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Iran commander says 36 died in vote unrest: report
An Iranian commander said 36 people died in unrest after June's disputed election, including three in a Tehran prison, more than the official figures but half the number claimed by the opposition. "Despite news disseminated by foreign (media)...
Tags: iran, votes, iranian, mehdi karoubi
So You Think You Can Dance Finale Parody Of 2008 U.S. Elections?
For Any And All Conserve-ative Constitutionalists: Do to the lunacy of the reporting in print and web journalism and turns they have progressively taken since the 1950-1970 eras when truth in journalism was valued above all else, and stories checked...
Tags: media, government, politics, politicians, Washington, votes, programs, Congress
Colorado rejects restrictions on Marijuana laws.
Memebers of the Colorado State Board of Health voted 9-3 against restrictions on the states current medical Marijuana laws, the restrictions would have limited dispensaries to providing Cannabis to no more then five patients at once....
Senate swears in Biden replacement Kaufman
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
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Ted Kaufman, a Delaware Democrat who for decades has been a political adviser to Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., was sworn in Friday to fill the Senate seat Biden relinquished to become vice president. Kaufman, 69, has made clear that his emergence into the public...
Tags: biden, Joe Biden, Joe Biden, seat, obama, Senate, barack, Ted Kaufman, votes, staff
House votes to insure more children
Washington :: DC :: USA | 10 months ago
Credibility The House voted Wednesday to expand government-sponsored health care to 4 million more children of working families, making a down payment on President-elect Obama's promise to provide universal health care to all Americans who want it. After the bill's...
Tags: health, obama, House of Representatives, Senate Finance Committee, health insurance, votes, health care, Barack Obama, insurance program
Senate Votes to Release TARP Funds
Tarp :: Germany | 10 months ago
Credibility Senate voted to release the second tranche of $350 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program funds to the Treasury, in a close vote that was a clear indication of the uncertainty by lawmakers about the program. The vote was 52 to 42 in favor of allowing...
Tags: obama, tarp, votes, bailout funds, Senate Votes, John McCain, Barack Obama, mccain, voting, won
Electoral College meets to declare Obama victor
Olympia :: WA :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Never mind the November 4 presidential election -- Monday was the date that counted as the Electoral College convened across the United States to choose the next president. In the arcane, indirect procedure used to select a US president, the 538 electors...
Tags: obama, votes, barack, John McCain, mccain, 44th president, Barack Obama, won, john, voting
Election results are official today
Raleigh :: NC :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Wayne Abraham will get to do something today that most U.S. citizens never do: cast a vote for president. Although North Carolinians saw Barack Obama's name on the ballot, they were actually choosing a slate of electors who will meet today at the Old...
Tags: Barack Obama, obama, barack, election, votes, Barack Obama, John McCain
Va. district picks its first black elector
Augusta :: ME :: USA | 11 months ago
Credibility Virginia's 1st Congressional District is sending its first black representative to the Electoral College to cast his vote for the first black U.S. president. Christia Rey, a College of William and Mary student and former U.S. Army captain, is one of 13...
Tags: obama, votes, barack, biden, politics, elected, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, vice president, Electoral College
Obama's Latino Mandate
Las Vegas :: NV :: USA | about 1 year ago
Credibility Jesse Jackson's great phrases, "The hands that picked the cotton, and the hands that picked the lettuce, just picked the new president." According to the exit polls, if whites alone had voted, John McCain would be president-elect. That gap was erased...
Tags: obama, mccain, president, african-american, elect, votes, barack, john, voters, politics
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