If McCain wants to talk associates, how about Phil Gramm and his role in the financial crisis? "There's no question that we have to change the subject here," a senior Republican operative told The Post's Michael D. Shear in a story published Saturday.

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]]> The state's voters, long suffering from a poor economy and newly battered by the turmoil in the financial, credit and housing markets, give Obama stronger marks on handling the economy, creating jobs and dealing with tax policy.
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]]> President Bush may be part of the reason why Obama’s making gains. Only 24 percent of those polled approve of Bush’s job as president, an all-time low for a CNN survey.

“Bush has now tied Richard Nixon’s worst rating ever, taken in a poll...
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]]> Every time a tropical forest is burned and cleared, it affects every one of us and pollutes the air that we breathe. And if the earth can't breathe, none of us can. The burning and clearing of tropical forests pours at least 20 percent of climate change..
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]]> In case you missed the news, the $700B bailout included tax credits for renewable energy industries. So what are the greenest bits of the bill and what does it mean for renewable energy companies? Also, where is all that glorious cash coming from?
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]]> Without the Soviet Union as a check on neoconservative ambition, the neoconservatives launched America on an unrealistic path of world hegemony.Americans will never know what happened to them,for they have Big Brother’s press...
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]]> The FBI and Department of Homeland Security today issued an analytical "note" to U.S. law-enforcement officials cautioning that al-Qaida terrorists have in the past expressed interest in attacking public buildings using a dozen suicide bombers each
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]]> Psst! George Bush has a secret! [available in podcast as well] While you Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the President has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA: the PM of Canada and the President of Mexico
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]]> The following is an excerpt from Naomi Wolfe's book "Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries"
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]]> Al Palmer has a slim build, an easy smile, and a near-insatiable hunger for human flesh.
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]]> A year ago, few people had heard of the term "credit crunch", but the phrase has now entered dictionaries.
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]]> Pay attention at 5 minutes 30 seconds:
Couric: "If a 15-year-old who is raped by her father, you believe it should be illegal for her to get an abortion. Why?"
Palin: "I am pro-life and I am not appologetic about my position there..."
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]]> Their transport may be rustic, their manners less than polished, but much has been invested in the orang-utans of Nyaru Menteng. It takes £12,000 and eight years to raise these Indonesian orphans to the stage where they can be reintroduced to the wild, to
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]]> Businesses must change their attitude to environmental issues if the tide of ecological decline is to be halted.
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]]> Seven employees of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's administration have agreed to give statements in the state Legislature's investigation into her firing of the state's public safety commissioner, the attorney general and lawmakers involved in the probe said
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]]> Bill Maher has made a career out of touching third-rail topics and pissing off large swaths of the population. In his new film, the caustic comedian outdoes himself by going full-bore after organized religion
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]]> A quarter of the world's mammals are threatened with extinction, an international survey showed on Monday, and the destruction of habitats and hunting are the major causes.
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]]> Ground-level ozone pollution is contributing to hundreds of deaths a year in the UK - and climate change could help make the situation worse, a report from the Royal Society warned today.
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]]> You may already know how food manufacture contributes to global warming—it's had its fair share of coverage lately, though the actual numbers have varied. In 2007, climate change experts pegged agriculture as producing 10 to 12 percent of global emissions
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]]> The bailout is focused on the wrong end of the problem. The bailout should be focused on the origin of the problem, the defaulting homeowners. Stopping the problem at it's origin would restore the value of mortgage based derivatives and end the crisis
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]]> Here's a safe bet for uncertain times: A lot of banks won't survive the next year of upheaval despite the U.S. government's $700 billion rescue plan to restore order to the financial industry
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]]> Dr Bill Deagle spoke to Kerry at Project Camelot early this morning to report a long night of visions and received information about imminent events which left him shaken to the core.Folks you owe it to yourself to listen.
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]]> Europeans are worried about their savings and the solidity of their financial institutions as the EU nations hurry to shore up their economies. Asia is watching the value of stocks fall precipitously as well.
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]]> Some bacteria may help protect against the development of a type of esophageal cancer, known as adenocarcinoma, according to a new review of the medical literature.
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]]> Free prescription drug samples distributed to children may be unsafe, according to a study by physicians from Cambridge Health Alliance and Hasbro Children's Hospital.
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]]> Jim Cramer, the emotional TV economist, just told consumers to pull our money out of stocks NOW, if they are not financially stable for the next 5 years!!
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]]> Brad Sherman's testimony on the House floor about treasonous threats made to congress members to create a panic atmosphere that would save bush's buddies without questioning the bailout.
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]]> According to numerous Congressional testimonies, the stark panic atmosphere which has gripped the nation was intentionally created in order to 'fast-track' a financial bailout bill, and further stating that members were threatened with Martial Law in US.
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]]> Gov. Sarah Palin, who rose to political prominence with a mantra of "open and transparent government," is being accused of obstructing state public records laws. "The issue here is Palin obeying the law," said McCloed, an Alaskan Republican.
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]]> The International Union for the Conservation of Nature, based in Switzerland, has just reported that the earth faces the total extinction of one in every four mammals, and that the population is rapidly declining in one out of every two species.
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]]> John McCain and Sarah Palin are definitely bringing "change" to American politics. Sadly, it's by campaigning entirely on bald-faced lies.

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]]> A new national poll suggests Barack Obama is widening his lead over John McCain in the race for the White House.
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]]> As the guys at Lehmans were holding out the begging bowl,for public funds,they were giving fat pay offs,to the execs,who had steered the company's luxury liner onto the rocks of failure.How is it,that the people aren't much angrier ?
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]]> A debate distillation for Palin skeptics on the go...
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]]> 'Children of the Amazon', a new documentary by Denise Zmekhol, looks at the cultural transformation of the Surui and Negarote tribes following the development and improvement of a highway that penetrates deep into the Amazon rainforest of western Brazil.
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]]> The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is an award that is presented annually, usually on December 9, to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today"
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]]> Sarah Palin is the only hope for saving a ticket headed by a warrior who is out of juice and out of ideas. It seems she knows this only too well.
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]]> When you think of someone who might have a mental illness, a child would be the last person who would come to mind. Unfortunately, that's not the case.
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]]> The guy mentioned in this article runs the post across the line in Arizona my dear old friend. He said this guy has been in his place. And they're right. A convenience store is not the same as a trading post and will never replace it.

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]]> Stricken with terminal cancer and brought low by life, Ken Marshall remains determined to exercise his right to have a say in the future of his country."From the day you turn 18 to the day you die, it's your obligation to vote," the 75-year-old says
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