We will recover from this recession. But it will take time, it will take patience, and it will take an understanding that when we all
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Veterans who got colonoscopies through the Miami VA medical system are at risk of being infected with hepatitis B, hepatitis C or HIV through the
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Bainbridge man hopes to bring his new electric fleet to the street Retired software engineer, Bob Fraik, hopes to build electric vehicles at the Port
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And now, for something completely different From the Onion News Network: Experts agree giant, razor-clawed bioengineered crabs pose no threat to America. In fact, they’re here
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In a few weeks, Washington’s second largest city will play host to the National Smart Grid Conference, which organizers bill as “unprecedented” effort to “develop
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Krugman pans the leaked Geithner plan Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman says the plan will create the functional equivalent of Texas S&Ls in the 1980s: financial
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Fox News’ Glenn Beck was born in Mount Vernon, Washington on February 10th, 1964.
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The surge of Americans incarcerated A visual graph of the rise of the number of Americans in prison from 1920 to 2006.
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Yoo: “Hippies ruined my reputation” The infamous author of the Bush administration’s ”torture memo” says he doesn’t see anything wrong with the outrageous documents he wrote justifying
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Report: Energy contributing to birds’ decline Energy production of all types — wind, ethanol and mountaintop coal mining — is contributing to steep drops in
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More Democrats in the 2010 Oregon State House? Daily Kos’ cjallen brings Oregon State House Districts 20, 37, and 39 to our attention as potential pickups in 2010.
LaunchDear President Obama: War, from its origins, is the murders of the sons by the fathers; as in: so few fathers murdering so many sons.
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Obamas to plant organic vegetable garden The White House has been without a vegetable garden since First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt last planted one during World
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