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Obama, health: 'Time for games passed'
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated at 9:20 pm President Barack Obama, offering some concessions to Republicans and yielding some of his own ground on health care, maintained tonight that a "public option'' of government-run insurance is only one option open......Tags: Demographics, Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Employers, Illegal Immigrants
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Michelle Obama: 'Nothing cynical about it'
The Swampby Mark Silva DENVER --- Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic Party's presumptive presidential nominee, says: "I know Barack better than anybody.'' As she prepares to take the stage on the opening night of the party's convention, the candidate's wife......Tags: Values, Barack Obama, Philosophy, Politics, Elections
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Mystery meat and other food hazards
Dining@LargeGreat. As if I didn't worry enough about food-borne illnesses because of my job, consumer blogger and reporter Liz Kay has sent me a link to BarfBlog, 'Musings from the International Food Safety Network.'It sounds a little nutty, but it's......Tags: Health
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Hurricane Ike: Feds outline preparations
The Swampby Frank James The Feds have issued a press release outlining the preparations they've made for Hurricane Ike. The release has some useful information. For instance, there are more than 1,000 high-water vehicles at the ready to conduct search-and-rescue.....Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rentals, NASA, Natural Disasters, Health Organizations
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Health care, debt and taxes: GOP
The Swampby Mark Silva Debt and taxes. That's what Americans stand to get from the health-care reform that Democrars are pressing, Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson says in his party's weekly address. "Americans have been calling us and e-mailing us,'' the senator......Tags: Politics, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, Sonny Perdue, Social Issues, United States
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Health care: Right or responsibility? Either way, it???s broken
Mayo on the Side: Broward news columnist Michael Mayo | Sun-Sentinel BlogsLast night???s debate didn???t do much for me. Most talking points were a repeat of the first debate (what, they think we voters don???t have the attention span to watch every one of these things?) and the lack of specificity......Tags: Career and Workplace, Insurance, John McCain, Social Security, Social Issues
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Obama's 'public option:' Alive, well...
The Swampby Noam Levey and Janet Hook Despite months of outward ambivalence about creating a government health insurance plan, the Obama White House has launched a behind-the-scenes campaign to get divided Senate Democrats to take up some version of the idea......Tags: Blanche Lincoln, Barack Obama, Politics, Richard A. Gephardt, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance
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White House vs FOX News: War in review
The Swampby Mark Silva and updated After a week at "war'' with the FOX News Channel, the White House maintained today that it really isn't too concerned about what FOX says about the administration - and also gave new, high-level......Tags: Iraq, Barack Obama, Politics, Paul Ryan, National Government
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Health-care fight: Obama vs. insurers
The Swampby Mark Silva A full-bore fight is on to the finish: With a frontal assault on the insurance industry for sponsoring "misleading'' information, President Barack Obama today calls the passage of health-insurance reform "the great test'' of the "change''...Tags: Arts and Culture, NASA, Economic Policy, Barack Obama, History
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Swamp Sunrise
The SwampGood morning. Here are a few Washington events of note for Friday, October 18. President Bush is speaking on the economy to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Commerce Department is releasing its housing starts report for September. Health......Tags: Land Price, George W. Bush, Health
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Wednesday's Ten: Targeting Pennsylvania
Spin CycleMcCain targets Pennsylvania, sensing fertile ground and having few alternatives to victory despite trailing by double digits in some polls of the state's voters. But he's scaling back his ad buys in Colorado, NH and other states to finance......Tags: Steve Israel, Florida, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Alaska
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Wednesday ten: Night of the Obama infomercial
Spin CycleObama will try to close the deal with a 30-minute infomercial airing at 8 pm on CBS, NBC, Fox and other networks, and the NYTimes gets a preview. Obama will also make his first joint appearance with Bill Clinton......Tags: Halloween, Dov Hikind, Television Industry, CBS Corp., Health
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