This story originally appeared on my blog The Silent Majority" I suppose it was a foregone conclusion that health care legislation would pass. That does not soften the blow in anyway; much like the expected death of a close family member this bill will likely signal the...
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'I hate whale meat,' Japan's PM confides: reportJapan's Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has revealed he dislikes whale meat, a newspaper reported Saturday, in an unusual confession for the prime minister of a country...
In her first interview since giving birth, Bristol Palin, the teenage daughter of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told told Fox News' Greta Van Susteren having a child is not "glamorous," and that telling young people to...
One of the reasons I was happy to see Gregor Robertson elected as Mayor of Vancouver is because he understands new media. Pete Quily has done a very in depth analysis of the mayoral run and concludes that...
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Energy companies in the UK are pleading poverty. Their profits are being slashed, they tell us, as wholesale prices of gas and oil increase. They must, therefore, increase the price at which they are selling fuel to us. But when these corporations are still making billions...
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an "economic war" if Exxon Mobil Corp. wins court judgments to seize billions...
"Anti-war demonstrators marched in a dozen U.S.
cities on Saturday to call for an immediate end to the war in Iraq and
a cut-off of funding by Congress.
The "national day of action," sponsored by the...
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"Various folks continue to raise the red herring that raising minimum wages will hurt low paid workers. Somehow they will be worse off with higher wages, go figure, because small businesses will lay off workers supposedly ( despite studies showing that there is not a...
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"Well the minimum wage debate rages in the pages of Progressive Bloggers, having said my piece here and here, I will simply add this link to the PB page where you can find the vast debate that is ongoing on thisAnd just to add another two bits into this debate I include...
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"Since I posted on the Minimum Wage controversy this morning some more matters have come to my attention. The usual canard that minimum wages only apply to students is far from the truth as Statistics Canada shows; JUST OVER 1.3 million full-time employees aged 16 to 64 held...
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"U.S. Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson was in critical but stable condition after undergoing brain surgery, a source said on Thursday, reminding Democrats of their precarious hold on the new Senate.""The source familiar with the situation said doctors told Johnson's
family that...
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"It looks like Iceland and the small handful of bottom feeding nations that use dragger and bottom trawlers won a victory at the UN this week. However I am pleased to say it was without the help of Canada."
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