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Small-Business Bill Falters on Senate Partisanship - NYTimes.com

Seeded on Fri Jul 30, 2010 8:43 PM EDT (The New York Times)

Senate Republicans on Thursday rejected a bill to aid small businesses with expanded loan programs and tax breaks, in a procedural blockade that underscored how fiercely determined the party's leaders are to deny Democrats any further legislative accomplishments ahead of Novemb …

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GOP gives Obama proposal unanimous approval!

Wed May 12, 2010 8:21 PM EDT

Ok, here it is. After 14 months of trying to figure out just what the President could propose that would gain unanimous support of the GOP, I finally have it! While watching the beginning of the Bruins/Flyers game, the traditional singing of God Bless America came on.

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A "must read" for all Americans: The actual words and wisdom of our Founding Fathers

Sun May 9, 2010 8:35 AM EDT

For the past two years, many people have talked about the need to go back to the original intents of the founding fathers of our country.

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More GOP history rewriting

Sun May 2, 2010 9:58 AM EDT

Mike Pence again on Meet the Press asserts that unemployment rates have skyrocketed under President Obama. Sorry mike lets look at the facts.

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U.S. economy grows at fastest rate in 6 years - washingtonpost.com

Seeded on Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:22 AM EST (The Washington Post)

Do you think it will be hard for the GOP to take credit in helping the economy turn around? What specific program can they say that without their support this would not have been possible? Do you beleive that the argument will be " See, doing nothing and adding nothing works"?  …

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$2.3M eyed to retrieve lost lobster traps - Bangor Daily News

Seeded on Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:52 AM EDT (bangor daily news)

Heres a proposed use of stimulus funds that will surely cause a stir with some folks. However, like earmarks spending, one mans waste is another mans livelyhood.

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Snowe says polarization hurts Senate - Bangor Daily News

Seeded on Mon Apr 13, 2009 4:24 PM EDT (bangordailynews.com)

Maybe the Republicans would do good to heed the old saying "As Maine goes, so goes the (Republican) Nation."

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Why I'd rather listen to John Stewart than Rush Limbaugh

Sun Mar 8, 2009 6:22 PM EDT

I don't often get to see the Daily Show with John Stewart. But I have, on a rare day off, been watching some clips of his show on Google Video. I was especially interested in the shows involving his appearances on news shows and with special guests of interest on his show.

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Can Liberal and Conservative Capitalism come together for a Moral and Ethical Economic System

Sun Mar 8, 2009 4:01 PM EDT

In 1980, the top 1 percent of earners in the country controlled about 8 percent of the total economic pie. Twenty-six years later, the top 1 percent now controls almost a quarter of the nation's total economic pie.

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Maines hospitals: Big jobs, big pay - Bangor Daily News

Seeded on Sun Mar 8, 2009 10:42 AM EDT (bangornews.com)

As you can see by this article, CEO compensation, at least in this instance, is a very small piece of the pie. The cost associated with the health industry have got to be addressed.

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Searching for Utopia

Seeded on Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:43 PM EST (http://www.umainetoday.umaine.edu/index.html)

If you're talking about a system where everybody will have enough to eat, where everyone has sufficient shelter and clothing, where the planet will be protected, where people have enough freedom to express themselves, but not so much that they would be hurtful to others, most peo …

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