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Friday, March 28, 2008
Conservatives for Obama
Andrew Bracevich explains why good conservatives should vote for Obama rather than pseudo conservative McCain.
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
NINDS Sleep Apnea Information Page.
What is Sleep Apnea?
Is there any treatment?
What is the pronosis?
What research is being done?
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
Ranchers and Army Are at Odds in Old West
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"You have the military fighting for the freedom of other people overseas, and we're losing our own back home," he said. " It makes no sense."
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Brutal attacks on homeless on upswing across country
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The motive? "I don't think there was a motive,"...."other than, 'let's beat someone up.'"
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Thousands in LA Demand Immigration Rights
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Many were angry about a White House plan that would...require them to return home to apply for U.S. residency and pay a $10,000 fine.
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Restoring the Rule of Law
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Senator Edward Kennedy| Statement
...remarks ...at an event organized by the Alliance for Justice on Wednesday, March 29, 2007.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Fighting Mega-Retailers
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...find out where local business is pushing back against mega-retailers.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Republican Senators Express Reservations Over Gonzales
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Questions over Mr. Gonzales's future intensified on both sides of the aisle this weekend...
Sunday, March 25, 2007
U. S. attorney candidate can't practice law
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Congressman Dave Reichert has come to the defence of John McKay, a fellow Republican and former U.S. attorney...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
DOJ Threatened Retaliation Against Fired Attorneys
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A Justice Department official threatened to take the "gloves off" and "retaliate"...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
The Medicaid Documentation Mess
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The problem was triggered by last year's Deficit Reduction Act,...
Sunday, March 18, 2007
White House Delays Action in Inquiry on Attorneys
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Democrats expressed disappointment with the delay...
Saturday, March 17, 2007
FOCUS| Will Gonzales Fall for Attorney Firings?
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...sources tell CBS News that it looks like Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will take the fall.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
Phony Fraud Charges
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There is no evidence of rampant voter fraud in this country.
Saturday, March 17, 2007
U. S. attorney candidate can't practice law
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"I understand I'm in a bad position," he said.
Friday, March 16, 2007
Fired U.S. Attorney McKay calls for criminal probe of firings
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"These are the people who are supposed to be watching our back," McKay said...
Friday, March 16, 2007
Separate but Unequal Dorms
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How a disabled student fought for, and won, fair treatment from her university.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
GOP chair called McKay about '04 election
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Vance said he felt compelled to approach McKay as a fellow Republican.
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Firings furor puts Gonzales on hot seat
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Did the attorney general mislead Congress about the firings of eight US attorneys?
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Home-loan trouble spurs fears of US 'credit crunch'
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AS more homeowners run into trouble making loan payments, it is not just borrowers and lenders who are at risk, but the US economy as well.
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
McKay "stunned" by report on Bush
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McKay doesn't know if Republican unhappiness over his handling of the 2004 election cost him his job...
Monday, March 12, 2007
Immigration raids split kids from moms
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When illegal-immigrant parents are swept up in raids on homes and workplaces, the children are sometimes left behind--
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Everyone's safer off the streets
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These are people who have served their time and been released from prison to nowhere.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
An unhappy band of brothers and sisters
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Elections are a powerful force in a democracy.
Monday, March 5, 2007
Soldiers, families, vets: It's not just Walter Reed
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Stories of neglect and substandard care have flooded in....
Sunday, March 4, 2007
Doubts Rise as States Detain Sex Offenders After Prison
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About 2,700 sexual offenders are already being held....
Sunday, March 4, 2007
The odd world of Val Stevens
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State Sen. Val Stevens has put her extreme views on display in outlandish, disappointing and, in one case, potentially dangerous ways.
Saturday, March 3, 2007
Impeachment resolution gets one-sided hearing
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Democrats including state Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, U.S. Sen. Patty Murray and U.S. Rep. Jay Inslee, have criticized the move.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Mental-health promise to kids
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Monday, February 12, 2007
Giuliani for President? America's Mayor for President?
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The standard obstacles confronting him are familiar enough and frequently recited.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Told to Wait, a Marine Dies
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Go home and wait for a phone call tomorrow,...
Monday, February 12, 2007
At the Grammys, Making Very Nice
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Dissent Takes Center Stage at the Grammys.
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Rupert Cornwell | The Great Black Hope
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The first major black candidate of the 21st century will throw his hat in the presidential ring at the old State Capitol building, ....
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Senator Tim Johnson Working From Hospital
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Friday, February 9, 2007
House security chief: Pelosi didn't ask for plane; I did
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Pelosi is striking back against claims.
Monday, February 5, 2007
Rebuild New Orleans, Rebuild America
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For a time public discussion again focussed on the fact that the poverty of New Orleans, far from being an isolated situation,exemplifies a national problem.
Sunday, February 4, 2007
How To End The War
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Our founders wisely kept the power to fund a war separate from the power to conduct a war.
Friday, February 2, 2007
Florida Shifting to Voting System with Paper Trail
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Voting experts said Florida's move could be the death knell for the paperless electronic touch-screen machines.
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Bush, congressional leaders plan new dialogue on terror
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Many in Congress including some Republicans have challenged President Bush's declaration that "I am the decision-maker" on issues of war.
Monday, January 29, 2007
Immigration Raid Draws Protest From Labor Officials
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Tension over the workers' immigration status has been running high at the plant since November,...
Sunday, January 28, 2007
Why blacks won't necessarily back Obama
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AS recent history proves, political interests trump race.
Friday, January 26, 2007
New Coalition Aims to Keep Democrats in Check
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This week a group of organizers from labor and the liberal movement are banding together to hold Democrats in line on populist issues....
Thursday, January 25, 2007
No court consensus on voter ID laws
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Voter identification laws are getting mixed reviews by courts.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
A Speech Bordering On Criminal
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There ought to be a law against presidents delivering State of the Union addresses that contain the number of fallacies, inconsistencies and duplicitous statements that President Bush's address to Congress contained last night.
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Minimum wage hike hits the wall in Senate
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Democrats promise of a quick increase in the minimum wage ran aground Wednesday in the Senate....
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
Educators Assail No Child Left Behind
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Almost all in a poll sent out by Colorado's Senator Ken Salazar say the federal law's goals are not achievable
Saturday, January 20, 2007
House completes '100 hour' legislation package
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Passage of bill to restore oil royalties completes 'must do'list
Friday, January 19, 2007
Senate Passes Democrats' Ethics Bill
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Passage of the bill came a day after the measure appeared dead, the victim of a test of will between the two parties.
Friday, January 19, 2007
Congress is off to a bipartisan start, but tougher tests lie ahead
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In the first 100 legislative hours, House Democrats drew significant GOP support ...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
An Experiment and a Protest in Shantytown for Homeless
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Bush Must Go
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Only impeachment can stop him.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Housing Bubble Bloodbath
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Alan Greenspan's low interest-rate bonanza triggered a stampede of speculation in the real estate market that set the stage for the biggest economic bust in American history.
Friday, January 12, 2007
Governors Lose in Power Struggle Over National Guard
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A little-noticed change in federal law changes who is in charge the next time a state is devastated by a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina.
Friday, January 5, 2007
The 110th Congress: A Call For Accountability
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When the 110th Congress convenes it's greatest challenge will be to establish the accountability required to restore public faith in American government.
Friday, January 5, 2007
New Job Title for Druggists: Diabetes Coach
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A public health experiment in Asheville, N.C., provides a ray of hope in combating diabetes.
Friday, January 5, 2007
Democrats urge Bush to find a way out of Iraq
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Democratic congressional leaders have signaled that any plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq could receive a cool reception....
Friday, January 5, 2007
What Dems should do: Your e-mails
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Here is a selection of responses to the question of what should be at the top of the legislative agenda.
Friday, January 5, 2007
How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say
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Orders to cater to creationists makes national park agnostic on geology. Age of Grand Canyon withheld to cater to creationists.
Friday, January 5, 2007
And the Empire Mourned....
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Dissecting the Big Lie.
In the wake of the United States' recent facilitation of Saddam Hussein's hanging, we in the self-proclaimed "bastion of human rights" are in the midst of six days of mourning for a man would have swung from the gallows long ago had he been judged by the same standards as Saddam.
Thursday, January 4, 2007
America's Holy Warriors
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The radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to it's goal of co-opting the country's military and law enforcement sectors.
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Heroes and Zeros of 2006
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The competition is fierce for the dubious honor of Zero of 2006.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Edwards Pushing Universal Health Care
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John Edwards says it's more important to invest in universal health care and lifting people out of poverty than to reduce the budget deficit.
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
Ford Left Scars As Well
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Gerald Ford was also a roadblock to justice and to much-needed reform.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Americans Want a Rapid Exit from Iraq but Elected Leaders Aren't Even Considering It
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Ending the occupation will reduce violence,immediately save more than $100 billion and respect the wishes of the American people. Why is Washington, DC ignoring the obvious?
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Puppet Kills Puppet
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Saddam was indeed a ruthless dictator, true, but specifically ruthless on behalf of his benefactors: US multinational petroleum and arms dealers and their patrons well-placed in Washington.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Why Did Gerald Ford Criticize His Former Colleagues and the Iraq War?
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The revelation that former President Gerald R. Ford harshly criticized the Iraq War has captured headlines since his death.
Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Capital residents may finally get vote in Congress
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After more tha 200 years of paying taxes, fighting in the nation's wars and abiding by the sometimes arbitrary acts of Congress, Washington residents are close to getting a full-fledged representative in the House.
Monday, January 1, 2007
US Deaths in Iraq Mark Increased Presence
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In a little-known museum tucked away on the grounds of an Army post near Richmond, a memorial wall just inside the door quietly announjces a profound change in the nation's fighting force.
Monday, January 1, 2007
Chaining the beast in presidential elections
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Fines against three '527' groups for their role in the 2004 elections are too little, too late.
Monday, January 1, 2007
After a bankruptcy: The path to take to restore credit
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It's important to show that a bankruptcy is an event not to be repeated.
Monday, January 1, 2007
Death of One Tyrant a Coverup of Crime by Another
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Obviously the American government put more value on oil than on the lives of a million Iraqi children.
Monday, January 1, 2007
Iowa governor: Smart campaign can beat Clinton juggernaught in '08
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"You have to work longer, and you have to work smarter, and that's what we intend to do,"...
Monday, January 1, 2007
Do Bananas Do a Brain Good?
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Grab a banana and say bye-bye to Parkinson's disease?
Monday, January 1, 2007
House Democrats to Object to Florida Election Outcome
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Demmocrats said Friday that they would open the new Congress by formally objecting to the election result in Florida's 13th District,...
Sunday, December 31, 2006
The price of House inaction
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Congress passed only 2 of 11 appropriations bills. Now some federal agencies don't have the funds that they need.
Saturday, December 30, 2006
A Dictator Created Then Destroyed by America
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"Who encouraged Saddam to invade Iran in 1980, which was the greatest war crime he has committed...."
Saturday, December 30, 2006
Elder-Care Costs Deplete Savings of a Generation
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Never before has old age lasted so long or been so costly, compromising the retirement of baby boomers.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Democrats to revisit detainee issues
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Senate Democrats plan to use their newfound power to revisit one of the most contentious national security matters of 2006.
Friday, December 29, 2006
Our Founding Illegals
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Every nation is a nation of immigrants. But the immigrant experience in the United States is justly celebrated, and perhaps no aspect of that experience is more quintessentially American then our long heritage of illegal immigration.
Thursday, December 28, 2006
Pork No Longer Paves the Road to Re-election
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The abuse of earmarks cost two Senators and four House members their seats in the last election.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Testing the Waters, Obama Tests His Own Limits
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Senator Barack Obama's aides wonder if he can meet lofty expectations,which have elevated him beyond a politician's normal realm.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Abolish Presidential Term Limits
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Under the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, Mr. Bush is barred from seeking a third term of office. So he doesn't have to worry about his dreadful poll numbers November's disastrous congressional elections, or anything else. If he faced re-election, maybe he'd act like he cared.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
Bush Is Bracing for New Scrutiny
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President Bush is bracing for what could be an onslaught of investigations by the new Democratic-led Congrees by hiring lawyers to fill key White House posts
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Troop "Surge" Plan for Iraq Meets Growing Opposition in US
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The idea of having more American troops go to Iraq does not sit well with the public, and signals that emerged from Capital Hill Sunday indicated the White House may face a very uphill battle if, as expected, it embraces the proposal to pour up to 30,000 new troops into Iraq.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
"I'm Jealous of Cuba": An Interview with Gore Vidal
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Democracy v Imperialism
The History of American Imperialism
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Election Challenge for Florida District is Taken to the House
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Christine Jennings, Democrat, informed Congress last week that she was contesting the congressional election in Florida's 13th District in the courts and could ask for resolution by the Congress. She claims that electronic voting machines malfunctioned and that state officials wrongly certified the election in favor of Republican Vern Buchanan.
Sunday, December 24, 2006
Impending Police State in America
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Professor Francis Boyle says 9/11 was allowed to happen, war on terror is facilitating the downfall of The Republic, concentration camps are in place and US citizens are the targets.
Saturday, December 23, 2006
One of Speaker Hastert's Final Acts Benefits Insurers
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Hastert sneaks a sweet gift in for one insurance company
