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Abortion and Public Option Holding Up Health Reform Deal (Washington, DC) -- The Senate opens its second week of debate on health care today after a rare weekend session. Democrats need every vote in their caucus to pass the bill, but several issues still stand in their way, including the controversial matter of abortion. The fight over abortion could make or break the health care reform bill. "...

Abortion and Public Option Holding Up Health Reform Deal (Washington, DC) -- The Senate opens its second week of debate on health care today after a rare weekend session. Democrats need every vote in their caucus to pass the bill, but several issues still stand in their way, including the controversial matter of abortion. The fight over abortion could make or break the health care reform bill. "...

[b]White House still lacks solid intel on bin Laden[/b] [i]Probably because he has been dead for a long time from kidney failure..... But be afraid and then it's okay to send more of our young men and women to be cannon fodder in Afghanistan. [/i] By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer – 1 hr 26 mins ago WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to ...

White House still lacks solid intel on bin Laden By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer Robert Burns, Ap National Security Writer 10 mins ago WASHINGTON – Osama bin Laden may be slipping back and forth from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Or the U.S. might not have a clue, more than eight years after the al-Qaida leader masterminded the terrorist attacks on America. Given a chance Sunday to clear ...

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), his near-constant media attention notwithstanding, doesn't seem to be having any fun. Yesterday, the senator was all worked up about Medicare cost-savings, claiming not to know what "the deal is." Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) rose to explain it to him, and McCain didn't take it especially well. Note in the video that McCain is incensed by all the lobbyists in the halls of...

Pharma/White House deal to be questioned in Senate Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has promised to allow a vote on re-importing prescription drugs from Canada as an amendment to the health care reform bill, Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) told reporters on Saturday. Dorgan, one of two lead sponsors on the measure, said that he was pushing for a vote on the amendment over the weekend but ...

For the better part of the year, "centrist" lawmakers have said their highest priority in the health care reform debate is cost savings. For all the talk about the public option, abortion, and coverage for immigrants, the principal concern for many was fiscal responsibility. That's not unreasonable -- costs are spiraling, and a serious long-term threat looms. Paul Krugman explains today that this...

Is President Obama’s Surge A Trap? By Cynthia McKinney http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24 112.htm December 03, 2009 "Global Research" December 2, 2009 -- : President Obama announced both his decision to add 30,000 U.S. troops to the mire in Afghanistan and his desire to see other countries and N.A.T.O. match his surge. Thanks to U.S. taxpayers, mercenaries will continue to be a ...

wbmw, you have taken me from curiosity to laughter. Where did this come from? .. [i]I'm not angry at you or Steph.[/i].. whoever suggested you were? Nowhere, i see any reason for even thinking anger, so [u]where did that come from?[/u] So that's one. To your .. [i]I tried to communicate one thing, and Steph heard (and debated) quite a different thing.[/i] What? There was this one of yours .. [i]...

UNIVERSAL EXPRESS CASE PROFILE - December 1, 2009 Universal Express (USXP) operated as a pristine and exemplary small public company for 17 years. It was ignominiously silenced by some rogue government officials in days. For the good of our future economic trading system and other vulnerable United States public companies the following facts need to be exposed and understood. We ask the ...