Liberal Groups Planning to Rally on National Mall - NYTimes.comHoping to overshadow last month’s large rally led by Glenn Beck that drew many Tea Party advocates and other conservatives, a coalition of liberal groups plan to descend on Washington on Saturday to make the case that they, and not the ascendant right, speak for America’s embattled middle class
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Barack Obama seeks to tap into 2008 energy - Kendra Marr - POLITICO.comwww.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42863.htmlMADISON, Wis. – When President Barack Obama stepped onto the stage of this college town – a song from the rock group U2 blaring, signs waving and supporters straining to touch him as he swept by – the scene mimicked the heady days of his unprecedented, energized, 2008 presidential campaign.
www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/09/pledge_to_america.htmlRepublicans in Congress released “Pledge to America” today, a plan they characterize as laying out a “new governing agenda.” Integral to that plan is a new commitment to “fiscal responsibility.” Our analysis, however, shows that implementing the plan’s proposals would increase the federal budget deficit and accelerate growth in federal debt
Three months ago, President Obama asked Ray Mabus, the Navy secretary, to figure out what comes next in the Gulf of Mexico — to design a strategy that moves beyond the immediate job of cleaning up the oil to the larger task of restoring an ecosystem that was in deep trouble even before the BP spill and is worse off now
Many children want to read books on digital devices and would read for fun more frequently if they could obtain e-books. But even if they had that access, two-thirds of them would not want to give up
Is a football mainly for children? What about a Halloween costume or a model train?Dan Marshall, vice president of the Handmade Toy Alliance at his store in St. Paul, Minn., said the Consumer Product Safety Commission “ignored everybody’s input, including ours.”Makers of learning kits say they should not be subject to new regulations for children’s products.None of the above, manufacturers say, as a new federal crackdown on dangerous toys has left some in the industry crying foul and not wanting to play.
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