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KUWAIT CITY - Iraq's recent efforts to avoid paying Kuwait some $25 billion in U.N.-mandated reparations for Saddam Hussein's 1990 invasion have alarmed Kuwaitis and strained relations that have slowly improved since the fall of the Iraqi dictator. Many Kuwaitis doubt Iraq will make good on its obligations without outside pressure, and the country has ...
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Washington Post: "There was a section of the video that went too far, so we have removed the piece from our website."
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Politico: Speaker Nancy Pelosi outlined a doubled-edged message for selling health care reform in August: one part pro-consumer and the second, attacking the health insurance industry with the same passion she took on George W. Bush’s Social Security privatization plans four years ago. “The glory days are coming to an end for the health insurance industry in ...
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WCBS: "Cash for Clunkers" came to a screeching halt Thursday, after only six days on the road. In a shocker, the government announced it would suspend the program at midnight because demand was too great. It may have been the best $1 billion the government has spent so far this year. Business was humming at Crestmont ...
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Politico: President Barack Obama tallied a much-needed win Friday when a critical House committee approved legislation that would provide health care to millions of uninsured Americans. But the bill’s turbulent passage widened longstanding rifts within his party, rifts that imperil his landmark push for vastly expanding health care coverage when Congress returns to session in the fall. The ...
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Politico: Screaming constituents, protesters dragged out by the cops, congressmen fearful for their safety — welcome to the new town-hall-style meeting, the once-staid forum that is rapidly turning into a house of horrors for members of Congress. On the eve of the August recess, members are reporting meetings that have gone terribly awry, marked by angry, sign-carrying ...
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TrueSlant: As confirmed by recent polling data, Obama’s pitch that the country’s existing health care system is in need of radical alteration has fallen upon deaf ears. The more people learn of the details of Obama’s plan, the less they like it. One of the reasons Obama’s health care initiative is now badly floundering is that ever ...
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Above: Iraq vet Aubrey Arcangel in the line of duty. Below: Arcangel attending College in New York WASHINGTON - Spc. Marco Reininger started the year on the dusty streets of Afghanistan. He'll end it on the campus of Columbia University with the government picking up a large chunk of the $100,000 tab for tuition. The Post-9/11 ...
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BAGHDAD - A string of bombings targeted Shiite worshippers in the Baghdad area during Friday prayers, killing at least 29 people in an apparently coordinated attack against followers of an anti-U.S. cleric who were blamed for some of Iraq's worst sectarian violence. The blasts shattered a recent calm and underscored warnings that suspected Sunni insurgents ...
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This goes so far beyond stupid I'm floored and completely lost for words... Good thing for me this effectively criticizes itself. SpaceWar: A Taliban good behavior guide seized by NATO forces in Afghanistan bears no relation to the violent reality on ground, which is contrary to the insurgent group's advice to its fighters, a spokesman for the ...
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TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) - Hope and jobs are in short supply in Ohio eight months after President Barack Obama won the recession-battered state in the 2008 election with promises of a better future. "People were looking for a savior to get us out of this mess and that's why they voted for Obama," said Jeff Fravor, ...
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The Washington Post: Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health-care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy -- and half the mainstream media did -- you'll believe the second. Don't believe either. Conventional wisdom always makes straight-line projections. They are always wrong. Yes, Obama's aura has diminished, in ...
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Now Obamacare will become a "personal issue" for Senator Dodd, impassioning voters to support his struggles by submitting to Socialist legislation. Which, of course, is bull, because he makes enough money to get whatever coverage he damn well pleases. It's not that I don't sympathize, but you know... In his case, I don't really care. The ...
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