Sunday, August 28, 2011

Cheney's Memoir: IN MY TIME

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I'm having a knee replacement on the 29th so I won't be posting for a few days.

Friday, August 26, 2011

The Shortage of Vital Drugs

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...Congress has done nothing to alleviate the all-too-real rationing of lifesaving drugs....

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

US Issues New Deportation Policy's First Reprieves

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...officials will look to halt deportations of longtime residents with clean police records who came here illegally when they were children....

Monday, August 22, 2011

Saturday, August 20, 2011

Toward Immigration Sanity

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...the administration said that it would stop deporting illegal immigrants who pose no threat to public safety....

Friday, August 19, 2011

Unlikely Echo of Gandhi Inspires Indians to Act

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In a "new" India often obsessed with wealth and status...Anna Hazare is a figure from an earlier, seemingly discarded era. ... He has emerged as the unlikely face of an impassioned people's movement in India....

Thursday, August 18, 2011

Wednesday, August 17, 2011

His Anger is a Start

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Faced with a divided Congress and an economy in desperate straits, Pres.Obama is finally showing anger....

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

FDR went to Wisconsin to Battle 'Economic Royalists,' but Obama avoids the state

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The disconnect between Obama and his base has grown more profound this year....

A Race to Repudiate Government

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It is ridiculous that 17,000 people in a small Iowa town could cast a vote the ended the campaign of a major Republican presidential candidate....

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Shotchanging Cancer Patients

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Right now cancer care is being rationed in the US--caused by a severe shortage of important cancer drugs.

The Truth About Taxes

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...Republican leaders said they will not put anyone on the deficit-cutting "super committee" who might entertain the idea of raising taxes.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

The Decade of Lost Children

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One of the greatest casualties of the great recession may well be a decade of lost children.

Thursday, August 4, 2011

A Tainted Water Well, and Concern There May Be More--Fracking

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"I don't understand why the industry should be allowed to hide problems when public safety is at stake,"...