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Health Care Summit: More Like a Duel at Dawn Than a Garden Party
The White House has invited congressional Republicans to join Democrats for a health care summit to be moderated by President Obama and broadcast live. But Obama says legislative proposals …
Anthem Blue Cross Delays Rate Hike Pending Review by California Officials
Anthem Blue Cross will postpone by two months a massive rate hike that was set to take effect March 1 pending the results of an outside review launched last …
Pressing the Peace Reset Button
The hopeful energy that resulted in the election of President Obama has run smack into the depressing reality of the largest military budget ever submitted in the history of …
Preserving the Golden Rule as a Piece of Anti-Nuclear History
The Golden Rule is in danger. No, not the famed ethical code - though proponents of selfishness certainly have ignored it - but a thirty-foot sailing ship of the …
Palin, Romney and the GOP Field
It is ridiculously early to even begin discussing the Republican field for the 2012 presidential election - hell, it's still too early to really talk about the 2010 midterms …
Senate Republicans: Filibuster Everything to Win in November? (2)
Washington - Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to limit and often derail Democrats' initiatives, paralyzing the Senate and making it nearly impossible to accomplish even the most routine …
Valentine
Could Valentine’s Day, a holiday meant to celebrate romantic relationships, somehow bring about their untimely end? A 2004 study at Arizona State suggests the answer is yes: Researchers found …
Dick Meister | A Union That Made Black History
Few of the groups that we should honor during Black History Month are more deserving than the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a pioneering union that played a key …
Senate Republicans: Filibuster Everything to Win in November?
Washington— Senate Republicans are using the filibuster to limit and often derail Democrats' initiatives, paralyzing the Senate and making it nearly impossible to accomplish even the most routine matters.
Lieberman, McCain Want Iran Sanctioned for Human Rights Abuses, But Ignore Evidence US Committed Similar Violations
Growing impatient with the Obama administration’s Iran policy, members of Congress from both parties are proposing a variety of get-tough measures of their own. The moves, which include both …