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Is this Bushs day of reckoning?
September 23, 2005NEW ORLEANS — I had never visited a city ravaged by war, but as I drove across the Mississippi Bridge into the heart of this devastated city with People’s Weekly World reporter Tim Wheeler last week,...
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Time for an Iraq exit strategy
September 23, 2005At Capitol Hill hearing, talk is not ‘if’ but ‘how’ WASHINGTON — With thousands of people across the nation protesting the Iraq war, Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.) convened a Capitol Hill hearing Sept. 15 to air...
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Senate, in narrow vote, OKs Bush rule on mercury
September 21, 2005WASHINGTON — On Sept. 13 the U.S. Senate narrowly rejected a bipartisan resolution offered by Senators Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) that would have maintained a firm timetable for the reduction...
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Calif. gov. to veto same-sex marriage
September 16, 2005Within a day after the California Legislature approved a bill legalizing same sex marriage, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said last week that while he respects the legal protections already in place in California for gays, he would...
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Missouri activists press for LGBT rights
September 16, 2005ST. LOUIS — While Missouri was the first state to add a discriminatory amendment to its state constitution banning same-gender marriage, the Show-Me State’s LGBT community has not backed down and has recommitted itself to achieving...
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