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WASHINGTON (AP) – A civil rights group advised by Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor in the 1980s brought several discrimination lawsuits that sought to scrap the results of job tests because too few Hispanics scored well, according to new documents that are fueling GOP criticism of the judge.
Read more [...]I got a number of good ideas for this feature last night at Drinking Liberally, but I’m deferring them for now. This being 4th of July weekend, it seemed only right to try to rustle up some unobjectionable patriotic music. A harder task than you might think, but I’ve found [...]
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PROVIDENCE ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR !
FUN! BOOKS ! BEER ! DANCING ! REVOLUTION IN THE AIR !
August 15th 1pm to 1am on
Empire Street, Providence, Rhode Island
The annual Providence Anarchist Bookfaire is back again this year and we
want you to come on by and enjoy [...]
What's really puzzling is that she appears to be speaking from notes. I don't care what party you belong to. The idea that this point guard so close to the nuclear football has gotta be a little scary.
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The Founding Fathers left one legacy not celebrated on Independence Day but which affects us all. It’s the national debt.
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[...]In framing the title/subject of this piece it is not my intent to spell out a detailed critical analysis of an LGBTQ movement in this brief essay, though rather, as best as I can from my perspective, initiate a framework for such an analysis and most importantly hopefully engender a [...]
"We don’t want politics on Main Street."
The Nantucket Tea Party will be one of more than a thousand such protest events to be held across the nation on Independence Day.
The organizers were all set. They were given permission by the Town’s head of Park and Recreation. After the local paper [...]
I’ve noted before that California is dysfunctional as a result of the referendum system, which has, courtesy of the right wing, rendered the state ungovernable. The people of the state have voted themselves tax decreases, spending increases, and governmental paralysis, bringing themselves to their present sorry state.
To top it all [...]
Wasilla, Alaska (AP) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Friday she is resigning from office at the end of the month, raising speculation that she would focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race.
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[...]WASHINGTON (AP) – President Barack Obama said former Russian President Vladimir Putin and his hand-picked successor should expect an in-person reminder the Cold War is over when the U.S. leader makes his first trip to a Moscow summit.
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Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell and legislative leaders will be taking a break this weekend after spending four days this week in closed-door budget negotiations. It's unclear if negotiations will resume on Monday.
The two sides have been at odds for months over [...] Things are moving quickly on health care in 2009 -- especially in [...]
U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd joined health care advocates Thursday to celebrate the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. The act was signed into law by President Obama last week.
The legislation gives the Food and Drug Administration more authority to regulate tobacco products. The [...] This is an interesting list. It made me think that Mortimer and I have a whole life style built around our favorite worst movies. For example, we usually watch, around this time of year, "Independence Day," a fairly terrible movie that we love, beginning to end. Randy Quaid? Come [...]
Hartford (AP) – Gov. M. Jodi Rell and legislative leaders are expected to resume their closed-door budget talks following the holiday weekend.
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[...]Democrats won’t have a primary for mayor in Stamford as one of the contenders has dropped out:
Board of Finance member Tim Abbazia dropped out of the mayoral race Thursday, conceding the Democratic nomination to city Rep. David Martin and leaving him to face off against Republican candidate Michael [...]
The always-topical Loudon Wainwright III.
