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From Robert Reich's blog: Obama's immediate challenge is to fill the leadership vacuum created by a lame-duck president with historically-low approval ratings who seems to have lost interest in his job and a Treasury chief who has all but punted on coming up with any workable solution to the crisis.

Former NFL quarterback Michael Vick pleaded guilty Tuesday to a state dogfighting charge, a move that could make him eligible to leave prison early and potentially speed up a return to pro football. Vick, 28, arrived wearing a gray suit and wrist and ankle shackles, but the restraints were removed by the time he entered […]

President-elect Barack Obama named Peter Orszag as his budget director on Tuesday and said his job will be to conduct a thorough review of federal spending programs, “eliminating those programs we don’t need and insisting that those we do need operate in a cost-effective way.”

<dl class="wp-caption alignnone"> <dt class="wp-caption-dt"><a href="http://cdn.newsone.com/files/2008/11/kareem_wright_21.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-46271" title="kareem_wright_21" src="http://cdn.newsone.com/files/2008/11/kareem_wright_21-300x382.jpg" alt="<br />" width="300" height="382" /></a></dt> </dl>In an interview with Sirius Radio's Mark Thompson, Reverend Wright, criticized the media scapegoating he went through during the election.

From Hazel Trice Edny at <em>The Wilmington Journal</em>: The Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, viewed as perhaps the highest profiled civil rights leaders in the nation, both say their roles will not change as America beholds its first Black president.

From SarojOnTheIssues: The election of Barack Obama to the office of the President was only the starting point. In his first decision in this capacity, President-elect Barack Obama is in the process of selecting his cabinet memebers. So far so good, I’d say, with some exceptions. Click here to find out!

President-elect Barack Obama wants to project fiscal restraint even as his economic team assembles a massive recovery package that could cost several hundred billion dollars.

Since his departure on November 17, the debate is raging for who should replace Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo!. From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban, the opinions are many.  But guess what?  There are no African-American candidates!

A number of news reports are saying that Barack Obama willl appoint Desiree Rogers as Social Secretary for the White House.

With the economy in crisis, President-elect Barack Obama called on the new Congress to act quickly in passing a costly stimulus package to create jobs as a follow-up to the hundreds of billions of dollars the Bush administration has committed to rescue financial markets.

From EURweb.com President-elect Barack Obama made a personal appeal for the 2016 Olympics to come to his home city of Chicago in a taped video message played to the general assembly of European Olympic Committees.

<p class="MsoPlainText">From EURweb.com:</p> <p class="MsoPlainText">The nation's foreclosure crisis has arrived on the doorstep of Wyclef Jean's Miami property.</p>