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U.S. Border Policy: How To Fix What's Broken

Jim Luce | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

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Jim Luce

Funding would be better used to investigate and sanction U.S. employers who habitually hire undocumented migrants. This would not only be cheaper, but more humane.

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Insurance CEOs Get Rich While Denying Health Coverage to Children

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Children's Health Insurance Program, Texas, Uninsured, Health Insurance, Children's Health, Childrens Health Insurance, Living News
Marian Wright Edelman

Why should we continue to let children fall between the chasm of profit-driven health insurance companies and income-restrictive Medicaid and CHIP programs?

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How Can Texas Ask Women to Pay for Rape Kits?

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Texas Legislature Rape Kit, Tea Bag, Rape, Rape Kit, Joe Cutbirth, Austin, Texas Crime Victim's Compensation Fund, Attorney General Greg Abbott, Rick Perry, Politics News
Joe Cutbirth

On a rare occasion, journalists shine a light on a public policy that is so disgusting it literally stuns you -- it just takes your breath away and leaves you speechless.

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Texas Charging Rape Victims For Rape Kits (VIDEO)

Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics

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Via Think Progress comes this shocking CNN report that Texas is charging women thousands of dollars for the rape kits they use at the hospital. Essen...

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RIP Stephen Bruton

David Wild | Posted 06.09.2009 | Entertainment

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David Wild

Whether or not you knew his name, Stephen Bruton will be missed.

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Specter: Loyal Opportunists

Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tom Ridge, George W. Bush, Jane Harman, Connecticut, Immigration, Iraq, Mary Landrieu, Democratic Party, Guns, Same-Sex Marriage, California, Moderates, Charlie Crist, Mark Kirk, Gay Rights, New Jersey, Conservatives, Maine, Katrina, Republican Party, Illinois, Abortion, Arlen Specter, John McCain, Florida, Louisiana, Olympia Snowe, Mitt Romney, Massachusetts, Texas, Pennsylvania, Civil Unions, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Barack Obama, New York, Susan Collins, Jon Corzine, Jon Huntsman, South, Israel, Christopher Christie, Joe Lieberman, Pat Toomey, Utah, Kirsten Gillibrand, Chuck Schumer, Politics News
Paul Jenkins

There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.

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Obama Makes America Sexier to Swedes

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 06.07.2009 | World

Read More: Europe, Germany, Sweden, Stockholm, Exchange Students, Rush Limbaugh, Dayton, Study Abroad, High School, Obama, Texas, Hollywood, Gays, Nordic Countries, Bill O'Reilly, 2008 Election, Foreign Policy, World News
Nathan Hegedus

Applications to study in the US are up 30 percent in the Nordic countries, and interest in Sweden has grown by 20 percent. Placement agencies are calling it "Obama fever."

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Governor Rick Perry Explains It All: Swine Flu, CNN, And Iraq

Duncan Quirk | Posted 06.01.2009 | Comedy

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Duncan Quirk

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Letting Texas Secede

Robbie Gennet | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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Robbie Gennet

Governor Rick Perry of Texas brought up the specter of Secession recently and upon polling, a fair amount of Texans and other Americans seem to think Texas seceding from the US would be a good idea.

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Life after Death (Penalty): Ash Amador Goes to England

Dave Maass | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

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Dave Maass

John "Ash" Amador was the last man I interviewed on Texas death row. The documentary 402, is about his execution and subsequent efforts to cast his face in a death mask.

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Secession Favored By Half Of Texas Republicans: Poll

Daily Kos | Posted 05.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Texas, Secession, Texas Secession, Rick Perry, Politics News

With numbers like these, it's obvious why Texas Gov. Rick Perry is talking secession in the runup to what will be a tough primary battle against Sen. ...

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Houston, We Have A Solution: Let Texas Secede (VIDEO)

Posted 05.24.2009 | Comedy

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At a "tax day tea party" last week, Governor Rick Perry fired up the crowd by yelling "secede." He said that the federal government had abandoned the ...

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A Toxic Lesson

Javier Sierra | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Juan Parras, Latinos, Lisa Jackson, Environmental Justice, Javier Sierra, Epa, Hispanic, Air Quality, Pollution, Lungs, Texas, Hispanics and the Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Education, Sierra Club, Cesar Chavez High School, Houston, Latinos and the Environment, Contamination, Toxic Schools, Asthma, Schools, Green News
Javier Sierra

In more than half of the investigated schools, students were in danger of contracting cancer and respiratory diseases because of the presence of toxic compounds.

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The Republican Choice: React or Modernize

William Bradley | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Tea Parties, John McCain, Proposition 8, Log Cabin Republicans, Secession, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Texas, Newt Gingrich, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Same-Sex Marriage, California, Dick Cheney, Gavin Newsom, Barack Obama, Iowa, San Francisco, Rick Perry, Steve Schmidt, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Margaret Thatcher, David Cameron, New Labour, Democratic Party, Britain, Tories, Labour Party, Conservative Party, Republican Party, Politics News
William Bradley

It's been a strange week for the Republican Party, with noisy events pushing the old-time religion, a speech urging a new moderation, and back-to-the-future reactions to Obama's friendly gestures to Chavez.

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Arthur Delaney

State Department Lists Texas As A Foreign Country

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 05.18.2009 | Politics

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Texas Governor Rick Perry suggested after a tax day tea party rally that his state might consider seceding from the union. "We've got a great union,...

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Jason Linkins

Glenn Beck: Secession Or Suicide (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

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Yesterday, I couldn't help but feel cheated that the doom-rooming, gasoline-pouring, fake-sobbing, out-freaking Glenn Beck went all the way to the Ala...

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Threats of Secession and Other Recent Republican Rhetoric

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Secession, Texas, Franklin Roosevelt, Civil War, Vice President Barack Obama, Tea Bag, Tea Baggers, Revolution, Texas Governor Rick Perry, Rick Perry, Socialism, Tea Party, Republican Party, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

Those on the far right can't have it both ways, calling for revolution and secession on the one hand, while protesting a report raising concerns about right wing extremist violence on the other.

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Rick Perry Should Stop Embarrassing Texas

Joe Cutbirth | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

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Joe Cutbirth

Partisanship and political philosophy aside, I can think of few things more irresponsible in this economy than the governor of Texas speaking freely about secession.

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American Violet: A Powerful Movie about Race and the Drug War

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Review, Frontline, Movie, Drugs, War on Drugs, Michael O'Keefe, Racial, Prejudice, Injustice, Drug, Boyd, Systemic Racism, Tim Blake Nelson, Institutionalized Racism, American Civil Liberties Union, Erin Brockovich, District Attorney, Racism, Drug War, Confidential Informant, Justice System, Nicole Beharie, Regina Kelly, Graham Boyd, Texas, Film, American Violet, John Paschall, Chris Weigant, Sydney Poitier, Aclu, Mississippi Burning, Plea Bargain, Xzibit, Beharie, Kelly, Hearne, Paschall, Da, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Without spoiling the ending, American Violet is an excellent movie, and tells the story in a moving and heart-wrenching fashion.

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Texas Gov Rick Perry To Attend Tea Party

Star Telegram | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

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For now, it's not about the war on terrorism, abortion or gay marriage. The issue stoking outrage among thousands of conservatives across the country...

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Texas Is Wind King, California Drops Into Third Place

AP | DIRK LAMMERS | Posted 05.14.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Iowa, Texas, Green Energy, Green Business, California, Green News

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Texas continues to blow away the competition, but Iowa can now generate more wind power than California, according to a new ...

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The Be Like Me Party: Brown's Comments on Asian-American Names Translates to Bigotry in All Languages

Rachel Farris | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

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Rachel Farris

In the Texas House this week, it was Take Your Bigoted Representative to Work Day. For North Texas residents, that resulted in the softly-coiffed and loudly-talkin' Republican Betty Brown once again putting the proverbial Chico's pump in her mouth.

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Texas INMATE Phone System Debuts: The "Cell" Phone

Associated Press | Posted 05.06.2009 | Politics

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Texas prison inmates are making routine phone calls for the first time. The Texas prison board was told Friday the first of a planned systemwide prog...

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Jason Linkins

Scritti Politti: April 1, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.02.2009 | Politics

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Eat The Press Operative Karla sends us the awesome cover of the April edition of D Magazine, featuring George W. Bush cold-chillin' in some Photoshopp...

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Armageddon Friday

Bill Allen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

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Bill Allen

The religious right in Texas -- in a move that any ayatollah in Iran would be proud to claim -- is dangerously close to substituting religious dogma for science.

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