as i noted in my column one of the bills senate majority leader harry reid included in the omnibuslegislation thatrepubl icansblock ed on mondaywas the mothers act. mothers is supposed to stand for moms opportunity to access health education research and support for postpartum depression. but it doesnt. the acronym for that would be moaherspd which isnot quite as catchy. this isyet another illustrat...
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update wow the article looks so good in hard copy and its really on the front page. the app published a photo of one of the massive protests in south yemen and another of the poor residents of saada in north yemen digging out the bodies of a woman and baby killed in one of the government bombing strikes. and theres a map and several nice photos of alkhaiwani including the one where hes interviewin...
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i sure hope you didnt spend the day watching the senate banking committee hearings. the questions asked by the members were of such low quality that it was embarrassing. in particular it was exceedingly painful to watch senator robert menendez in action shamelessly grandstanding trying to dumb it down into loaded catch phrases. what is the man doing reading trillion dollar meltdown instead of r...
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this is available as an mp3 for download.this show i read a recent speech delivered by robert menendez senator from nj. why am i reading a speech sometimes we need to be aware of the whole text of what our elected officials are saying... sound bites only give you what the editor wants you to hear.some key linksjanglhelp fight leukemia and sponsor richard in the worlds greatest shavesupport lisa a...
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i will grade the statements later made by the various national leaders below. but i think its important to create a semicentral repository of some of the more important leadership responses. interestingly congressman jim mcgovern dma03 on a conference call this morning said that he believes obama and clinton both are more flexible than their public statements indicate. here are some of the st...
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