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• Happy Hanukkah

  —DelawarePolitics.net

  Number of comments: 3
  

  Against all odds, the Jewish people won a victory for faith, liberty, and sovereignty in their generation against the greatest imperial power then known. The call to stand up for those virtues is still with us.

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  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:22pm EST
  by David Anderson

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• ACORN Scores A Victory

  —Delaware Liberal

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  ACORN has scored a court victory, successfully arguing that Congress’s defunding bill was a bill of attainder: A judge has put an injunction on Congress’s ban on ACORN funding. U.S. District Judge Nina Gershon today ruled to put a preliminary injunction on the Congressional resolution that barred ACORN or its affiliates from [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 8:06pm EST
  by Unstable Isotope

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• House Passes Most Sweeping Financial Reform Consumer Protection Bill Since the New Deal

  —Progressive Delmarva

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  From CNN:
  
  WASHINGTON — In a victory for the Obama administration, a year after Wall Street failures plunged the nation into recession, the House on Friday passed the most ambitious restructuring of financial regulation since the New Deal. The sprawling legislation gives the government new powers to [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 3:51pm EST
  by Stetson Kennedy

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• Interior Department Settles Royalties Dispute With Native Americans

  —Delaware Way

  Number of comments: 1
  A victory for Indian country ~
  

  Under the agreement announced Tuesday, the Interior Department will distribute $1.4 billion to more than 300,000 tribe members to compensate them for historical accounting claims, and to resolve future claims. The department also will spend $2 billion to [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 4:42pm EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• Huge Victory!! ACORN Wins Voter Suppression Case Against Ohio Sec. Of State, J. Kenneth Blackwell In US Sixth Circuit Court Of Appeal

  —Delaware Way

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  From DKos ~ Praise the lord! ACORN's in da house. [see: U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeal [PDF]:]
  As the press release about this settlement by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law noted:
  

  "This settlement is good news for all citizens in Ohio and especially'" [...]

  Posted: December 04, 2009, 12:29pm EST
  by Nancy Willing

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• Nandua, Northampton tie for title

  —Come-Here News

  ONLEY -- The Eastern Shore District football season ended Monday [November 16, 2009] the same way it started back in September -- with Nandua recording a 42-0 victory over Arcadia on Monday night. [...]

  Fetched: November 26, 2009, 5:09pm EST
  

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• Remembering the Gettysburg address

  —miriam's ideas

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  at Gettysburg, PA.
  
  
  The Union Army's victory in the Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War. Lincoln delivered his brief but powerful speech while dedicating the cemetery on Nov. 19, 1863.
  
  146 years ago on [...]

  Posted: November 19, 2009, 11:18pm EST
  by miriam

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• Niblett retains seat in Delmar Mayoral election

  —Progressive Delmarva

  
  The Daily Times is reporting that Mayor Doug Niblett has pulled out the victory. If the numbers are accurate, turnout must have been abysmal.
  
  Results
  Delmar, Md. Mayor:
  Doug Niblett - 104*
  Tom McGuire - 70
  
  Commissioners :
  Carl Anderton - 143 *
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  Posted: November 17, 2009, 11:50pm EST
  by champs1

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• Ponies finish season with win against Greenbrier

  —Come-Here News

  CHINCOTEAGUE -- The Chincoteague Ponies finished the season Friday night with a 20-6 victory over Greenbrier Academy. [...]

  Fetched: November 12, 2009, 8:07am EST
  

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• Landmark Health Insurance Bill Passes House

  —Salisbury News

  Number of comments: 5
  
  Tough fight still ahead in Senate, and two versions have wide differences
  
  WASHINGTON - In a victory for President Barack Obama, the Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed landmark health care legislation to expand coverage to tens of millions who lack it and place tough new restrictions [...]

  Posted: November 08, 2009, 7:36am EST
  by joealbero

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