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Snowe Rejoins Dems At Public Option Negotiating Table

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 12.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, #Hcr, Olympia Snowe, Gang of 6, Trigger, John Kerry, Mark Pryor, Senate, Mark Udall, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Mary Landrieu, Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Blue Dog Democrats, Politics News

In a breakthough in Senate negotiations around a public health insurance option, Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) sat down with centrist conservative Demo...

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How Do You Ask Someone to Be the Last to Die for President Obama's Political Image?

David Sirota | Posted 12.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Afghanistan War, Afghanistan, Troop Surge, Us Troops Afghanistan, John Kerry, Barack Obama, Politics News
David Sirota

It is possible that President Obama is risking the lives of 100,000 troops with no intention of actually waging the counterinsurgency strategy he publicly says is necessary.

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The Gay Community's Pope Problem

Wayne Besen | Posted 12.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Washington Archdiocese, Thomas Tobin, Truth Wins Out, Patrick Kennedy, Brazil, Pope Benedict XVI, Wayne Besen, Bishop Richard Williamson, Chuck Colson, Barack Obama, Vatican, HIV/AIDS, John Kerry, LGBT Rights, Manhattan Declaration, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Wayne Besen

It is time to admit that the gay community has a gigantic Pope problem. Under the leadership of Benedict XVI, the Vatican has become an implacable foe of basic rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people.

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Senate Report: Bin Laden Was 'Within Our Grasp' In 2001

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD | Posted 11.29.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan War, Bush, Rumsfeld, US Military, Afghanistan, Troop Levels, Pakistan, 9/11, Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Afghan War, John Kerry, Military, George W. Bush, 2001, Donald Rumsfeld, Tora Bora, World News

WASHINGTON — Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made th...

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Stock Ownership Up In Congress: Maximizing Public Good Or Portfolios?

The Washington Post | Robert O'Harrow Jr., Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senate Wall Street, Max Baucus Stock Market, Congress Wall Street, James Sensenbrenner, Max Baucus, John Kerry Stock Portfolio, John Kerry, Congress Conflict of Interests, John Kerry Stock Market, Congress Stock Ownership, Congress Stock Portfolios, Max Baucus Stock Portfolio, Congress Stock Market, Senate Stock Market, Congress Investments, Politics News

When Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) this summer proposed a $4 billion tax on medical-device firms to help offset the cost of health-care reforms, an unusua...

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Friday Talking Points [102] -- Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: 60 Votes, Leadership, White House, Debate, Floor, Ron Paul, Reform, Alan Grayson, Gray Hair, Eric Holder, Sarah Palin, Conyers, Amendments, John Kerry, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Democratic Caucus, Health Care, Majority Leader, Reid, Reconciliation, John Conyers, Conference Committee, Grey Hair, Kerry, Olympia Snowe, Democrat, Robert Byrd, Congress, Democrats, Paul, Election, Holder, Byrd, Barack Obama, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Mddotw, Harry Reid, State of the Union, Eating, Longest, Senate, Bill, Healthcare, Pumas, President Obama, Cloture, Filibuster, Obama, Democratic, Media, Democratic Party, Friday Talking Points, Grayson, Lieberman, Pelosi, 2010, Baucus, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Midterms, Skinny, Ksm, House, Attorney General, Matt Osborne, Puma, Thin, Midterm, Chris Weigant, Palin, Sotu, Max Baucus, Joe Lieberman, Party Unity My Ass, Osborne, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Harry Reid thinks he's got enough votes, but then this is the reason why the vote keeps getting pushed back -- because he's obviously still scrambling for the final few votes before he moves ahead.

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Tax the Guy Behind the Tree

Carl Pope | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Co2, Kerry-Boxer, Lobbyists, American Petroleum Institute, John Kerry, Api, Climate Change, Clean Air Act, Global Warming, Green News
Carl Pope

Big Carbon is fighting for its life and seems determined to do as much damage as it can before it faces the inevitable. The world will move on to a clean-energy, post-coal-and-oil economy.

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Alexandra Kerry DUI: John Kerry's Daughter Arrested In Los Angeles

AP | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator John Kerry, John Kerry Daughter, Alexandra Kerry Drunk Driving, John Kerry, Alexandra Kerry, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Alexandra Kerry DUI, Politics News

LOS ANGELES — The daughter of Sen. John Kerry was arrested Thursday in Hollywood for allegedly driving drunk. Alexandra Kerry, 36, was stopped ...

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Reject False Choices Between Law Enforcement & Military

Christine Pelosi | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Zacarias Moussaoui, Law Enforcement, Military Tribunal, Terrorists, President Obama, 9/11, Founding Fathers, George F. Will, Independent Judiciray, John Kerry, Constitution, Separation of Powers, Prosecutors, London Terror, False Choices, Politics News
Christine Pelosi

As Obama tasks our independent judiciary with trying more suspected 9/11 terrorists, count me among those who agree with Mayor Giuliani's first position on trying alleged terrorists in US courts: in the yes column

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Howard Berman/Richard Lugar Bipartisan Team Call for End to Cuba Travel Ban

Steve Clemons | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Freedom to Travel, Bill Delahunt, Embargo, Latin America, John Kerry, US-Cuba Travel, US Economic Policy, US Foreign Policy, Howard Berman, Jeff Flake, Cuba, US-Cuba Policy, Barack Obama, Richard Lugar, Miami Herald, Politics News
Steve Clemons

It is a remarkable but true fact that the US government cannot stop regular Americans from traveling to North Korea, Burma, Iran, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Congo, or any other complicated place in the world, except Cuba.

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President Obama's Entrepreneurial Mindset

Don McNay | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business

Read More: Hawaii, Al Gore, Small Business, Entrepreneurial Time System, Toronto, Small Town, 1976 Election, George W. Bush, Single Mothers, President Obama, Entrepreneurs, Kentucky Guardianship Administrators LLC, David and Goliath, The Audacity to Win, Senators, Ellen, Political Organizing, Larry King, Lexington KY, Richmond Ky, John Kerry, William Jennings Bryan, Xerox, Steven Jobs, 2008 Campaign, The Strategic Coach, American College, Ibm, Wall Street, African Americans, Google, McNay Settlement Group, Bill Clinton, John McCain, Impossible Goals, Microsoft, Washington Insiders, Kentucky, Don McNay, Bill Gates, 2008 Election, Southern Politics, David Plouffe, Entrepreneurial, Main Street, Structured Settlements, Ross Perot, Vanderbilt University, Jay Leno, George Wallace, Dan Sullivan, Oprah, Million Dollar Round Table, Eastern Kentucky University, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Obama Calls Small Towns Bitter, Tyra Banks, Fundraising, Entrepreneurship, David Lettterman, Nssta, Business News
Don McNay

I have not seen much evidence of Obama being in touch with small-town Kentucky, but after reading David Plouffe's new book, The Audacity to Win, I have become convinced that he knows what it takes to run a business.

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Congress Must Hold Emergency Hearings on Afghanistan Before Obama Makes His Troop Deployment Decision

Miles Mogulescu | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mathew Hoh, Mcchrystal, Obama Afghanistan, John Kerry Afghanistan, General Mcchrystal, Afghanistan Surge, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, John Kerry, Stanley McChrystal, Mcchrystal Obama, Surge in Afghanistan, Us Troops Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, Ambassador Eikenberry, Politics News
Miles Mogulescu

If Congress is going to be called upon to finance this war with billions more in taxpayer dollars, this debate should be taking place in the halls of Congress in front of the American people.

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Bush Oil Buddies Divvy Up Iraqi Oil, Now Joined By "Liberal Scion" Peter Galbraith

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Age of Turbulence, Chevron, Royal Dutch Shell, Kurdistan, Exxon-Mobil, Iraq, Joe Biden, Osama Bin Laden, Ray Hunt, Hunt Oil, Kuwait, John Kerry, Kurds, Desert Storm, Oil, New York Times, Afghanistan, Iraqi Oil, Alan Greenspan, Peter Galbraith, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Peter Galbraith, son of the famed economist, is in line to reap $100 million dollars -- maybe more -- from contracts between a Norwegian oil company and the autonomous Kurdish region of Iraq.

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A Lump of Coal for Our Nation's Veterans From GE's John Krenicki

James Boyce | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Veterans Day, Swiftboating, Votevets, Jon Soltz, John Kerry, Paul Rieckhoff, Politics News
James Boyce

For reasons I don't understand, time and time again, we see Americans who believe not in honoring the service of those that wear the uniform but who use it to take advantage of it.

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Tamminen: Why Does Oklahoma Want To Drown New York? (Commentary)

cnbc.com | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Barbara Boxer, Green Jobs, James Inhofe, Carbon Regulation, John Kerry, Climate Change, Lamar Alexander, Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Clean Energy Economy, Clean Energy, Global Warming, Green News

Democrats Barbara Boxer (CA) and John Kerry (MA) moved away from discussing the environmental impacts of climate change -- and the reason, therefore, ...

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Chamber Me This

James Boyce | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Clean Energy, Chamber of Commerce, Barbara Boxer, John Kerry, American Trucking Associations, Tom Donahue, Green News
James Boyce

The U.S. Chamber Of Commerce's recent actions are a complete riddle to not only me, but to many of the chamber's own members and former supporters.

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Catholic Church Shows Its Influence In Health Care Fight

Wall Street Journal | Peter Wallsten | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike Doyle, Gop, Social Justice, Communion, Catholic Congress, Nancy Pelosi, Lobbyists, Obama, American Catholics, Bishops, John Kerry, White House, Universal Health Care, Vatican, Health Care, Abortion, Church, Poverty, Public Option, Lobbying, Catholic, Democrats, House, Catholics, Religion, Senate, Catholic Church, Barack Obama, Health Insurance, Stupak Amendment, Health Care Reform, Christianity, Health Bill, Anti-Choice, Republicans, Politics News

Injecting itself aggressively into the health-care debate, the Roman Catholic Church in America has emerged as a major political force with the potent...

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Climate Change Threatens Our National Security

Ginna Kelly | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Kerry-Boxer Bill, Kerry-Boxer-Legislation, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Climate, John Kerry, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Green News
Ginna Kelly

Climate change threatens our national security in two ways. First, U.S. dependence on oil entangles America with hostile regimes. Second, climate change creates chaos, tension, and human insecurity.

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A New Green Youth Movement

John Kerry | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Kerry-Boxer-Climate-Bill, John Kerry, Cejapa, Green News
John Kerry

Now is the time for young people who learned to flex their political muscle last November to shift into high-gear and get Washington to take on our historic legislation to combat global climate change.

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Stop U.S. Meddling; Support Afghan Women at the Table

Jodie Evans | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women, Codepink, Democracy, Afghanistan, Peace, Jodie Evans, US Afghanistan, Malalai Joya, Hamid Karzai, Women's Rights, Afghanistan-Parliament, John Kerry, Politics News
Jodie Evans

Women's rights (which are, in fact, human rights) will never rise from a corrupt, fundamentalist government. We need to be supporting the voices of women to nurture change in Afghanistan.

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A War Tax: A Strategic, Fiscal and Political Imperative

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Vietnam, National Debt, John Kerry, Pakistan, Sovereignty, Iraq War, Afghanistan, General Shinseki, War Tax, "War Tax", Politics News
Paul Abrams

Without a draft, and without a war tax, 99.9% of Americans do not have to sacrifice at all to continue the war. It is too easy for war to become, for 99.9% of us, more like a video game played out on television.

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Sustainable Agriculture: The Unrecognized Key to Reversing Climate Change

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Barbara Boxer, Copenhagen 2009, John Kerry, World Bank, United Nations, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainability, Agribusiness, Climate Change, Gmo, Industrial Agriculture, Global Warming, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

Even though research concludes that industrial agriculture is one of the major contributors to global warming, neither international nor U.S. domestic policies are adequately addressing this sector.

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Global Warming Debate Gets Strange

Bill Chameides | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Politics, Glaciers, Chewang Norphel, Nepal, Africa, John Kerry, U.S. Chamber of Congress, Maldives, Waxman-Markey Climate Bill, Policy, Global Warming, Kerry-Boxer Climate Bill, Legislation, Green News
Bill Chameides

Someone tell me ... which is the real environmental news and which is fake?

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The Good, Bad, and Ugly: A Look Back at the Drama Over the EPW Bill

Gillian Caldwell | Posted 11.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Jobs, Copenhagen 2009, Clean Energy, Lindsey Graham, Frank Lautenberg, Coal, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Dirty Coal, Environmental Protection Agency, Senate, Barbara Boxer, Sheldon Whitehouse, Big Oil, Bob Menendez, John Kerry, Max Baucus, Climate Change, Global Warming, Climate Bill, 1sky, Green News
Gillian Caldwell

In the past week, a drama unfolded around the Senate EPW Committee hearings for the new Senate bill on climate and clean energy jobs. Declarations! Boycott threats! Power plays!

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Why Your Representatives Should Make You Mad as Hell

John W. Whitehead | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress Perks, Congress, 2009 Elections, Congress Work Week, Network, Congress Approval Ratings, Ward 72, John Kerry, Pork Barrel Spending, Herb Kohl, Water Reed, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Congress should be America's representative body, yet too many of its members bear little resemblance to those they have been elected to represent.

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