By The Admin on February 26, 2010
Noam N. Levey and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times
- Facing unbending Republican opposition to a healthcare overhaul, President Obama confronted a stark reality Thursday as his televised summit ended: If he and his Democratic allies in Congress want to reshape the nation’s healthcare system, they will have to do it by themselves.
Washington’s most powerful Democrats [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on February 26, 2010
What happens when you throw 38 lawmakers, four television cameras and the president of the United States together and tell them to fix health care? Sniping. Posing. Serious election-year politics. And little hope of bridging the gap between Barack Obama and Republicans.
Did you expect anything else?
From its conception, Thursday’s health care “summit” was destined to [...]
Posted in Health
By The Admin on February 26, 2010
Key provisions of the nation’s primary counterterrorism law would be extended for a year under a bill passed by the House Thursday evening after Democrats retreated from adding new privacy protections.
The House voted 315 to 97 to extend the USA Patriot Act, sending the bill to President Barack Obama. Without the bill, the provisions would [...]
Posted in Congress, White House
By The Admin on February 26, 2010
Jacqueline Trescott, Washington Post
- Their names are part of the cultural vocabulary: Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, Redd Foxx, Duke Ellington, Diana Ross.
What they all have in common is the hot spotlight on the famed Apollo Theater stage. Although many of the artists are gone, [...]
Posted in Outside of the Political Realm
By The Admin on February 26, 2010
Lawrence C. Ross Jr., The Root
- It’s the closest thing to Armageddon that many Black Greeks have seen since Laurence Fishburne’s character, Dap, ran around the fictitious Mission College campus yelling, “Wake Up!” in the classic movie, School Daze. Stepping, a bastion of black Greek life, has just undergone a revolution, and some black folks [...]
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