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Weekly Address: President Obama – Making America Safer for Our Children

January 2, 2016 JanF 10

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President reflected […]

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President Obama: Selma “… one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough”

January 1, 2016 JanF 1

Official White House photographer Pete Souza posted his year-end retrospective on medium.com a few days ago (Behind the Lens: 2015 Year in Photographs). People were posting and Tweeting and blogging their favorites and there were […]

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Tamir would be alive if he had been white

December 30, 2015 Happy inVT 10

The New York Times goes there … lays in out in, yes, black and white and in plain sight. Tamir Rice of Cleveland would be alive today had he been a white 12-year-old playing with […]

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Weekly Address: Merry Christmas from the President and First Lady

December 25, 2015 JanF 18

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President and […]

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Weekly Address: President Obama – Top 10 Things that Happened in 2015

December 19, 2015 JanF 12

The President’s Weekly Address post is also an Open News Thread. Feel free to share other news stories in the comments. From the White House – Weekly Address In this week’s address, the President celebrated […]

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Naturalize Now! New campaign to increase naturalization

December 16, 2015 Denise Velez 9

In this new ad campaign video, we hear the hateful anti-immigrant rhetoric of Donald Trump, overlaid with visuals of the faces of Latinos in the United States, including former astronaut José M. Hernández, who is […]

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President Obama: “That is what makes America great — not just the words on these founding documents, as precious and valuable as they are, but the progress that they’ve inspired.”

December 15, 2015 JanF 1

Speaking at the National Archives, President Obama addresses 31 newly sworn in citizens. What a remarkable journey all of you have made. And as of today, your story is forever woven into the larger story […]

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President Obama speaks on the historic Paris climate accord – UPDATED with Transcript

December 12, 2015 JanF 11

Saturday, December 12, 2015 at 5:30pm Eastern PRESIDENT OBAMA: The problem is not solved because of this accord. But make no mistake, the Paris agreement establishes the enduring framework the world needs to solve the […]

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President Obama: “Our freedom is bound up with the freedom of others”

December 10, 2015 JanF 4

From the White House: On Wednesday, the President travelled to the U.S. Capitol to deliver remarks at an event commemorating the 150th anniversary of the 13th Amendment. The President was be joined by Members of […]

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On Black American Muslims.

December 8, 2015 Denise Velez 9

The Greatest. Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. One of the most well-known, recognized and beloved Americans of all times—world-wide—is Muhammad Ali. Ali may be the face many of us connect to when […]

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Happy Lammas!! Hey, wait just a minute! Those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all! Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the [...]
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Later today, we mark the Summer Solstice. Astronomically, it looks like this: The Summer Solstice occurs exactly when the Earth’s axial tilt is most inclined towards the sun at its maximum of 23° 26′. The [...]
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At Winter Solstice, the light begins to return – gradually, the memory of the long nights fades until the light and dark are equal on Spring Equinox. From that point on,  the light returns more [...]
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Springing into Spring – No Kidding!

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Tomorrow, March 20th, at 2:01am Mountain Standard Time (my time!), the Spring Equinox will occur. An equinox occurs twice a year (around 20 March and 22 September), when the tilt of the Earth’s axis is [...]

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