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AARP Endorses House Health Care Reform Bill

Via – AARP Bulletin Today AARP, the 40-million-member association of older Americans, today announced its endorsement of the sweeping House health care reform bill.

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Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says

Via SF Gate & AP: Half of US kids will get food stamps, study says: “Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout from the current recession could push those numbers even higher, researchers say.”

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Harkin Lays Down The Law on Lieberman’s bluff

Via – Daily Kos Tom Harkin isn’t worried about Joe Lieberman’s bluff: "As I said before, when it comes down to getting the 60 votes necessary to pass this bill, I do not believe that Joe Lieberman would want to be the one person who caucuses with the Democrats … to bring this bill down. [...]

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Basketball Capsules: Kansas overwhelming No. 1 in AP preseason poll | basketball, kansas, storied – Sports – Brownsville Herald

AP via The Brownsville Herald For the second time in its storied basketball history, Kansas is No. 1 in The Associated Press’ preseason Top 25. The Jayhawks were a runaway choice Thursday, receiving 55 first-place votes from the 65-member national media panel to easily outdistance Michigan State, which was No. 1 on five ballots.

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Seven Members Of House Defense Subcommittee Scrutinized By Ethics Investigators

Washington Post via – Politics on HuffingtonPost.com Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of Pentagon spending are under scrutiny by ethics investigators in Congress, who have trained their lens on the relationships between seven panel members and an influential lobbying firm founded by a former Capitol Hill aide.

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Obama Restores Power To Intelligence Oversight Board

Via – Politics on HuffingtonPost.com WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama Thursday restored an independent intelligence advisory agency's authority to tell the attorney general if it thinks that a U.S. intelligence agency may have broken the law, a move intended to improve oversight of those agencies. That power was stripped away by former President George W. [...]

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Lara M. Gardner: Im the Poster Child for Public Healthcare

via – Politics on HuffingtonPost.com I am a poster child for public health. Why do I say this? Because I live in a state where there is a low-income, public healthcare option. When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I was able to utilize this option for my treatment. It worked, and it worked extremely [...]

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Box 185 Clothing – Cool Hunting

by Tisha Leung Sexing up the Midwest prairie look, Sara Keiser’s Box 185 collection makes the style relevant to today. Her newest pieces—nubile faux fur chaps and pants, fringe leggings and feather earrings—aren't for wallflowers. This season, the South Dakota native reinterpreted her ’70s-inspired wide leg pants from prior collections and decked them out in [...]

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House Health Care Bill Outlaws Treating Domestic Violence As A Pre-Existing Condition

House Health Care Bill Outlaws Treating Domestic Violence As A Pre-Existing Condition – Politics on HuffingtonPost.com This morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) unveiled the re-tooled Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962). The bill will cost $900 billion over 10 years, extending health coverage to 36 million Americans (6-7 million more than the [...]

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