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DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Gov. Paterson lives it up at Taj with BET exec Rhonda Cowan (left) and a guest -- hours before he revealed massive deficit growth yesterday. The New York Post: ALBANY -- What's Gov. Paterson got to celebrate? Just hours before delivering news of soaring budget deficits and lagging revenues from the recent millionaire's tax, the ...
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POLITICO: Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office. But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected credit card ...
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U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment; on foot and under fire in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Members of Golf Company pushed deep into the heart of the Helmand River Valley in an attempt to secure this part of the country in advance of the Afghan elections in August. . NPR:
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From the Leftist Ministry of Propaganda's rag, Politico: A slew of recent polls suggest that the political landscape was not as dramatically transformed last November as Democrats had hoped. The question now is whether those numbers will impede the president’s ability to achieve the transformative goals he set out for himself, particularly in the area of health ...
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STLToday: America needs a public service academy BY Melissa Goldberg In the early 1800s, when the United States recognized a need for military leadership, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of West Point, a school uniquely crafted to address those needs with a specially designed curriculum like none other in the country. Two hundred years and four more ...
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SFChronicle: Police were called on a group of retirees who refused to leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein's West Los Angeles office until she talked to them about health care reform. Los Angeles police Sergeant Rich Brunson said Thursday that police lured the group of seven outside somehow, then locked the building's doors behind them. Brunson had said earlier that ...
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WSJ: By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Democrats should be asking: What would Big John do? If anyone might have the right to revel in a bit of health-care schadenfreude, it’s John Dingell. Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman ought to feel lucky he’s foregone the pleasure. The Michigan Democrat, at least until last year, presided over the powerful Energy and ...
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MyWay: By KEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (AP) - The government's popular "cash for clunkers" program may be running out of money after only a matter of days as car shoppers flock to dealerships to take advantage of the rebates. The White House said Thursday it was assessing its options amid concerns the $1 billion budget for rebates for ...
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WASHINGTON - Congress wants to give the government a direct role in deciding how much executives on Wall Street are paid, after the nation's biggest banks accepted billions in taxpayer money and still managed to distribute $1 million bonuses to thousands of employees. The House was expected to pass legislation Friday by Rep. Barney ...
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. general in charge of turning around the war in Afghanistan is likely to recommend significant changes to U.S. and NATO operations, military officials and others familiar with his forthcoming report said. Those changes could include additional U.S. troops despite political headwind against further expansion of the war. As Gen. Stanley McChrystal readies ...
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Notice that Biden is there so it won't look like two black guys against one white guy.
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By Ambassador John Bolton For The Wall Street Journal: Legions of senior American officials have descended on Jerusalem recently, but the most important of them has been Defense Secretary Robert Gates. His central objective was to dissuade Israel from carrying out military strikes against Iran’s nuclear weapons facilities. Under the guise of counseling “patience,†Mr. Gates ...
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Times Online: The surge in British casualties in Afghanistan has left military surgeons so exhausted that a US surgical team has been drafted in to help. The British doctors have also been overwhelmed with casualties from other nations, including US Marines, Afghan troops and civilians. Extra British plastic surgeons have had to be sent to the field hospital ...
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After nearly a week of anticipation, happy hour finally arrived Thursday at the White House. President Obama knocked back some cold beer in the Rose Garden with Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and police Sgt. James Crowley of Cambridge, Mass., the two men at the heart last week of a heated debate over race in ...
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Politico: Color it blue, this latest House deal to keep health care reform moving: Blue Dogs, Blue Cross-Blue Shield and all the blues sung by rural, middle-income and working-class families if no relief comes on medical insurance. Battered in the polls, a desperate White House is hailing the bargain as a way to preserve momentum before ...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - As recently as two weeks ago it might not have looked like much of a victory. But after a series of delays and some rancorous disputes over President Barack Obama's top domestic priority, final House committee action on a health overhaul bill is sure to be hailed as a big step forward. The ...
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Times Online: More than half of children taking the swine flu drug Tamiflu experience side-effects such as nausea and nightmares, research suggests. An estimated 150,000 people with flu symptoms were prescribed the drug through a new hotline and website last week, according to figures revealed yesterday. Studies of children attending three schools in London and one in the ...
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