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Field of Dreams: Organic Gardens Planted To Lure Homebuyers

nytimes.com | ALEC APPELBAUM | Posted 08.01.2009 | Green

Read More: House, Suburbs, Subdivision, Suburbia, Organic Garden, Home Owner, Swimming Pools, Homebuyer, Home, Green News

From Vermont to central California, developers are creating subdivisions around organic farms to attract buyers. If you plant it, these developers bel...

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Army's Videogame Recruiting Backed By Lawmakers Despite Controversy

The National Journal | Posted 07.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Afghanistan War, Army, Videogames, Iraq War, U.S. Army, Army Recruitment, Army Experience, House Armed Services Committee, Politics News

The House Armed Services Committee last week offered its support to the Army's controversial high-tech effort to increase awareness and knowledge of t...

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Climate Bill Winners & Losers

AP | CHRIS KAHN | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green

Read More: House, Cap and Trade, Senate, Climate Bill Winners and Losers, Barack Obama, Climate Bill, Green News

NEW YORK — In addition to raising energy prices, the climate legislation that's winding through Congress would create a parallel financial syste...

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Obama Implores Senate To Pass Climate Bill

AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Senate, Barack Obama, Climate, President Obama, House Passes Climate Bill, Historic Climate Bill, Obama, Climate Bill, Global Warming, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Hailing the House, President Barack Obama put pressure on senators Saturday to follow its lead and pass legislation to limit greenh...

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Barney Frank Introduces Marijuana Legislation

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dangerous Controlled Substance, White House, President Obama, Marijuana, Ron Paul, Barney Frank, Dea, Medical Marijuana, Obama, Drug, President, Drug Enforcement Agency, John Stuart Mill, Schedule I, Schedule, Schedule II, Medical Use, Bill Maher, Committee, House, Frank, Democrat, Henry Waxman, Paul, Democrats, Barack Obama, Marijuana Patient Protection Act, Dana Rohrabacher, Chris Weigant, Controlled Substance Act, Drug Policy, Personal Use, Rohrabacher, Politics News

How many Democrats do we need to elect to Congress before such commonsense laws are passed to rein in some of the excesses of past eras?

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House Condemns Tehran Crackdown On Protesters

AP | ROBERT BURNS and ANNE FLAHERTY | Posted 07.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: House Condemns Crackdown, Crackdown on Protestors, House, Tehran Protestors, Crackdown, Congress, Iran Rallies, Tehran Rallys, Tehran, Iran, Protestors, Tehran Rallies, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday stuck to a measured response to the uprising in Iran over a disputed presidential election, even...

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Obama's Economic Misfits Finally Get It

Robert Scheer | Posted 07.18.2009 | Business

Read More: House, Government, Politics, Law, Greed, Geithner, Congress, White House, Money, Clinton, Economy, Scheer, Regulation, Banks, Obama, Campaign, Summers, Wall Street, Business News

According to Summers and Geithner, the Obama plan to be revealed today promises that all derivatives dealers will be "subject to supervision, and regulators will be empowered to enforce rules against manipulation and abuse."

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'House' Becomes World's Most Popular TV Show

AFP via Yahoo! News | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Television, House, Hugh Laurie, Entertainment News

US drama "House", starring Britain's Hugh Laurie as unconventional medical genius Doctor Gregory House, out-gunned rivals in 2008 to become the world'...

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Co-housing Communities Gain Momentum

nytimes.com | Chris Colin | Posted 07.12.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Sharing, House, Community, Co-Housing, The Balanced Life, Home, Family, Living News

VICKI SETZER and her cats inhabit a small ranch home on a quiet cul-de-sac in Visalia, Calif. Connie Baechler leases a split-level house in Smyrna, Ga...

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How Happy Is... 5 Essential Tips To Find Your Ideal Home

Sophie Keller | Posted 07.10.2009 | Living

Read More: House, Physical Environment, Gut Instincts, How Happy Is, Moving, Home, Happiness, Living News

Most of us move house many times in our lifetime and it is more often than not, an exciting thought, but very stressful in practicality. The more prep...

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Lieberman, Graham Seek To Block Torture Photos At All Costs

HuffingtonPost.com | Jeff Muskus | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Interrogation Photos, House, Torture Photos, Detainee Photos, Foia, War Supplemental, Freedom of Information Act, Joe Lieberman, Senator Joseph Lieberman, Lindsey Graham, Senator Lindsey Graham, Politics News

With the war supplemental under fire from some unlikely allies in the House, Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) threatened Mond...

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Racial Advancement on TV: Is the Progress Depicted Well-Intentioned Fantasy?

Michael Russnow | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Privileged, 90210, Myspace, Russnow, Heroes, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Ugly Betty, Cbs, Lipstick Jungle, Calista Flockhart, October Road, Eric Holder, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Kings, Tom Berenger, One Tree Hill, Rob Lowe, u.s. Census Bureau, Gossip Girl, Roland Fryer Jr., Antwon Tanner, Barbara Alyn Woods, Dirty Sexy Money, Grant Show, Abc, House, Everwood, Er, Audra McDonald, Twitter, Nbc, Kate Walsh, Ram Productions International, Sally Field, Facebook, Boston Legal, Barack Obama, Cnn, The West Wing, Brothers and Sisters, Black History Month, Bones, Michael Russnow, Desperate Housewives, Fox News, Chuck, Cold Case, Vanessa Williams, Lost, Race Relations, Intermarriage, Racial Attitudes, Chicago-Illinois, Indonesia, Msnbc, Media News

I've been noticing over the past several years a tendency for the Media to depict racial togetherness in a manner that doesn't come close to representing reality.

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House Splits Credit Cards From Gun Amendment

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: House, Credit Card Bill, House Strips Gun Amendment From Credit Card Bill, Gun Amendment, Gun Amendment Credit Card Bill, Politics News

The House Rules Committee decided by voice vote Tuesday evening to split apart the credit card bill passed by the Senate Tuesday, slicing out an amend...

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What, Exactly, Was Pelosi Supposed to Do?

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

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Pelosi can be defended for being in an impossible situation at the time. Even if she disagreed with the policy, there simply wasn't much for her to do about it.

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Transforming Homeowner Violence Into A Mortgage War Plan

Iris Martin | Posted 06.15.2009 | Business

Read More: House, Securitization, Mortgages, Depression, Mortgage Lenders, Author, Transformation, Adjustable-Rate Mortgages, Mortgage Crisis, Foreclosure, Homeowners, Psychology, Iris Martin, Mortgage Wars, Mortgage Payments, Housing Crisis, Business News

Homeowners suffering from payment shock and foreclosure syndrome are not getting the psychological help they need to survive escalating vicious attacks by their lenders If payment shock and foreclosure syndrome is not treated as the national epidemic that it is, affecting over sixteen million homeowners, homeowner violence will increase, as will homeowner suicide. Toxic lenders and their cohorts, government cronies, co-conspirators and attorneys need to be punished -- in a court of law, not on the front lawn.

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Swiped! Did The Credit Card Industry Just Hijack Credit Card Reform Legislation?

Harry Moroz | Posted 06.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Senator Richard Shelby, Senator Chris Dodd, And Disclosure Act, Credit Card Accountability, Victoria McGrane, Carl Hulse, Legislation, House, Compromise, Credit Cardholders' Bill of Rights Act, Debt, Credit Cards, Representative Carolyn Maloney, Senate, Resonsibility, Business News

The Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure Act, though an important milestone in consumer protections, exhibits the signs of the credit card industry's powerful influence.

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Last Call for Mortgage Reform

Harry Moroz | Posted 06.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Loans, Abusive Lending, Subprime Crisis, Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act, House, Housing Crisis, Mortgages, Business News

Lenders often used mortgage refinancing to strip middle-class homeowners of the equity they relied on to obtain loans to help make ends meet.

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6 Puerto Ricans Arrested For Disrupting Congress

AP | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — A group of six pro-independence Puerto Ricans was arrested Wednesday for demonstrating inside the House, a Capitol Police spokeswom...

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Celebrities Hit Auction Block for Human Rights

Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 06.05.2009 | Entertainment

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The online auction will raise funds supporting the RFK Center's vital work around the globe.

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The Fake Out: Imitating Regulation in the Era of Madoff

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit Default Swaps, House, Fraud, Marc Dreier, Harry Reid, Congress, Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act, Allen Stanford, Bernie Madoff, Tarp, Senate, Financial Crisis, Business News

The Senate is capable of making activity illegal that the general public already assumes is illegal.

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Digging In To Obama's (And Republicans') Poll Numbers

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.28.2009 | Politics

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Barack Obama continues to ride a wave of public support as we approach the magic "100th day" of his presidency. Since I wrote about his 100 days (94 ...

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What's Television Telling Us About American Men in Deep-uh-?

David Finkle | Posted 05.16.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Men's Studies, Damages, Monk, Burn Notice, Society Trends, The Fugitive, Rescue Me, Mad Men, Television, Series Television, Men's Psychology, Entertainment, Saving Grace, Eli Stone, Life, 24, Charlie Crews of Life, Ironside, Happiness, Pain-Killers, Gregory House, John Carter, Fox's House, House, The Sopranos, Er, Vicodin, Les Miserables, Tony Soprano, Paul Weston, Artie Gavin, Health, American Men, Jack Bauer, Don Draper, Entertainment News

Maybe this is an overdue recognition that men -- traditionally socialized to be strong, to deny their flaws adamantly -- are finally able to come face to face with them.

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Is Cap-And-Trade Dead This Year?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cap and Trade, Gas Prices, Foreign Oil, Cloture, President Obama, Economy, Washington, Filibuster, Democratic, Obama, Lightswitch Tax, Conventional Wisdom, Filibuster Proof, Republican, Cap-and-Trade, Budget Reconciliation, Health Care, Reconciliation, Energy, Gas, House, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Energy Policy, Democrats, Barack Obama, Fast Track, Education, Wall Street, Chris Weigant, Tax, Oil, Senate, Healthcare, Politics News

Democrats are all but admitting that they're killing off cap-and-trade for this year's legislative season. When the time comes, they will be blaming the Republicans, even though their own cowardice is the real culprit.

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