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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Rick
| Source: Divine Ripples
Abortions & suicides can be stopped with a simple phone call from a friend. Matt Kennon's country song says it all in "The Call".
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Brad
| Source: Think Progress
The record-breaking snowstorm that has shut down the mid-Atlantic region for days has become a favored target for mockery by Republicans who deny global warming, seemingly on the supposition that deadly blizzards invalidate the science of climate ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Lee Fang
| Source: Think Progress
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), one of the cosponsors to the radical budget proposal authored by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), went on Fox News yesterday to float one of the budget’s key components. Heralding “personal [Social Security] accounts” for “you ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: mcjoan
| Source: Daily Kos
Via John Aravosis, GOP House leadership says that if Obama won't agree to starting over from scratch, they won't come to his meeting. They are obviously trying to up the ante on this bill, calling for Obama to rule out using reconciliation to pas ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: DC
| Source: AMERICAblog News
According to The Hill, Democrats on Capitol Hill are focusing their ire on Rahm:Democrats in Congress are holding White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel accountable for his part in the collapse of healthcare reform.
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Jeralyn
| Source: TalkLeft
Former NY Police Commissioner Bernie Kerik is scheduled to be sentenced in a few weeks on his guilty plea to various tax offenses and false statement charges. Both sides filed lengthy sentencing statements yesterday.
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: David Waldman
| Source: Daily Kos
In the House, courtesy of the Office of the Majority Leader:
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: David Sirota
| Source: Open Left
Former Air America CEO Danny Goldberg has a must-read on the demise of the radio network and what he believes it tells us about the difference between conservative movement funders and their (supposed) progressive counterparts. Here's the key exc ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: The Huffington Post News Editors
| Source: The Huffington Post
WASHINGTON -- Snow blew across the Midwest on Tuesday on track for the hard-hit Mid-Atlantic region, where federal government offices were closed for a second day and utility workers struggled to restore power knocked out by a weekend blizzard.
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: The Huffington Post News Editors
| Source: The Huffington Post
iPhone repair site iResQ has posted photos of what it claims are parts for the fourth-generation iPhone presumably due for launch later this year. Among the most notable features of the claimed parts are a front panel that appears to be approxima ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: DC
| Source: AMERICAblog News
Nate Silver did an analysis of public opinion on 25 issues, which separate Democrats and Republicans. There seems to be a sense among some pundits that Obama and the Democrats are on the wrong side of what people want. In fact, on most, it's the ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Strong
| Source: Strong: Progressive
StarKist today became the 102nd sponsor to drop Glenn Beck, following recent converts to the cause Best Western and GlaxoSmithKline. Best Western reportedly took less than 24 hours to decide to pull their advertising from Beck's show:
Last week, ...
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Jeralyn
| Source: TalkLeft
Jake the Bachelor goes on four hometown dates tonight. After that, it's "24" and "Life Unexpected."
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Strong
| Source: Strong: Progressive
After hearing Caribou Barbie's snarky, disrespectful jibes at President Obama for the fifth time today, all I have to say to her is:
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Feb 9, 2010
| Author: Rick
| Source: Divine Ripples
My earlier posts about this may seem incredible,
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: Chris Bowers
| Source: Open Left
There are a lot of clever-sounding explanations for the declining approval ratings of President Obama, and the declining electoral fortunes of the Democratic Party. For example, Edward Luce and Steve Clemmons take aim at President Obama consult ...
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Feb 8, 2010
| Author: davidswanson
| Source: Democrats.com
By David Swanson
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Feb 6, 2010
| Author: Free-Spirited Ruminations
| Source: Free-Spirited Ruminations
My cousin worked for Hewlett Packard for years. An extremely successful company with extremely smart, talented people working for them. The exception to their success seemed to have been Carly Fiorina.
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Feb 6, 2010
| Author: sana saleem
| Source: Mystified Justice
On February 5, 2010, two suicidal blasts struck the metropolitan city of Karachi killing 15 people and leaving 70 wounded. The first attack mainly targeted the Shia mourners traveling to join the Muharram processions. The second blast took place ...
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Feb 4, 2010
| Author: sana saleem
| Source: Mystified Justice
Nationalism is best understood in contrast to patriotism. Patriotism is simply love for one’s country, whereas nationalism is the sense that one’s nation is the best, often because it is more sacred than other nations. For the past few months, ‘W ...
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Feb 3, 2010
| Author: Free-Spirited Ruminations
| Source: Free-Spirited Ruminations
With everything else going on of late, I've taken a bit of a break from political posts. Just a couple of comments:
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Jan 27, 2010
| Author: Bob Fertik
| Source: Democrats.com
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Jan 30, 2009
| Source: 23/6
Reader(s?), our work here is done. Barack Obama is president and comedy has become less necessary. Sunday, February 1st is our last day on the internet- in this incarnation. On Monday, the starving orphan 23/6 will be adopted by the Huffington Po ...
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Jan 30, 2009
| Source: 23/6
If you chose 9 as the number of days into the Obama administration that we would be seeing a headline like the one below, congratulations, you're the winner!
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