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February 2007 - Posts
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House Democratic leaders are developing an anti-war proposal that wouldn't cut off money for U.S. troops in Iraq but would require President Bush to acknowledge Read More...
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The US Federal Election Commission's ruling on Wednesday on whether White House hopefuls can raise private money without prejudicing their access to federal Read More...
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Sen. John McCain of Arizona says he will officially enter the race for president with an announcement next month. How does McCain's candidacy stack up Read More...
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U.S. Rep. Chris Shays was one of the few moderate Republicans to survive a body blow by Democrats in November, but he may soon face a check from retired Read More...
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New Mexico's outgoing U.S. attorney believes he was forced out of his job for political reasons after refusing pressure from two congressmen to push an Read More...
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Feb. 28: Vice President Cheney and the Bush administration learn the hard way that its intelligence now holds little sway on the world stage. “Countdown” Read More...
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Republican Sen. John McCain will officially enter the presidential race with a formal announcement in early April. The Arizona senator disclosed the timing Read More...
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Today the stock market rebounded slightly after Tuesday's drop of over 400 points. Most analysts said the collapse was triggered by a plunge in Chinese Read More...
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Feb. 28: The world champion Miami Heat visited The White House yesterday and when President Bush tried to dribble a basketball, it fell dead on the floor. Read More...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama wants to change the government's formula for giving states money for homeland security, with the early voting Read More...
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An event steeped in civil rights symbolism offers rivals Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama an opportunity to show unity with the black community Read More...
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Foes of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on gays hope for better results in their efforts to repeal it in the new Democratic-run Congress Read More...
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Bush is about to embark on a grand tour of Latin America, hoping to finally score the sort of foreign-policy victory that's eluded him elsewhere. No matter Read More...
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Landowners frustrated by the Endangered Species Act might get a carrot instead of the stick under a proposed revision of the law that would offer them Read More...
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Feb. 28: Tom Ridge talks to MSNBC-TV’s Norah O’Donnell about the Republican race for president, where former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has expanded Read More...
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"It's just so early" has become a pretty common refrain in response to the fast start of the 2008 presidential campaign. But it's really not that early Read More...
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates downsized a planned compound for war-crimes trials, telling Congress he thought the Pentagon plan for a $100 million facility Read More...
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Following criticism by a conservative group of Al Gore's large home energy consumption, a Gore spokeswoman defended the former vice president's lifestyle, Read More...
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It is doubtful stricter sanctions on Tehran will work, especially against a country that sits on the world’s second largest proved oil reserves and is Read More...
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Former Secretaries of State James A. Baker III and Warren Christopher will head a private, bipartisan panel to study a lingering and gnawing national question: Read More...
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The Supreme Court wrestled Wednesday with the question of whether taxpayers have the right to challenge the White House's aggressive promotion of federal Read More...
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Sen. Barack Obama will speak this weekend on the anniversary of the day in 1965 when civil rights marchers were beaten in Selma, Ala. He talks about the Read More...
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Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson is proposing a rule that is common on kindergarten playgrounds but doesn't usually work in politics - Read More...
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A Republican Party campaign committee that received $20,000 in 2003 from a man now accused of helping terrorists has donated the money to a foundation Read More...
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Former Vice President Al Gore said the rapid expansion of information flow on the Internet could change the future of campaign finance, but that hunger Read More...
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The controversial idea that counseling and therapy can overcome homosexual tendencies is at the heart of what's called the "ex-gay movement." Proponents Read More...
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A fight over using public money for a Catholic university is now before The Missouri Supreme Court. The case involves Saint Louis University, which wants Read More...
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Weeks before last fall's election, Jonathan Paton shipped off to Iraq, to serve in an Army Intelligence Unit. He was re-elected as an Arizona state representative Read More...
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The Senate Judiciary Committee discusses how to sell the idea of a mass legalization to a skeptical American public, many of whom oppose "amnesty." The Read More...
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Most, if not all, of the Democrats in the Senate want the war in Iraq to be over. Some want U.S. troops to be withdrawn immediately, if not yesterday. Read More...
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The online gotcha gang is circulating this report on the amount of energy consumed by the Gore compound in Tennessee. The source of the report and the Read More...
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Democrat John Edwards said Tuesday that honesty and openness were essential qualities for a president, and that he was proud to acknowledge his 2002 vote Read More...
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Who was the mystery official on Vice President *** Cheney’s plane? There were plenty of clues about his identity if you read a transcript of his remarks Read More...
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When Senate Democrats move next month to narrow President Bush's authority to wage war in Iraq, at least one of their own won't be there to help. The same Read More...
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National Democrats on Tuesday urged Republican Party chairman Mel Martinez to stop the independent College Republicans from holding "Catch an Illegal Immigrant" Read More...
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A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned bitterly divisive Read More...
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to examine a state crime lab administrator in Boston. The administrator is accused of mishandling DNA Read More...
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West Virginia's residents are consistently ranked among the most overweight in the country. So the state government has commissioned Weight Watchers to Read More...
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The Supreme Court hears arguments about whether people can sue the government for funding faith-based social programs. Opponents say the Bush administration's Read More...
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One week into their deliberations, jurors in the CIA leak trial have a question for the judge. [!] Read More...
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Ex-Sen. John Edwards is one of several Democratic candidates for president apparently vying to be Apologizer in Chief for their 2002 vote on the Iraq war. Read More...
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Richard M. Daley was re-elected as mayor of Chicago Tuesday, putting him in position to pass his legendary father as the city's longest-serving mayor. Read More...
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A new Washington Post-ABC poll shows increased support among black voters for Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois. It could be significant as Obama vies with Read More...
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The opening stages of the campaign for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination have produced a noticeable shift in sentiment among African American Read More...
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New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has become the first 2008 presidential candidate to accept an invitation to American Indians' "Prez on the Rez" debate Read More...
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He’s been through the first minor skirmish of the ’08 wars. Does Obama’s team have the dirt-diggers, the counterpunchers and the wise guys he’ll need to Read More...
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A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Bush administration can deny funding to nonprofit AIDS groups that don’t publicly disavow prostitution and Read More...
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Spurred by the families of Sept. 11 victims, Senate leaders tentatively agreed Tuesday to take up a measure that would tighten the nation's security and Read More...
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Republican Mitt Romney titled his book on how he saved the scandal-ridden 2002 Olympics "Turnaround." Now, as he runs for president, he's trying to fight Read More...
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Mayor Richard M. Daley will be on course to eclipse his legendary father and become the city's longest-serving mayor if voters Tuesday give him a sixth Read More...
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An internal document shows Mitt Romney's presidential campaign is concerned about his vulnerability to charges of flip-flopping, while suggesting he can Read More...
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Feb. 27: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and FBI Director Robert Mueller say they have expanded the number of unsolved cases of racially motivated killings Read More...
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An uncertain primary schedule and a lack of incumbents might mean history won't be a reliable prediction tool in the 2008 White House race. By Charlie Read More...
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Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani addressed his Democratic past on Monday and offered one reason for his political conversion - taxes. Read More...
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Tonight on "Countdown," Keith Olbermann delivers a special comment on Secretary of State Condi Rice's comparison of Saddam to Hitler. Read More...
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In the late 1990s, the Food and Drug Administration tried to regulate tobacco. But the Supreme Court decided it wasn't in the agency's charter. Now, some Read More...
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Anyone vaguely familiar with Nixon’s long path to the presidency who was watching the Oscars had to be thinking that history was aligning Gore’s fate with Read More...
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Governors are facing up to some harsh realities: Their states' school children aren't ready for the 21st century, their workers aren't trained for the Read More...
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Electrical problems. Unexpected stops. And a suicide bomber's strike. Inside Cheney's troubled Asia trip. Read More...
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In the civil war over homosexuality in organized religion, the Episcopal Church faces division over its acceptance of gay bishops and same-sex couples. Read More...
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Democrats' ambitious plans to limit President Bush's war authority and force a change of course in Iraq are faltering amid party divisions over how quickly Read More...
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Eleven jurors return to federal court Tuesday to begin the fifth day of deliberations in the perjury trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Read More...
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Politicians in several states are debating whether to make the HPV vaccine free, or mandatory, for young girls. HPV, or human papillomavirus, has been Read More...
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Excited delirium is a controversial diagnosis increasingly used by medical examiners to explain why people die suddenly in police custody. Taser International Read More...
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Feb. 27: The Taliban claims responsibility for a suicide bombing at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, saying Vice President *** Cheney, who was staying Read More...
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Rev. Al Sharpton recently discovered that some of his ancestors were owned by relatives of Sen. Strom Thurmond. Like Sharpton, other black Americans have | |
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