Fools on the Hill: A scorecard.
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]]> In Ohio, and across the country, homeowners are battling cities and developers conspiring to seize their property.
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]]> The year in Review 2009-from the special crew at JibJab!
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]]> When President Obama spoke out on the terrorism scare in Detroit, Michigan, he entered a debate that had already begun over his administration's new approach to combating terrorism.
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]]> Six Mexican forensics experts have been suspended for allegedly altering the crime scene after the killing of top drugs cartel boss Arturo Beltran Leyva.

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]]> According to a statement by "Palin family spokesperson" Meghan Stapleton which was published in the Juneau Empire, the Palin family says it did respond to the threats of sexual violence allegedly made against the Palin daughters. Stapleton says that the
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]]> This corruption of our legal system, if history is any guide, will not be reserved by the state for suspected terrorists, or even Muslim Americans. In the coming turmoil and economic collapse, it will be used to silence all who are branded as "subversive"
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]]> There are no "blessed wars". Yet virtually all evangelical, conservative and many mainstream church leaders were active supporters of the Bush wars. Why is it so? Surely it is time that our "leaders" were held accountable for this unholy slaughter?
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]]> As the president's job performance numbers and ratings on his handling of virtually every domestic issue have fallen below 50 percent, the Democratic base has become demoralized, and Independents have gone from his source of strength to his Achilles Heel
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]]> Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin’s Facebook allegation that the Democrats’ health-care overhaul would include “death panels” to decide whether seniors and disabled people were worthy of care was named “Lie of the Year” by fact-checkers atPolitifact.com
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]]> How important to you is it that the people who are responsible for the destruction of Iraq and the slaughtering of over 1 million Iraqis be brought to justice?
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]]> Beginning in 2006, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) took legal action against the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) illegal approval of Monsanto's genetically engineered (GE) Roundup Ready alfalfa. The federal courts agreed and banned GE alfalfa unt
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]]> We've all heard the phrase, "The system worked." It's usually uttered after some contentious, tumultuous, needlessly complicated process meets with a satisfactory conclusion. The suitable result, in these cases, came not from a radical departure....
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]]> As with David, I'd like to take a moment away from the holiday to highlight a story which I don't want buried.

The NYTimes reported yesterday that Acorn broke no laws. None. In the last five years.

But the Democratic Congress still threw them...
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]]> A member of the Brothertown Indian Nation has written to the head of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs supporting his efforts to fix the federal recognition process and condemning the “structural violence” of federal Indian policies...
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]]> As we begin our deployment of 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, this Christmas Eve will also mark the 3,000th day of the war in Afghanistan and the 30th anniversary of the initial Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. RETHINK AFGHANISTAN!!!
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]]> An unusual day-before-Christmas vote in the Senate to enact health care legislation will end what President Obama described Wednesday as "a grueling process" — and will set the stage for another.

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]]> Since Robert C. Byrd arrived in the Senate in 1959, the senior senator from West Virginia has cast more than 18,500 votes
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]]> 'Moderation' has come to mean weighing the interests of campaign contributors -- Big Pharma vs. the insurance companies -- with little concern for the American people. ** Read and learn of midnight deals that forget about you, but not money.
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]]> The Obama administration has taken a definitive step to settle a long-running trust mismanagement class action lawsuit involving hundreds of thousands of Native Americans.For the settlement to become final, Congress must pass legislation to approve it, an
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]]> Support the Creation of a Consumer Financial Protection Agency
Dear Senator
I am asking you to support the Restoring American Financial Stability Act of 2009 which would create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency. It is time for Congress to act ...
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]]> Buried in the billions of dollars of spending on new weapons and other items in the 2010 defense appropriations bill is a little-noticed expression of regret over how the U.S. had in the past used its power.

The bill contains an “apology to Native...
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]]> A Brooklyn actor who played wiseguy Donald (Donny K) Cafranza on "The Sopranos" was pinched Monday for a real-life crime - stealing from the government


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]]> Gallup poll ratings affect the U.S. Congress and their reactions to President Barack Obama's ability to negotiate and pass legislation. Be sure not to miss the included "10 Backlash Moments" and "The Five Faces of Barack Obama".
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]]> The second vote was set for early Tuesday morning as exhausted but happy Democratic leaders pushed the landmark legislation toward passage before Christmas.
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]]> Contrary to popular belief, the U.S. actually has 189,000 personnel on the ground in Afghanistan right now -- and that number is quickly rising...BRING THEM HOME NOW, AND DON"T SEND ANY MORE!..There has been too much needless death and destruction already
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]]> It's the first of three major hurdles in the Senate en route to an anticipated vote by Christmas.
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]]> With California teetering perpetually on the edge of financial ruin, marijuana activists have seized the moment, claiming that legalizing and taxing pot could help bail out the cash-strapped Golden State.
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]]> What is the justification for waging an illegal war on a country of 28 million people? What justifies Obama's military surge? Where is Osama Bin Laden? To this date there is no proof that Al Qaeda was behind the 9/11 attacks! WHY ARE WE THERE?
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]]> Big U.S. banks have lots of reasons for holiday cheer as they count their bonuses and block reform. In this guest essay, Michael Winship marvels at the arrogance of New York’s big banks and the ineptitude of Washington’s political process...R.I.P. Santa?
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]]> President Barack Obama arose to power from virtually out of nowhere, has no 'documented' researchable past, and now sits in America's highest publlic office signing Healthcare and Spending Bill debacles! Continue to investigate this for yourselves.
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]]> Five million-member progressive group urges Democrats to block legislation
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]]> The Obama Administration spent Thursday trying to tamp down an insurrection against the Healthcare Reform overhaul. Angry Liberals are saying that Obama was much too quick in compromising their healthcare priorities within the overhaul package.
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]]> If Israel's government, its media and perhaps most of its people want to live inside a bubble of unreality, that's their business. When the US government joins Israel inside its bubble of unreality, if you are an American, then it's your business!
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]]> He tells ABC News about his reaction to deciding to send more troops to Afghanistan and greeting troops' caskets in Dover, Delaware. It 'hits you like a ton of bricks' to meet survivors, he says.
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]]> Without a 'public option' to compete with private insurers, the government would instead police the industry. But do regulators have enough authority to make a difference?
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]]> Many people are starting to believe that President Obama is getting the United States ever more deeper immersed into a quagmire. Obama seems to be contributing to the world's confusion.
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]]> Americans are in a war that pits the politically correct against Christmas carolers, some say. They say it's a battle that plays out in the halls of Congress, retail stores and public schools across the country, and it's one that's been raging for years.
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]]> Right now a handful of companies control most the food we eat. Decades of bad farm policy, unchecked market consolidation and undue corporate influence over science have left agribusiness giants with unprecedented power over our food system. Monsanto is
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]]> The Oklahoma Republcan and strident climate change denier made himself available to the thousands of reporters gathered at the Bella Center in an attempt to "make sure that nobody is laboring under the misconception that the US Senate is going to do somet
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]]> I suggest everyone, who lives in the United States, watch this video or read the words. If you do not live in the USA please pass it to a friend who does. We may be forced to buy a product that many may not be able to afford.
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]]> Liberals are turning against President Obama with an energy usually reserved for Fox News viewers wearing the tri-corner hats, and waving those yellow "Don't Tread on Me" flags. This is fast becoming an ugly situation!
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]]> Widening his campaign of execution horror by drone missile attacks in Pakistan, our Nobel 'Peace' Prize winner Obama seems far from abandoning faith in superior firepower, death and destruction from above. Kissinger only dreamed of what Obama is doing!
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]]> US President Barack Obama has met Democratic senators at the White House for talks aimed at getting healthcare reform passed by the end of the year.
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]]> President Obama has directed the federal government to buy a nearly empty state prison in rural Illinois to house up to 100 detainees held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, officials said late Monday.

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]]> There are endless rumored conspiracy theories in regard to the George Soros and Barack Obama relationship, but as of June 2009 there seems to have been missed a dire turn for the worst in the world of finance and politics!
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]]> The big banks are spending hundreds of millions of dollars—from the billions they got in taxpayer-funded bailouts—on lobbyists and public relations firms to oppose real consumer protections. Your senators need to hear from you about the need for reform to
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