Hartford Area Politics Examiners
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Let's get something out of the way because I know this is going to be taken as a “that's right blame Obama” kind of thing but...
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Ruminations, December 27, 2009 Health insurance lives saved vs. lives lost The Institute of Medicine, the health branch of the National Academy of Sciences, issued an...
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Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell expressed concern over one key aspect of the state Democrat’s budget-deficit slashing. Rell pointed to a provision inherent in the...
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"No matter how hard you try you can't stop us now" is the battle cry from the song "Renegades of Funk" performed...
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A Moderate reflects on 2009 Climate Change progress. A few weeks after the Copenhagen Accord in Denmark, Liberals and environmentalists...
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1. Marijuana legalization hearing at MA State House, well attended with many speaking in support and only one who spoke against it. Hard to ignore were the local college orgs,...
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What do the cap and trade bill, the health care bill, and the USA Patriot Act have in common? If you said poorly conceived or uncreative...
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Stocks have recovered some lost ground, but no job growth yet. Those were perhaps the two biggest stories of 2009, with health care reform...
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Rush Limbaugh sleeps with naked teenaged girls, is obsessed with enemas, and once stated that blacks "pass their lives in indolence and nakedness." Wait. Did I say Rush...
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We're getting close to the end of the trail here, aren't we? When Examiner.com first started their New Year's resolution special project...
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Ron Paul to campaign for son in January
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Former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is expected in Kentucky in late January for a political rally and fundraiser to benefit his son's U.S. Senate campaign.