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‘Good evening, live from the Berlin Wall’
I thought this would be an interesting tie in from Tulipe's earlier post. On the night of Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall — the stark, menacing symbol of the Cold War — came crashing down, suddenly and dramatically.Healthcare provision seeks to embrace prayer treatments
A little-noticed measure would put Christian Science healing sessions on the same footing as clinical medicine. Critics say it violates the separation of church and state. By Tom Hamburger and Kim Geiger Backed by some of the most powerful members of the Senate, a little-noticed provision in the healthcare overhaul bill would require insurers to consider covering Christian Science prayer treatments as medical expenses.Nixon enlisted secret service to spy on Ted Kennedy
Former US president Richard Nixon is pictured here in 1973. Ted Kennedy, who died earlier this week, so enraged Nixon that the disgraced president pushed in 1971 for snooping on the senator for proof he cheated on his wife, according to once-secret recordings.
Ted Kennedy and his first wife Joan are pictured here in 1971.
Tom Brokow's World Implodes
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/09/15/media-malpractice-tom-brokaws/ Media Malpractice: Tom Brokow's World Implodes By Jeffrey Lord on 9.15.09 @ 6:08AM Tom Brokaw. With the passing of Walter Cronkite, Mr. Brokaw is considered perhaps the new "dean" of journalism. As such the former NBC News anchor is periodically summoned forth to assess the current world, an occasion that presented itself recently on the venerable NBC Sunday newser Meet the Press.Death gives Massachusetts 1st open Senate seat in decades
Death gives Massachusetts 1st open Senate seat in decades By Alan Silverleib WASHINGTON (CNN) -- As Americans paused Wednesday to remember the extraordinary life of Sen. Edward Kennedy, political observers also took note of a rare development caused by his passing. For the first time in 25 years, the state of Massachusetts has an open Senate seat.What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls (Rasmussen
What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls Saturday, September 05, 2009 Email to a Friend ShareThis.Advertisement For most Americans, Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer. But this year it also means the return of Congress to Washington, D.C., after one of the most harrowing recesses even the most senior of the legislators can ever recall. A lot of voters are in a bad mood over the health care reform plan proposed by President Obama and congressional Democrats, and they’ve been letting their elected officials know about it.Closing the Books on GW Bush Economic Record
Thursday's annual Census Bureau report on income, poverty and access to health care-the Bureau's principal report card on the well-being of average Americans-closes the books on the economic record of George W. Bush. It's not a record many Republicans are likely to point to with pride.Franken Takes on Opponents at State Fair
I'm breaking my rule on youTube (because I can :raspberry: ) because the post discusses the video and there's no point in saying Franken calmed the crowd and not letting you judge the video yourselves. Blogger Dusty Trice posted yesterday about Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) talking healthcare reform opponents away from the deep end ledge at the Minnesota State Fair: Here's what Trice wrote about the experience: "About a dozen tea party activists had staked out Sen.Obama Czar Favors “Planetary Regime”
AIM Report | By Cliff Kincaid | August 17, 2009 Does Obama's science adviser advocate compulsory abortions and putting chemicals into the water supply to sexually sterilize human beings? Some well-known conservative bloggers and columnists have repeated this information, based on revelations on a website strangely called Zombietime. But an analysis by Accuracy in Media has determined that some of the most sensational charges against Dr.Books Are Treasures
"Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence." - Jan Morris
"To read is to empower. To empower is to write. To write is to influence. To Influence is to change.
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