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POPSWhat's Behind Birthers' Obama Belief "Research done by Harvard's Mahzarin Banaji and San Diego State's Thierry Devos into what's called "implicit social cognition" reveals that white Americans inherently regard white Europeans as somehow more "American" than Asian- or African-Americans, which may help explain why so many people find it easy to believe that President Obama is not really a citizen."
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POPSMatthew Shepard Act Passes Congress If signed by President Barack Obama, the act will expand the 1969 United States federal hate-crime law to include crimes motivated by a victim’s gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.
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POPSObama Throws a Crumb to the Gay Community If the president’s goal in presenting this benefits package was to mollify the growing number of gay activists, including many of his erstwhile supporters upset with this inaction, he has clearly failed.
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POPSPresident Obama "Furious" Over Plane Incident When President Obama was told about the incident, he was "furious," a White House official says. Caldera was called into a meeting with White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina. "It didn't sound like a fun meeting," the White House official says.
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POPSObama Open To Prosecuting Bush Administration Officials:Torture Interrogations The president had said earlier that he didn't want to see prosecutions of the CIA agents and interrogators who took part in waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics, so long as they acted within parameters spelled out by government superiors who held that such practices were legal at the time. But the administration's stance on Bush administration lawyers who actually wrote the memos approving these tactics has been less clear and Obama declined to make it so. "There are a host of very complicated issues involved," Obama said.
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POPSMichael Steele's Attack On President Obama The RNC letter noted that Mr. Obama while in Europe had said the United States has displayed "arrogance" at times in its foreign policy. But Mr. Steele said it was that it was the former senator from Illinois who was "arrogant". Michael Steele defines, "arrogance".