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June 2008 - Posts
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The silence between Barack Obama and Bill Clinton has been broken, with the Democratic White House hopeful on Monday asking the former president to campaign Read More...
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A flurry of reports pegged to McCain's two-day swing through Ohio late last week suggested that Rob Portman might be in line for the VP spot. Portman accompanied Read More...
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Through photos and writings documenting poverty in New York City in the late 19th century, a Danish immigrant became a famous campaigner against slum housing. Read More...
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Already weakened by several court rulings and state referendums, affirmative action now confronts a new challenge to its reason for existing. Barack Obama's Read More...
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How well do you know what you need to know about polititcs today? Read More...
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Why aren't the two presidential candidates talking more about conservation in this era of high gas prices? Jody Powell, press secretary during Jimmy Carter's Read More...
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a drought emergency for his state. This isn't the first water emergency California has faced or the Read More...
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Because of the drought, efficiency and conservation efforts are ramping into high gear in California. Since the last drought emergency in 1992, the state's Read More...
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Congress is pulling in approval numbers even lower than President Bush's. Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving discusses what this means. Read More...
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Threats of an actor's strike continue to hang above the entertainment industry, threatening to cripple business that's still recovering from the writer's Read More...
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Hundreds of wildfires continue to burn around California. We speak to a resident who chose not to leave the hard-hit Big Sur area. Read More...
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In the early 1960s, California was hailed as a model for America's future. But youth unrest at Berkeley and rioting in Watts offered a very different reality. Read More...
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The Democratic presidential candidate blames his own "carelessness" for some criticism of him so far. Read More...
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The April raid on a polygamist ranch in Texas has created image problems for the Mormon community. A new survey found that almost a third of those surveyed Read More...
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The senator is facing his first primary opponent since he first took office 23 years ago, and his challenger has one issue in mind: The senator's 2003 Read More...
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What will the next president do about Iran? Iran has about approximately one-tenth of the world’s proven oil reserves, plus more than one-tenth of the Read More...
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The host and producers of Tell Me More are in the Big Apple for the first of three broadcasts from New York City. Rep. Yvette Clark, a Democrat from Brooklyn, Read More...
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President Bush on Monday signed legislation to pay for the war operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, hailing the $162 billion plan as a rare product of bipartisan Read More...
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The voters of Appalachia… A - Are hicks, B - Are hillbillies, C - Are rednecks, D - Don't appreciate where you're going with this. Read More...
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The same pragmatism that prompted him last month to forgo public financing of his campaign will surely lead him, if he becomes President, to recalibrate Read More...
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Artists who back Democrat Barack Obama depict the presidential candidate as a visionary, putting his face at the center of the campaign. Steve Seidman, Read More...
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The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is responsible for investigating complaints from government employees. But consistent criticism of how the agency does Read More...
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A U.S. Army report criticizes the planning and aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The Army's official history of the war says the biggest single blunder Read More...
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Retired Gen. Wesley Clark, an ex-Democratic presidential candidate now supporting Barack Obama, said Sunday John McCain’s military service does not automatically Read More...
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The psychologist who created the infamous Stanford prison guard experiment discusses what can make ordinary people do seemingly extraordinary evil things Read More...
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The deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians more than two years ago led to the high-profile court-martial of eight Marines accused of violating the rules of engagement. Read More...
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Many policy issues separate the presumptive presidential nominees. But what to do about the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, isn't one of them. Read More...
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As they look to the fall election, Democrats face a strategic decision that has bedeviled their party for 40 years: How hard should they fight in the South Read More...
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In Findlay, Ohio, a Rust Belt town of 40,000, false rumors about Barack Obama have built enough word-of-mouth credibility to harden into an alternative Read More...
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An Army report that will be released on Monday reveals that major mistakes were made in the post-war planning in Iraq. The report, which will be released Read More...
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By rights, a group that helped elect Bill Clinton president and counts Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton as one of its leaders should be hostile territory for Read More...
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The U.S Army will release a 700-page report on Monday that blasts the post-invasion phase of the Iraq war. The report says operations were badly mismanaged Read More...
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As gas prices continue to rise, lawmakers have been getting an earful about it from their constituents. Members of Congress are anxious to show their concern Read More...
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Drug cartels have made Juarez the deadliest city in Mexico. But they also operate just across the border, in El Paso, Texas — one of the safest cities Read More...
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John McCain met Sunday with evangelist Billy Graham and his son, Franklin, at the family's mountaintop retreat. Read More...
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John McCain squinted in the midday sunshine as he crossed the meandering Alabama River aboard the Gee's Bend ferry, smiling at a dozen elderly black women Read More...
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The landmark Supreme Court decision on gun rights has sparked a series of lawsuits by the National Rifle Association against handgun bans in five jurisdictions Read More...
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U.S. congressional leaders agreed late last year to President George W. Bush's funding request for a major escalation of covert operations against Iran Read More...
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Some political observers say that for Sen. Barack Obama to be elected president, he must first connect with and win over white, working-class voters. The Read More...
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The Latino vote could be pivotal in the fall election. Both presidential candidates showed up Saturday to speak at the annual meeting of the National Association Read More...
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As the gap grows between places that are prospering and those that are not, Democrats are strengthening their hold in major metropolitan areas, particularly Read More...
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But as justices finished their work last week, two overarching truths about the court remained unchanged: It is sharply divided ideologically on some of Read More...
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South Korea, which eats more beef than most others in Asia, is in the dizzying throes of a beef-triggered populist upheaval. Read More...
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Bloggers, citizen journalists and policymakers come together in New York for an annual forum to discuss the direction of politics on the Web. Read More...
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In the 2008 presidential race, the first feeling the full force of the changes wrought by the Web, the most attention-grabbing Internet attacks are coming Read More...
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This week the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional to impose the death penalty for the rape of a child. Richard Dieter, the executive director of the Read More...
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Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain courted Hispanic support on Saturday, and Obama accused his White House rival of backing away from comprehensive Read More...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama plans to visit the Middle East and Europe this summer, taking time off from campaigning in the United States Read More...
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The Supreme Court is in recess for the summer, but the justices ended this week with some major and very close decisions. NPR legal affairs correspondent Read More...
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A day after the Supreme Court issued a landmark gun ruling striking D.C.'s handgun ban, the National Rifle Association filed suit in five jurisdictions Read More...
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Alvin and Omelia Garner were among the first interracial couples to be legally married in North Carolina. Last weekend, they celebrated their 40th anniversary Read More...
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The Mattachine Society was one of the first gay rights groups in the country. On April 21, 1966 they staged a "Sip-In": they went into a tavern, declared Read More...
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Staffers in Sen. Ted Stevens' (R-AL) office have won first place in a fitness competition on Capitol Hill by walking over 6,000 miles. Over the past six Read More...
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John McCain has an unusual endorsement — from the Vietnamese jailer who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a Read More...
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Democrats Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton appeared together in Unity, N.H., for their first joint appearance since Clinton dropped out of the presidential Read More...
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Doctors who treat Medicare patients will likely see a 10.6 percent cut in payments starting Tuesday. The move follows the Senate's failure to pass a Medicare Read More...
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The Democratic convention in Denver is aiming to reuse, recycle, or compost at least 85 percent of all waste generated. Andrea Robinson, director of sustainability Read More...
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Republican John McCain on Friday told autoworkers in an economically depressed area of Ohio that he supports free-trade agreements many of them feel cost Read More...
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U.S. scientists meeting to discuss how to respond to a terrorist nuclear attack on American soil say our country is largely unprepared. The first step: Read More...
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Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and New York Sen. Hillary Clinton appear in Unity, N.H., to urge Democrats to unite for the general election. The appearance Read More...
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As Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton perform in a pageant of Democratic togetherness in Unity, N.H., Howard Fineman reports on the tensions behind Read More...
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a Washington DC handgun ban is unconstitutional. Chris Cox, legislative director for the National Rifle Association Read More...
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Lawmakers head out for the July 4 break with this week's Supreme Court decisions on their minds: Justices overturned the right of cities to ban handguns. Read More...
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Obombre: that's a Spanish-speaking male who supports Obama. Slate.com's Chris Wilson discusses how he comes up with these and other mashed up Obamaisms. Read More...
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Faced with a surge in the number of proposed solar power plants, the federal government has halted new solar projects on public land, pending environmental Read More...
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Amy Jo is a single mother of two toddlers. Each day is a struggle to provide th | |
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