Blue Herald

By ROSALIE WESTENSKOW
UPI Correspondent
WASHINGTON, May 24 (UPI) — Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., presented a seven-part plan Thursday aimed at lowering healthcare costs — a roadmap that several doctors deemed encouraging.
The proposal focuses solely on cutting costs, which Clinton identified as one of three areas critical to healthcare reform.
Addressing students and faculty at [...]

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By DINESH RAMDE, Associated Press Writer
MEQUON, Wis. - Motorists pulled in to Harvey Pollack’s gas station Thursday, honked and gave him a thumbs-up - because he wasn’t selling any fuel.
The owner of Towne Market Mobil in this suburb north of Milwaukee shut down his pumps for 24 hours, hoping to start a movement aimed at [...]

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I’m a little late in crossposting this. Fade sent it to me on May 9th, and I overlooked it. My bad. But it’s not too late to post. Check out The House of the Rising Sons when you get a chance!
Yesterday on Crooks & Liars, Nicole Belle posted this: Senate Kills [...]

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WASHINGTON - A powerful think tank chaired by former Sen. Sam Nunn and guided by trustees including Richard Armitage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Harold Brown, William Cohen and Henry Kissinger, is in the final stages of preparing a report to the White House and U.S. Congress on the benefits of integrating the U.S., Mexico and Canada into [...]

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Bob Dylan - “Subterranean Homesick Blues”
The oft-copied “video.” Happy 66th birthday to Bob!

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Keith Olbermann reports only 14 Democrats voted against the supplemental to fund the war. Roll call here

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Rx for Republican Memory Loss
H/T to Paul for this post!

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By RICHARD LARDNER
WASHINGTON - The system for delivering badly needed gear to Marines in Iraq has failed to meet many urgent requests for equipment from troops in the field, according to an internal document obtained by The Associated Press.
Of more than 100 requests from deployed Marine units between February 2006 and February 2007, less than [...]

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I can’t put my disgust into words. Roll call here
From Reuters:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives broke a four-month deadlock with President George W. Bush on Thursday and approved $100 billion in new funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without a timetable for withdrawing combat troops.
By a vote of 280-142, [...]

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No comment…….
From Yahoo News
LONDON (Reuters) - Rising numbers of women in Britain are seeking state-funded cosmetic surgery on their genitals, doctors said on Friday.
Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the number of “labial reductions” carried out in National Health Service hospitals had doubled to 800 a year over five years.
“More and more [...]

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