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Vacuum Maker Pulling Ads From ABC To Protest Soap Cancellations

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 06.19.2011

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NEW YORK — A Hoover executive whose wife and mother are big fans of two ABC soap operas that were canceled last week said he is yanking the vacu...

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The F Word: No Solutions at State of the Union

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

Obama will deliver his take on the State of the Union tonight, and while Congress has bickered about bipartisan seating, it doesn't matter where anyon...

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The F Word: Constitutional Lessons For the New Congress

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

The Republican lawmakers who read the Constitution out loud as their very first act in the new Congress better bask in their Tea Party glow -- because they're not going to feel the love from Constitutional scholars.

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The F Word: Fighting Class War Fighting Bob Style

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

Obama spoke to a labor crowd in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on Monday, calling for new energy investment, and new infrastructure. The word most people want t...

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4 Young Women: Their Days End

Nancy Snow | Posted 11.17.2011

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Nancy Snow

This is a story about the loss of four young women that gets worse as more information is revealed. One week ago I was lying on my aunt's couch in ...

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The White House and Holidays of the Past

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Some of Truman's assistants had traveled to Havana over the holiday, and the President thought it might be fun to have customs agents "bottle them up" (detain them) for a good long while on their return home.

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Too Soon To Tell? Judging A President's Progress

The New York Review of Books | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New York Review of Books Huffington Post: At the anniversary of the election of Barack Obama, we're taking a close look at how he's done and what...

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100 Days of Obama and the Global Economy

Blythe McGarvie | Posted 05.25.2011

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"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it" as Amerian George Santayana wrote. One of the best ways to understand Obama's first 100...

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Fear Recedes

James Berman | Posted 05.25.2011

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James Berman

Common knowledge doesn't influence markets, only true surprises do.

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Jack Valenti: FBI Investigated Top LBJ Aide's Sexuality

Washington Post | Joe Stephens | Posted 05.25.2011

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When Beltway insider Jack Valenti died two years ago at age 85, he was playing the role of intermediary between Washington and Hollywood as the theatr...

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Is the U.S a Banana Republic?

Michael Pento | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Pento

The two hallmarks of a banana republic are very high rates of inflation coupled with substantial government controls over the economy, which lead to high rates of unemployment and poverty.

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The Man Who Changed the World?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.25.2011

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Deepak Chopra

Wanting to change the world is different from having to. The latter is what's expected of Barack Obama if he's elected. The huge crowds he keeps att...

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J Edgar Hoover Planned Mass Jailings, Suspension Of Habeus Corpus

New York Times | Tim Weiner | Posted 05.25.2011

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A newly declassified document shows that J. Edgar Hoover, the longtime director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, had a plan to suspend habeas c...

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