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Lucia Graves

Washington Governor Vetoes Critical Parts Of Medical Marijuana Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 06.29.2011

Read More: Chris Gregoire, Medical Marijuana, Pot, Marijuana, Washington, Washington Medical Marijuana, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- In the wake of conflicting legal opinion, Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire (D) on Friday vetoed critical parts of a new medical marijuana ...

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Pets Helping to Heal Our Nation's Vets

Wendy Diamond | Posted 06.27.2011

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Wendy Diamond

After witnessing atrocities taking place in the Middle East, some of our soldiers are coming home with PTSD. Many of these men are finding that Dave Sharpe's P2V program is just what the doctor ordered.

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Pulitzer Prize 2011 Winners In Books: Did The Right Authors Win?

Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: Pulitzer in Books, Goon Squad, Washington, Literary Prizes, Slidepollajax, Jennifer Egan, Ron Chernow, Pulitzer Prize, Books News

So will this be your next reading list? The Pulitzer Prizes for 2011 were announced today and the results for books are in the slideshow below. If you...

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IMF Nations Discuss 'Significant Risks' Of Rising Global Food Prices

Posted 06.17.2011

Read More: International Monetary Fund, World Bank, Inflation, Washington, Imf, Tim Geithner, g20, Emerging Markets, Oecd, Business News

WASHINGTON (Lesley Wroughton and Isabel Versiani) - International Monetary Fund member countries sought to bridge sharp differences over the global ...

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Celebrating Human Sacrifice

Alan Grayson | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Budget Deal, Obama, Alan Grayson, Washington, Politics News
Alan Grayson

There is one particular part of the federal budget that I've been following closely for the past couple of weeks, since the head of USAID testified that Republican budget cuts would result in 70,000 children dying.

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Is Peru's Political Suicide America's Future?

Dennis Jett | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Elections, Peru, Budget, Washington, Ollanta Humala, Class Warfare, Alberto Fujimori, Peru Election, Politics News
Dennis Jett

Peru had its presidential election on Sunday, and the outcome could not have been worse. Few Americans will care about that, but they should. The result may be America's future.

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Feelings Fitness: An Aerobic Antidote to Fiscal Fighting

Carol Smaldino | Posted 06.11.2011

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Carol Smaldino

Never underestimate fear of change, particularly when what is required is a deep shift in attitude. Most of us are so conditioned to deploy both langu...

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Playing Presidents: Good History vs. Good Drama and The Actor JFK (and Jackie) Wanted To Play Him

Carl Sferrazza Anthony | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: John F. Kennedy, Actors, Washington, The Kennedys, Film Production, George W. Bush, Harry Truman, Presidents, Thomas Jefferson, Hollywood, Woodrow Wilson, Barack Obama, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Andrew Johnson, Grover Cleveland, Media News
Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Whether filtered by an archivist, historian, editor, screenwriter, actor or director, perspective on the life of another person is ultimately subjective - and there's no group of people more highly susceptible to the subjective than the presidents.

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Two Reluctant Bargainers

Chris Weigant | Posted 06.06.2011

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Chris Weigant

With the possibility of a government shutdown looming, it's hard not to see how uncomfortable both Speaker of the House John Boehner and President Barack Obama are at this sort of bare-knuckles game.

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Changing the Tone in Washington

Robert Kuttner | Posted 06.03.2011

Read More: Obama Speech, Social Security, Political Discourse, Budget Cuts, President Obama, Washington, Government Spending, Head Start, Medicare, Republican Party, Tea Party, President, Barack Obama, Pell Grants, Politics News
Robert Kuttner

Obama's approval-disapproval ratings are now about dead even again. However, if you want to identify a set of policies that are opposed by margins of three or four to one, try the Tea Party package.

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Zach Carter

Government Shutdown Could Slow Tax Refunds, Crimp Use Of Largest Federal Anti-Poverty Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.29.2011

Read More: Taxes, Dc, Irs, Poverty, Government Shutdown Eitc, Earned Income Tax Credit, Low-Income, Government Shutdown, Washington, Eitc, Poor, Shutdown, D.C. Government, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A prolonged government shutdown could deliver a blow to many poor American families by limiting or delaying access to the federal govern...

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Embracing Clean Energy in the Northwest and Beyond

Mary Anne Hitt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy, Coal, Sierra Club, Washington, Green News
Mary Anne Hitt

This past weekend we announced that the Washington State Senate approved a landmark agreement between the Sierra Club, Governor Chris Gregoire and TransAlta to phase out the state's massive 1,600-megawatt coal plant between 2020 and 2025.

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Cleared To Play

AP | TIM BOOTH | Posted 05.25.2011

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SEATTLE — Washington backup point guard Venoy Overton was reinstated Sunday and will play in the NCAA tournament Friday against Georgia, giving ...

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How to Stop Iran's Nuclear Threat

Alireza Jafarzadeh | Posted 05.25.2011

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Alireza Jafarzadeh

The Iranian opposition movement does not ask for money or arms, much less troops. But it does demand that, at this critical juncture, it not be shut out of the Iran policy debate.

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$40 Billion In Private Arms Sales Approved By U.S. in 2009

AP | STEPHEN BRAUN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arm Sales, North Africa, Middle East, Egypt, Washington, Bahrain, Obama, Hosni Mubarak, Gun Sales, Barack Obama, World News

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. government approved $40 billion in worldwide private arms sales in 2009, including more than $7 billion to Mideast and North Af...

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Five Fun and Fabulous Family Hotel Rooms

Elizabeth Thorp | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Hotels, Travel, Children, Family, Dc, Houston, Spring Break, Washington, Traveling With Children, Family Travel Guides, Travel News
Elizabeth Thorp

Traveling with the little ones is not exactly all sunshine and cupcakes. Thankfully, if you're clever about your destination, at the end of interminable plane/train/car/mule journeys lies salvation.

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Weekly Audit: Standoff Continues in Wisconsin

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Media Consortium

Weekly Audit: Standoff Continues in WisconsinBy Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger The 14 Democratic state senators who fled Wisconsin to th...

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Signs of Hope in Western States

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Death With Dignity, Oregon, Barbara Coombs Lee, Montana, Aid in Dying, Washington, Vermont, End of Life Consultations, End of Life Care, Politics News
Barbara Coombs Lee

Historically, end-of-life choice has suffered at the hands of politicians. The people's simple yearning for freedom and control at the end of life has been no match for the heavy hand of politicians.

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Losing Our Sons and Daughters: The Cost of Afghanistan

Jim Wallis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jim Wallis

The small percentage of Americans who have borne the brunt of the human costs of our Afghan war, the utter corruption of the government we are supporting, and the toll in civilian casualties all make the continuing of this war immoral.

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Bernanke: Don't Sweat The Oil Stuff

Reuters | Pedro Nicolaci da Costa and Mark Felsenthal | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Tuesday the surge in oil prices is unlikely to hurt the U.S. economy unless it ...

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100,000+ Protest Across America, 3,000 in Denver

Nancy Cronk | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nancy Cronk

Rallies were held at state capitols in all fifty states on Saturday, bringing out hundreds of thousands of Americans to stand in solidarity with workers in Wisconsin.

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All-American Decline in a New World

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Raymond Davis, Middle East, Afghanistan War, Middle East Protests, War in Afghanistan, Washington Echo Chamber, Washington, Politics News
Tom Engelhardt

History is being reshaped in such a way that previously major events may all be dwarfed by this new moment. Yet inside the Washington echo chamber, in which it can only hear itself talking, thoughts about such developments dawn slowly.

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Presidents Day? Not Really!

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lincoln, Holidays, White House, Washington, Federal Holidays, US Presidents, Presidents Day, Gettysburg Address, Barack Obama, Healthy Living News
Kenneth C. Davis

Created under the Uniform Holiday Act of 1968, which gave us three-day weekend Monday holidays, the federal holiday on the third Monday in February is technically still Washington's Birthday.

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Government by Dinosaur Repellent

Ben Tripp | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ben Tripp

I spray my yard with dinosaur repellent. It must be working -- I've never seen a dinosaur around here. That's an old joke, of course. But it's no j...

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Our Forgotten "Presidents"

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Washington, State, Cyrus Griffin, Sovereignty, Obama, Fillmore, Thomas Mckean, Henry Laurens, Declaration of Independence, United States of America, Revolutionary War, First Continental Congress, Second Continental Congress, Revolution, Taxes, Lincoln, Thomas Mifflin, States, President of Congress, Continental Congress, John Jay, Arthur St Clair, Executive, Elias Boudinot, Congress, Daniel Carroll, David Ramsay, Presidents, Henry Middleton, Richard Henry Lee, Presidents Day, Samuel Huntington, Peyton Randolph, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Congress of the Confederacy, Chief Justice, John Hanson, Articles of Confederation, Buchanan, John Hancock, Nathaniel Gorham, Politics News
Chris Weigant

In between the Declaration of Independence and George Washington's inauguration, there were 16 (or perhaps 13, or maybe just eight) men who were called "president".

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