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The Scene In The House When It Happened

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim - Nov. 08 (News) - The House floor erupted in one of the loudest cheers the chamber has heard in years when Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), an hour before midnight, cast the 218th and deciding vote on landmark health care reform.

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Democrats Clear Impasse Blocking Health Care Vote

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By David Espo, Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar - Nov. 07 (Breaking News) - Capping months of months of struggle, House Democrats cleared an abortion-related impasse blocking a vote

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Compromise Reached On Health Care Bill: Anti-Abortion Amendment To Be Given Floor Vote

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Ryan Grim - Nov. 07 (News) - As the House of Representatives inches toward a final vote on comprehensive health care reform this weekend -- the most dramatic domestic policy debate in several generations, a reorganization of a sixth of the economy -- the only thing the parties can talk about is abortion and immigration.

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Jamal Dajani: Don't Ask Me About Hasan

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:58:18 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jamal Dajani - Nov. 06 - Seven messages and counting on my voice mail from different Bay Area reporters, all wanting to know the Muslim community's reaction about the recent heinous killings of Nidal Malik Hasan. All wanting to know what had driven a 39-year-old Muslim to go

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WND's Jerome Corsi Claims Fort Hood Shooter Advised Obama [UPDATE]

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - Well, if you were wondering what paranoiac smear artist would be the first to step out and attempt to name President Barack Obama as the man who guided Nidal Malik Hasan to his murderous rampage at Fort Hood yesterday, the answer -- naturally! -- is Jerome Corsi. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/iwndis-jerome-corsi-claim_n_348461.html&cp

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Life After Death: The View From The Edge

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Dinesh D'Souza - Nov. 06 (Opinion) - The best empirical evidence for life after death comes from people who have had "near death experiences" (NDEs). These are people who have gone to the edge and come back with a report. Certainly they haven't crossed over; in that sense, death remains, as Shakespeare put it, the undiscovered country. But so-called NDEs give us the best chance to make at least an initial map of that unknown territory. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dinesh-dsouza/life-after-death-the-view_b_347412.html#postComment&cp

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Greg Mitchell: Top Authors, and Editor, in 'NYT Book Review' Ethics Dispute

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Greg Mitchell - Nov. 06 (Review) - It's nothing new for aggrieved authors to write letters to the highly influential New York Times Book Review, protesting a negative review, or one rife with errors. Sometimes the protest relates to the unfair choice of reviewer. What's unusual about

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Unemployment Rate Hits 10 Percent For The First Time Since 1983

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - By Christopher S. Rugaber - Nov. 06 (News Analysis) - The 10.2 percent jobless rate for October shows how weak the economy remains even though it is growing. The rising jobless rate could threaten the recovery if it saps consumers' confidence and makes them more cautious about spending as the holiday season approaches. Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/06/unemployment-rate-hits-10_n_348185.html&cp

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The Worldwide Efforts Of The Global Energy Lobby To Kill Progress On Climate Change

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Katherine Goldstein Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/05/exposed-the-worldwide-eff_n_346110.html?grist&cp&cp - Nov. 05 (Special Report) - The Center For Public Integrity just released a blockbuster investigative report that details the intense corporate pressure to block an effective global treaty from being reached at the UN Climate Talks in Copenhagen in December, and to halt efforts in individual countries to limit greenhouse gas emissions.

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Peeling Off Conservatives' AstroTurf Mask

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Chris Harris - Nov. 04 (News) - As these "AstroTurf" organizations sprouted up, progressive operatives and bloggers scrambled to link them to big business and political players in Washington. Well, the scrambling days are over.

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To Vaccinate or Not to Vaccinate? Why Is It a Question?

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Kate Kelly - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - "People have become complacent," says Margaret Lewin, M.D. F.A.C.P., and medical director of Cinergy Health, a health insurance company that stresses preventive health care. "Today's families are too young to remember the fatalities and disabilities that can result from influenza

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NIAC And J Street, Progressive Foreign Policy Groups, Become Political Targets

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Nov. 03 (News Analysis) - Two relatively new organizations -- each covering distinctly opposite ends on the spectrum of Middle Eastern affairs -- have been the target of withering public relations attacks in recent weeks and months.

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Naomi Starkman: Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Naomi Starkman - Nov. 02 (Investigative Report) - BPA, which has been used for years in clear plastic bottles and food-can liners, has been restricted in Canada and some U.S. states and municipalities because it has been linked to a wide array of health effects including reproductive abnormalities, heightened risk of breast and prostate cancers, diabetes, and heart disease.

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Why Keep Geithner?

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

MSNBC - By Dylan Ratigan - Nov. 02 (News Analysis) - A year ago it was revealed to the American people that our banking system was a legalized Ponzi scheme in which bank and insurance CEOs paid themselves billions of dollars in personal compensation to lend and insure assets with money they didn't have

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WorldNetDaily Can't Stop Whitewashing Orly Taitz

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Terry Krepel - Nov. 01 (News Analysis) - It's not until the 13th paragraph -- after the non-news of rehashing yet again the purported eligibility case against Obama -- that WND actually got around to the actual news of detailing Sinclair's allegation that Taitz suborned perjury.

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Setting the Record Straight on Our Health Care Legislation

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rep. Anna Eshoo - Oct. 30 (News) - Having put so much into these critical issues, I'm quite frankly outraged by the falsehoods and misrepresentations in Ms. Hamsher's column.

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Reveals That The White House Garden Cost Only $180 To Plant

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Katherine Goldstein - Oct. 29 (News) - She [Michelle Obama] then revealed the answer: "Over 740 pounds of food have come out of this little piece of land..... It [cost] about $180.

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Jamal Dajani: Taliban: If You Can't Beat Them, Buy Them!

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:38:01 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 29 - The story the New York Times published this week on Hamid Karzai's drug-dealing brother Ahmed Wali and his ties to the CIA is very revealing, considering it comes just few days before Afghanistan's run-off election; however, it is not the real news.

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Present at the Cremation: The Long, Slow Death of the GOP?

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rob Diamond - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - Nowhere is it written that major political parties will live forever. In fact, over the course of the first 100 years of our country's history, Americans saw the rise and fall of numerous nationally powerful political parties.

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Obama Heads To Dover Air Force Base To Honor Fallen Soldiers

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:28:49 -0700

Associated Press - Oct. 29 -

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Lieberman Twists the Knife

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Robert Scheer - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - Is there a more hypocritical figure in American politics than Joe Lieberman? The Connecticut senator declared Tuesday that he would support a filibuster of any health care reform bill that has a public option -- even the version with the "trigger" compromise accepted by Republican Sen. Olympia Snowe -- because it might cost money Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-scheer/lieberman-twists-the-knif_b_336457.html

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HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff On The Far Right's Political Porn (VIDEO)

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Ed Schultz, Roy Sekoff - Oct. 28 (Opinion) - HuffPost Editor Roy Sekoff was a guest on MSNBC's The Ed Show tonight to discuss the latest outrage from the far right - an attempt to encourage people to battle against health care reform by burning Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi in effigy, as well as holding a contest - with prizes! -- to see who can create the 'best' "Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi burn in hell" video. Sekoff denounced the effort as "political pornography" and "straight out of the Glenn Beck school of hate-filled buffoonery."

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Arianna Huffington: Barack Obama Is Doing My Job; Why America Needs Him to Do His

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Arianna Huffington - Oct. 27 - Arianna Huffington: Barack Obama Is Doing My Job; Why America Needs Him to Do His

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Jonathan Safran Foer's Controversial New Book, Eating Animals

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Aaron Gross - Oct. 26 (Review) - Over the next weeks Huffington Post will feature a diverse range of responses to Jonathan Safran Foer's controversial new work of non-fiction, Eating Animals.

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Gestapo Knocks at Door of Northwestern University Journalism School

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Judge H. Lee Sarokin - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - I am always offended and annoyed with the labeling of some recent conduct or person with Nazism or Hitler or drawing analogies with the Holocaust...

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