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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans learned early Thursday that they will be able to kill language in a measure altering President Barack Obama’s newly enacted health care overhaul, meaning the bill will have to return to the House for final congressional approval.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Anything but jubilant, President Barack Obama awkwardly kept a promise Wednesday he made to assure passage of historic health care legislation, pledging his administration would not allow the use of federal funds to pay for elective abortions covered by private insurance.

One of the main problems you face when you speak a language that your own ancestors didn’t create is that you’re subject to be manipulated by it.

From Color Of Change Tell the GOP: Stop inciting and supporting hate This weekend, anti health care protesters shouted racist and homophobic slurs at Black and gay members of Congress. It’s not the first time we’ve seen such hatred. For over a year, the Republican Party has done little to stop the violent rhetoric, racially […]

I recently watched a television show about standards of beauty around the world. I sat in awe as little Chinese girls went ga-ga for White Barbie, and their mothers and sisters stood in a drive-thru line to have a surgeon slice away the fat from their eyelids to make them more Euro-chic.

From the NY Daily News: Get ready to walk like an Egyptian – King Tut is on his way back to the Big Apple.

From the LA Times: Reporting from New York – The other morning, while tourists were lining up for an early lunch at Sylvia’s soul food restaurant in Harlem, Rodney Capel and Basil Smikle were finishing breakfast — and dissecting the travails of the local political machine.

Google search suggestions can often provide a pretty funny window into the human mind by revealing the bizarre questions people frequently ask.

The recent education reforms to No Child Left Behind proposed by the Obama Administration sadly perpetuate a flawed testing policy that will continue to leave our children behind.