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Sí Se Puede: Remembering Cesar Chavez

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President Obama, commemorating Cesar Chavez on what would have been his 82nd birthday today:
Cesar Chavez’s legacy as an educator, environmentalist, and as a civil rights leader who struggled for fair treatment and fair wages for America’s workers is important for every American to remember.
Having begun as a farmworker, Cesar Chavez eventually co-founded the United [...]

Kathleen Sebelius (Democrat-Kansas) Has a Tax Problem

From RedState.com
Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius, the former trial lawyer lobbyist who looked out for the interest group while in the state’s highest office — even though doing so meant preventing decreased costs and increased access to care within her own state’s health care system — has a tax problem.
According to this letter from Sebelius to [...]

Recap of the NY-20 race.

From RedState.com

Scott Murphy (D) is ahead by 65 votes.  Nobody’s calling this race just yet.
There are somewhere between six and ten thousand absentee ballots that need to be counted.
They’re not being counted tonight.  They’re not being counted for another week. (Via AoSHQ)  You see, we do, in fact, actually learn from our mistakes.
The deadline for [...]

Video: Countdown to Pledge Delivery Day

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The Vice President in Latin America

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On Friday, as Vice President Biden was preparing for to leave for Chile and Costa Rica, he published an op-ed that appeared in eleven papers throughout Latin America entitled, "A New Day for Partnership in the Americas":
 
Next month, President Obama will travel to Trinidad and Tobago to meet his [...]

Medically unfit being deployed?

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Conflicting policies, inaccurate records, and uninformed commanders and medical providers all could play a role in the Army’s deployment of soldiers medically unfit to serve, according to an Army inspector general’s report.
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Senate also backs 3.4 percent raise for 2010

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A 3.4 percent across-the-board military pay raise for 2010 appears to be a lock after a Tuesday morning announcement by the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman of bipartisan support on his panel for the increase.
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FinancialStability.gov

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The Treasury Department has just launched FinancialStability.gov, a website dedicated to bringing transparency and clarity to the immensely complex problems in the financial system and the President’s plans to address them.
 
The Huffington Post describes some of the site’s features:
 
The site, FinancialStability.gov, includes a bevy of data, charts, contracts and other [...]

New Iraq mission requires diplomacy, patience

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BAGHDAD — During his first tour, Capt. Nathan Williams worried for the safety of his soldiers fighting insurgents in west Baghdad. This time, he fears his troops may drop their guard as violence wanes.
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Regional Health Forum: Greensboro, Streamed and Live-blogged at 10:30

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The fourth White House Regional Forum on Health Reform is in Greensboro, North Carolina, hosted by Governor Beverly Perdue and Nancy Ann Deparle, Director of the WH Office of Health Reform.  Rebecca Adelman of the Department of Health and Human Services gives us the play-by-play below, but you can [...]