US Politics

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• US healthcare reform: Assault and battery

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 162
  The White House called the vote in the Senate historic. And yet within hours of the move to begin a full debate on healthcare legislation, the delicate patchwork of political deals that led to the vote began to unravel . Senators, whose votes were crucial to avoid a Republican filibuster, peeled off into the ...
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• Politcs: the art of whats irrational

  
  TORQOPIA - Abundance All Around Us — Authority: 136
  It amazes me that otherwise intelligent people will try to argue that quitting your job (e.g. governor) is a virtue. Yet those are the mental hoops that people will jump through when it comes to someone like Sarah Palin . Heres RNC Chairman Michael Steele making just that argument at the 2:03 mark: Visit ...
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• Lying about Energy Policy: Rumors about Home Retrofitting Are Bogus

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 132
  A h yes, the know-nothing blowhards are at it again, putting forth made up "facts" simply to scare and confuse the public. Were referring to a chain e-mail (buyer beware! ) that claims new energy legislation will require homeowners to retrofit their homes to be more energy efficient, along with other ...
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• Purity on the Right: Republicans Roll Out an Ideological Test

  
  Alternative Tulsa — Authority: 132
  N o GOP dissenters need apply. That seems to be the message of the Republican National Committee , which recent published its core ideological principles, from which no GOP candidate must not stray. Okay, they can stray a bit—but just a little. As Talking Points Memo reports, Republican candidates ...
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• South Carolina accuses Gov. Mark Sanford of 37 ethics violations

  
  National Post - Posted — Authority: 654
  You may remember Mark Sanford from such scandals as " Governor admits affair with Argentine mystery woman behind six-day disappearance ," or maybe " Steamy love letters between Sanford and lover surface ." But did you also know he...( read more )
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• US-POLITICS Summary

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 969
  Obama to meet advisers on Afghanistan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama planned a ninth session with top advisers on Afghanistan on Monday as he neared a decision on whether to send troops and fought Republican charges that he is taking too long to make up his mind. The White House said...
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• Krugman on the Debt and Deficits

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  Paul Krugman has taken some rather interesting stances on the fiscal situation here in the U.S. First up is a piece entitled Fiscal Train Wreck from March 2003, With war looming, it’s time to be prepared. So last week I switched to a fixed-rate mortgage. It means higher monthly payments, but I’m terrified ...
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• A Question About Bonuses and Bailouts

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  I was reading this Megan McArdle post about the federal government restricting bonuses to AIG employees. As I was reading, I came across this sentence: To wit: the traders at AIG are threatening to walk if Ken Feinberg pays them what he says he’s going to pay them, particularly if the company tries too hard to ...
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• Republican Purity and Conservatism

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 673
  It appears that the Republican National Committee is working on a set of principles that Republican candidates have to adhere to in order to receive funding and support from the RNC. There are ten principles listed, and the candidates have to adhere to at least seven of these principles “as identified by the ...
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• Senate and U.N. Condemn Iran

  
  Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED) — Authority: 487
  Iran launched a series of  war games  this weekend as the international community expressed their frustration over  troubled nuclear negotiations . The Senate passed a resolution ( S.R. 355 ) by unanimous consent  condemning Iran  for its multiple human rights violations. The bill was cosponsored by Carl Levin ...
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• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 141
  For those unfamiliar, the above is a title from a short story by Harlan Ellison, which contains a hellish account of the torment visited upon the last remnants of humanity at the hands of an intelligent computer.  It was one of the first things that came to mind when I read this horrific account of a true living hell ...
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• Debt Crisis

  
  World in Motion — Authority: 121
  In 1930, the first year of the Great Depression, most economists and prognosticators thought that while the crisis was deep, it would run its course in a limited amount of time, and growth would come back to the economy.   It didn’t.   The crisis continued throughout the decade as economies were stuck in a ...
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• Some LatAm Headlines

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 141
  Some noteworthy stories from my morning read through the news: Via the BBC:  Retired US official and wife admit spying for Cuba . Via the BBC:  Mexico’s rural Mennonites feel impact of drug violence . Via The Narco News Bulletin:  A Week Before “Elections” in Honduras, Candidate Resignations, More ...
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• On Holds and a Potential Ambassador to Brazil

  
  PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Authority: 141
  An editorial from the Miami Herald highlights two ongoing problems that have plagued US politics for some time.  One is an institutional factor, the other a purely political one that often interacts with various institutional features of our system to produce very specific political outcomes. The piece ( Unblock ...
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• CO Businessman’s Anti-Obama Billboard Raises Birth Certificate Questions

  
  Breitbart.tv — Authority: 784
   
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• Ed Pilkington on campaign by Birthers to prove Obama should not be president

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Ed Pilkington on campaign by Birthers to prove Obama should not be president Ed Pilkington
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  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  
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• SNL Phones in another Obama sketch.

  
  CKA Canadian Forums — Authority: 161
  by ShepherdsDog It had a chuckle factor of about 2 out of 5. go to newest post
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