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Election Results Suggest Religious Right Remains Force To Contend With, Says Americans United
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: Religious Right, republicans, government, ethics, elections, candidates )

Tierney
- 3 days ago - au.org
Election results in Virginia, New Jersey, New York and Maine serve as a reminder that the Religious Right remains an influential force in political life, according to Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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American Indian Leaders Question Delays On Tax Nominee
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: tax division, americian Indian, candidates, senate )

Lone
- 4 days ago - mainjustice.com
Democrats and American Indian leaders are pushing the Senate to move on the nomination of Mary L. Smith to head the Justice Department's Tax Division, despite lingering questions about her qualifications
4 comments
Virginia, New Jersey Races May Test Obama Influence
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: politics, republicans, democrats, elections, government, obama, candidates, americans, usa )

Cal
- 4 days ago - reuters.com
Republicans seeking a comeback from recent losses may pick up the governor's seats in Virginia and New Jersey on Tuesday in campaigns that tested the limits of President Barack Obama's influence
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Court Documents Tie Young to Alaska Corruption
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: GOOD NEWS! .abuse, americans, bush, bushadministration, candidates, cheney, congress, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, economy, elections, ethics, government, lies, media, news, politics, republicans, terrorism, usa, war )

Wolfweeps
- 13 days ago - newsminer.com
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Documents filed in federal court directly link U.S. Rep. Don Young to a wide-ranging investigation of corruption in Alaska for the first time. The filing late Wednesday alleges Young, a 19-term Republican, illegally received gifts
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Is There Life After Obama? - The Reality of Today
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: obama, politics, mindless people, god, terrorism, propaganda, lies, media, government, crime, cover-up, corruption, candidates, abuse, americans, bush, cheney, clinton, congress, constitution, economy, freedoms, Govtfearmongering, military, SupremeCourt )

David
- 61 days ago - informationclearinghouse.info
Human beings, by and large, like to be led. They like their leaders to inspire their confidence - even when doing so takes the form of the most fantastically shallow dress-up kind of blowhard buffonery, à la George W. Bush. They don't want to think at all
35 comments
"We Hate the United States": Secessionists Rally at TX Capitol + Video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: right wing nuts, left wing nuts, cecessionist nuts, government, candidates, politics, news, ethics )

David
- 66 days ago - alternet.org
The secession leaders were a little peeved that they couldn't get their good friends in the Texas GOP to show up. After all, Fox News is paying attention: Miller was a guest on the Glenn Beck Program in June discussing the possibility of Texas seceding.
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Cheney for President In 2012? - Some Key GOPers Aren't Kidding
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: cheney, GOP, government, candidates, politics, congress, crime, ethics )

David
- 67 days ago - huffingtonpost.com
"The Republican Party today consists of people who are conservative, religious, white and predominantly male. "If those are the only people who participate and you don't have a lot of other very conservative candidates it is conceivable Cheney could win".
23 comments
Kennedy Death Puts Family Dynasty in Doubt
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: politics, Ted Kennedy, usa, government, democrats, elections, candidates, americans )

Cal
- 74 days ago - reuters.com
Senator Edward Kennedy's death marks the twilight of one of America's most fabled political families, with no heirs to the Kennedy name poised to emerge with the same mix of gravitas, ambition and celebrity.
1 comment
Funds for Homeless Programs Found After State Error
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, candidates, corruption, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, economy, elections, ethics, GoodNews, government, Govtfearmongering, healthcare, housing, lies, media, news, politics, propaganda, republicans, u.s., usa, war )

Wolfweeps
- 79 days ago - newsminer.com
FAIRBANKS -- Legislators revived $650,000 for homeless housing programs after the line item vanished in then-Gov. Sarah Palin's budget proposal.Her office apparently compressed the dollar amount with another pool of money, and no one caught the lapse until
17 comments
A Benjamin Franklin Reborn?
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, americans, candidates, congress, constitution, corruption, crime, dishonesty, elections, ethics, freedoms, GoodNews, government, Govtfearmongering, news, politics, u.s., usa )

Michael
- 81 days ago - wethepeopleof.org
A lawyer that is honest? That teaches Constitutional law? Does NOT have Diplomas on his office wall? Has the Constitution and Bill of Rights hanging on the wall? The only thing I did not see was the 10 Commandments (I guess that is ILLEGAL?)
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Sotomayor Says Obama Didn't Ask Abortion Views
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, candidates, judicial, Sotomayor, issues, lawmakers, politics )

Dee
- 115 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to disclose her views on abortion rights and said President Barack Obama never asked her before he chose her for the bench.
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Sotomayor Pushes Back On Charge Of Racial Bias-Video
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, ethics, politics, republicans, candidates, SupremeCourt )

Suzybell
- 115 days ago - kdka.com
Sonia Sotomayor pushed back vigorously Tuesday against Republican charges that she would bring bias and a liberal agenda to her seat as the first Hispanic woman on the Supreme Court, insisting repeatedly she would be impartial as GOP senators tried to un
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Toughest Grilling Still to Come for Sotomayor
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: government, politics, obama, candidates, usa )

Cal
- 116 days ago - usatoday.com
In her opening effort to blunt Republican criticism that her rulings would be slanted by her background or ethnic sympathies, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor pledged "fidelity to the law"
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Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, americans, bushadministration, candidates, cheney, constitution, corruption, cover-up, congress, crime, dishonesty, economy, elections, ethics, government, Govtfearmongering, lies, media, news, politics, propaganda, SupremeCourt, terrorism, u.s., u )

CA
- 117 days ago - nytimes.com
The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency's director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate...
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AP Source: Holder Considering Torture Probe
US Politics & Gov't  (tags: abuse, americans, bush, bushadministration, cheney, congress, constitution, corruption, cover-up, crime, dishonesty, candidates, democrats, economy, elections, ethics, freedoms, GoodNews, clinton, government, Govtfearmongering, iraq, lies, mccain, media )

Sue
- 118 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Eric Holder is considering whether to appoint a criminal prosecutor to investigate the Bush administration's interrogation practices, a controversial move that would run counter to President Barack Obama's wishes to leave the
13 comments
 
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