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A Republican lawmaker in Illinois said his GOP colleagues would be "idiots" to kill a proposal to transfer terrorist suspects from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to the maximum-security prison in Thomson, Illinois.Representative Jim Sacia of the state's 89th District accused Republicans in Washington -- including (Read More)
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A plan to transfer prisoners currently held at Guantanamo Bay to a nearly deserted Illinois jail is sharply dividing the state's politicians, with Democrats largely supporting the plan and Republicans hell-bent on blocking it.On the day a delegation from the U.S. Bureau of Prisons inspected the Thomson Correctional Center i (Read More)
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TOKYO — President Barack Obama declared Saturday that an era of American disengagement in the globe's fastest-growing region is over and warned that the U.S. and its Asian partners "will not be cowed" by North Korea's continued defiance over its nuclear weapons and other provocations."It should be clear where that path lead (Read More)
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Winthrop University is out with a new poll on political views among southerners. By far, the most interesting result is that among southerners there is overwhelming support for a new federal jobs bill: Source: Winthrop Poll of 11 Southern states, November 2009, +/1 3.3% As you can see, support for a new jobs bill cuts acro (Read More)
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Green Jobs. Everyone wants them. Mayors love talking about them. But where are they? The concept of green jobs holds a lot of potential, but we've yet to realize this potential.In Los Angeles, a plan by the mayor to install 400 megawatts of solar power by 2014--leading to hundreds of new green jobs--was defeated by referend (Read More)
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According to a new survey by online nonprofit database Opportunity Knocks, more than half of all U.S. nonprofit organizations let go of workers or froze salaries.From Philanthropy.com:Ten percent of organizations said their workers' pay decreased this year by anywhere from 1 to 50 percent. Only 37 percent of organizations s (Read More)
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Economists from some of the nation's most respected institutions have an answer to the Blue Dogs and ConservaDems who keep saying that healthcare reform with a solid public option is just going to be too expensive for the country: bull puckey. In an open letter [pdf] the economists write: Successful health care reform is (Read More)
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On the 10th anniversary of Congress voting to repeal the law that had long separated Main Street commercial banking from Wall Street investment banking, current members of the body are talking about ways to potentially bring it back.A return to the Depression-era law -- known as Glass-Steagall -- is now being seriously disc (Read More)
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Striking a decidedly populist tone, Vice President Joseph Biden on Thursday reaffirmed the administration's commitment to bolstering the middle class and observed that "an awful lot of people have been stripped of their dignity" by the current recession.Speaking at an economic panel at the progressive think tank, the Center (Read More)
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WASHINGTON — Making good on a campaign promise to hold a yearly summit with American Indians, President Barack Obama told tribal leaders Thursday gathered in Washington that he is determined to reverse the federal government's history of marginalizing Indian nations."You will not be forgotten as long as I'm in this White Ho (Read More)
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November 4th marks the one-year anniversary of President Obama's election. The international community paid particularly close attention to Obama's presidential campaign and the election of 2008. During his first year in office, he has grappled with pressing global issues. He has given a major address to the Muslim world in (Read More)
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The New York Review of BooksHuffington Post: At the anniversary of the inauguration of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and what his administration has accomplished. In the midst of the current news swirl around whether or not health care reform, Afghanistan, Iraq and other issues have been moving al (Read More)
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Barbara Boxer is out in front on climate change in the Senate. As a result, she spent much of Tuesday sitting by herself.From the beginning, it was a bizarre day for Boxer's Environment and Public Works Committee and the climate-change debate in general. Making good on their boycott threats from last week, none of the seven (Read More)
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When the Winter Olympic team lost its chief financier to the economic crisis, the Comedy Central star saw an opportunity to help -- and to mine comedy. (Read More)
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When the Winter Olympic team lost its chief financier to the economic crisis, the Comedy Central star saw an opportunity to help -- and to mine comedy. (Read More)
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