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MoveOn.org: “Shadow network” seeks to buy election
October 14, 2010Shadowy groups are flooding Washington State with anonymous corporate cash to buy ads smearing incumbent Democratic Sen. Patty Murray, MoveOn charged.
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End of drilling ban spurs controversy
October 14, 2010The Obama administration said it is ending its deepwater drilling moratorium, environmentalists say the risks are too high, and the oil industry says the rules are too strict.
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Unemployment at 50 percent, Detroit vows to fight
October 14, 2010Though she is without full-time employment, Emily Norton works even harder today. She now has four part-time jobs but earns just one-third of what she made while working full time.
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Judge halts “don’t ask, don’t tell”
October 13, 2010U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips in Riverside, Calif., ordered the military Tuesday, Oct. 12, to immediately stop enforcing the controversial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, putting a halt to the 17-year-old law.
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Lou Dobbs joins immigration hypocrite list
October 13, 2010The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute recently found that Lou Dobbs, who fulminated nightly on CNN against "the illegal aliens" taking over the country, has relied for years on undocumented labor for the upkeep of...
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