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I just subscribed to Rasmussen polling. This is the first thing in the inbox this morning:
At the Daily Kos, Meteor Blades grabs this graph from CalculatedRisk today.The Senate is taking up health care reform tomorrow. But some conservative Democratic Senators are still trying to kill the public health insurance option. Instead of opposing it outright, they're pushing a sneaky proposal called a "trigger" that could delay it indefinitely—by forcing us to wait for' [...]
FOLKS, HERE IS A BROAD REVIEW OF THE TOWNHALL MEETING COUNCIL WOMAN JOAN DEAVER (D) (3rd District) ORGANIZED ON NOVEMBER 12th AT THE [...]
Report links cancer cases near nuclear power plantThe Progress Report - The New Senate Health Bill
Last night, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) released the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which merged the Senate's Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee's bill with the Finance Committee's bill. According to preliminary [...]
DELAWARE CITY – Gov. Jack Markell said today that state agencies will act quickly to assist workers affected by the closing of the Valero refinery in [...]
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein feels bad about crashing our economy. To make up for it, he's said he's sorry and has decided to give back $500 million of the money his company has made to small businesses. It's a gesture so empty, it's insulting. Never [...]
You can't give us terrible, terrible service and expect a tip," said Pope, a 22-year-old Moravian College senior who's a Pottsville native, according to the Lehigh" [...]
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The Senate is introducing its health care reform bill today, and only four fricking Democratic Senators are standing in the way of passage. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Blanche Lincoln of Arkansas, and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana are the only four remaining [...]
A presentation of the film “Rethink Afghanistan” and a discussion after it will be this Wednesday, November 18th at 7:00 p.m. at Limestone Presbyterian Church. The public is invited to this special program.
“Rethink Afghanistan is a 2009 documentary about the [...]
In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was working for a private contractor in Iraq when she was brutally gang-raped by coworkers.1 Four years later, Jamie is still being denied justice. Jamie can't file U.S. criminal charges because the rape took place overseas, and a fine-print' [...]
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) "will try to block the Obama administration's first nominee to the federal bench, a retaliation for Democratic filibusters to Bush's choices for federal bench in the previous eight years." However, his "tactic is likely to fail, as Sen. Dick" [...]
(WNJ image)The report says New York Fed officials mismanaged the negotiations with other banks, removing the threat that AIG would go bankrupt and bowing to a demand from French regulators that French banks holding AIG's debt insurance [...]
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Please come donate some time to The Brady Kohn Foundation.
I have recently joined the Board of Directors for this wonderful organization and we need a little help. This time of year, the "giving" time is a great time to give back. We only [...]
Clean Air Council is working with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control and Global Community Monitoring to address solutions to air quality issues in South Wilmington, DE.
I'd like to invite you to join us on at 6:00 pm on Monday, November 16 at' [...]
Unfortunately, the Chinese don’t seem to get it: rather than face up to the need to change their currency policy, they’ve taken to lecturing the United States, telling us to raise interest rates and curb [...]
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)since July, the' [...]
Update: I just watched a video clip of the bowing-in-action and can fairly conclude that Obama had to stoop as low as he did in order to get his eyes level with the much-shorter Asian leader. Protocol Plus!After shrugging off a boycott by Republicans who opposed the measure and mostly shunned the debate, Democrats pushed the legislation through the Senate Environment' [...]
More from ThinkProgress ~ The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which purports to be “the voice [...]
Rather than complain about a fictitious government'" [...]
You can't live without water, and that's a problem in a warming world. Billions of people get their fresh water from mountain glacier meltwater flows. The trouble is the planet's glaciers are receding at alarming rates.
Nowhere is this threat more acute than in China and India where' [...]
Dover - November 13, 2009. Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart, CIR-ML today warned senior citizens to protect themselves from unscrupulous insurance salesmen using high-pressure and misleading sales tactics during Medicare Advantage and Medicare Prescription [...]
Lieutenant Governor Matt Denn told the first Kent County Economic Summit today that the federal stimulus package had not solved the state’s economic problems but had served its purpose by “helping us get [...]
The Sun News ~ I am not going to dance around the consequences of James Arthur Ray's stupidity because he was blatantly' [...]
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