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5 killed in attack on aid group in Pakistan
Gunmen attacked the offices of an international aid group in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday, killing five people working for ...
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How The Democrats Can Reclaim The Youth Vote
If the Democrats don't get the youth vote, they're toast. That happened in Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, where young Obama voters stayed home in droves. It's an ugly conceivable future portended by a new Harvard poll that shows forty-one percent of young Republicans planning on voting in November, compared to 35 percent of young Democrats and 13 percent of independents. A recent Pew poll showed a similarly disturbing pattern: Young voters still prefer the Democrats, but their margin is slipping and their enthusiasm level is worse.
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It's time to pass Health insurance reform...
I know I have blogged here pretty much against this Senate Health Insurance Reform bill.But the reality of the situation is , this bill as "WATERED DOWN" as it is , needs to pass the House of Representatives....
Democrats in the House must show Political Courage in the face of fierce Republican Partisanship !...Republicans will never grant president Obama any kind of Legistlative Victory , That is a GIVEN.
Now if House Democrats do pass this legistlation "as is" , the SENATE DEMOCRATS , MUST pass the fixes to this bill via reconciliation !...
Or the SENATE CHAMBER of JANUARY 1 ST. 2011 , will look alot DIFFERENT ,than what it looks like right now !.
Democrats in the House must show Political Courage in the face of fierce Republican Partisanship !...Republicans will never grant president Obama any kind of Legistlative Victory , That is a GIVEN.
Now if House Democrats do pass this legistlation "as is" , the SENATE DEMOCRATS , MUST pass the fixes to this bill via reconciliation !...
Or the SENATE CHAMBER of JANUARY 1 ST. 2011 , will look alot DIFFERENT ,than what it looks like right now !.
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Female WWII pilots receive medals
Congress is awarding the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor, to members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots
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Roberts: Presidential address is 'pep rally'
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts told an Alabama audience Tuesday that he found the atmosphere "very troubling" at January's ...
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El Nino could whip up more active tornado season
Weather forecasters say the wetter-than-usual El Nio winter that has blasted much of the United States could be followed by an ...
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Allegations rise against N.Y.'s Massa
Hours after resigning amid allegations of sexually harassing staffers, former House member Eric Massa went on national television ...
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Protect our Majestic Wild Horses now from BLM !
NO MORE WILD HORSE ROUND UPS -SEND CORRUPT BLM THIEVES TO PRISON FOR KILLING OUR MAJESTIC BELOVED WILD HORSES AND BURROS, BLATANT CORRUPTION, DESTROYING OUR LAND , WILDLIFE, AND WATER, LYING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CONGRESS. NO MORE BLM CORRUPT KILLERS-KILLING OUR WILD HORSES- PROTECT THEM NOW AND PROSECUTE BLM. This is the usual fraud by BLM - there is no wild horse overpopulation-arrest these brutal corrupt liars !!!! Protect our horses now from BLM ! GIVE THEM BACK THEIR LAND -NO PRESERVES IN MIDWEST OR EAST ! PROTECT OUR WILD HORSES ! Where is our CHANGE?????????
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Red tape in Kabul hinders success
The State Department is failing to properly oversee nearly $2 billion in contracts to battle the drug trade, build infrastructure ...
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Toyota faced with 2 more cases of runaway Priuses
As Toyota sought to contain the fallout from a California sudden-acceleration case involving a Prius, another Prius slammed into ...
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Iraqi parties both claim lead in election
The Iraqi prime minister's coalition and its main secular rival both claimed to be ahead in the vote count Monday, a day after ...
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Law bars Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi from election
A new election law issued by Myanmar's ruling military has barred pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from joining a political ...
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Health care ad cyclorama to clog airwaves
Hundreds of business groups today launch a multimillion-dollar ad campaign in an effort to stop health care legislation and fire ...
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China wages war on growing corruption
Public corruption is not exclusive to China, but it is considered a more serious problem here because it could threaten Communist ...
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Beck Meets Massa
If you missed it, the video of Glenn Beck's interview with former Rep. Eric Massa (D-NY) is priceless.
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2nd ex-New Orleans cop charged in Katrina coverup
A second ex-New Orleans officer charged in an alleged conspiracy to cover up a deadly police shooting of unarmed residents after ...
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Brown Bucks Party on Filibuster
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) "is putting some muscle behind his independent image by twice voting against his own party and questioning the use of the filibuster," CNN reports.
Brown took to the Senate floor "to announce he would vote for cloture, or to end a Republican filibuster, on a bill extending unemployment benefits and tax credits. This, despite the fact he opposes the bill and technically the filibuster helped his cause."
Said Brown: "I have very serious concerns about the overall cost of the bill, but my vote for cloture signals that I believe we need to keep the process moving."
Brown took to the Senate floor "to announce he would vote for cloture, or to end a Republican filibuster, on a bill extending unemployment benefits and tax credits. This, despite the fact he opposes the bill and technically the filibuster helped his cause."
Said Brown: "I have very serious concerns about the overall cost of the bill, but my vote for cloture signals that I believe we need to keep the process moving."
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Spitzer and the Imposter
Lloyd Constantine, a former confidant to New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, says in his new book, Journal
of the Plague Year: An Insider's Chronicle of Eliot Spitzer's Short and
Tragic Reign, that Spitzer "acted irrationally from the moment he arrived -- his time in Albany punctuated by bad decisions, strange outbursts and a lingering sense of shame that could be explained only by the illicit liaisons," according to a review by Ben Smith.
Writes Constantine: "The secret things Eliot had been doing and [the] certainty that Eliot understood that they inevitably would come to light and bring him down, and all of us with him, had been steadily dripping venom into his mind."
This altered personality transformed "the brilliant, dedicated and decisive man I had known and loved for more than a quarter century" into someone he called "the Imposter."
Writes Constantine: "The secret things Eliot had been doing and [the] certainty that Eliot understood that they inevitably would come to light and bring him down, and all of us with him, had been steadily dripping venom into his mind."
This altered personality transformed "the brilliant, dedicated and decisive man I had known and loved for more than a quarter century" into someone he called "the Imposter."
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Counting Votes for Health Care
Ezra Klein explains why he isn't paying much attention to the flurry of announcements by members of Congress in the run-up to the vote on health care reform.
"To a degree that's really under-appreciated, legislators communicate with each other through the press. That's particularly true for the specialized Washington press: The Roll Calls and Congressional Quarterlys and Hills of the world. We read those stories as news articles, but the politicians who are quoted in them are often directing their words at their leadership rather than the publication's lay audience. And that means those comments generally have a couple different meanings."
In case that's not persuasive, The Hotline has their latest House whip count which shows Democrats still don't have the votes.
"To a degree that's really under-appreciated, legislators communicate with each other through the press. That's particularly true for the specialized Washington press: The Roll Calls and Congressional Quarterlys and Hills of the world. We read those stories as news articles, but the politicians who are quoted in them are often directing their words at their leadership rather than the publication's lay audience. And that means those comments generally have a couple different meanings."
In case that's not persuasive, The Hotline has their latest House whip count which shows Democrats still don't have the votes.
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