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Exclusive: Kucinich shreds Democrats for betraying the promise of change
Slams health bill ‘madness’ WASHINGTON — Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) on Wednesday said the Massachusetts election was a “wake up call” for Democrats and that his party had better change course or it could suffer devastating losses come November. “People elected Democrats in 2008 to change the country’s direction,” he…
Retreat: Democrats begin discussing smaller health bill, as liberals refuse to back Senate bill
President Barack Obama and his Democratic allies are conceding for the first time that they may have to accept a less ambitious health overhaul bill than the massive one they’ve struggled for a year to assemble. Shorn by Massachusetts voters of their pivotal 60th Senate vote and much of their…
Blair aware of Islamist threat from Iraq war: ex official
LONDON — Former prime minister Tony Blair knew that invading Iraq in 2003 could increase the threat from Islamic extremism but pressed ahead nonetheless, a former top civil servant said Wednesday. Speaking at a public inquiry into Britain’s role in the controversial war, David Omand added that a claim Saddam…
SF mayor calls Obama failure to support gay marriage ‘inexcusable’
Gavin Newsom, the photogenic San Francisco mayor who recently dropped his hat into the California governor’s race and then withdrew, expressed visceral frustration with President Barack Obama in an article published Wednesday. The latest in a string of Obama critiques by gay rights advocates, Newsom’s comments come on the eve…
Dean: Bush would have had healthcare a long time ago
Howard Dean seems to be sick of Democrats’ bipartisan attitude. In sharply worded comments Tuesday night following the loss of former Sen. Ted Kennedy’s (D-MA) Senate seat, the former chairman of the Democratic Party asserted that party leaders needed to bypass their quest for sixty Senate votes. “We’ve got to…
Report: Pentagon mulls ‘separate but equal’ gay policy
‘Now is not the time’ to repeal DADT, Pentagon lawyers argue Gay rights activists are sounding the alarm about a Pentagon legal memo that advocates delaying any decision about the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy until 2011, as well as a news report that military brass are considering separate…
David Axelrod smacks Karl Rove’s ‘shamelessness’ on deficit
President Barack Obama’s chief political strategist on Friday slammed his Bush administration counterpart Karl Rove for allegedly making up “his own facts” about Democrats. In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, David Axelrod accused Rove of hypocrisy and “shamelessness” for insinuating Sunday in a Post expose that Congressional Democrats…
Scientists cautiously optimistic as Doomsday clock reset
NEW YORK — The minute hand of the Doomsday clock was moved back slightly Thursday, indicating the world has inched away from nuclear or environmental catastrophe, but stressing it was not out danger. “It is six minutes to midnight,” the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which created the Doomsday clock in…
New Jersey passes nation’s toughest medical marijuana law
By a vote of 48 to 14 in the state’s assembly on Monday, New Jersey became the 14th state in the union to make legal accommodations for the use of medical marijuana. However, California this is not. The bill, which was supported by both outgoing Gov. John Corzine and Governor-elect…
Supreme Court moves to shield gay-rights foes for second time
The US Supreme Court has blocked efforts to have a historic gay-marriage trial broadcast in real time on YouTube. The decision reveals an emerging pattern by the nation’s highest court to protect the identities of gay rights opponents on the grounds that they could be harmed or threatened with violence…
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