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Election Countdown 2012: Bankrupt California Cities Announce Plan to Seize Loans on “Underwater” Homes, and More
Two bankrupt Californian cities of Fontana and Ontario in San Bernardino County offer a bracing jolt to Washingtonu2019s passivity. Where the Obama administration has largely failed [succeeded] to ease …
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Uninsured Aurora Victim Could Face $2 Million in Medical Bills
Caleb Medley was shot in the eye in the Aurora movie theater shooting and remains in the intensive care unit in an induced coma. Medley sustained the terrible injuries …
Religious and Free-Market Fundamentalism Have More in Common Than Their Fans in the Tea Party
Because fundamentalists are ideologically driven, they tend to reject basic facts that do not comport with their ideology.
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FDA and GE: Extra Radiation? Who Cares?
Food and Drug Administration officials reacted to suspected whistleblowing by some of its scientists, about excessive radiation from medical imaging devices, by spying on several. But the larger issue …
Election Countdown 2012: The Head of New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation’s Division of Mineral Resources Sees Global Warming as a Good Thing, and More
As head of the Department of Environmental Conservationu2019s Division of Mineral Resources, Bradley J. Field is a prominent figure in an agency that has promoted hydraulic fracturing as a …
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FDA Makes It Official: BPA Can’t Be Used in Baby Bottles and Cups
The Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday that baby bottles and childrenu2019s drinking cups could no longer contain bisphenol A, or BPA, an estrogen-mimicking industrial chemical used in some …
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It’s a Great Day to Act to Cut the Pentagon Budget
Conventional wisdom is that the automatic cuts in the Budget Control Act won't happen; at the end of the day, they will be replaced by a package of revenue …
Election Countdown 2012: One Person Is Confirmed Dead After an Oil and Natural Gas Well Explosion in Ohio, and More
These [satellite] images appear to support the rumored allegations [that] drillers and frackers may have been driving tanker trucks offroad, opening the valve on the tank while driving, and …
Will Your State Refuse to Provide Medicaid Coverage to Needy Adults?
It is precisely the states that could most benefit from the increased coverage under ACA's Medicaid expansion provision that seem least willing to participate in the plan.
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Americans for Prosperity Rally Calls for “Nullifying” Health Care Law (With Help From ALEC)
The evening after the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the Wisconsin chapter of the Koch-funded Americans for Prosperity held a "Hands Off My …