ politics/18policy.html

Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to lead Department of Health and Human Services

Military families are finally now going to be allowed to give the media consent to photograph the coffins of fallen soldiers coming home from Iraq.

Barack Obama to withdraw 2/3rds of combat troops in 19 months instead of removing all combat troops in 16 months.

Rupert Murdoch's New York Post apologizes for publishing racist cartoon.

Alaska determines that Palin owes back taxes on meal money.

Obama plans to subsidize mortgage companies that head off foreclosures by lowering monthly payment amounts.

President Obama names George Mitchell as special envoy for the Middle East, and Richard Holbrooke as special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan.

President Obama signs executive order to close Guantanamo Bay detention center and secret prisons within twelve months, leading many Republicans to announce that they are very frightened.




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