Cody Taylor

President Barack Obama presented a humble and conciliatory face of America to the Islamic world Monday in the first formal interview since he assumed office, stressing his own Muslim ties and hopes for a Palestinian state, and avoiding a belligerent tone — even when asked if America could “live with” an Iranian nuclear weapon.

Rescue Experts Say Obama Dog Puts Spotlight on Adoption Movement…Like fellow candidates vying to be First Dog. Bear is a born networker. He doesn’t just kiss babies, he plants big wet ones on anyone who crosses his path, and he likes to sit down (on your feet) and share a quiet moment. “There are probably a hundred shelters in the US that would

Hugh Pickens writes “The chief executive of the British Library, Lynne Brindley, says that our cultural heritage is at risk as the Internet evolves and technologies become obsolete, and that historians and citizens face a ‘black hole’ in the knowledge base of the 21st century unless urgent action is taken to preserve websites and other digital records. For example, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as US president last week, all traces of George W. Bush disappeared from the White House website. There were more than 150 websites relating to the 2000 Olympics in Sydney that vanished instantly at the end of the games and are now stored only by the National Library of Australia. ‘If websites continue to disappear in the same way as those on President Bush and the Sydney Olympics… the memory of the nation disappears too,’ says Brindley. The library plans to create a comprehensive archive of material from the 8M .uk domain websites, and also is organizing a collecting and archiving project for the London 2012 Olympics. ‘The task of capturing our online intellectual heritage and preserving it for the long term falls, quite rightly, to the same libraries and archives that have over centuries systematically collected books, periodicals, newspapers, and recordings…'” Over the years we’ve discussed various aspects of this archiving problem.

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Just how incompetent was the Bush Administration? President Obama’s plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison were set back last week when incoming officials discovered that there were no comprehensive case files on many of the detainees. Instead, they found that information on prisoners is “scattered throughout the executive branch.”

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama told the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to reconsider California’s request to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from cars, reversing the climate policies of Bush.The new policies will be based on tougher regulations for emissions.

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More explicitly than almost any inaugural in history, the 21-minute speech repudiated the attitudes and policies of a departing president. The Bush administration’s scorn for internationally stipulated rights of prisoners, its disregard for science, its high-handed foreign policy, and its blind veneration of the market – Obama disowned them all.

President Barack Obama’s ban on earmarks in the 5 billion economic stimulus bill doesn’t mean interest groups, lobbyists and lawmakers won’t be able to funnel money to pet projects.They’re just working around it — and perhaps inadvertently making the process more secretive.