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Is there any real difference anymore?

Posted by: CaliforniaMike

Glendale :: CA :: USA | updated Sat Nov 21 17:14:44 -0800 2009 | political-news

Does it really matter who is in charge in Washington, Republicans or Democrats? In some ways it does. It's clear that having George W. Bush in the White House in 2003 made it far more likely that we would go...

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Sen. Landrieu (D-LA) Sells Vote on Health Care Reform for $100 ...

Posted by: CitizensForHonestGovernment

Chicago :: IL :: USA | updated Sat Nov 21 17:46:03 -0800 2009 | political-news

In a display of just how corrupt the federal government has become, Senator Mary Landrieu literally sold her vote to bring the health care reform to debate in the United States Senate for a newly added amendment that will bring...

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Attorney General Eric Holder: Stupid is as Stupid Does

Posted by: firesisle

Colorado Springs :: CO :: USA | updated Sat Nov 21 16:06:59 -0800 2009 | political-news

In the video above, under the questioning of Lindsey Graham, US Attorney General Eric Holder very vividly demonstrates his ignorance both of applicable history, and the system of laws he was appointed by the President to uphold. He will be...

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Punditty's Health Care Vote Contest: What time will the 60th 'Yes' ...

Posted by: Punditty

Washington :: DC :: USA | updated Sat Nov 21 17:18:05 -0800 2009 | political-news

Nov. 21, 2009 With the Big Vote on health care due in the United States Senate this evening, The Punditty Project returns to its oddsmaking roots and provides readers with a little political prognostication for purposes of entertainment. Remember –...

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Why Gay-Rights Ang Ladlad Was Rejected As Congress Party-List

Posted by: JonathanAquino

Manila :: Philippines | updated Sat Nov 21 09:58:44 -0800 2009 | political-news

“I have such a hard time figuring out who is what and what is who. And why is who a what or why is what a who.” Abbot and Costello would have loved House Speaker Prospero Nograles’ text message to...

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A decisive moment

Posted by: inamshah

Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated Sat Nov 21 07:07:48 -0800 2009 | political-news

As the Obama administration has reached the final decisive moment about sending more troops to Afghanistan as a result of a much-debated new US strategy, pressure on Pakistan to do more has also increased incrementally. In the aftermath of the...

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Chávez Offers Public Defense Carlos the Jackal

Source: The New York Times

Caracas :: Venezuela | updated Sat Nov 21 15:49:54 -0800 2009 | political-news

Venezuela President Hugo Chávez is heaping praise on Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, the Venezuelan better known as Carlos the Jackal and implicated in hijackings and terror attacks across Europe in the 1970s and ’80s, describing him in a speech here...

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Islamia College at 100

Posted by: inamshah

Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated Sat Nov 21 06:27:52 -0800 2009 | political-news

This refers to "Islamia College is 100 years old" by Aziz Akhmad (November 16). I was a student at the college in 1966 and agree with the writer that it was, in essence, a liberal arts college. We had a...

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In a fool's paradise

Posted by: inamshah

Islamabad :: Pakistan | updated Sat Nov 21 06:27:52 -0800 2009 | political-news

According to a report on November 17 President Zardari, during his address to the PPP's Central Executive Committee (CEC), chided and ridiculed his detractors by saying that his rivals "live in a fool's paradise". This assertive statement by the PPP...

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LIVE FREE OR DIE!!!: A Republican War Cry Against Obama

Posted by: amalgam80

St. Louis :: MO :: USA | updated Fri Nov 20 23:25:03 -0800 2009 | political-news

The fear-mongering and the violence inciting from the right continues. A few days ago I reported on the t-shirts and bumper stickers that were religiously coded to mean the end of the Obama administration and the desire for his wife...

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