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Get Politics Alerts - Huffington Post (blog)

2010-09-03
Huffington Post (blog)Get Politics AlertsHuffington Post (blog)I'm not a guru of politics. I'm not a pundit of policy debates. I'm not a Beltway lobbyist. My knowledge of politics does not go beyond 101, those classes ...and more »

Delaware's O'Donnell: 'Stop Thug Politics' - Wall Street Journal (blog)

2010-09-03
Seattle Post IntelligencerDelaware's O'Donnell: 'Stop Thug Politics'Wall Street Journal (blog)A longtime political consultant in the state, O'Donnell was the party's own candidate against former Sen. Joe Biden two years ago. ...Delaware politics: Castle, O'Donnell duel -- but not on same stageThe News Journalall 223 news articles »

German Politics Hit by Blowback Over Sarrazin - Wall Street Journal (blog)

2010-09-03
German Politics Hit by Blowback Over SarrazinWall Street Journal (blog)The government itself fears that the Sarrazin case is splitting society on a thorny issue that German mainstream politics has tried to avoid confronting ...and more »

The Middle East is in need of a new type of politics - Telegraph.co.uk

2010-09-03
Telegraph.co.ukThe Middle East is in need of a new type of politicsTelegraph.co.ukUntil the broken political systems of the Middle East are fixed, there will be no lasting peace, writes Nour Kalla Sacranie. By Nour Kalla Sacranie Photo: ...PM Politics Links: Mideast peace talks, birthright citizenship, a slow ...Plain DealerSkeptics Could Doom Mideast Peace TalksAlterNet (blog)Theater of the recurredJerusalem Postall 9,337 news articles »

The Democrats' Biggest Mistake - FOXNews

2010-09-03
The Democrats' Biggest MistakeFOXNewsPut simply, and to be crystal clear, the Tea Party movement is not about politics or class or race. It is, above all, about upholding fundamental American ...and more »

Soros Makes The Kochs Look Like Political Skinflints - Forbes (blog)

2010-09-03
Forbes (blog)Soros Makes The Kochs Look Like Political SkinflintsForbes (blog)What about the idea there's something aberrational about the amount of money the Kochs are pouring into politics? According to Mayer, Charles and David Koch ...and more »

WVU Football: Take Your Politics Elsewhere, This Is About Mountaineer Pride - Bleacher Report

2010-09-03
Bleacher ReportWVU Football: Take Your Politics Elsewhere, This Is About Mountaineer PrideBleacher Report... and allow West Virginians to be proud-Mountaineer proud. After all, this is not about politics, it's about pride-West Virginia Mountaineer pride.and more »

Your morning fashion and beauty report: Meghan McCain dishes on style ... - Los Angeles Times (blog)

2010-09-02
Christian Science MonitorYour morning fashion and beauty report: Meghan McCain dishes on style ...Los Angeles Times (blog)Meghan McCain, daughter of presidential contender John, has a new memoir out about the campaign, "Dirty, Sexy Politics." Though there's not much dirt or sex ...Review of 'Dirty Sexy Politics,' by Meghan McCainWashington PostMeghan McCain on New Book 'Dirty Sexy Politics' | O'Reilly FactorFOXNewsMeghan McCain's 'Dirty Sexy Politics': five best linesChristian Science MonitorThe News of Today -The Stir (blog) -ThatsFamous (blog)all 43 news articles »

Economics always drives politics; politics seldom drive economics - Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)

2010-09-03
Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog)Economics always drives politics; politics seldom drive economicsAtlanta Journal Constitution (blog)But admitting that fact is political suicide. This morning, the Bureau of Labor Statistics released the August jobs report. In essence, it was flat. ...and more »

Get Politics Alerts - Huffington Post (blog)

2010-09-03
Get Politics AlertsHuffington Post (blog)As with many religions, elements of Christianity look forward to an apocalypse and their subsequent ascension to heaven. In a surprising article at USA ...and more »

Obama's Ratings on Iraq Up After Speech, but Most Believe War Will ...

2010-09-03
Fifty-seven percent said they approved of Obama's handling of Iraq while 41 percent disapproved compared to mid-July when the public was split at 49 percent each.

Campaign 2010: Hill Dems Getting Steamed at Obama?

2010-09-03
Democratic strategists say the president is doing little to help imperiled incumbents win votes on the most important concern to the electorate -- jobs -- and that he needs to come out swinging.

democracyarsenal.org: In Defense of Politics and National Security

2010-09-03
A few days ago, I came across a post by Gulliver at the excellent Inkspots, decrying how the politicization of national security was eroding his will to blog. Judging from the number of posts Gulliver has written since this sad...

Politics, people, and Pawlenty's priorities - The Washington Monthly

2010-09-02
POLITICS, PEOPLE, AND PAWLENTY'S PRIORITIES.... Following up on an item from yesterday, Minnesota, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), desperate to pander to the party's base in advance of his presidential campaign, issued an order to state ...

Arizona's 'Sheriff Joe,' Immigration Firebrand, Squares Off With Feds

2010-09-02
Another showdown between Washington and Arizona -- this time over a civil rights investigation and a recalcitrant (but beloved) sheriff.

Polution Babies, Anchor Babies and Abortion Politics

2010-09-03
Anti-abortion groups believe they've had run-ins with the Discovery Channel gunman in the past.

Colorado GOP Makes Last Push to Get Dan Maes Out of Gov's Race

2010-09-02
Some party leaders want to dump their gubernatorial candidate, who has been damaged by a series of missteps. He vows to stay in the race.

Delaware's O'Donnell: 'Stop Thug Politics' - Washington Wire - WSJ

2010-09-03
Summary: Republican brass in Washington and Delaware are stepping up their attack on Christine O'Donnell, who is taking on Rep. Mike Castle in the GOP primary for the Senate seat in Delaware.

German Politics Hit by Blowback Over Sarrazin - The Source - WSJ

2010-09-03
The government itself fears that the Sarrazin case is splitting society on a thorny issue that German mainstream politics has tried to avoid confronting head on.

Jan Brewer's Bad Night Conjures Up Other Memorable Debate Moments

2010-09-03
Always expect -- and hope for -- the unexpected in political debates. Carl Cannon recalls some matchups when candidates have gone off script.

Politics: Doherty accused of ethics violation

2010-09-03
State Sen. John Mulroe called it "politics as usual" that the alderman going after his 10th District seat is running his campaign out of the same office he shares with state Rep. Michael McAuliffe (R-20th) and County Commissioner Peter Silvestri (R-9th) at 6650 N. Northwest Highway.

Politics rears its head at Venice Film Fest

2010-09-02
Politics reared its head on the opening days of the Venice Film Festival.

No politics in GG's school visit

2010-09-03
Politics was far from Governor-General Quentin Bryce's thoughts as she visited a Melbourne school.

Politics, Money Doomed Calif. Plastic Bag Bill

2010-09-03
Legislation to ban plastic grocery bags in California failed to pass this week. Supporters said election year politics and a down economy were among the reasons the bill didn't succeed.

Politics and business

2010-09-03
September is here, Labor Day looms, and for the cognoscenti, that means politics is about to get heated.

Louisiana Labor Politics With Labor Day Hotdogs In Air

2010-09-03
As we enter into the long Labor Day weekend, "politics and hotdogs are in the Louisiana air".  So, you can serve this with a little mustard

Maryland Politics: State's revenue declined by 3.7% last fiscal year

2010-09-01
Annie Linskey covers state politics and government for The Baltimore Sun . Previously, as a City Hall reporter, she wrote about the corruption trial of Mayor Sheila Dixon and kept a close eye on city spending.

Jeffrey Feldman: Speaking in Yellow: The Crisis in Our Politics

2010-09-03
Lately, American politics is neither blue nor red, but yellow.  Like the "yellow journalism" that plagued the turn of the last century, this new era...

Politics of Wall Street: Race for 'Obama' Senate Seat

2010-09-03
In the Illinois race for the U.S. Senate seat once occupied by President Barack Obama, Democrat Alexi Giannoulias is trying to make Wall Street an issue but his Republican opponent Mark Kirk is having none of it.

Baseball Is A Sport For Conservatives, Says Conservative [Politics]

2010-09-03
# politics Here's an argument that baseball is inherently right-wing, because it's American, merit-based and unchanging (all false to some degree, by the way). I guess this means football is for dirty pinkos? [ Daily Caller ] More »

RT @qikipedia: Tony Blair's new book is being moved to the Crime section in bookshops http://tinyurl.com/2wylz84

2010-09-03
RT @qikipedia: Tony Blair's new book is being moved to the Crime section in bookshops http://tinyurl.com/2wylz84

RT @TheIndyNews: Inside Politics - Blair Quiz Answers http://ind.pn/aSJnyy

2010-09-03
RT @TheIndyNews: Inside Politics - Blair Quiz Answers http://ind.pn/aSJnyy

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2010-09-03
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RT @ACandyTweet: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning http://bit.ly/97Ex2X #p2 #tcot

2010-09-03
RT @ACandyTweet: Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning http://bit.ly/97Ex2X #p2 #tcot

RT @lannyf: Great reporting by @kady on the @koryteneycke Avaaz. org episode. Kory has some splainin' to do. http://bit.ly/9HLzzL #cdnpoli

2010-09-03
RT @lannyf: Great reporting by @kady on the @koryteneycke Avaaz. org episode. Kory has some splainin' to do. http://bit.ly/9HLzzL #cdnpoli

RT @gopnews: Colo. Gubernatorial Candidate Refuses to Back Down http://bit.ly/96u5ff

2010-09-03
RT @gopnews: Colo. Gubernatorial Candidate Refuses to Back Down http://bit.ly/96u5ff

RT @a_picazo: Hahaha! - RT @StephenAtHome Stephen Colbert Rally: Restoring Truthiness http://www.colbertrally.com/ #politics #truthiness #cdnpoli #p2

2010-09-03
RT @a_picazo: Hahaha! - RT @StephenAtHome Stephen Colbert Rally: Restoring Truthiness http://www.colbertrally.com/ #politics #truthiness #cdnpoli #p2

Two things you never talk about in a bar. Religion and politics. We all have our views !

2010-09-03
Two things you never talk about in a bar. Religion and politics. We all have our views !

Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning http://bit.ly/97Ex2X #p2 #tcot

2010-09-03
Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning http://bit.ly/97Ex2X #p2 #tcot

"CHRIS WARD WAS A REPUBLICAN TREASURER.. BUT IN THE END HE WAS JUST ANOTHER FUCKIN' EMBEZZLER." #jpw #topprog #rebelleft #p2 #politics #news

2010-09-03
"CHRIS WARD WAS A REPUBLICAN TREASURER.. BUT IN THE END HE WAS JUST ANOTHER FUCKIN' EMBEZZLER." #jpw #topprog #rebelleft #p2 #politics #news

Buildings crumble as 7.0 quake hits New Zealand

2010-09-03
A powerful predawn earthquake hit New Zealand, causing water mains to break and some buildings to crumble, though there were no immediate reports of deaths.

Feds bust huge human-trafficking ring

2010-09-03
Six job recruiters have been indicted in federal court in what the FBI has called the largest human-trafficking operation ever to result in charges in the United States.

Northeast eyes Earl

2010-09-03
Hurricane Earl weakened to a Category 1 storm Friday with winds of 85 mph, but the Northeast was still preparing to feel its fury.

UPS plane crashes near Dubai, kills 2

2010-09-03
A cargo plane has crashed in an uninhabited area near the Dubai airport, according to the official WAM news agency in the United Arab Emirates.

Florida love triangle killer sentenced

2010-09-03
A Florida judge sentenced Rachel Wade, the 20-year-old woman convicted of second-degree murder for fatally stabbing her romantic rival in a fight last year, to 27 years in prison Friday.

Scientists find recipe for water in space

2010-09-03
European scientists say they've figured out the recipe for water in space: Just add starlight.

25 drug suspects die in shootout

2010-09-03
A shootout between soldiers and suspected drug dealers in northeast Mexico left 25 of the suspects dead, the regional military said Thursday.

Opinion: Plea to free U.S. hikers in Iran

2010-09-03
When the month of Ramadan began, I received a letter from Laura Fattal, the mother of one of the three young American hikers detained in Iran. In it, Fattal appealed to me, the first Muslim scholar she had contacted, to intervene on behalf of her son and his two friends.

Acid victim: Shades, God saved eyes

2010-09-03
Bethany Storro doesn't usually wear sunglasses, but she got a surprise paycheck and bought a pair earlier this week. Those sunglasses, she is convinced, saved her eyesight when a woman threw a cup of acid in her face 20 minutes later.

Beer chills 200 years under the sea

2010-09-03
First there was the discovery of dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, but now salvage divers have recovered what they believe to be the world's oldest beer, taking advertisers' notion of 'drinkability' to another level.

Why do doctors' offices have to be so darned rude?

2010-09-03
David Gewirtz | BIO AC360° Contributor Director, U.S. Strategic Perspective Institute As a nation, we have a lot of work to do in order to make our health care payment system competitive with the rest of the world. But there's one thing that we can do now, one thing that doesn't cost a cent: we can be polite.

Letters to the President #592: 'Disproving God . . .or not'

2010-09-03
Tom Foreman | BIO AC360° Correspondent So I was reading this article about how the esteemed physicist Stephen Hawking says there is no God; about how everything that exists can be explained by science, and spontaneous creation; which, I guess, is like spontaneous combustion, only not so messy. And once again I found myself thinking: How the heck would he know?

Long Island, Cape Cod get ready for Earl

2010-09-03
CNN Wire Staff North Carolina Gov. Bev Perdue says state "dodged the bullet."

Texas lawmaker admits mistake in scholarship scandal

2010-09-03
CNN Wire Staff Relatives of Johnson and her aide receive more than $25,000 in scholarships, newspaper says.

Frack you, frack me

2010-09-03
Dave Schechter CNN Senior National Editor If you’re not familiar with the term “hydraulic fracturing,” you might want to study up. “Fracking,” as it’s called in shorthand, is big news in parts of the country and it’s about to get bigger.

Earl Brushing N.C. Coast: Join the Live Chat

2010-09-02
The first big hurricane in years to threaten the East Coast is getting ready to batter it. We'll have the latest developments on Hurricane Earl. Plus, the raw politics of a debate debacle in Arizona and more.

Evening Buzz: Hurricane Earl Bearing Down on East Coast

2010-09-02
Maureen Miller AC360° Writer   Hurricane Earl is headed for North Carolina tonight, where in the next few hours the state is expected to get hit with hurricane force winds and pounding surf. The monster storm, larger than the state of California, will brush the Outer Banks overnight.

Earl weakening as it approaches East Coast

2010-09-02
CNN Wire Staff Hurricane warnings and watches stretch from North Carolina to Massachusetts.

Beat 360° 9/2/10

2010-09-02
Ready for today's Beat 360°? Everyday we post a picture you provide the caption and our staff will join in too. Tune in tonight at 10pm to see if you are our favorite! Here is the 'Beat 360°' pic: Model Naomi Campbell arrives for the screening of 'Miral' during the 67th Venice Film Festival on [...]

Brewer takes heat for not addressing beheading claim

2010-09-02
Alexander Mooney CNN Ticker Producer Brewer - who has become a prominent leader in the fight against illegal immigration with her steadfast support of Arizona's controversial immigration law - wouldn't address statements she made earlier this summer suggesting illegal immigrants are responsible for beheadings in the Arizona desert.