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Health and Physical Fitness
Clinton tells Canadians to avoid the US health system
5-16-2006
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Globe and Mail
[Like they don't cross over the border to use ours.] The answer to Canada's health-care woes does not lie in the "insane" system in place south of the border, former US president Bill Clinton said. The US model is a "colossal w
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Economy - Economics USA
Fed struggles with inflation
5-16-2006
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Reuters
U.S. core producer prices barely budged last month and housing starts dropped, easing inflation concerns, but a strong gain in industrial output suggested price risks have yet to fully recede.
The U.S. Labor Department said on Tuesday overall prod
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Immigration
California city to vote on law requiring landlords to verify legal status
5-16-2006
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Associated Press
A proposal that would impose sweeping restrictions on the ability of illegal immigrants to live and work in the city will be put before voters after the City Council refused to adopt it. The proposal would prohibit landlords from renting to undocumen
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Immigration
How many illegal aliens are there in the USA?
5-16-2006
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Christian Science Monitor
How many immigrants living in the country today are here illegally?
Depending on the source, the numbers range widely â€" from about 7 million up to 20 million or more.
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Bill of Rights
WTP Forcing Numerous High Courts to
Grapple With The Meaning of The Petition Clause
05-16-2006
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We The People
The truths etched above form nothing less than the cornerstone upon which our form of governance exists and which distinguish it from every other form of government ever designed by man. Indeed, it is solely through these Founding Principles that me
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Conspiracies
Pentagon releasing security camera video of 9/11 attack on Pentagon
5-16-2006
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Associated Press
The Pentagon said it planned to release video images of American Airlines Flight 77 crashing into the military headquarters building and killing 184 people in the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Recorded by a Pentagon security camera, were to be re
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Opinion • More about Energy
Buying Gas From Citgo
A Very Important Editorial by Charlie Reese!
05-16-2006
Leon Felkins
Why you should be buying gas from Citgo by Charlie Reese. "Citgo is owned by the Venezuelan government, and yes, I know that the Bush administration has launched a campaign to demonize Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. If you believe that band o
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Military
Gitmo Prisoner List Released
05-16-2006
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Reuters
The United States on Monday issued its most comprehensive accounting to date of detainess currently held at the Guantanamo prison for foreign terrorism suspects, naming 759 people and their nationalities.
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Central Intelligence Agency
Cheney, Libby warned by CIA not to blow agent's deep cover
5-15-2006
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Raw Story
"On the day columnist Robert Novak's column first disclosed Valerie Wilson's identity, a "CIA official discussed in Libby's presence the dangers posed by disclosure of the CIA affiliation of one of its employees as had occurred
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Media: Print
Journalist's phones tapped
5-15-2006
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Raw Story (audio link, transcript)
We always suspected we should be careful about who we call and what phones we use, and now we understand why we should be careful.
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Politics: Republican Campaigns
Rev. Pat Robertson big time attacks the Republicans
5-15-2006
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Manassas Journal
The Republican Congress has "abandoned" fiscal responsibility, noting among other things the $223 million for the construction "the Bridge to Nowhere". "This is our government at work, and unfortunately it is run by Republica
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The Daily Show with Jon Stewart & Stephen Colbert
Horrors! Watching the Daily Show will make you less likely to vote
5-15-2006
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SAGE Publications
According to a recent study researchers conclude that young Americans' political views are negatively impacted by watching the popular The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, which airs late night on Comedy Central as a 'fake-news program.'
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Police State
The NSA is on the line ... all of them
5-15-2006
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Salon
We should be terrified that Congress has not been doing its job and because all of the checks and balances put in place to prevent this have been deliberately obviated. In order to get this done, the NSA and White House went around all of the checks
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WAR: About that War
Iraq government threatening to be full of Shi'ite
5-15-2006
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USA Today
Efforts to create a national unity government in Iraq stumbled as a member of an influential Shiite alliance bloc threatened to form a new government unilaterally if rival groups did not scale back their demands. Sunnis said they may withdraw from th
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WAR: About that War
Iraq Sunnis accuse US of "atrocity" over raids
5-15-2006
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Reuters
Iraq's main Sunni religious grouping accused US forces of killing 25 civilians in raids near Baghdad in the past 2 days, rejecting the US account that only suspected insurgents had died. "We hold the Iraqi government and the occupiers respon
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Media: Print
Feds spying on journalists
5-15-2006
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ABC News blog
A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we (Brian Ross and Richard Esposito) call in an effort to root out confidential sources.
"It's time for you to get some new cell phones,
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Corruption
Did Italian leader get payoff from Bush for forged Niger documents
5-15-2006
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New America Media
New links implicating Italian companies and individuals with then-Prime Minister Berlusconi now raise the question of whether Berlusconi received a payback as part of the dealâ€"namely, a Pentagon contract to build the US president's special fleet
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Energy
Ecuador cancels oil contract with US firm
5-15-2006
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AFP
Ecuador, which has Latin America's fifth largest oil reserves, cancelled Occidental Petroleum Company's operating contract in the country and ordered the US firm's assets seized. The firm would have to "immediately" hand back it
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Privacy Rights
Bell South now says it gave no documents to NSA
5-15-2006
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Associated Press
BellSouth Corp. said its "thorough review" found no indication it gave telephone records to the NSA as part of a federal anti-terrorism surveillance program. The company's investigation found "no contract with the NSA and we are co
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Immigration
Bush orders 6,000 military troops to go shoot Mexicans on the border
5-15-2006
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Associated Press
President George W. Bush on Monday night said he would seek to deploy up to 6,000 National Guard troops along the US border with Mexico beginning next month as part of the largest effort yet to apprehend illegal immigrants.
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Immigration
Full text of Bush ordering military to guard the border
5-15-2006
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Raw Story
And in Washington, the debate over immigration reform has reached a time of decision. Tonight, I will make it clear where I stand, and where I want to lead our country on this vital issue.
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Domestic Policy
US and EU rule out food restriction laws ... for now fatty
5-15-2006
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Reuters
European and US health chiefs ruled out imposing new regulations on the food industry to fight obesity, in spite of concern that the problem is becoming a serious threat to health worldwide. "The government can't tell someone what to eat. Th
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Dragonflies migrate just like birds
5-15-2006
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LiveScience.com
The scientists stuck tiny radio transmitters to the wings of 14 green darner dragonflies and followed the radio signals in an airplane and with handheld devices on the ground.
"They migrate exactly like birdsâ€"or birds actually migrate like in
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Science, Medicine and Technology
Bioengineered rice struggles to find a home
5-15-2006
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Associated Press
A tiny biosciences company is developing a promising drug to fight diarrhea, a scourge among babies in the developing world, but it has made an astonishing number of powerful enemies because it grows the experimental drug in rice genetically engineer
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Domestic Policy
What happens when you make hunting hard to do?
5-15-2006
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Associated Press
More than 25 years after its eruption turned this river valley into moonscape, elk living in the shadow of Mount St. Helens are starving to death at a rate that has alarmed many observers.
This winter's elk die-off was the highest recorded by
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Economy - International
Remittances help keep kids in school - and in Mexico
5-15-2006
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Christian Science Monitor
A tightly knit group of Indaparapeo immigrants living in the US is sending money back to fuel a university scholarship program. Typically, migrants who cobble together remittances choose to build publicly viewable bridges, roads, or soccer parks. But
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Privacy Rights
The goods government is getting spying on you
5-15-2006
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Christian Science Monitor
What can the United States government really glean from the phone-call histories - records of who called whom, when, and for how long - of millions of Americans?
After all, it's the same information that has long been available to authorities
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Economy - Economics USA
Mandatory Paid Leave: You knew it was only a matter of time
5-15-2006
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Christian Science Monitor
Massachusetts is considering a law to give workers the nation's most generous paid leave policy. Pay workers their full salary (up to $750 a week) for up to 12 weeks to care for newborns or ill family members, comes just weeks after Republican Go
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Energy
State politicians struggle to get re-elected with gas prices rising
5-15-2006
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USA Today
As gas prices rise, states are eyeing relief measures ranging from reducing gas taxes to running more state vehicles on alternative fuels. A USA TODAY survey of all 50 states and the District of Columbia found deep concern in state capitals about the
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Foreign Policy
US bans arms sales to Venezuela, calling them terrorist nation
5-15-2006
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Reuters
Washington banned all US arms sales to Venezuela, punishing President Hugo Chavez for his ties with Cuba and Iran and for his inaction against guerrillas from neighboring Colombia. Escalate a crisis with the major US oil supplier and come afte
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