Category Archives: Goverment

Why our government is broken

By doris | Published: September 26, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com Washington (CNN) — When Tip O’Neill retired in 1987, he was asked how the quality of people elected to Congress had changed in his 30-plus years of service. The former Speaker of the House answered: “The quality is clearly better, much better.” But, he added, “The results are definitely worse.” He [...]

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Senate votes down House disaster aid bill

By doris | Published: September 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — The Senate voted Friday to reject House-passed legislation to extend disaster aid and government funding, setting up an impasse that could threaten a government shutdown. The Senate voted, 59-36, to table the $3.7 billion disaster and stopgap spending bill to keep the government running past next Friday, effectively rejecting [...]

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Recession’s second act would be worse than the first

By doris | Published: September 22, 2011

Full Story at BottomLinemsnbc.msn.com Fresh evidence of a global economic slowdown has raised fears that governments around the world may be powerless to reverse it. If the world does fall into back into recession, it could be much harder to escape than the contraction that ended in 2009. With banks still recovering from a decade-long [...]

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White House ignored red flags in loan to failed solar company

By doris | Published: September 14, 2011

Full Story at Bottom Line.msnbc.msn.com The Obama administration committed more than $500 million in taxpayer money to a maker of solar power panels despite repeated red flags about the company’s viability, NBC News’ Lisa Myers reported Wednesday. The FBI raided the Silicon Valley headquarters of the company, Solyndra, last week, investigating whether the government was [...]

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After a decade of grief and recovery, nation remembers 9/11

By doris | Published: September 11, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com New York (CNN) — Thousands gathered Sunday morning at New York’s Ground Zero, stood still in silence, some crying as they listened to the names of victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks were read aloud. “They were our neighbors, our friends, our wives, children and parents,” said New York Mayor [...]

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Quake shakes East Coast, causes evacuations

By doris | Published: August 23, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — An earthquake in central Virginia was felt across much of the East Coast on Tuesday, causing light damage and forcing hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate buildings in New York, Washington and other cities.No tsunami warning was issued, but air and train traffic was disrupted across the Northeast [...]

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Rebels, troops battle near Moammar Gadhafi’s compound; no sign of dictator

By doris | Published: August 22, 2011

Full Story at  msnbc.com TRIPOLI, Libya — Libyan government tanks and snipers put up scattered, last-ditch resistance in Tripoli on Monday after rebels swept into the heart of the capital, cheered on by crowds hailing the end of Moammar Gadhafi’s 42 years in power.The 69-year-old leader, urging civilians to take up arms against rebel “rats,” [...]

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Australian collar bomb suspect arrested in Kentucky

By doris | Published: August 16, 2011

Full Story at newsYahoo.com LOUISVILLE, Ky (Reuters) – A man wanted in Australia for allegedly strapping a fake bomb to the neck of a teenage girl was arrested near Louisville on Monday, authorities said. Paul “Doug” Peters, an Australian national who police in New South Wales were seeking to apprehend in connection with last month’s [...]

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U.S. blocks $1 million Italian supercar

By doris | Published: August 9, 2011

Full Story atmoney.cnn NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Italian automaker Pagani was to begin selling its $1 million, 700 horsepower Huayra supercar in the U.S. later this year but federal safety regulators have said “Not so fast.” Pagani had applied for an exemption from federal auto safety rules requiring child-safe “advanced” airbags, arguing that complying with [...]

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U.S. official: More than two dozen U.S. deaths in Afghan copter crash

By doris | Published: August 6, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — More than two dozen American troops are believed to have died in a deadly Chinook helicopter crash in eastern Afghanistan overnight, a U.S. military official told CNN on Saturday. Among those killed were a mix of special forces from different services, the official said. If the numbers are [...]

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Calif. death, 76 illnesses linked to ground turkey

By doris | Published: August 2, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is scrambling to find the source of a salmonella outbreak likely linked to ground turkey that has killed one and sickened dozens more. Finding the source of an outbreak hasn’t been easy; the government has been chasing the illnesses for months. The Agriculture Department, which oversees [...]

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At least 91 dead in Norway shooting, bomb attack

By doris | Published: July 23, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com OSLO (Reuters) – A suspected far-right gunman in police uniform killed at least 84 people in a ferocious attack on a youth summer camp of Norway’s ruling Labor party, hours after a bomb killed seven in Oslo. Witnesses said the gunman, identified by police as a 32-year-old Norwegian, moved across the [...]

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U.S. official says pre-infected computer tech entering country

By doris | Published: July 8, 2011

Full Story at Technolog.msnbc.msn.com Confirming years of warnings from government and private security experts, a top Homeland Security official has acknowledged that computer hardware and software is already being imported to the United States preloaded with spyware and security-sabotaging components. The remarks by Greg Schaffer, the Department of Homeland Security’s acting deputy undersecretary for national [...]

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Much of Minnesota shuts down over budget impasse

By doris | Published: July 1, 2011

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Site will help you decide best time to buy tech gear

By doris | Published: June 20, 2011

Full Story at religion.Blog.CNN.com Washington (CNN) – NBC is calling it a mulligan. During the Sunday broadcast of the final round of golf’s U.S. Open coverage the broadcast showed a taped vignette at the beginning of the show. It featured children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance but omitted them saying the phrase “under God, indivisible.” [...]

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Giffords released from Houston hospital

By doris | Published: June 15, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com HOUSTON — U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords reached a major milestone in her recovery Wednesday when she was discharged from a Houston hospital where she has spent the past five months recovering from a gunshot wound to the head. Doctors treating the Arizona congresswoman at TIRR Memorial Hermann said her cognitive abilities [...]

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Chevrolet Volt earns top gov’t safety rating

By doris | Published: June 3, 2011

Full Story at money.cnn.com NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The Chevrolet Volt earned a top five-star rating in thee federal government’s new, tougher crash test rating system. Under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s new rating system, all vehicles are given a single rating of one to five stars encompassing front and side impact safety as [...]

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‘Walmart of Weed’ to open in Arizona, promote growing your own

By doris | Published: June 1, 2011

Full Story atCNN.com (CNN) — It’s called the “Walmart of Weed.” This newest big-box store is devoted to selling marijuana-growing equipment. Its biggest outlet yet is to open Wednesday in Phoenix, where Arizona voters approved medical cannabis last fall. The weGrow Store will be the first outside California, where medical weed has long been legalized. [...]

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Memorial Day marked by ceremonies, tributes

By doris | Published: May 30, 2011

Full Story at msnbc.com WASHINGTON — Americans from Washington to California are marking Memorial Day with parades, barbecues and special tributes tied to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. An annual holiday honoring the nation’s war dead was infused with new meaning this year, coming just months before the 10-year anniversary.

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Chrysler repays $7.6B in government loans

By doris | Published: May 24, 2011

Full Story at news.Yahoo.com DETROIT – With a few computer keystrokes in an office at its headquarters, Chrysler Group LLC sent $7.6 billion to the U.S. and Canadian governments on Tuesday, paying off most of the bailout money that saved the company from financial disaster just two years ago. The repayment — expected for weeks [...]

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