TheHill.com-Baucus: �No idea� how he�ll vote on Sotomayor

Baucus on Thursday twice told The Hill he is undecided on next week's floor vote on Sotomayor.

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Google Earth Reveals Sixth Sense of Cattle, Deer

Though my farm-raised father insists differently, there's something a bit spooky about cows standing in a field. They're just a bit too placid; I've always suspected that those limpid eyes hide strange secrets.

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Foreclosed Minneapolis man accidentally boarded in his house

The kinder, gentler nation rolling right along

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Democrats stoke grassroots healthcare campaign

From a living room in Kansas to a bagel shop in New York to an Alabama church, Democrats have started mobilizing support for President Barack Obama's healthcare reform plans.

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Karl Rove case witness killed in plane crash, sisters want answers - Isthmus | The Daily Page

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AIG to Pay $450 Million in Bonuses

More lies. @!$%# this @!$%# and @!$%# those @!$%#s. So Larry Summers says, " the government can't simply abrogate the contracts that AIG managers had with executives." Why the @!$%# not?

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7 states post jobless rates above 10%

Seven states posted unemployment rates larger than 10 percent in January, according to figures released Wednesday morning by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Ecological implications of plants' ability to tell the time

A new article published in Ecology Letters discusses plant's cyrcadian rhythm. Full text is available.

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New Antarctic Fish Species Discovered | LiveScience

A Spanish researcher has discovered a newfound species of fish in an area of the Antarctic Ocean that has not been studied since 1904.

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Economics Ivory Tower Unswayed by Crashing Economy

"For years economists who have challenged free market theory have been the Rodney Dangerfields of the profession.

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Scientists to issue stark warning over dramatic new sea level figures

Scientists will warn this week that rising sea levels, triggered by global warming, pose a far greater danger to the planet than previously estimated.

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The media's tax fraud

When is a tax cut for 98 percent of taxpayers portrayed as a tax increase? When some of the small handful of people whose taxes will go up happen to control the nation's news media.

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Mysterious Moon Flashes Signs of "Last Gasps"?

Ever since the invention of the telescope, said the Columbia University astrophysicist, observers around the world have occasionally watched small areas of the moon brighten or "turn fuzzy." Sometimes they even turn reddish.

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Levin, McCain Introduce Defense Reform Bill : ACTION ALERT

Ninety-five of DOD's largest acquisition programs are, on average, two years behind schedule and have exceeded their original budgets by a combined total of almost $300 billion, Levin says, adding: "When the federal budget is under immense strain as a result of the economic c …

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Health Care Lobbyists and Industry Insiders In Place to Shape Policy

Many of the parties, from big insurance companies to lobbyists for consumers, doctors, hospitals and pharmaceutical companies, are embracing the idea that comprehensive health care legislation should include a requirement that every American carry insurance.

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Ending the Hidden Agenda Behind Tax Cuts

It's time to tell the truth about tax cuts. This phrase dominates political discourse and is coughed out every time a conservative public figure opens his mouth.

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Frank Rich: They Sure Showed That Obama

AM I crazy, or wasn't the Obama presidency pronounced dead just days ago? Obama had "all but lost control of the agenda in Washington," declared Newsweek on Feb. 4 as it wondered whether he might even get a stimulus package through Congress.

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They snuck something in and its HUGE: Stimulus Plan Sets New Limits on Executive Pay

WASHINGTON — A provision buried deep inside the $787 billion economic stimulus bill would impose restrictions on executive bonuses at financial institutions that are much tougher than those proposed 10 days ago by the Treasury Department.

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The GOP's Jihad on Obama

The Republicans and their right-wing media allies are doing whatever they can to strangle the Obama phenomenon in its cradle; the mainstream media pundits are stressing the negative so they don't get called "in the tank for Obama"; and the Democrats are shying away from hol …

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Lockheed lobbies for F-22 production on job grounds

My suggestion is take the hundreds of millions per item used to fund this dangerous, over priced, dysfunctional kill-junk and create jobs by build solar and wind technologies, fuel efficient vehicles, modernize all buildings, put broadband every where, modernize the public schoo …

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Terrifying: Companies are Marketing Police State Normalcy to Children

The obvious irony is that we are not secure and free if government agents have a right to violate our privacy and deny our rights without cause.

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What got cut from the stimulus bill

Typical republican values on display.

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