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Connecticut Online: Excerpts From State Blogs
CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED www.yedies.blogspot.com No Sanctuary Hartford's city council voted unanimously [Monday] to make Hartford a sanctuary city for illegal aliens. While crime is rampant and children are being shot in their strollers, the best...Tags: New York Times, Society, Christopher Dodd, Migration, Republican Party
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Housing relief, AIDS bills: Bush's pen
The Swampby Mark Silva President Bush is signing some big bills today before Congress leaves town at week's end: This morning, Bush signed the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, aimed at easing the home mortgage crisis but also making the federal......Tags: The White House, Foreign Aid, Fannie Mae, Heads of State, National Government
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NOTABLES WHO LEFT US IN 2007
Associated PressFormer First Lady Lady Bird Johnson outlived her husband, Lyndon, by more than 35 years, expanding on her White House efforts to carve her own legacy as an environmentalist. When she died July 11 at age 94, she left behind countless miles of scenic...Tags: Celebrity, Local Authority, Cinema Industry, George Bush, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Requiem: 2007 passings of note
Among the major notables who passed from the scene this year, three of the most famous -- two masters of cinema and a genius of football -- died on the same day: July 30. Two others -- a historic Russian leader and a U.S. chronicler of war -- left us...Tags: Washington Redskins, Rod Beck, Vehicles, Roy Rogers, Eddie Robinson
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Duckworth keeps it in perspective
Tribune staff reporterOn Sunday Tammy Duckworth will celebrate "Alive Day." That's what she calls the anniversary of the day a rocket-propelled grenade tore through the helicopter she was co-piloting in Iraq--an attack that destroyed her legs and shattered her right arm,...Tags: Ceremonies, Society, Air and Space Accidents, National Government, Missouri
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Indian Americans come out
MANJEET KRIPALANI, the Edward R. Murrow Press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is writing a book on the effect of India on globalization and globalization on India.THE 2.2 MILLION Indian Americans in the U.S. constitute a model minority, highly educated and well paid. And now, following in the footsteps of earlier immigrant groups such as the Irish, the Jews and the Cubans, Indian Americans are emerging as an...Tags: Hillary Clinton, Nuclear Policy, John Kerry, Globalization, Parties and Movements
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For Congress: Duckworth
For 32 years the 6th Congressional District of Illinois has been represented by Rep. Henry Hyde, whom this page has long admired. When he takes a position, you know he's standing on principle. He's not afraid to buck his own party, as he did in 1994...Tags: Defense, Migration, Immigration, Armed Forces, Dolton
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GOP idealogues: silent, but wielding power
Washington BureauIn choosing its prime-time pitchmen, Republicans this week picked several moderate politicians who flatly disagree with party positions on key social issues, while exiling some of the more conservative speakers to television wilderness, away from...Tags: Protestant, Parties and Movements, Family, Dick Cheney, Republican Party
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Secret GOP memo politicizes war
Newsday Washington BureauHouse Majority Leader John Boehner intends to use an upcoming floor debate on the Iraq war as a platform for GOP lawmakers to portray themselves as tougher than Democrats on "national security polices," according to a confidential memo obtained by...Tags: Republican Party, National Government, Carolyn McCarthy, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Terrorism
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You’re wrong! No, you are!
Four score and seven years ago … well, actually America was just getting its feet wet in World War I. But this is about the figurative meaning of that line. Political oratory has decided the fate of nations, including this one. Since the dawn of...Tags: Defense, Bob Dole, Al Gore, George Bush, U.S. Elections
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Barney's unimpeachable straight talk
STAFF WRITER(U). Snapshot of Barney Frank, the openly gay congressman from Massachusetts, taken while he spearheaded the Save Clinton movement during the late '90s impeachment hearings. Informative, entertaining, but director Bart Everly seems more interested in...Tags: Barney Frank, Minority Groups, Family, Republican Party, Upper House
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Latin America's leftist tilt roils D.C.
LATIN AMERICA CORRESPONDENTSixteen years ago, President Ronald Reagan sounded the alarm against the then-leftist government in Nicaragua, declaring it aimed to become "a launching pad for revolutions ... just two days' driving time from Harlingen, Texas." Acting on that fear,...Tags: Corruption, United Nations, Corporate Crime, Paul O'Neill, Justice and Rights
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