President Obama Speaks on Housing and the Economy

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President Obama Has Written Personal Checks to Letter-Writers In Need, Author Says

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Plenty of Baloney at Allen West's Office

Ignore the commercial at the beginning, it is worth the wait

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Are African Americans Surging in Computer Science?

A report released last week by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) found that first-time enrollment in science graduate programs increased last fall even as graduate enrollment across all disciplines -- including nonscientific ones -- dropped slightly. But the study's most intriguing number was hidden beneath the headlines: 33.6%. That's the reported percent increase, between the fall semesters of 2009 and 2010, in the number of black and African-American students entering math and computer science graduate programs.

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Reducing Regulatory Burdens in Health Care, Saving More Than $1 Billion

On January 18, President Obama called for an unprecedented and ambitious government-wide “lookback” at federal regulations. The lookback requires all agencies to reexamine their significant rules and to streamline, reduce, improve, or eliminate them.

A few months ago, and after consulting with the public, over two dozen departments and agencies released plans to remove what the President has called “absurd and unnecessary paperwork requirements that waste time and money.” And we’re continuing our work to identify and eliminate regulations that don’t make sense.

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