Birmingham Politics Examiners
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Potential health care reform has cleared its first Senate hurdle on a party-line vote. A 60-39 vote, in a rare Saturday evening session, cleared...
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The group Transparency International recently released its survey of corrupt countries. Afghanistan was ranked the second most corrupt, being only slightly better than Somalia (The...
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AP Photo/David Guttenfelder In the November 18, 2009, on line Journal of the American Chemical Society, Neil Branda and other Canadian...
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November is National Homeless Youth Awareness month. Did you know that right now there are over one million homeless children in the US,...
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The Senate is obviously full of a lot more pomp and circumstance than the House of Representatives, or so they want you to think, I'll...
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As we saw on Friday, pirates are a misunderstood lot. They're not cutthroat sea scum, bent on pillage, ransom and death, they're...sea...
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On Saturday night, November 21, the U.S. Senate Democrats got a filibuster proof 60 votes that will allow them to bring their version of...
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Last night, SNL capitalized on the popularity of Palin's Going Rogue book tour and the blockbuster disaster film starring John Cusack, 2012. Even though the show kicked off with a...
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At around 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, a man allegedly stabbed another man to death over a seat on the D-train in Manhattan. The victim who has now been identified 36-year-old...
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The United States has poured $53 billion into Iraqi infrastructure over the past six years, building schools, hospitals, water-treatment...
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Sizing up the Kennedy dynasty's next generation
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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will be a tough act to follow, even for the Kennedys. His death, coupled with the decision by family members not to seek the seat he held for nearly five decades, has prompted predictions that the family's long-running political dynasty is over.