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Getting enough sleep? They aren't in West Virginia
ATLANTA – Sleepless in Seattle? Hardly. West Virginia is where people are really staying awake, according to the first government study to monitor state-by-state differences in sleeplessness.
Do You Live in a Healthy or an Unhealthy State?
If you want to be healthy, live in Vermont—or at least act like you do. It is the healthiest state in the country, according to a new report from the nonprofit United Health Foundation.
The annual ranking looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths.
My Crazy Weekend
I wish I had pictures to share but I’ll get to that later. So Friday afternoon, I finally finished my paper for my politics class but I was moving so slow that time was catching up to me and everything I wanted to do was just not going to happen. The whole, let's wax my eyebrows and get lunch-was not going to happen.Turkey, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, all know how to deal with Muslim fanatics in the Military
Analyzing Major Nidal Hassan Melik Kaylan, Man under excess stress or a murderous jihadi? Some commentators place Major Nidal Hassan's outrage at Fort Hood in the continuum of nonreligious psychotic mass killings like those at Columbine and Virginia Tech. Others liken it to Islamist terror outrages such as suicide and car bombings.Clinton trounces Obama in West Virginia
By DAVID ESPO and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writers 1 minute ago
Hillary Rodham Clinton coasted to a large but largely symbolic victory in working-class West Virginia on Tuesday, handing Barack Obama one of the worst defeats of the campaign yet scarcely slowing his march toward the Democratic presidential nomination.
"The White House is won in the swing states. And I am winning the swing states," Clinton told cheering supporters at a victory rally.
Gay Rights Marchers Divided on Obama
WASHINGTON – Thousands of gay and lesbian activists marched Sunday from the White House to the Capitol, demanding that President Barack Obama keep his promises to allow gays to serve openly in the military and work to end discrimination against gays. Rainbow flags and homemade signs dotted the crowds filling Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House as people chanted "Hey, Obama, let mama marry mama" and "We're out, we're proud, we won't back down." Many children were also among the protesters.Franken's 1st Amendment Targets Govt Contractors
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In one of the most public tests of his political skills since taking office in July, Sen. Al Franken pushed through an amendment Tuesday that would withhold defense contracts from companies like Halliburton if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.Where to Find the Fattest Paychecks
Census Bureau reports that Maryland had the highest median income level in 2008, at $70,545, while Mississippi ranked very last with $37,790. Maryland is the nation's top-earning state for the third year in a row, with a median household income of $70,545 in 2008, according to a U.S. Census Bureau report released Monday.Obama and the CIA: Making the Terrorists' Day
Obama and the CIA: Making the Terrorists' Day By Peter Ferrara on 9.2.09 @ 6:08AM President Obama has decided that the CIA is a greater threat to America than Al Qaeda and Islamic terrorism. If that decision turns out to be wrong, with thousands of Americans dying in another terrorist attack, President Obama and the Democrat Party will end up paying a grievous political price, which would be well deserved. As former Vice-President Dick Cheney said on Fox News Sunday this past week, We had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from Al Qaeda.Government to have control over your computer?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html August 28, 2009 12:34 AM PDT Bill would give president emergency control of Internet by Declan McCullagh Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet. They're not much happier about a revised version that aides to Sen.
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