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President Obama Principles West Wing Week

Thanks for checking out the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, walk step by step with the President as he speaks about the economy in Las Vegas, celebrates 100 years of the Boy Scouts of America, meets with President Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, visits with the 2010 Principal of the Year award winners, announces the new Director of the Office of Management and Budget and much more.

TWiB! #13 – Black, black, blackity black.

thisweekinblackness.com The Brooklyn Comedy Company is proud to present the 13th installment of the series “This Week in Blackness.” After the historic election of President-Elect Barack Obama, it seems that some people don’t like the idea of referring to him as BLACK. Comedian and host of TWiB, Elon James White, has something to say about that.

West Wing Week President Obama White House

West Wing Week President Obama White House West Wing Week: “85 Ton Electric Arc Furnace” May 21, 2010 Thanks for checking out the West Wing Week, your guide to everything that’s happening at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This week, walk step-by-step with the President as he honors our nations top police officers, mourns officers killed in the line of duty, meets with top cabinet members about containing the BP oil leak in the Gulf, signs the Freedom of the Press act, welcomes the NCAA Women’s Basketball Champs UConn Huskies, travels to Youngstown, Ohio to visit a steel factory, hosts a State Dinner for the President of Mexico, and informs the American people on what Wall Street reform will mean for them.

This Week in Space – January 24, 2010

A decision nears from President Obama on the future of the manned space program, Elon Musk of SpaceX VEHEMENTLY denies his rockets will be unsafe for astronauts, the clock ticks down to the launch of the shuttle Endeavour, the rover Spirit moves (but just a little), and Miles checks out the lunar inspired artwork of moonwalker Alan Bean.

This Week in Space – January 15, 2010

The space nation awaits direction from President Obama, Endeavour gets ready to deliver a room with a view, how an abandoned McDonalds is being used to restore closeups of the Moon, a space telescope finds new planets, plus an interview with Hubble-Hugger-In-Chief John Grunsfeld.

President Obama Outlines Plan for US Space Program and NASA Achievements Honored

Plus, Yuri’s Night, “autonomous” air tests, and students “bug” the “lunar surface.”

West Wing Week: The Interpreter’s Lounge

Welcome to the third episode of the West Wing Week, your guide to all things 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. This installment takes you step-by-step with the President as he returns from the Czech Republic, hosts the largest international summit ever held in Washington DC, and lays out a new vision for manned space exploration at the Kennedy Space Center. We even caught up with the First Lady as she made her first official solo international trip. Thanks so much for keeping up with your West Wing Week.

George Will from This Week – he was very busy this morning.

George Will from This Week – he was very busy this morning. Visit: firedoglake.com

Keith Olbermann And Arianna Huffington Discuss Roger Ailes’ “This Week” Appearance

From MSNBC: Keith Olbermann And Arianna Huffington Discuss Roger Ailes’ “This Week” Appearance – 02/01/10

Is It Just Corporate Free Speech?

In a ruling sometimes characterized as protecting “corporate free speech,” the US Supreme Court held this month that “the Government may not suppress political speech on the basis of the speaker’s corporate identity” in the case of Citizens United vs the Federal Elections Commission and my support for the free speech rights involved found me in some strange company while this landmark legal decision caused some other people to change their minds or to consider changing their policies, as I show in this video. You can find the full text of all the opinions in Citizens United vs the Federal Elections Commission online at www.supremecourtus.gov The clips I use in this video from abc’s “This Week” come from the program broadcast on January 24, 2010, and the full segment from which I took the clip of South Carolina’s Republican Senator Jim Demint is available online at abcnews.go.com The clips I use in this video of Sam Donaldson and George Will are also from that broadcast of abc’s “This Week” and come from the full segment available online at abcnews.go.com The clip I use of “The Daily Show” comes from the January 25, 2010, segment available online at tinyurl.com The clips I use of Lawrence Lessig come from his youtube video titled “Lessig on Supreme Court Campaign Finance Decision: Change Congress Video” available on his changeyourcongress youtube channel at www.youtube.com The clip I use of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address comes from the public domain video available on youtube at www.youtube.com The image I use of the email from Lawrence Lessig is also available on his website at change-congress.org And, finally, the image I use of the New York Sun’s article titled “ACLU May Reverse Course On Campaign Finance Limits After Supreme Court Ruling,” comes from the page at http