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March 2009 Progress Reports

• National Security -- Introducing PNAC 2.0, March 31, 2009
  

  Today in Washington D.C., neoconservatives William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and Dan Senor will officially launch their new war incubator -- The Foreign Policy Initiative -- with a half-day conference on "the path to success in Afghanistan."

• Congress -- The GOP's Budget With No Numbers, March 30, 2009
  GOP presents talking points as its "alternative budget."
• Media -- Stop The O'Reilly Harassment Machine, March 27, 2009
  

  O'Reilly's henchmen ambush ThinkProgress.

• Economy -- Gubernatorial Grandstanding, March 26, 2009
  GOP governors reject the stimulus.
• Administration -- Obama Meets The Press Again, March 25, 2009
  President Obama's second primetime press conference.
• Afghanistan -- Prescription for Sustainable Security, March 24, 2009
  

  New CAP report on the way forward in Afghanistan.

• Economy -- A Culture Of Excess, March 23, 2009
  JPMorgan purchases private jets as Tim Geithner releases his new bank rescue plan.
• Energy -- Powering A Green Economy, March 20, 2009
  Cap-and-trade programs are good for the economy.
• Iraq -- Six Years Of War In Iraq, March 19, 2009
  

  The sixth anniversary of the Iraq war.

• National Security -- Mexico's Drug War Hits Home, March 18, 2009
  Drug war violence in Mexico escalates.
• Human Rights -- The Secret Red Cross Torture Report, March 17, 2009
  

  Newly disclosed Red Cross torture report says Bush administration engaged in torture.

• Economy -- A Pain In The AIG, March 16, 2009
  Nationalization should be on the table.
• Economy -- The Case For Walking and Chewing Gum, March 13, 2009
  Conservatives say Obama is doing too much at once.
• Politics -- The New Progressive America, March 12, 2009
  New CAP study shows that America is trending progressive.
• Labor -- Fighting for Free Choice, March 11, 2009
  Big business and conservatives gear up to block the Employee Free Choice Act.
• Stem Cells -- A Victory For Science, March 10, 2009
  

  Yesterday, flanked by Nobel laureates, noted medical researchers, and a bipartisan group of members of Congress, President Obama signed an executive order undoing President Bush's August 2001 directive banning federal funding for all but 20 embryonic stem (ES) cell lines.

• International Relations -- New Era Of Engagement, March 9, 2009
  

  Over the weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned from a five-country, seven-day tour of the Middle East and Europe.

• Health Care -- 'This Time, We Will Not Fail', March 6, 2009
  

  President Obama brings stakeholders together at the health care summit.

• Administration -- Lifting Bush's Shroud, March 5, 2009
  Justice Department releases controversial Bush legal memos.
• Environment -- Climate Change You Can Believe In, March 4, 2009
  Right wing and media go haywire over global warming protests in winter.
• Civil Rights -- Laying The Groundwork For Equality, March 3, 2009
  

  Gay rights group files a legal challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act.

• Iraq -- Ending The War, March 2, 2009
  Obama announces the end of the Iraq war.