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Senate girds for Saturday vote and long battle on health care
The Senate Thursday began what promises to be a bitter, lengthy battle over the future of health care in America, ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
U.S. resetting its relationship with Karzai
When a team of senior U.S. officials led by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton entered the presidential ...via NewsRack -
The $100 Million Health Care Vote?
(Blog Post) The health care bill includes a $100 million section for increasing medicaid subsidies to the state of Louisiana. ...via Memeorandum -
Reid uncertain of tally as healthcare bill heads for rare Saturday vote
The majority leader also put to rest any notion that the Senate would try to use budget reconciliation rules. Read ...via Publish2 -
Senators Press Holder to Declassify Key Facts about Patriot Act
We believe that the information we referenced in those paragraphs – specifically about the use of section 215 – ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve -
Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring
Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a ...via Fair Spin
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Is It Time for Malpractice Reform?
Year after year, Republicans try to pass legislation that would limit medical malpractice awards. Fix the tort ...via NewsRack -
Army Suicides Hit Record and Will Likely Continue to Rise
Suicides among veterans and soldiers have reached a record high this year and are set to continue rising, Pentagon ...Posted by Patricia Blochowiak -
Economists Opposing Fed Audit Have Undisclosed Fed Ties
As the debate over an audit of the Federal Reserve intensifies in the House, one camp is trotting out eight ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Docudrama
(Blog Post) Sometime in August, McKinsey & Company created a PowerPoint document called “Health Care Reform and Implications ...via Jonathan Cohn
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Things Not to Be Thankful For - Silverdome, Goldman Sachs & Congressional Recess
(Video) Detroit sells its Silverdome for less than a one-bedroom apartment, Goldman Sachs reports huge profits, and three ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
The real reason Obama is not making much progress
So far, Obama has tried to co-opt the corporations into his agenda by ensuring they will profit from any changes, ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
The Deadline Presidency
As a professor of constitutional law, Barack Obama gave his students eight hours to complete his exam—even though ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Geithner Says Insurance Policies, Not AIG Derivatives Contracts, Were Systemic Risk
Geithner says credit-default swaps weren't the problem, after all.via Fair Spin -
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) on Climate
(Video) The Natural Resources Defense Council, one of the country's most influential environmental groups, has sent at ...Posted by Amanda Erickson -
Lawmakers seek more help from administration for Fort Hood investigations
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Whose Team Is It, Anyway?
Pro-choice voters have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.Posted by Chris Finnie -
The Logic of the 9/11 Trials, the Madness of the Military Commissions
the very existence of a two-tier judicial system should be enough to set alarm bells ringing, as it suggests - ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Stupak Amendment Could End Abortion Coverage -- For Everyone
there is more bad news for women: a George Washington University study released this week indicates that the Stupak ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Karzai’s Paranoid World
(Blog Post) When Hamid Karzai is re-inaugurated as president today after one of the world’s dodgiest elections, everyone from ...Posted by Derek Hawkins
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Report: More Americans going hungry
The number of Americans who lack dependable access to adequate food shot up last year to 49 million, the largest ...Posted by Barry Grossheim -
Toxic munitions 'may be cause' of baby deaths and deformities in Fallujah
Evidence was growing this weekend that babies born in the Iraqi city of Fallujah – scene in 2004 of one of the ...Posted by Chris Finnie -
Chamber’s Donohue Keeps Cash Coming After PG&E, Apple Defect
Apple Inc. and three other members of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce quit over its opposition to climate-change ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Russian Deal on Afghan Supply Route Not Done Yet
When he met President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia in April, President Obama sought to open an important new supply ...Posted by Samuel W. Velsor IV -
Army study: Mental health staff lacking in Afghanistan
An Army task force has found that a growing number of soldiers serving in Afghanistan are suffering from some kind ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring
Senate Democratic leaders said Tuesday they would put off debate on a big climate-change bill until spring, in a ...via Fair Spin
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I’d Like the Same Plan Better If It Was Bill Clinton’s
(Blog Post) Even among the most extreme opponents of President Obama's push for health care reform — those who equate his ...Posted by Michael Todd -
Is It Time for Malpractice Reform?
Year after year, Republicans try to pass legislation that would limit medical malpractice awards. Fix the tort ...via NewsRack
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The psychology of healthcare reform
The House has passed the first comprehensive reform package of the health insurance industry in decades, which is ...via OneRiot -
Copenhagen summit: Change we can't yet believe in
Confirming yesterday what had already been apparent for some months, Barack Obama and other leaders yesterday said ...via AllTop
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The Right's textbook "surrender to terrorists"
This is literally true: the Right's reaction to yesterday's announcement -- we're too afraid to allow trials and ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Whose Team Is It, Anyway?
Pro-choice voters have been taking one for the team for too long now. Enough already.Posted by Chris Finnie -
TALIBAN = 9/11?? Afghanistan by Hypnosis
On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi ...Posted by Glenn LaBauve
