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Share Your Voice in Our Future by Voting Tuesday

Benny Napoleon | Posted 11.02.2012 | Detroit
Read More: Ballots, Ballot, Ballot Initiative, Proposals, Elections 2012, General Election, Public Sector, Election, Wayne County, Municipalities, Public Service, Government, Politics, Labor, Amendments, 2012 Presidential Election, 2012 Election, Voters, Detroit, Right to Vote, Constitution, Presidential Election, Sheriff, Michigan, Voting, Detroit News
Benny Napoleon

The future of our nation, Michigan and Wayne County rests with you and other voters. Do not give up your right to vote! I encourage you to become familiar with your ballot by reviewing it online and deeply considering each candidate and issue.

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Ryan Grim

DeMint: 'We Have Not Yet Begun To Fight'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Polls, Health Care Reform Bill, Obama, Jim Demint, Democrats, Waterloo, Harry Reid, Senate, Amendments, Pennsylvania, White House, Reconciliation Bill, Health Care Reform, South Carolina, Gop, Florida, Health Care, Republicans, Reconciliation, Politics News

Jim DeMint, the tactician who led Senate Republicans in unanimous opposition to health care reform, declared early on that a defeat for Obama would be...

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Ryan Grim

Senate Dems Pass Health Care Reconciliation Package

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Debate, Health Care Reform Bill, Senate Health Care Bill, Roland Burris, Democrats, Senate, Amendments, Health Care Reform, Jim Bunning, Harry Reid, Gop, Obstruction, Health Care, Reconciliation, Republicans, Video, Politics News

UPDATE 3/25 9:47 PM It wasn't easy and it wasn't pretty, but the congressional debate over comprehensive health care reform ended Thursday night with ...

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

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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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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Jeff Muskus

Waxman Gives GOP One More Day To Stall On Climate Change

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: House Energy and Commerce Committee, Doyle, Shimkus, Amendments, GOP Holdup, House Climate-Change Bill, Van Hollen, Climate Change, Henry Waxman, Barton, Markup, Blunt, Politics News

Henry Waxman has had just about enough. The House Energy and Commerce Committee's climate-change bill has been besieged by hundreds of (mostly Republi...

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Moscow's Unseemly Haste To Amend

Robert Coalson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Russia, Term Limits, Amendments, World News
Robert Coalson

Russia's Federation Council on December 22 signed off on the ratification process of the controversial constitutional amendments that will extend the presidential term of office to six years.

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A Nation Clinging to Guns

Stephen Herrington | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Obama Transition, Bill Clinton, Amendments, Militia, Obama Gun Control, Firearms, Gun Control, Guns, Obama Guns, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

Why exactly do we need firearms? A gun will not insure that you do not lose your job to an international merger or international competition. A gun will not get you a raise.

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Scalia's Choice: More Deaths to Defend the Constitution

Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Rights, Supreme Court, Scalia, Bill of Rights, Militia, Weapons, Guns, Self-Defense, Second Amendment, National Rifle Association, Constitution, Akhil Reed Amar, Aclu, Goldberg, Amendments, Levinson, Breyer, Tribe, Kinsley, Kaus, Wittes, Supreme Court Guns, Politics News
Sandy Goodman

Congratulations, Justice Scalia! Now we can all look forward to years of arguing over just exactly when, where and how the right to have guns in the home applies.

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