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  • Voters tell lawmakers during break: ‘Pass the budget’

    Voters tell lawmakers during break: ‘Pass the budget’

    April 10, 2009

    WASHINGTON—House and Senate members returned to their home districts for their two-week spring break to face voter demands they enact President Obama’s budget providing many billions for “green jobs,” health care, and education. Americans United for...

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  • Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News’ militia media

    Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News’ militia media

    April 10, 2009

    Source: Media Matters After a night of drinking, followed by an early-morning argument with his mother, with whom he shared a Pittsburgh apartment, 22-year-old Richard Poplawski put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed his guns, including an...

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  • Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News’ militia media

    Glenn Beck and the rise of Fox News’ militia media

    April 10, 2009

    Source: Media Matters After a night of drinking, followed by an early-morning argument with his mother, with whom he shared a Pittsburgh apartment, 22-year-old Richard Poplawski put on a bulletproof vest, grabbed his guns, including an...

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  • Open letter to President Obama from Muslims

    Open letter to President Obama from Muslims

    April 10, 2009

    Republished below is an open letter we received from a new organization, Muslims for Peace, Justice and Progress. An extended version and list of signers is available at the group’s web site, www.mpjp.org. Dear President Obama,...

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  • Franken widens lead, Coleman wont concede

    Franken widens lead, Coleman wont concede

    April 9, 2009

    A three-judge panel on April 7th opened about 400 absentee ballots in the Al Franken-Norm Coleman race for the U.S. Senate in Minnesota, still undecided five months after the Nov. 4 election. When the judges finished...

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