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Yahoo News
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US health and safety groups teamed up Tuesday in an effort to keep the legal drinking age at 21 amid a campaign from a small activist group to let Americans legally consume alcohol from age 18.
The advocacy group Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), t..
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United Press International
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Louisiana Republican Sen. David Vitter earmarked $100,000 for a group, headed by former political associates, that opposes teaching evolution in schools.
The money is set aside for the Louisiana Family Forum in the labor, health and education financing..
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CNN
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The World Bank's board on Friday ordered an ad hoc group to discuss the fate of President Paul Wolfowitz, whose leadership has been thrown into turmoil by revelations that he helped his girlfriend get a high-paying job.
The 24-member board, in a statem..
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FOX News
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Using the video site YouTube, the latest tool setting the 2008 White House race apart from past election cycles, Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign fired back at a conservative group Tuesday over its criticism of his fiscal policies.
McCain, R-..
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Daily Kos
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Maybe you've heard that the President is going to give a hoo-daddy big speech on Dec. 18. Just in time for Christmas...
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Washington Post
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Minutes after the Iraq Study Group placed an improvised explosive device beneath the Bush administration's Iraq policy yesterday, panel member Lawrence Eagleburger was asked how President Bush reacted to the recommendations...
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New York Times
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Freedom’s Watch, a deep-pocketed conservative group led by two former senior White House officials, made an audacious debut in late August when it began a $15 million advertising campaign designed to maintain Congressional support for President Bush’s..
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Alter Net
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Unmarried women may be the next big group of swing voters.
As a political reporter I am used to the many ways lobbyists try to find the next big group of swing voters at election time. But I was taken by surprise -- then by a strange sensation of indig..
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Los Angeles Times
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IN MAY 2001, advisors to Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was considering a run for governor, convened a secret focus group of a dozen independent-minded voters in a windowless room in Encino. Three members of the group volunteered that, the previous week, they..
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Washington Post
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Early on the morning of Nov. 13, 2006, members of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group gathered around a dark wooden conference table in the windowless Roosevelt Room of the White House.
For more than an hour, they listened to President Bush give what one p..
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Alter Net
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The North American Union, an increasingly popular conspiracy theory about a group of shadowy international "elites" who are planning to "replace the United States" with a transnational government, is a manifestation of xenophobia that would do the John Bi..
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Boston Globe
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A new political group recently asked Mitt Romney to promise not to wiretap Americans without a judge's approval or to imprison US citizens without a trial as "enemy combatants." When Romney declined to sign their pledge, the group denounced him as "unfit..
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Washington Post
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The trade group for university financial aid officers said yesterday that it would no longer allow student loan companies to court its members with gifts or sponsor its conferences, responding to a spate of revelations of conflicts of interest in the $85..
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Washington Post
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After an initially tepid reception from policymakers, the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group are getting a second look from the White House and Congress, as officials continue to scour for bipartisan solutions to salvage the American engagement in Ir..
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USA Today
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An influential group of senators reached a bipartisan deal Thursday that would give an estimated 12 million illegal immigrants a chance to stay in the USA legally and create a new system for future immigration.
It would also greatly expand the opportun..
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Guardian Unlimited
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The American humorist Fred Allen remarked that "a committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide nothing can be done". Had Mr Allen been alive to survey the beguiling spectacle of another week in Britain's war on ter..
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Washington Post
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Members of an independent review group investigating problems at Walter Reed Army Medical Center pressed Congress to mandate and pay for improvements to the aging hospital, saying the onus was on legislators and not just the Pentagon to make urgently need..
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CNN
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A top U.S. Democratic congressman met a leader of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's most powerful rival, the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood, U.S. officials and the Islamist group said Saturday.
Visiting House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer met with the head..
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Yahoo News
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A gay advocacy group Tuesday demanded an apology from the Pentagon's top general for calling homosexuality immoral.
In a newspaper interview Monday, Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, had likened homosexuality to adultery an..
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FOX News
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A Senate hearing that began with glowing tributes to a St. Louis businessman and his qualifications to become ambassador to Belgium turned bitterly divisive Tuesday after he was criticized for supporting a controversial conservative group.
Sen. John Ke..
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