WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi ripped congressional Republicans on Thursday for holding Democrats to a higher standard in the rhetoric employed in the often acidic health care debate.

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As the United States debates how to overhaul its health-care system, arguments have become increasingly outlandish -- perhaps none more so than former vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin's assertion that the Obama administration plans to implement state-sponsored "death panels" …

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Amid the political word battles being aired on TV, Cable, and all forms of media, this article lays out some reasonable alternatives which the current administration seems to want to suppress from the public. Debate in the House and the Senate are healthy for our Democracy.

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In what can only be called "business as usual" for today's Republican Party, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, in her bid to become Texas Governor, uses hidden key phrases to trick search engines into sending traffic her way.

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Just a few weeks ago...[Republican] Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota ...[said] that, when it came to Mr. Obama, "I'm very concerned that he may have anti-American views."

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The latest 11th-hour McCain campaign scare-tactic is debunked as "guilt by association gone haywire." Invoking a scholar of Middle-East Studies, McCain tries to paint Obama as aligned with the man who has questioned Israeli military methods.

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Louisville, KY U.S. Representative challenger Anne Northup (R) continues her typical "cheap shot" style of campaigning against Incumbent U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth (D) rather than addressing real issues.

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Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican John McCain of trying to divide the country Friday, but he let other Democrats handle harsher attacks while he kept his message mostly upbeat.

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With all the mud slinging going on this election, I thought it was nice to drop the politics and read human interest stories about the candidates.

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With all the mud slinging going on this election, I thought it was nice to drop the politics and read human interest stories about the candidates.

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"On Nov. 4, let's leave Barack Hussein Obama wondering what happend," a Florida official says, warming up the crowd for Palin, who wasn't yet there.

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Time Magazine calls John McCain on his constant and unmitigated campaign of deception, distortion, and dishonesty in an expose of McCain's lies.

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It's hard to imagine a more unlikely perch for John McCain to be shamed for his increasingly hard-edged and truth-stretching campaign than the middle seat on "The View."

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The media bear a heavy responsibility because "balance" does not require giving equal time to truth and lies. So does McCain, who is running a disgraceful, dishonorable campaign of distraction and diversion.

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Now, if Karl Rove could just make himself scarce, so that Obama and McCain can get back to the ISSUES, we voters would appreciate it!

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McCain's Big FlipFlop LowBall BackLash

The message from the Obama camp to the McCain camp: Sad but true, rubber and glue, all that stuff you're throwing just might stick to you!

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For a man whose dubious handling of the economy and the environment, on top of everything else, could drive his approval ratings even lower, President Bush is having a pretty good month.

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Why did it take all those liberals to realize how power-hungry and ruthless that Lady Macbeth er Hillary Clinton really is? Far be it for me to complain, -but the Clintons have been throwing mud and eviscerating all who step in their way for decades.

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Lost: The Fine Old Art of the Insult

What has the world come to when the best insult a person can come up with is "boob," it was a cool word in the 4th grade I suppose, you got a good double entendre chuckle from it, but seriously.

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Obama makes Hillary eat crow, again, following her latest attempt at slinging mud at him.

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Agents of Sen. Hillary Clinton are spreading the word in Democratic circles that she has scandalous information about her principal opponent for the party's presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, but has decided not to use it.

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Negative campaigns for judicial seats, especially appellate seats, are becoming the norm.

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