U.S. job losses in November posted the smallest drop since the start of the recession and the unemployment rate unexpectedly declined, a sign the labor market is finally healing as the economy recovers.
edited by: Lisa Mossie,
Pennsylvania Editor
U.S. job losses in November posted the smallest drop since the start of the recession and the unemployment rate unexpectedly declined, a sign the labor market is finally healing as the economy recovers.
A Pittsburgh man testified of wishing he could have used pot to ease his dying mother's "excruciating pain." Parents of drug-addicted children said the last thing the state should do is join the 13 others that allow medical use [...]
Mark Sullivan, testifying at a Homeland Security Committee hearing, said a [...]
The 61-39 vote on a provision by Democrat Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Republican [...]
Geithner did not provide details, but said the government is close to the point at which "we can wind down this program" and end it.
"Nothing would make me" [...]
/ [...] From CNN:
A report released by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee blamed the Bush administration for failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader was cornered in Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountain region in December 2001. The report, released Sunday, said [...]
A Seattle police patrolman working by himself in the hours before dawn ended a massive and frantic manhunt for alleged cop killer Maurice Clemmons on Tuesday,
The officer shot and killed Clemmons, wanted for gunning down four Lakewood cops, as he fled [...]
From the Guardian:The polarising verdict in a Swiss referendum held yesterday [...]
Clemmons' appeal for clemency was granted in [...]
Fox News reports that several of the SEAL operators that captured a wanted terrorist are going to face court-martial proceedings for alleged detainee abuse. Sounds incredible? Want to rally in the streets and shout about how anti-military the Obama administration is? Not so fast. Let's take a moment to [...]
WOW! Talk about lobbyist influence. This is reprehensible. CALL THE SENATOR AND TELL HIM HOW YOU FEEL.
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From the Christian Science Monitor:
There’s a metaphor lurking in here somewhere. The same day GOP Chairman Michael Steele unveiled a new online home for the Republican Party, the website apparently crashed, leaving users unable to log on to GOP.com.
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I DO NOT THINK THAT THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARDED IN SUCH A PREMATURE AND OBVIOUSLY SLANTED WAY. TOO MANY PEOPLE WERE PASSED OVER, PEOPLE THAT STRUGGLE IN OFTEN FORGOTTEN PARTS OF THE GLOBE. That said, this is an interesting piece in the LA Times:
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From Bloomberg.com:
The Senate Finance Committee approved an $829 billion plan to overhaul U.S. health care, clearing the way for a full Senate debate over the broadest expansion of the government’s role in the medical system since the creation of Medicare in 1965.
Just one [...]
Here's a new feature of Comically Partisan: Hero of the Day! It's often painful to point out the idiocy displayed by some of our elected officials. So why not show some of their more enlightened moments?
From the Washington Post:
Former State Department counselor Philip Zelikow told the first congressional panel convened to address allegations of torture that the Bush administration officials engaged in a "collective failure" on detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists.
Fresh accounts today by Zelikow and retired FBI [...]
So much for the independent nation of Texas. Let's see: federal assistance for natural disasters, accepting bailout money, and now asking for a chunk of our federal stockpiles of anti-viral medication. I say let the Texans make their own.
The White House and the U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday said it will invest $8 billion from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and $1 billion a year for five years as a down payment to develop a passenger [...]
Yes sir, she's done it again. Nothing specific this time, but when you sit back and glance over her glowing ignorance, Michele Bachman has to be presented with her second Comedian of the Day Award here at Comically Partisan. I think Tom Horner, Republican analyst, puts [...] 
Voronin said he temporarily shut the border between the two countries as he prepares to reintroduce visa [...]
Roxana Saberi has been informed of the charges against her, her lawyer Abdolsamad Khorramshahi told the Associated Press, without providing any further details.
"Yes, Saberi has been charged with espionage," [...]
