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Whether it was getting your taxes prepared and mailed or attending a Tea Party, everyone had taxes on the brain this week.
Do you think the Tea Parties made their point? What are your thoughts?
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The White House announced they plan to have an eco-friendly Easter egg hunt with green eggs (but no ham) and all.
2009 egg uses 31%Â less paperboard than the 2008 designs, eliminates the need for the paper shred/filler, features an egg-shaped dye cut instead of a cellophane window and uses renewable, vegetable oil-based inks.
From LATimes.com
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So interestingly enough, the Political Sense readers that responded to last week’s poll (all 3 of them) graded President Obama’s recent news conference a D.
Original post: POLL: President’s Report Card
Do you agree with this grade?
I’m sure many of you watched the President’s news conference on Tuesday night.
If you watched it, how would you grade Obama on the conference overall?
Click here to submit your grade
If you didn’t watch it, here are some links to check out:
White House blog with full-length video by whitehouse.gov
Full text of Barack Obama news conference posted [...]
It used to be that you only had to lobby legislators to get things done at the state and federal levels of government (with a little interim work at the agencies for rulemaking). Not so anymore. Watch the way the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) will shift lobbying practices from the halls of the [...]