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09.17.2009 9:00 pm

Child exploitation

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

AP Photo/Ron Edmonds

Anyone with human feelings couldn’t help but be heartsick at the sight of the now-notorious security video of Tuesday’s unprovoked taunting of and violent physical attack on a 17-year-old Belleville West High School student as he tried to take…

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08.24.2009 6:39 pm

Making news (up): Trent Franks with a the double play

U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., held a town-hall meeting in his district over the weekend in which he revealed himself to be a birther (is that still going on?) and said (without apparent disbelief from the crowd) that Republicans have pending health care reform legislation.

Wait. What?…

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02.24.2009 9:00 pm

Comparing medical treatments helps improve quality of care

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Rush Limbaugh: Just say know

Conservative commentators — Rush Limbaugh, Lou Dobbs and Glenn Beck among them — have been railing against a provision in the federal stimulus bill that funds research into how well medical treatments actually work and distributes…

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02.09.2009 9:00 pm

Stimulus: Obama the conciliator v. Rush the bloviator

GOP leader Rush Limbaugh

GOP leader Rush Limbaugh

It says something strange about congressional Republicans that while most of them profess not to like the economic stimulus package being debated in Congress, none of them has come up with a serious alternative.

In fact, the…

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11.07.2008 12:16 pm

How about some statesmanship for a change?

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

AP Photo/Alex Brandon

The nation is just past a historic and divisive election presidential campaign yet the predictable partisan chatter has fully blossomed.

The beltway jockeying between the parties quickly took root - more than two months before Inauguration Day. So who cares and what’s new? Birds still…

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10.17.2008 11:08 am

Dud HUD claim

I was intrigued by something one of our posters wrote during Wednesday night’s live blogging of the presidential debate.  Here’s what he said:

“I don’t like either of their positions on immigration. I understand HUD is saying that somewhere between 2.3M…

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