Submitted by Reechard
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6 - 12 dead, dozens wounded at Fort Hood - Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod. Local TV report on the Fort Hood shooting rampage. My heart goes out to the victims’ families. A few hateful, racist and politically extreme Americans are exercising their right to free speech by commenting on a YouTube video. Ironically, this (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Obama met with the House Democratic caucus this morning. Sam Stein has a report on his message: The president, according multiple attendees, played the role of political prognosticator during his roughly 30 minute address before Democratic caucus members on Capitol Hill. Addressing, implicitly, those conservative Democrat (Read More)
New York Times:
A piece of the stimulus program Congress passed earlier this year is helping the mayor burnish his credentials with the business community.
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Submitted by Reechard
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I first read Barbara Ehrenreich in 1971 when she wrote The American Health Empire: Power, Profits, and Politics with her (then) husband John Ehrenreich (Health PAC, 1971) ... Now she has penned a brief comment on the the alleged swine flu vaccine supply problem and who's to blame. And I find myself in complete agreement wit (Read More)
Huffington Post:
Hoping to pull together the needed Democratic support to get health care reform through the House of Representatives, President Barack Obama urged members to look at the results of New York's special congressional election for inspiration.The president, according to a senior Democratic aide who attended his discussion, told (Read More)
NY Post:
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation today as the House opened debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of uninsured Americans.
Emerging from a closed-door... (Read More)
Submitted by Kbondelli
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If you keep up with the lighter side of YouTube politics, the name Andy Cobb might ring a bell. Andy is a comic who has made a name for himself on the site for last three years, with videos that lampoon conservatives and generally parody politics in America. His Karl Rove rap, his Godfather IV parody of Alberto Gonzales, an (Read More)
Submitted by Reechard
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Suspect in Orlando shooting spree charged with first-degree murder - CNN.com - Watch more Videos at Vodpod. “Orlando, Florida (CNN) — A 40-year-old man accused of killing one and wounding five in a shooting at a business where he once worked was charged Friday with first-degree murder, police said.“I’m just going through a (Read More)
Daily Kos:
So the US Conference of Catholic Bishops care more about preventing women from having access to abortion--which is still legal, btw--than about providing healthcare access to millions and millions of the uninsured. Catholics for Choice don't agree: Jon O’Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, said: "This is unconscio (Read More)
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AP Photo The alleged Fort Hood gunman had revealed a hard-line Islamist streak to acquaintances in the Muslim Community Center that he made his mosque. The Daily Beast's Asra Q. Nomani reports.Not long ago, inside the quiet library of the Muslim Community Center here in Silver Spring, Maryland, a s (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook:
9 MONDAY 10:30 A.M. Children's author David A. Carter reads from and discusses "White Noise: A Pop-up Book for Children of All Ages" at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919.
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Daily Kos:
You might have noticed as of late that the Wrap-Up has taken on a very predictable cadence. The polling news comes first, with numbers and analysis. Then, in bullet form, the political news of the day soon follows. Well, there is good news and bad news on this Friday afternoon/evening. The bad news: near as I can tell, th (Read More)