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submitted by AB 175 weeks 3 hours 47 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has passed a $700 billion bailout for the financial industry aimed at preventing the economy from plunging into a recession. Democrats and Republicans teamed to approve the bill after sweetening it with tax breaks. The House plans to vote on it...(more)
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submitted by AB 179 weeks 1 day 21 hours 15 minutes ago
Campbell Brown finally puts the heat on a McCain operative to explain why Sarah Palin is qualified to be commander in chief -- and the best McCain's staff can do is mumble about Obama and MASSIVELY misstate -- to the point of it being an outright...(more)
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submitted by AB 176 weeks 15 hours 22 minutes ago
"You can be whoever you want to be," says an inviting Phil Tuchman. "You can be a beggar or a millionaire. A mom or a husband. Whatever. You decide!"
I volunteer in political campaigns now and then. After a series of outings for Obama and a first...(more)
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submitted by AB 225 weeks 5 days 19 hours 35 minutes ago
OSLO, Norway -- Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change have won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures needed to counteract it.
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submitted by AB 176 weeks 15 hours 16 minutes ago
Salon asked Margriet Oostveen for proof that she had ghost-written letters to the editor for the McCain campaign. Here are the guidelines, talking points, and sample letters she was given.
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submitted by AB 175 weeks 3 days 14 hours 9 minutes ago
While John McCain and his aides have railed against the "liberal mainstream media" in recent weeks, some of the most searing attacks against the Republican presidential nominee have come from conservative intellectuals.
McCain's surprise vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and his sharp reactions to the...(more)
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submitted by AB 177 weeks 3 days 13 hours ago
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan offered a woeful outlook of America's economic situation on Sunday, saying the crisis with the country's financial institutions was as dire as he had ever seen in his long career, and predicting that one or more of those institutions would...(more)
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submitted by AB 171 weeks 5 days 10 hours 29 minutes ago
Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.
At a news conference this afternoon, offiicals said they believe the woman's injuries were self-inflicted.
Ashley...(more)
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submitted by AB 177 weeks 3 days 12 hours 25 minutes ago
On Sept. 24, 2001, Mayor Sarah Palin and the City Council held their first meeting after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The council condemned the attacks and approved a $5,000 gift to a disaster relief fund. Palin said she would...(more)
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submitted by AB 173 weeks 1 day 13 hours 33 minutes ago
John McCain’s campaign is pretty much a shambles right now.
If you don’t believe me, just listen to John McCain. His chief goal these days is calming down his crowds, not firing them up.
And that is an honorable thing to do. It may not be a winning...(more)
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submitted by AB 177 weeks 1 day 5 hours 29 minutes ago
In an extraordinary turn, the Federal Reserve was close to a deal Tuesday night to take a nearly 80 percent stake in the troubled giant insurance company, the American International Group, in exchange for an $85 billion loan, according to people briefed on the negotiations.
In return,...(more)
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submitted by AB 175 weeks 5 days 13 hours 26 minutes ago
Senator McCain has spent the morning talking to members of the Administration, members of the Senate, and members of the House. He is optimistic that there has been significant progress toward a bipartisan agreement now that there is a framework for all parties to be represented...(more)
