Massachusetts voters who backed Barack Obama in the presidential election a year ago and either switched support to Republican Senate candidate Scott Brown or simply stayed home, said in a poll conducted after the election Tuesday night that if Democ ...
Posted Wednesday, January 20th 2010 at 6:40PM
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"PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Despite dimming odds, rescue workers pulled more people alive from the rubble — including a 7-year-old girl who survived more than four days eating dried fruit rolls in the supermarket that collapsed around her — as water and ...
Posted Monday, January 18th 2010 at 1:48PM
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"Senate banking committee Chairman Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.) has discussed jettisoning plans for a standalone Consumer Financial Protection Agency, as part of an effort to secure bipartisan support for legislation to reform financial regulat ...
Posted Saturday, January 16th 2010 at 5:18PM
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“In a survey of American racial attitudes released Tuesday, researchers reported that the feeling of progress is driven in large part by the election of President Obama, along with a greater sense of local community satisfaction and a more positive o ...
Posted Wednesday, January 13th 2010 at 10:28AM
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Given all the negativity and internal strife happening on BIA of late, this song, sadly, characterizes my feelings about it. We need to come together, before its too late.
"Time is right up on us now brothers
Don't make no sense for us to be arg ...
Posted Thursday, January 7th 2010 at 6:09PM
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“Healthcare shares rise as reform bill progresses”
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BK2AR20091221
“The S&P Healthcare Index rose 1.4 percent, while the Morgan Stanley Healthcare Payor stock index rose 3.6 percent. The S&P Managed Health Car ...
Posted Tuesday, December 22nd 2009 at 12:20PM
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We spent Thanks giving weekend visiting family in Lead, SD. We decided to make a vacation out of it, and so we arrived last Sunday, staying at a cabin on Terry Peak, the highest mountain peak east of the Rockies, from 5500 to 7000 ft above sea level ...
Posted Monday, November 30th 2009 at 7:53PM
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What the Canadians have done makes a lot of sense. Yes, they pay more in taxes, but the amount they pay in taxes is far LESS than what we pay in taxes plus the cost of health insurance prermiums, if we're fortunate to be able to either afford ...
Posted Thursday, September 3rd 2009 at 3:25PM
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In a rare departure from my usual (over)serious pursuits on these venerable pages, a thought has come to mind, and thus I pose this question to the BIA faithful: who do you think is/was more talented, (The Artist) Prince, or Michael Jackson?
Pri ...
Posted Monday, August 24th 2009 at 2:16PM
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... take a gander at what happened last night at a town hall hosted by MO Senator Claire McCaskill. A group of black women came to the hall carrying posters with images of Rosa Parks. There were others with other signs there. McCaskill asked every ...
Posted Wednesday, August 12th 2009 at 5:59PM
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Lately you cannot turn on the TV without hearing or seeing the comparing of President Obama to Hitler. Glenn Beck is constantly referring to Obama as Hitler or a Nazi, Limbaugh does it regularly as well. If I am not mistaken, O’Reilly has gotten in ...
Posted Friday, August 7th 2009 at 2:25PM
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The shocking truth is the health insurance industry is organizing what are essentially goon squads to prevent people from asking questions and learning the truth about health care reform. They’ve become so desperate in preventing people from underst ...
Posted Friday, August 7th 2009 at 12:06PM
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“’They are the villains in this. They have been part of the problem in a major way,’ Pelosi said of the insurance industry after her weekly press conference. ‘It's almost immoral, what they are doing,’ she said, referring to industry lobbying against ...
Posted Thursday, July 30th 2009 at 4:22PM
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Obama was interviewed for this article by Washington Post reporter Eugene Robinson, regarding his speech at the NAACP's centenial. You can read the full column here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/18/AR2009071801045 ...
Posted Sunday, July 19th 2009 at 12:44PM
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