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Big Government Career Politicians Afraid to Face Liberty Candidate

17 hours ago ago from ACGR\'s "News with Attitude"

Debra Medina 12/14/2009 The primary election is just around the corner and if the voting public is going to make an educated decision in this election ALL of the candidates need to be heard. It’s fair. It’s the right thing. It’s the American way, right? Not according to KERA, the public media station who is sponsoring the [...]

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Gays celebrate acceptance in Parker’s win

16 hours ago ago from TheBoxHouston - KBXX 97.9 Houston\'s Home for the Hip-Hop Community

He steadies himself with a cane these days, and his hands tremble from the effects of Parkinson's disease. But Tom Richards' maladies were minor inconveniences as he stood on the sidewalk Saturday night outside a popular bar in the heart of Houston's gay community. Minutes earlier, Annise Parker had just been elected as the first openly gay mayor of a major American city. “This is history,” said Richards, a 66-year-old Vietnam War ...

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Fair Elections Now Act: Reform Toolkit : Citizen Action of New York

15 hours ago ago from Citizen Action of New York

Now, more than ever, we need our lawmakers focused on addressing the critical issues we face: creating jobs, fixing the economy, expanding access to health care, dealing with climate change, and not spending their time fund raising for their next campaign. For years in our private money-driven election system, our elected leaders have spent far too much time at $1000 a plate fundraisers and taking money from wealthy industries they're ...

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What Should Have Obama Done?

14 hours ago ago from TalkLeft

Ezra Klein asks as if the answer has not already been given a number of times. I wrote about it below , in the context of when the health care reform battle was lost but let's repeat the point - President Obama should never have allowed Max Baucus to hijack his timetable for health care reform. Because once he did, the reconciliation card was taken off the table. This was important for two reasons. First, having the real possibility of ...

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Going Public - Stock Tips Investment Advice - Qwoter

12 hours ago ago from Stock Market College - Investment Advice & Stock Tips - Qwoter

Businessmen and business enthusiasts know that there are benefits entailed when you have a publicly held company. If you are researching about how to start a public company because you want your company to go public, you should initially discern the advantages your company can enjoy, which is the same reason why owners of privately held companies trade their ownerships in the public market. You first need to answer the question of why to go ...

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Colin Delany: Tea Partiers Organize Online, Emulating Obama and Progressive Blogs

9 hours ago ago from Huffington Post

Here's a sign that the Tea Party movement intends to be a force in politics for years to come -- some of its leaders are trying to build the foundation of a powerful online fundraising and organizing presence. Some hints about what they're up to: Developing an online fundraising apparatus modeled after Obama's small-donor operation. According to a Post article last week , "We're looking at the potential of raising small checks from a vast ...

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Public cooling to health-care reform as debate drags on, poll finds

2 hours ago ago from Washington Post - Politics

As the Senate struggles to meet a self-imposed, year-end deadline to complete work on legislation to overhaul the nation's health-care system, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds the public generally fearful that a revamped system would bring higher costs while worsening the quality of their care. This Story A bare majority of Americans still believe government action is needed to control runaway health-care ...

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Decade of politics leaves Americans still divided

18 hours ago ago from U.S. News

Decade of politics leaves Americans still divided WASHINGTON (AP) -- It wasn't so long ago that politicians had the luxury to bicker over how to spend a record budget surplus, Barack Obama was a state senator trying unsuccessfully to get a foot in the door of the U.S. Capitol, and George W. Bush went to sleep with visions of a dominant Republican majority dancing in his head. This first decade of the 21st century has taken us from hanging ...

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