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...Obama, Barack • futility of Republican efforts to prevent victory...
Adolfo Carrion knows a thing or two about city life. In addition to serving two terms as New York City's Bronx Borough President, he has a degree in urban planning and job experience as a minister and public school teacher in the Bronx, which is why Barack Obama has tapped him to serve in a newly created executive branch position - White House Director of Urban Affairs. (See Who's Who in the Obama White House...
...other hand, if a Catholic judge ignored the precedent - perhaps seeking to avoid Church sanction, such as the threats of communion denial aimed at pro-choice Catholic lawmakers by some bishops in the past election - there would likely be increasing claims of religious bias. (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
Kmiec is chair and professor of constitutional law at Pepperdine University and author of Can a Catholic Support Him? Asking the Big Question about Barack Obama (Overlook/Penguin...
...first meeting between President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, which happened Thursday in Ottawa, covered a wide range of common interests, such as a revival of the North American economy, reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, and the war in Afghanistan. But the unscripted moments of the President's first foreign visit since being elected to the White House - including a declaration of love for Canada and an impromptu visit to an Ottawa farmers' market for a beaver-tail pastry - overshadowed the official agenda...