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House health bill likely to include public option

WASHINGTON – Early estimates from congressional budget umpires show that House Democrats are close to President Barack Obama's $900 billion target for health care legislation, a spokesman for Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday. The House versions, including a government-run insurance plan as an option for consumers, would cost under $900 billion over 10 years, said Brendan Daly, a spokesman for Pelosi, D-Calif.

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Tsvangirai’s party boycotting Zimbabwe government

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe's Movement for Democratic Change — the party of Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai — is boycotting the country's unity government, the party's leader said Friday. “This is a constitutional crisis,” said Tsvangirai as he railed against President Robert Mugabe's party. “ZanuPF [Mugabe's party] cannot run government alone constitutionally and legally.” Tsvangirai said his party will not attend cabinet meetings and the prime minister has also boycotted his meetings with Mugabe which occur every Monday

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Michelle Obama Action Figure

Michelle Obama’s dolls share her serious sense of style. And, of course, her right to bare arms

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Michelle Obama Action Figure

Congress to extend hate crime law to cover gays

WASHINGTON – Assaulting people because of their sexual orientation would become a U.S.

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Sarah Palin’s Ghostwriter Pals Around With Racists and Wackos

Lynn Vincent , the woman who is writing a book called Going Rogue “by” Sarah Palin , sure can pick her co-writers. She’s written books before with a general who kills “demons” for God and a guy who finds interracial dating “revolting.” As Charles Johnson—whose ongoing reformation from Muslim-hating wacko to right-wing apostate continues to puzzle and delight us—points out, Palin’s ghostwriter’s previous work includes Donkeycons , a thoughtful investigative look at the Democratic Party’s criminality that blows the lid off that “killer and traitor Aaron Burr.” Vincent’s co-writer on Donkeycons was Robert Stacy McCain , a former Washington Times editor who writes things like this : [T]he media now force interracial images into the public mind and a number of perfectly rational people react to these images with an altogether natural revulsion

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BUZZ: Will John Edwards Own Up to Lovechild?

The former Democratic presidential candidate is considering making an announcement

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Obama says the public option is not dead

In recent weeks, lawmakers opposed to passing a public option have been insisting that it is “dead” and Democratic leaders need to move forward without it. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has said that the “public doesn’t support it,” Sen

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Cowbeast of Death Is Latest Unskinned Monster to Wash Ashore

A young gentleman on Twitter asks, “I found the new montauk monster .

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John Edwards: Bastard Father, Cover-Up, Dave Matthews Fan

And he’s known it all along, or so says the New York Times . They got ahold of a leaked book proposal by Andrew Young, the Edwards aide who once claimed paternity of Rielle Hunter ‘s child. This…is juicy stuff.

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11-year-old boy fakes a kidnapping to hide his report card

An 11-year-old boy gets high marks in storytelling after staging a hoax to cover up his bad grades.

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