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24 Jul 2009 10:15

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Biz, U.S.: Today, the national minimum wage gets a kick in the pants

  • $7.25 the new ground floor of the minimum wage source
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24 Jul 2009 10:09

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U.S.: Not coming in the immediate future: Massive health-care reform

  • The Obama administration anticipated having a sweeping health care bill out the door by Congress’ August recess. source
  • A deadlocked Senate and confusion over what the president wants means it’s gonna have to wait ’til later this year. source
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24 Jul 2009 03:06

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U.S.: Texas rethinking how important they want God to be in the classroom

  • We’re in an all-out moral and spiritual civil war for the soul of America, and the record of American history is right at the heart of it.
  • Reverend Peter Marshall • On his bid to add a major religious component to the Texas school curriculum. Among other things, the state’s education board is looking at recommendations to include history lessons on the role Christianity played in founding the United States. Some think he’s exaggerating and others think he’s spot on. As per usual, they’re all arguing.  • source
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23 Jul 2009 20:45

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U.S.: The best, most lurid details of the New Jersey corruption saga

  • A bunch of prominent Jewish rabbis – including the grand rabbi of the Syrian Jews – apparently had corrupt ties to banks in Switzerland and Israel. Oy ye vey! source
  • Talk about a secret prize. Investigators said they found $97,000 in a box of Apple Jacks cereal. It was just one example of the huge amount of cash bandied about. source
  • One guy apparently convinced people to sell their kidney for $10,000, only to resell that same kidney for $16,000. And people said The Sopranos were fake! source
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23 Jul 2009 20:32

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U.S.: Half of New Jersey arrested in a corruption scandal for the ages

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23 Jul 2009 09:39

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U.S., World: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sez North Korea has “no friends”

  • There is no place to go for North Korea, they have no friends left that will protect them from the international community’s efforts to move toward denuclearization.
  • Secretary of State Hillary Clinton • In her latest push to get North Korea to denuclearize. As we’re sure you all know, Korea’s off-kilter half has been described as “provocative” in the last few months, and not the kind of “provocative” that Madonna was when she made that book with all the naked photos. And North Korea responded “provocatively” to Clinton, saying she “is by no means intelligent.” Now, if this were a schoolyard fight – and not saying it is – this would be the point we’d expect Clinton, fresh off her elbow injury, to take off her pantsuit jacket and start beating the bloody snot out of the jerk in North Korea who said that. But she wouldn’t do that. Know why? She’s a diplomat. • source
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23 Jul 2009 09:26

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Offbeat, U.S.: Ah-nold: You call that budget cuts? Well, this is a KNIFE!

  • It doesn’t even matter what Arnold Schwartzenegger said in this video. We got the idea in the first second and a half. The governor of California, fresh off $26 billion in budget cuts, is brandishing a big knife. You said it all with your actions, man.source
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23 Jul 2009 09:15

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U.S.: When not discussing health care, Obama jumped head-first into race

  • … the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home …
  • President Barack Obama • Discussing last week’s arrest of Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. during last night’s prime-time press conference. (BTW, in case you’re wondering – we’d quote the whole sentence, but the sentence was particularly massive, and this was the important part.) Obama’s stance on the Gates issue stands out because it may be the furthest he’s stuck his neck out on any one race issue since going into office. It was the moment – even beyond all of the health care gobbledygook – which will stand out from this press conference. Last week, his statement on role models also stood out for similar reasons. • source
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22 Jul 2009 21:08

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U.S.: Obama’s doing his whole talking to America thing again

Obama is trying to steer the ship of health care back in his favor, giving straight talk to a room full of press people. Good luck, bro. source
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22 Jul 2009 17:56

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U.S.: The NYT made way too many errors in their Cronkite obituary. Awkward.

  • 7 errors in the New York Times’ Cronkite obituary. Get it together guys. source
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