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10:56:39 PM Social Media Changes Politics in the U.S., Sparks Revolutions Around the
ABC News - United States

ABC News Take the case of George Allen, the former Republican senator from Virginia and one-time presidential hopeful. While campaigning for re-election in 2006, ... [more]

10:46:33 PM TCAP Scores Likely to Drop as Educational Standards Rise
MyFox Memphis - Memphis,TN,USA

Some of Memphis and Shelby County's education heavy-hitters joined Bredesen and former Tennessee US Senator, Dr. Bill Frist, in a kick-off coalition .... [more]

10:30:38 PM Rangel's Day in Court
TIME (blog)

Former Majority Leader Tom DeLay skipped such a step when his ethics investigation went right from the exploratory phase to admonishment -- a first in ... [more]

9:23:00 PM The earth warms up, but Congress won't act on climate change
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA

Still, John Kerry is throwing in the towel on his comprehensive climate change/energy bill, which is no great surprise. Despite the horrendous oil spill in ... [more]

9:15:22 PM The Campaign Spot
National Review Online - USA

He invoked the media's treatment of Trent Lott, Strom Thurmond, and George Allen. (My quotes from Gallagher are based on hastily-handwritten notes after I ... [more]

8:52:55 PM Who Is Mike Toomey?
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

There's MUCH MORE about Mike Toomey, why he embodies the worst here in Texas that has led to deregulation, corruption, unethical figures like Tom Delay, ... [more]

8:32:47 PM Democrats pull plug on climate bill
Politico - Washington,DC,USA

“We don't have the 60 votes,” said Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairwoman Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.). “So Sen. Reid's a pragmatist. ... [more]

8:31:53 PM US Senator Kerry says chance of climate bill "tough"
Reuters South Africa - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa

WASHINGTON July 22 (Reuters) - US Senator John Kerry said on Thursday at a town hall meeting that chances to pass a climate bill right now are "very tough. ... [more]

6:00:49 PM Scots Won't Testify to Congress about Lockerbie Bomber's Release
ABC News - United States

In a letter sent yesterday, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-Mass., formally invited Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond and ... [more]

5:05:50 PM Circumstances surrounding actions of NAACP and White House in USDA
FOX News - USA

FOXNews SEAN HANNITY, HOST: Both the Department of Agriculture and the White House apologized to former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod earlier today. ... [more]

4:55:47 PM Sen. Kerry says chances for climate bill 'tough'
Reuters - NY,USA

By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON, July 22 (Reuters) - Democratic US Senator John Kerry, the main proponent of congressional action to tackle climate change, ... [more]

4:31:25 PM Yacht Bashing on the Campaign Trail
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

Barbara Boxer is attacking opponent Carly Fiorina for owning not one but TWO, count them TWO, yachts. According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle ... [more]

3:17:06 PM Shirley Sherrod wants to talk to President Obama
Virginia Adds 49K New Voters in August

It is not only race but gender, religion, ethnicity, political view, etc. that are attacked. Wake up America, your being played while the rich lower the ... [more]

1:51:55 PM Brown vs. Kerry: Sports rivalry heats up
The Hill

Scott Brown (R) and John Kerry (D) are developing a healthy rivalry, but it's not over partisan politics. It's all about sports. ... [more]

1:42:25 PM The scandal that wasn't
Power Line

You will recall that we were instructed on a daily basis during the second term of President Bush's administration that the politicization of justice is a ... [more]

11:08:35 AM Senate Republicans Delay Jobless Benefits Extension
Courthouse News Service - Pasadena,CA,USA

Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., urged her Republican colleagues. "Where's your heart?" "This is a history-making day," Boxer said on the Senate floor Wednesday ... [more]

9:22:57 AM Talks might not save climate bill
Politico - Washington,DC,USA

Joe Lieberman and John Kerry argue that climate bill is difficult to pass due to the current political environment. AP Key senators and industry officials ... [more]

8:30:31 AM 10 of the Most Crooked Candidates of 2010
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA

Tom DeLay, to resign. Rep. Blunt's ethical issues were documented in CREW's 2006 report on the most corrupt members of Congress. In 2003, Rep. ... [more]

6:51:07 AM Back off, Pal
The Herald

Alex Salmond last night told US Senator John Kerry that oil giant BP did not influence the decision to release the man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing. ... [more]

5:56:03 AM Candidate's quip about 'high heels' goes viral on Web
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA

“He may say its no big deal, but just ask Creigh Deeds or George Allen what a comment like this can do to a statewide race.” Republican George Allen's bid ... [more]

5:03:29 AM Snowe, Kerry Introduce Comprehensive Spectrum Reform Legislation
TMCnet (press release) - USA

John F. Kerry, D-Mass., issued the following news release: US Senators Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) and John Kerry (D-Mass.) today introduced the Spectrum ... [more]

4:47:36 AM Fired USDA official receives apologies from White House, Vilsack
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Two days after Sherrod was fired from her job overseeing rural development in Georgia, both the White House and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack apologized ... [more]

3:06:18 AM Financial experts react to financial overhaul
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., about Congress' failure to include tougher regulation. "We passed this Wall Street reform; never again will taxpayers have to bail ... [more]

2:45:47 AM Republicans struggling with 2010 agenda
Washington Examiner

.... on Democratic governance," said Whit Ayres, a pollster whose clients have included former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., and Sen. .... [more]

2:10:32 AM Fiorina would ordinarily be a long shot in California
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Barbara Boxer. "Pro-life" has been red meat for Boxer for decades. The nonpartisan Field Poll on Wednesday confirmed this state's unwavering support for ... [more]

1:55:38 AM Maradona visits with Venezuela President Chavez
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

Maradona says he's eager to meet with Chavez a friend who shares his love for sports and leftist political ideals. Fans waved Venezuelan and Argentine flags ... [more]

12:50:20 AM Climate Bill, RIP
Rolling Stone - USA

John Kerry, whose comprehensive climate bill with Joe Lieberman is now dead, emerged from a meeting at the White House on June 29th sounding an even ... [more]



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