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"Banish the tax! Romanian witches 'frighten' lawmakers into voting against levy " ...Lawmakers Al
- Banish the tax! Romanian witches 'frighten' lawmakers into voting against levy .....Lawmakers Alin Popoviciu and Cristi Dugulescu of the ruling D...
Sep 9, 2010, 10:09 am - konane

"IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds
I can't seem to reconcile how collecting global funds will diminish climate change which has been and always will be cyclical. Excerpt ____________ IMF suggests how to raise climate change funds By TOM MALITI, Associated Press Writer Tom Maliti, Associated Press Writer Mon Mar 8, 3:43 pm ET ....... Strauss-Kahn proposed that count...
Mar 10, 2010, 9:20 am - konane

"White House Website Asking for Informants on Anti-Healthcare Advocates
Two articles ___________ GOP Senator: White House Encroaching on First Amendment August 05, 2009 1:33 PM Source blogs.abcnews.com ABC News Rick Klein reports: A Republican senator is calling for the White House to suspend...
Aug 5, 2009, 7:34 pm - konane

Why More Drilling is Not the Answer
Submitted by Michael Moynihan on Thu, 06/19/2008 - 8:44am. Of the various false solutions being proposed to the current oil shockperhaps none is more disingenous than the idea that it can be solved bydrilling in the Alaskan wilderness and along the continental shelf.This is the idea that the right wing media, recently, John McCain andnow...
Jun 19, 2008, 4:45 pm - Tenaj

Movements To Lower Drinking Age Gaining Momentum
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - More than two decades after the country established a uniform drinking age of 21, a nascent movement is afoot to allow 18- to 20-year-olds to legally buy alcohol under some circumstances. Proponents say the higher age hasn't kept young people from consuming alcohol and has instead driven underage consumption underground, particularly on college campuses. Our laws aren't working. They're not preventing underage drinking. What they're doing is put...
Feb 29, 2008, 8:12 am - LOTTOMIKE

Abbott & Costello sell computers.
These guys and the bowery boys were great. Abbott and Costello sell computers You have to be old enough to remember Abbott and Costello, and too old to REALLY understand computers, to fully appreciate this.? F...
Aug 13, 2007, 3:26 pm - jarasan

Immigration Bill Derailed in Senate
WASHINGTON (June 8) -- The Senate divisions that derailed a White House-backed immigration bill -- for now, at least -- mirror the U.S. society's deep differences over the issue, according to polling data, lawmakers and analysts. Those gaps will challenge any e...
Jun 8, 2007, 12:47 pm - LOTTOMIKE

Oregon Governor Gets Food Stamps
SALEM, Ore., April 27 He swore off beer, had to put the pricey organic bananas back on the supermarket shelf and squeezed four meals out of a single chicken, all in the name of reducing hunger. And this is not even an election year. Gov. Theodore R. Kulongoski s decision to live on $3 a day in grocery money for a week, as he had been urged to do in an Oregon food stamp challenge, could confound the surest cynic. At 66, he...
May 2, 2007, 7:52 am - LOTTOMIKE

President Calls War Funding Bill 'Prescription for Chaos'
WASHINGTON (May 2) -- President Bush 's veto of an Iraq war spending bill that set timelines for U.S. troop withdrawals puts new pressure on Democrats in Congress to craft a compro...
May 2, 2007, 7:20 am - LOTTOMIKE

Lawmakers Consider Less Crack Cocaine Penalties
March 12) - Momentum is building in Congress to ease crack cocaine sentencing guidelines, which the American Civil Liberties Union and other critics say have filled prisons with low-level drug dealers and addicts whose punishments were much worse than their crimes. Federal prison sentences for possessing or selling crack have far exceeded those for powder cocaine for two decad...
Mar 13, 2007, 7:56 am - LOTTOMIKE