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Shooting Past the Obvious

While DC’s Metro isn’t perfect for tourists, it was pretty darn great at facilitating most of our trips to and from the most popular tourist sites. Some, such as the Mall, Arlington National Cemetery and Georgetown aren’t directly connected by Metro, but for the most part, so long as we were ready and willing to walk, transportation around the city was seamless.

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Day 4 in DC: Brush with Barack

I was at my activist meeting the other day when one of my activist buddies showed me an interesting snippet from a Woodrow Wilson speech.

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Barack the Wilsonian?

AP - Americans who refuse to buy affordable medical coverage could be hit with fines of more than $1,000 under a health care overhaul bill unveiled Thursday by key Senate Democrats looking to fulfill President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.

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Senate bill fines people refusing health coverage (AP)

AP - Days from his first Moscow summit, President Barack Obama declared Thursday that former Russian President Vladimir Putin “still has a lot of sway” in his nation and needs an in-person reminder the Cold War is over.

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Obama to tell Putin: Time to move past Cold War (AP)

Honduras thug: Help me, Barack Obama , you’re my only hope.

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Alaska Governor Sarah Palin says she would come out ahead if she went one-on-one in a race with President Barack Obama - a race, as in a long run. “I betcha I’d.

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Sarah Palin Wants to Run Against Barack Obama | SoSoJuicy

The world has been reeling for the past week ever since Michael Jackson passed away, and President Barack Obama offered his thoughts about the loss today. Speaking of the “Beat It” singer’s impact on the world of popular culture, Obama said that Jackson “will go down in history as one of our greatest entertainers.”

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Barack Obama Reacts to Michael Jackson’s Death

Standing up for what she believes in, MTV’s Tila Tequila has told President Barack Obama that he needs to repeal the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy on gays. In a blog that Tequila wrote, she tells the story of Dan Choi, “a hero to many of us in the human rights movement,” who was kicked out of the Army after publically announcing that he was homosexual.

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Tila Tequila: Fighting for Gay Military Rights

This is Jonathan Manthorpe, international affairs columnist for The Vancouver Sun, on Thursday, July the second, 2009.

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The World Today - July 2