As a Briton on Newsvine, the first uncomfortable thing I noticed when I joined two years ago was the way people are labelled immediately with political monikers. Personally, I have never joined a political party.
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First, he, a black man, was elected president. That started the penises of millions of white Americans shrinking, causing them to lose those feelings of being superior to millions of blacks.
Alistair Darling pledged today that the government would step up its fight for a new international tax on banking despite an initially frosty response to the plan from Washington.
In Mississippi, where Dr. David Allen worked as a heart surgeon, authorities seized his home and ranch this year after finding $800 worth of marijuana and $1,000 in hashish.
A new significant moment for the American history books has just occurred: the new Health Care Bill has been passed by Congress, notable for the fact that only one Republican voted for it, all the others blithely ignoring what their voters and constituents might have wanted.
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WASHINGTON — Handing President Obama a hard-fought victory, the House narrowly approved a sweeping overhaul of the nation's health care system on Saturday night, advancing legislation that Democrats said could stand as their defining social policy achievement.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Friday began signing bills in the just-passed five-bill water package. He is expected to sign the centerpiece, an $11.14 billion general obligation bond scheduled to go before voters on Nov. 2, 2010, early next week.
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
As a former beat cop, Ron Huberman, the new chief of public schools in Chicago, learned long ago that violence among young urban people could not be solved simply by hauling ever larger numbers of children off to jail.
The moment of truth for health care is at hand, and the distortion that perhaps gets the most traction is this:
We Must Change has not initiated any private discussions.