Crooks and Liars:
Since we're already seen so much innuendo and the "how do we know whether this guy was a terrorist?" routine from the "get it quickly if not accurately" television news, I thought readers would be interested in a more human s (Read More)
CNN:
President Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday evening after a rough stretch in U.S. efforts to settle the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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CNN:
President Obama will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House on Monday evening after a rough stretch in U.S. efforts to settle the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Read More)
L.A. Times - National News:
The compromises Democrats had to make, the narrow victory and the changed political climate all point to the challenges Obama's push for health insurance reform will now face in the Senate. (Read More)
Reuters:
SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding and mudslides in El Salvador triggered by the passage of Hurricane Ida jumped to 124 people, Salvadoran President Mauricio Funes said in a national radio broadcast.
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washingtonpost.com - In Congress:
Minnesota Republican Gov. Tim Pawlenty, after making a series of smart strategic moves over the past few months in advance of an expected run for president in 2012, has struggled on the national stage in the past few weeks. (Read More)
The Guardian:
… rarely is the answer, in this new age of multiple marketing models and chief executives guided by bankers and consultantsThe Mad Men account man of legend, with a martini in one hand and a million-dollar deal in his pocket, (Read More)
Crooks and Liars:
There's no questioning the historic nature of the vote. What the Democrats did to get there is pretty ugly (I can't believe we cut a deal with anti-woman C-Street true believer Bart Stupak), but we did get there, and most peo (Read More)
The Guardian:
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to descend on the centre of the German capital today to recapture the euphoria that swept through Europe when the Berlin Wall tumbled, and the cold war ended two decades ago.The €5 (Read More)
The Guardian:
In the end, Democrats in the House of Representatives answered the call of history, as their president put it. Not since 1965, when Medicare and Medicaid were created, has a chamber of Congress passed a measure to vastly incr (Read More)
The Guardian:
"Twenty eight years and 91 days!" said the elated east Berliner I met walking up the Friedrichstrasse soon after the wall was breached. On the day the Berlin Wall went up, 13 August 1961, his parents had wanted to go to the c (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan.The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN's John King Sunday on State Of The Union and after talking about the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Ber (Read More)
CNN:
President Obama today praised the "historic" House vote to pass a bill overhauling the health care system and said it's time for the Senate to complete the work. (Read More)
CNN:
The House of Representatives passed its health care bill Saturday by a vote of 220-215. The Senate must now pass its own version of the health care legislation.
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ReadWriteWeb:
Here is this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is (Read More)
Daily Kos:
Looks like I'll be back on Countdown tonight. Try not to be too shocked, but the forces of bigotry are spreading lies on the air in Maine. And a reminder, we're currently polling the gay marriage question (and public optio (Read More)