The Divided States of Health Care Source: The New York Times
Those who lack health insurance now are far more likely to live in states that usually vote Republican — the states whose senators and representatives are least likely to support a law to extend coverage.
Va. Gubernatorial Candidate McDonnell Tries to Salvage Women's Votes Source: The Washington Post
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell has been working for months to reach out to female voters, a critical constituency, by forming a women's organization and touting the endorsement of the managing partner of the Washington Mystics women's basketball team.
Lawmakers may get an earful from constituents on stimulusSource: dcexaminer.com
For people like Hal Collins, a Troy, Ohio, pizza shop manager, a stimulus bill sounds like a good idea, just not the one Congress passed.
"For $13 a week?" Collins, 57, asked, referring to estimates of how much more take-home pay the average taxpayer would receive with the s …

Forget what the Democrats are telling you. Don't listen to what the Republicans are telling you either. Both groups have axes to grind and are jockeying for position in this new administration.

Nero fiddled as Rome burned. I can't believe they would take off in the middle of the worst crisis in almost 100 years.

It all trickles up anyway. Is the economy not like a food chain, in which the bottom...the plankton...is the money of individuals? If the plankton isn't there, no one eats. Of course, neither will the sharks in the end. It filters/trickles up no matter what.I'm not a communist.

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Feds to suspend border passport ruleSource: Yahoo! News
The Bush administration is poised to suspend a major post-9/11 security initiative to cope with increasingly angry complaints from Americans whose summer vacations are threatened by new passport rules.