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Who Is Van Jones?

The story of how the President’s Special Advisor for Green Jobs became the biggest, scariest villain of the right wing (this week, anyway) is also the story of how the right wing information delivery process works now. Here’s the biography of Van Jones : he was a bookish black kid from Tennessee who went to Yale Law and moved to San Francisco and became a radical. Then he decided to use his law degree and smarts to clean up and make things better from inside the establishment

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Who Is Van Jones?

Biden: Stimulus projects moving faster than expected

Vice President Joe Biden will claim Thursday that the $787 billion stimulus plan “is doing more, faster, more efficiently, and more effectively than we had hoped.” In a speech planned to mark the 200-day mark since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act took effect, Biden will say that $62.5 billion in tax cuts have been delivered, $1.9 billion contracts have been awarded to small businesses, and more than 10,000 transportation projects approved. In many areas, he'll say that work has exceeded goals: *Work has started on 2,200 highway projects, for example, 700 more than the expected at this stage.

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Biden: Stimulus projects moving faster than expected

Obama to nominate Bernanke to 2nd term

WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday will nominate Ben S.

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Obama to nominate Bernanke to 2nd term

Tom Ridge says Bush Administration pushed to raise terror alert for re-election in ’04

A remarkable detail to be published in former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge's soon-to-be-released book asserts that the Bush Administration attempted to wield the color-coded terror alert system for political gain — a charge often leveled by Democrats but not previously confirmed by a high-ranking Bush Administration official.

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Tom Ridge says Bush Administration pushed to raise terror alert for re-election in ’04

Living Montauk Monster Terrorizing Canada

Summer is in full swing, so you know what that means: Monsters ! It was exactly one year ago today that we first reported on the Montauk Monster and now something that looks like Monty’s cousin has emerged in Toronto. Alive! The creature was photographed by a Toronto resident named Jeffrey Freeman as it was rummaging around in his backyard. What could this hellish thing possibly be?

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Living Montauk Monster Terrorizing Canada

Anna Wintour Wildly Overestimates Her Sway at the Obama White House

Anna Wintour has come up with a genius way to save the dying fashion business: Why doesn’t everyone just collude on prices? So what if it’s illegal

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Anna Wintour Wildly Overestimates Her Sway at the Obama White House

Why Have the Volcano Vaporizer to Smoke Herbs Posted By : FastSubmitArticles.com

These days many people have ditched their cigarettes for the volcano vaporizer. This specialized vaporizer is the latest way to get your nicotine kick

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Why Have the Volcano Vaporizer to Smoke Herbs Posted By : FastSubmitArticles.com

California Medical Marijuana Still Has Problems

Regulating medical marijuana sales remains an issue in California, more than a decade after the passage of California’s medical marijuana law. Is it time to ask if marijuana reform, pushing for the passage of laws treating the herb as a medical treatment, is really the right road to legalization? The city of Oceanside may temporarily suspend medical marijuana dispensaries from opening until the city council decides how to regulate them

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California Medical Marijuana Still Has Problems

Peter Cammarano, Hoboken, N.J., Mayor, Arrested in Money Laundering Sting

Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano is among top New Jersey politicians and dozens of others in the Garden State and Brooklyn – including five rabbis – who were nailed Thursday in a wide-sweeping probe of an international money laundering ring.

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Peter Cammarano, Hoboken, N.J., Mayor, Arrested in Money Laundering Sting

A Novel Approach: Ending Homelessness with Homes

The Dallas City Council thinks it has a strategy for ending homelessness in the city, and it's fabulously uncomplicated: housing for the homeless. Not shelters, but actual apartments. Next American City reports: According to the U.S

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A Novel Approach: Ending Homelessness with Homes