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Illinois Republican candidates blasted for extremism
July 1, 2010Republican candidates for Illinois governor and U.S. Senate are being blasted for embracing extreme right-wing policies.
Read moreTeacher funding added to war spending bill
July 1, 2010Lawmakers who want to prevent thousands of teacher layoffs but oppose spending more money on the war in Afghanistan face a dilemma in Congress this week.
Read moreGov’t spying on citizens? ACLU map shows Bush years full of it
June 30, 2010Despite what anti-Obama conspiracy theorists, tea partiers and other various anti-government groups say, government political spying was rampant during the Bush-Cheney years.
Read moreNYC Pride: Celebrating and militant
June 30, 2010Manhattan's LGBT pride march, the largest and oldest in the nation, and one of the largest in the world, capped off a the June 19-27th Pride Week.
Read moreCalifornians feel benefits of federal health law
June 30, 2010Californians are already beginning to feel the benefits of the new federal health care law, a newly released progress report by Health Access reveals.
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