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Gone with the Wind: Blowing U.S. Tax Dollars Off Shore
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
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Washington has doled out hundreds of millions in stimulus funds to foreign renewable energy firms, which compete with and run all over fledgling U.S. firms that were supposed to get the money.
Will the GOP Nominate a Climate Change Denier in 2012?
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
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Of the early contenders for the Republican nomination, five outright deny or question climate science, while the remaining three are opposed to all meaningful action.
Poll: Republicans Prefer Ideological Purity Over Electoral Success
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
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Despite losing two straight congressional elections, more Republicans say they would prefer to support a candidate who was ideologically pure than one...
House Dems Sharpening 'Too Big To Fail' Bill
Reuters | Kevin Drawbaugh | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A key U.S. congressional panel moved toward toughening a plan for dealing with "too big to fail" financial firms on Tuesday, wh...
Dems Want Unspent TARP Funds For Main Street Bailout
Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
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Democrats in Congress want to use unspent TARP funds to support homeowners and struggling workers, according to The Hill. More than half of the Democ...
Mr. President, 'Change' Is Your 'New Frontier'
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
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The Republicans' strategy of slowing down change couldn't be more evident than in the perpetually extending health care debate. But they have been successful at promulgating the idea that they, too, are touting change.
Paul Krugman: Germany's Jobs, Unemployment Miracle Can Teach US
New York Times | PAUL KRUGMAN | Posted 11.17.2009 | Business
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Germany's jobs miracle hasn't received much attention in this country -- but it's real, it's striking, and it raises serious questions about whether t...
Pelosi Shifts Focus To Unemployment After Push For Health Care Bill
The Hill | Mike Soraghan | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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House Democratic leaders, worried they've appeared unresponsive to rising unemployment because they were absorbed by healthcare, are aiming for a legi...
Health Care Reform Struggle Will Not End This Year
Chris Weigant | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
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No matter what healthcare bill passes, it is not going to remain static. It is going to be revisited again and again over the next few decades. That's how lawmaking works.
The Logical Flaw Behind the Stupak Amendment
Sam Sedaei | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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Politicians' personal beliefs on abortion are absolutely irrelevant. It is time to treat the legality of abortion with the same strength that we treat all of our other laws.
Dems, GOP Split On NY Terror Trials
AP | JIM ABRAMS | Posted 11.16.2009 | New York
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WASHINGTON — Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radica...
How Sarah Palin Could Win The 2012 GOP Nomination
Politics Daily | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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If Palin can maintain, say, 35-percent support in a multi-candidate presidential field, then she is the odds-on favorite for the GOP nomination. The ...
NYT: 22 Republicans, 20 Democrats Used Lobbying Firm's Statements In House Health Care Speeches
New York Times | ROBERT PEAR | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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Statements by more than a dozen lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists working for Genentech, one of the world's la...
Frank Rich: The Missing Link Between Fort Hood And The War In Afghanistan
New York Times | FRANK RICH | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics
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For all the right's jeremiads, its own brand of political correctness kept it from connecting two crucial dots: how our failing war against terrorists...
Q&A Bill Frist: Healthcare, The GOP and Birthers
David Goodman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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Bill Frist is the former Republican Senate Majority Leader. He is the author of the new book: A Heart to Serve: The Passion to Bring Health, Hope, and Healing.
First Hillary, Now Sarah
Taylor Marsh | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
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Stranger things than a Sarah Palin comeback have happened. George W. Bush beat Democrats twice. Are people really going to argue that Bush is smarter than Sarah?
If You Have Donated To The RNC Since 1991, You Have Funded Abortion
Melinda Warner | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
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Using the RNC's logic, every person who has donated money since 1991 has also funded abortions, because a portion went towards the employer's portion of each employee's health care premium.
Why Sen. Dodd's Opposition to the Federal Reserve is Ill-Conceived
Georges Ugeux | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
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Had Senate Banking Committee's Chairman Chris Dodd's proposal been effective before the crisis, where would we be today?
10 Reasons Why Democrats Who Opposed the Health Care Bill Made a Political Mistake
Robert Creamer | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics
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Even ignoring how critical it is to overhaul our broken health care system, most of the 39 Democrats who voted against reform in the House last week still made a political mistake. Here's why.
Will Democrats Scuttle Healthcare Because Of Abortion?
Kim Stagliano | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
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I used to say I was politically pro-choice but personally pro-life, meaning I would never consider having an abortion. That was until I was faced with the choice of carrying a baby to term myself.
Tea Party Civil War? Lawsuit, GOP Friction Splits Leaders
The Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
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Some major cracks have emerged in the "Tea Party" movement's leadership. In October, Amy Kremer, a founder and top staffer for the Tea Party Patri...
Scozzafava Maddow Interview: Purging Party Of Independent Thinkers Leads To Minority Status
Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
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Last night, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow interviewed Dede Scozzafava, the GOP congressional candidate (New York-23) who was ousted from the race by conservat...
We Finally Have Health Reform! And I Think I'm Going To Be Sick
Nelson Montana | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics
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The Republican strategy was ingenious. They forced the administration to concede and compromise, got much of what they demanded and still complain when it fails. Brilliant.
Hold the Hofstadter: Why the GOP Is Winning 2010
John R. Bohrer | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
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Over the last few months, a number of prominent political columnists have pointed to historian and social critic Richard Hofstadter to explain what is happening to the Republican Party. Here's why they shouldn't.
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