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| Obama hails auto bailout as good news in Michigan
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:01:26 GMT
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| Obama calls charges against Rangel 'troubling'
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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:55:25 GMT
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| Agency weighs skirting Congress on immigration
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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:30:34 GMT
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| Obama Mocks Polls But Spends More On Them ($4.4M) Than Bush Did
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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:36:59 GMT Huffington Post - With Reporting By Julian Hattem |
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| Immigration Debate: Border Cities See Less Violent Crime
(Time.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:40:00 GMT Time.com - The crime rates in large U.S. cities near the border, contrary to the fears that lie behind Arizona's tough new immigration law, are among the lowest in the country |
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| Conservatives doubt Sherrod’s case against Breitbart
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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:06:31 GMT The Upshot - Shirley Sherrod caused liberals to rejoice Thursday by telling a San Diego audience that she'll "definitely" sue conservative publisher Andrew Breitbart. But are things so bad for Breitbart, a media provocateur who appears to thrive off controversy? Despite posting the misleading clip of Sherrod that led to her resignation, Breitbart hasn't apologized and continues using [...] |
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| Rod Blagojevich's Trial: A Look at the Court's 12 Jurors
(Time.com)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:40:00 GMT Time.com - A brief look at the six men and six women who are tasked with deciding whether the guilt or innocence of the ex-governor of Illinois and his brother |
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| Anthony Weiner Goes Ballistic At GOP For Killing 9/11 Responders Health Care Bill (VIDEO)
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:04:07 GMT Huffington Post - House Republicans late Thursday were able to corral enough votes to defeat a bill that would have provided up to $7.4 billion in aid to those sickened by toxins resulting from the 9/11 attacks. |
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| Waters chooses ethics trial
(Politico)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:27:08 GMT Politico - She has chosen an ethics trial rather than accepting charges made by an ethics subcommittee. |
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| House OKs Gulf spill bill
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:34:52 GMT Politico - Democrats prepare campaign ads to attack Republican dissenters. |
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| Obama visits spy museum
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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 06:45:40 GMT
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| Army: Rising suicide rate reflects risk-taking
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Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:30:42 GMT AP - An Army report on the record number of soldier suicides says the trend reflects a rise in risky behavior including drunken driving and drug abuse in a military stretched to the breaking point by the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. |
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| Paris police: Tear gas in letter for US Embassy
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:14:27 GMT
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| Kan. Senate race turns nasty as GOP seeks fighter
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Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:31:37 GMT
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| Democratic Surge? Part II
(Huffington Post)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:51:09 GMT Huffington Post - Last week, I argued that a reported “jump” for Democrats in Gallup’s weekly tracking of the national generic U.S. |
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| House to Vote on Easing Drilling Moratorium
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:22:19 GMT CQPolitics.com - The House will vote Friday on a measure that would ease the Obama administration's temporary ban on new deepwater drilling. |
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| When will spill be cleaned up? Maybe never
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Sat, 31 Jul 2010 00:51:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - After more than three months, BP appears finally to have gotten a firm grasp on its runaway Deepwater Horizon well. Now the big question in the Gulf of Mexico is how, and if, an environmental mess of unprecedented scope can be cleaned up. |
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| Increase in FHA Mortgage Insurance Premiums Passes in House
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Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:22:19 GMT CQPolitics.com - The House passed legislation Friday to give the Federal Housing Administration flexibility to raise mortgage insurance premiums on the loans it guarantees. |
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| Obama slips behind wheel of a Volt in Motor City
(McClatchy Newspapers)
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:47:00 GMT McClatchy Newspapers - DETROIT — Out to convince voters that the bailout of the U.S. auto industry has been a success — and to build buzz for its controversial poster child, Chevy's Volt electric car — President Barack Obama on Friday drove a car publicly for the first time in more than three years and implored consumers, "Don't bet against the American people." |
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| Word of the day |
Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day for July 31, 2010 is:
sirenian • \sye-REE-nee-un\ • noun
: any of an order (Sirenia) of aquatic herbivorous mammals (as a manatee, dugong, or Steller's sea cow) that have large forelimbs resembling paddles, no hind limbs, and a flattened tail resembling a fin
Example sentence:
"Looking humanlike in certain aspects, sirenians are thought to be the basis of the myth of mermaids." (Michael McCarthy, The Independent [London], February 28, 2009)
Did you know?
"Sirenian" traces back via Latin to Greek "seirēn," which is equivalent to our word for the sirens of Greek mythology. And what is the connection between sirens and sirenians? Modern sirenians do not resemble the half bird, half woman creatures who lured sailors to their doom with their sweet singing. But as our example sentence states, sirenians are considered by some to underlie the ancient legends about mermaids. In European folklore mermaids were sometimes called "sirens," and apparently this confusion resulted in the granting of sirenians the name they bear today.