Tag: arlen specter
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Voters Back Anti-DC, Anti-Establishment Candidates
With the electorate’s intense anger reverberating across the country, this is all but certain: It’s an anti-Washington, anti-establishment year. And candidates with ties to either better beware.
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Ira Einhorn, Earth Day Co-Creator, Was Well-Connected ‘Unicorn Killer’
Today is Earth Day, a holiday created to honor the planet and to raise the consciousness of man’s effect on the environment. Philadelphia has a very strong tie to this day. One of its native sons, Ira Einhorn, was a co-founder of the environmentalist jubilee. But Mr. Einhorn has another line on his resume. In…
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Webcamgate Expands As Lawyers Say 1000s of Pictures Taken
A webcam spying scandal at a suburban Philadelphia school district is broadening, with lawyers claiming the district secretly snapped thousands of webcam images of students using school-issued laptops without the pupils’ knowledge or consent.
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obamessiah & the apostles of war: unhappy birthday
obama joker posters popping up in los angeles as the tide of public opinion may be turning against obamafrom danny schechter: The tide of public opinion may be turning against the President. Pollsters report growing skepticism about health care reform, and more active hostility on racial matters, thanks to that “uncalibrated” expression of opinion on…
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single bullet specter & the balance of pirate power
…an interesting note on this so-called super majority story is the term filibuster: it literally means ‘pirate’ long-serving republican senator turns democratfrom dpa: Senator Arlen Specter, who has served as a Republican in Congress for nearly 30 years, announced Tuesday that he has switched parties, inching the Democrats closer to a super majority in Congress’s…
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anthrax: panel reviews, honest mistakes & email boasts
single-bullet specter want details of anthrax investigationfrom iht: A month after the FBI declared that a U.S. Army scientist was the anthrax killer of 2001, leading members of Congress are demanding more information about the seven-year investigation, saying they do not think that the bureau has proved its case. In a letter sent Friday to…
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Bill Would End Separation Of Church & Super Bowl
Sen. Arlen Specter, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a bill (S. 2591) this week that would allow houses of worship to show football games on big-screen televisions.

