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PACs Struggle For Relevance Against Super PACs And Mega-Donors

Outside spending is likely to hit record levels this midterm election cycle, prompting questions about the plutocratic road American politics are headed toward.

Frederick Reese
بواسطة Frederick Reese
Newt Gingrich

MINNEAPOLIS -- Even by the most modest estimates, the record for outside spending in midterm elections could be broken this year. With Republicans hoping to expand their majority in the House and seize control of the Senate from the Democrats, and with Democrats hoping to minimize their losses prior to the likely Democratic swing in 2016, spending

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Maya Angelou, The Nation’s Wise Woman, Dies At 86

Angelou, who died Wednesday at 86, made an impact on American culture that transcended her soaring poetry and searing memoirs,

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Barack Obama, Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou walked into a meeting of civil rights leaders discussing affirmative action back in the 1990s, looked around, and put them all in their place with a single, astute observation. "She came into the room," recalled Al Sharpton, "and she said: 'The first problem is you don't have women in here of equal status. We need to correct you

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Psychological War In The Financial Markets And The Sino-Russian Gas Deal

A natural gas deal between Russia and China was in the works for a long time, so why all the fuss over its unveiling?

Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
بواسطة Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Alexei Miller, Zhou Jiping

One has to look beyond the headlines when considering world events. The ballyhoo that is made of many of these events is either newspeak or grossly disjointed by narrow-sighted interpretations. The announcement of the mega energy deal for just over 36.8 billion cubic meters (1.3 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas reached between the Russian

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Report: 1,700 Vets Left Off VA Hospital Wait List

The scathing report by the VA Office of Inspector General released Wednesday increased pressure on VA Secretary Eric Shinseki to resign.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press
Veterans Health Care

PHOENIX — Navy veteran Ken Senft turned to the Department of Veterans Affairs for medical care in 2011 after his private insurance grew too costly. It could have been a fatal mistake, he now says. A few years ago, the 65-year-old had a lesion on his head. He went to a VA clinic near his home outside Phoenix, but he said the doctor told him it

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Medtronic Settles Whistleblower Lawsuit For Paying off Doctors

The lawsuit that accused the company of giving doctors gifts in return for using its defibrillators and pacemakers.

Associated Press
بواسطة Associated Press

FRIDLEY, Minn.  — Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. will pay the U.S. Department of Justice $9.9 million to settle a lawsuit that accused the company of giving doctors gifts in return for using its defibrillators and pacemakers. Medtronic has not admitted any wrongdoing as a result of the settlement. The lawsuit unsealed this week accused

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Inside The Fight For Somalia’s Future

Training the army that will either stabilize the country, or fail it.

Tristan McConnell
بواسطة Tristan McConnell
Somalia

QORYOOLEY, Somalia — In the end, it wasn’t clan militias or Islamic militants but a government soldier who killed Dr. Osman. Over his 54 years, the pharmacist had earned a reputation for fair dealing in business, kindness among friends, and piety in the mosque. A family man, he had survived Somalia’s clan wars and then kept his head down when

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