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President Barack Obama’s speech before Congress on September 8 regarding jobs may have been his most effective remarks since his speech on race in
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Ideology-driven, intransigent, Norquist-pledge-signing, Obama-hating Congressional Republicans might not get it, but kitchen-table Americans do. Public opinion polls released in the past few days indicate
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The device you are reading this on, whether you are a Mac or PC fan, is very likely helping to fuel the ongoing civil
New Ilinois law impedes access to information
Illinois Governor Pat Quinn recently signed into law HB1716. which allows public agencies to charge people for the cost of record retrieval if the records are
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Benzos: more dangerous than the conditions they treat?
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