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Medicare Paid $47 Billion In Suspect Claims, According To HHS

AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.15.2009 | Home

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WASHINGTON — The government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare claims including medical treatment showing little relation to a ...

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George Bush Foundation Announcement (VIDEO)

AP/ The Huffington Post | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - The University of Virginia's Miller Center of Public Affairs will record an oral history of President George W. Bush's presiden...

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White House Looking To Cut Deficit With Extra TARP Cash

wsj.com | By DEBORAH SOLOMON and JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

The Obama administration, under pressure to show it is serious about tackling the budget deficit, is seizing on an unusual target to showcase fiscal r...

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Bomb Appalachia (and Face the Music)

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 11.09.2009 | Green

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Theirs is a coast-to-coast campaign to save Appalachia's mountains and streams -- and Appalachians' homes, jobs, and culture -- from the devastating coal mining practice known as mountaintop removal.

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One Year After Obama's Election: Still Smarter...Than The Alternative

Chris Weigant | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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What puts this first year in perspective for me is that: Obama may not be smarter than all of us, but he sure is smarter by a long shot than McCain would have been. And that, for now, is enough for me.

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Will the Real Hillary Please Stand Up?

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 11.05.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Territories, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bill Clinton, Mitchell, President Obama, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Settlements, Al Jazeera, Bush, World News

As first lady, Hillary Clinton was the darling of Palestinians and Arabs when late in Bill Clinton's term she uttered the hot button word "Palestine." Since then she has flip-flopped depending on the political winds.

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The FCC Should Be Concerned About the Public Interest

Norman Horowitz | Posted 11.07.2009 | Business

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My introduction to the FCC was in the late sixties when President Nixon appeared to use his FCC to punish CBS, NBC, and ABC for having the temerity to...

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Jeb Bush: Obama Trying To "Attack Capitalism"

The Huffington Post | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics

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It seems that Jeb Bush has changed his tune on Obama. At the beginning of October, the former governor said that Obama was "on the right track"; ...

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Obama's White House is for Sale Just like All the Others

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Sr, Reagan, Robert Gibbs, Bush, President Obama. Pacs, Corporations, Clinton, Lobbyists, Donors, Bundling, Tax Evasion, Campaign Financing, Wall Street, Special Favors, Usb Bank, Politics News

Obama thundered he was the only candidate who didn't take a dime from Washington lobbyists. He hadn't taken a dime directly from them, but the favored few wealthy donors who don't have an L scribbled on their backside.

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Early Reports: Stimulus Saved, Created 388,000 Jobs

USA Today | By Brad Heath and Matt Kelley, USA TODAY | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: White House, Job Losses, Bush, Economy, Grants, Jobs, Congress, Obama, Reports, Stimulus, Recession, Unemployment, Economic Policy Institute, Stimulus Package, Report, Job Creation, Business News

States have reported using stimulus money to create or save more than 388,000 jobs so far this year, buttressing the Obama administration's claim that...

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Obama Should Tear Up Matthew Hoh's Afghan War Resignation Letter

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 10.27.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Polls, Matthew Hoh, Afghanistan War, Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, Bush, Truman, President Obama, World News

Matthew Hoh told Obama exactly what he needs to hear about Afghanistan: that the war is a failed, flawed, no-win war. That it's a sinkhole for billions of tax dollars and a death trap for US troops.

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One Page In Cheating

Jeff Kreisler | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Leasing, Oil Industry, Bush, Froot Loops, Health, Pfizer, New York Times, Cheating, Oil Shale, State-Street-Bank, Monty Python, Labels, Interior Department, Comedy News

Not content to wait for "This Week In Cheating," recently a single newspaper page held enough cheating for a whole seven days.

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How The US Blew The Trillion-Dollar Trade Of The Century

Bloomberg | Mark Fisher | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Geithner, John Thain, Hank Paulson, The Logical Trader, Bush, Bill Gross, Paulson, Bailouts, Economic Crisis, Bank of America, Aig, Obama, Bofa, Taxpayers, Barack Obama, Recession, Mark Fisher, Warren Buffet, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street, Bailout, Finance, Lehman Brothers, Fed, Tim Geithner, Bernanke, Treasury, Banks, Ben Bernanke, Business News

When the government was forced to bail out the financial system, our friends in Washington also had the opportunity to make the trade of the century f...

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Frank Rich: In Defense Of The Balloon Boy Dad

New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 10.25.2009 | Media

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For a country desperate for good news, the now-deflated "balloon boy" spectacle would seem to be the perfect tonic. As Wolf Blitzer of CNN summed up t...

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Music Matters

Matthew Alexander | Posted 10.24.2009 | Impact

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Music is perhaps the freest expression of art in an open society. In my travels to more than 50 countries, a sense of pride has always emerged for American culture abroad in the form of music.

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HouseQuake: Rahm Emanuel Is Star Of Documentary About 2006 Elections

The New York Times | Peter Baker | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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Before there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless White House chief of staff, there was Rahm Emanuel, the relentless House Democratic campaign strategist ...

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Raw Story: Bush Pentagon Used Psychological Operation On US Public

The Raw Story | Brad Jacobson | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Psy Ops, Community Relations, Psyops, Pentagon, George W. Bush, Iraq War, Torie Clarke, Iraq, Bryan Whitman, Bush Pentagon, Psychological Operations, Propaganda, Defense Department, Bush, Department of Defense, Politics News

A months-long review of documents and interviews with Pentagon personnel has revealed that the Bush Administration's military analyst program -- aimed...

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Bush Is Headline Speaker At 'Motivational Mega Show' With 'Inspirational Firepower'

The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics

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Here's a surprising new tidbit for those wondering how George W. Bush is spending his time these days (besides using his blackberry and penning a memo...

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Michele Brown: Christie Aide Who Got Loan May Have Helped Chris Christie Campaign For NJ Governor

New York Times | DAVID M. HALBFINGER | Posted 10.19.2009 | New York

When news broke in August that the former United States attorney, Christopher J. Christie, had lent $46,000 to a top aide in the federal prosecutor's ...

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A Regional Summit on the War in Afghanistan?

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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A lengthy and focused counterinsurgency effort might eventually produce results, but its chances of success are greatly diminished by the political climate in Afghanistan.

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Vikram Buddhi, Anti-Bush Blogger, Wrongfully Jailed, Says Family (VIDEO)

Russia Today | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

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The case of an Indian student jailed in the U.S. more than three years ago, is being seen as a major test of America's human rights. A jury found Vik...

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The US's Myers-Briggs Profile

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 10.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Foreign Relations, Bush, Cheney, Cooperation, Myers-Briggs, Political Humor, Barack Obama Foreign Policy, Obama, Peace, Living News

We are frustrated, as a people, by cold, impersonal logic, by being excluded, and by criticism and lack of appreciation. We value self-determination, and we irritate others by being overly emotional and moralistic.

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Josh Crescenzi: Ex-Bush, Cheney Aide In $2 Million Stolen Fuel Probe

San Antonio Express-News | Guillermo Contreras | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

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A man who was a news liaison for former President George W. Bush and ex-Vice President Dick Cheney is at the center of a case involving $2 million in ...

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The Nobel Prize Wasn't for Obama -- It Was for the American People. Do We Deserve It?

Jonathan Kim | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush, Nobel Peace Prize, Barack Obama, Liberals, Afghanistan, Progressives, Guantanamo, Torture, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Doma, Dadt, Defense of Marriage Act, Politics News

That means it's our responsibility to force Obama and other electeds to recognize our priorities and pick up the pace. So call your representative and your senator, and let them know how you feel.

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When Nepotism Goes Awry: Politicians And Their (Naughty?) Sons

Huffington Post | Adam Taylor | Posted 10.15.2009 | World

Sons of big name political leaders have been making the news this week from Europe to Africa. In France, President Nicolas Sarkozy has taken heat for ...

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