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COMMENTARY Holocaust Museum, Dr. Tiller: Janet Napolitano saw it coming
June 12, 2009When President Obama’s new Homeland Security chief, Janet Napolitano, issued a report in early April that warned law enforcement bodies in the U.S. about the dangers of a potential rise in “right-wing extremist activity,” Republicans and...
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Rally at Wells Fargo: Save jobs and homes now!
June 12, 2009CHICAGO – Dozens of people rallied at the downtown Wells Fargo bank here June 11, including a caravan of Quad City Die Casting workers demanding the bank restore credit to their Moline, Ill. factory, which is...
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Obama admin. announces new mountaintop mining policy
June 12, 2009Taking aim at mountaintop removal mining, this week, the Obama administration announced a new effort to strengthen federal oversight of the practice and to punish mining companies who fail to protect the environment. The new policy...
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Next 8 weeks critical for health reform, Obama says
June 12, 2009“The next eight weeks are going to be critical” to winning meaningful health care reform, President Obama told a Wisconsin town hall meeting today.
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Even with 600,000 new summer jobs, fears of a jobless recovery grow
June 12, 2009Concern is growing that an economic recovery, if and when it comes, may not be much of a job generator. The talk among many economists these days is that the economy may “recover” without an increase...
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