Stimulus Battle May Be Playground Dispute Compared to Bank Bailout

February 8, 2009

POTUS will reportedly ask for as much as $1 trillion on top of the current $300 billion remaining in TARP. Hard enough to win Collins, Snowe and Specter on this one – what will Obama offer them to get their votes on the next one?

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Brushfires Continue, Australian Death Toll Rises to 230

February 8, 2009

Fires continue to burn as arson suspicions rise, Prime Minister Rudd says: “What do you say about anyone like that – there are no words to describe it other than mass murder.”

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Abortion Examined: The One Culture War Issue the Right is Winning?

February 8, 2009

Not just a trick of data, but a stunning fact: while America is moving left on many cultural issues, the next generation is not only “less pro-choice than any other age group” it is “also markedly less pro-choice than any young cohort in any previous decade.”

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SNL Pokes Fun at Stimulus

February 8, 2009

One of the side effects of being the only political party in town that matters is that there’s no one else to make fun of when something really shockingly huge goes down.

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America's Last Draftee

February 8, 2009

America’s generals love to brag about their all-volunteer Army. That’s because they tend to overlook Jeffrey Mellinger. He donned his Army uniform for the first time on April 18, 1972, about the time the Nixon Administration was seeking “peace with honor” in Vietnam and The Godfather was opening on the silver screen. Nearly 37 years […]

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It's Stimulus or Catastrophe

February 8, 2009

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama pounded Republicans Saturday for policies that fuelled the U.S. economic crisis, while welcoming a Senate deal on his stimulus bill that ideologically split lawmakers hope to finish by mid-month.

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Major New Powers for National Security Council

February 8, 2009

President Obama plans to order a sweeping overhaul of the National Security Council, expanding its membership and increasing its authority to set strategy across a wide spectrum of international and domestic issues.

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Erie Ice Danger: 1 Dead, 134 Rescued

February 8, 2009

OAK HARBOR, Ohio – Cell phones rang and word was passed to fishermen out on a distant stretch of Lake Erie’s iced-over waters: A crack had widened in the ice, trapping everyone on a miles-wide floe that was drifting away from the Ohio shoreline.

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Deadly Fires Torch Australia

February 8, 2009

HEALESVILLE, Australia – Towering flames razed entire towns in southeastern Australia and burned fleeing residents in their cars as the death toll rose to 84 on Sunday, making it the country’s deadliest fire disaster.

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New Tool Displays How Much Argument Goes Into Wikipedia Entries

February 8, 2009

A team of researchers at the Palo Alto Research Center have created a tool that shows how much argument has gone into crafting a Wikipedia entry.

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