Month: April 2009

CDC: Infant Dies from Flu in Texas

. Update [2009-04-29 16:04:50 EST by Oui]: BREAKING NEWS – WHO chief to raise pandemic alert level to 5 U.S. has first death from Mexican swine flu WASHINGTON (AP) – A government official confirmed the first U.S....

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Can Jim DeMint Get His Wish?

The ultra-conservative senator Jim DeMint broke the news to Arlen Specter last Thursday. Last Thursday night on the Senate floor, Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., told Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, then still a Republican, that...

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Thoughts on Specter

We Democrats here in Pennsylvania know Arlen Specter’s record better than anyone and you’ll be hearing endless reiterations of his many sins over the next two years. I don’t need to do that now. Suffice to say...

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Quote of the Day

Jonathan Chait: “When a politician switches parties, it’s customary for the party he’s abandoned to denounce him as an unprincipled hack, and the party he’s joined to praise him as a brave convert who’s genuinely seen the...

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