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BOSTON (CBS) – Mayor Tom Menino is set to issue an executive order to ban the sale of sugary drinks on Boston city property. Menino is expected to make the announcement at City Hall before noon. The mayor’s office said Menino is issuing this order because of the link between sugary drinks and rising obesity [...]

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Politico: WAKEUP CALL! — The offices of John Boehner and Harry Reid should be expecting a call from the White House in the early hours of Thursday. President Obama told reporters just a few hours ago that he would ping their offices in the morning to check up on budget negotiations, and that if they [...]

LAS VEGAS (AP) – The defunct political advocacy group ACORN has pleaded guilty in a case alleging that canvassers were illegally paid to register Nevada voters during the 2008 presidential campaign. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday that ACORN defense attorney Lisa Rasmussen entered the guilty plea to one count of felony compensation for registration [...]

The Hill: A fundraising appeal from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee warns supporters that “Tea Party Republicans are threatening to shut down the government on Friday unless we surrender to their outrageous demands.” The fundraising email, penned by DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (N.Y.), went out late Wednesday and asks for small donations to the committee’s [...]

WSJ President Barack Obama emerged from a late-night meeting Wednesday with House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saying the two parties had moved closer to a spending agreement to avoid a government shutdown Friday, but no deal had been struck.”What [the talks] did was narrow the issues and clarify the issues [...]

BTW I have a huge political crush on Thad McCotter ~ Angelia

NYTimes KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — If the protesters who pushed this city to the brink last weekend were really worried about Koran burning, wondered Layloma Popal, the headmistress of this city’s biggest girls’ school, “then why did they try to burn down my school?” Related “There were 10 Korans at least in there,” Ms. Popal said, [...]

Wall Street Journal: Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney appears to be the early front-runner in the largely unformed race for the Republican nomination for president, but real estate magnate Donald Trump may be a surprise contender, according to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. Among Republican primary voters, Mr. Romney captured the support of [...]

(CNSNews.com) – House Budget Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said President Barack Obama’s budget strategy is to “do nothing, punt, duck, kick the can down the road” while the debt remains on track to eventually hit 800 percent of GDP and the CBO is saying it “can’t conceive of any way” that the economy can [...]

A federal jury awarded a Fort Benning soldier more than $20 million on Monday in a case against Coldwell Banker Mortgage — an amount the plaintiff’s attorney called necessary to get the company’s attention. Jurors in the case of David Brash v. PHH Mortgage Corp., doing business as Coldwell Banker, deliberated for about six hours [...]

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) dismissed the House GOP’s move to pass another stop-gap spending measure on Wednesday evening, a few hours before he is slated to meet with Speaker John Boehner (R-Oho) at the White House. Reid’s attacks on the House’s one-week offer that also funds the Department of Defense for a year, [...]