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In May, President Obama read the Israelis the riot act, telling the Israeli government that he was serious about ending the Israeli conflict with the Palestinians and that a lasting peace agreement required the Israeli government to abandon all construction of new settlements in the occupied West Bank.

So let me see if I understand you correctly, mainstream Democrats: Rep. Bart Stupak , a longtime opponent of health care reform, has decided out of the goodness of his heart to construct a well-written amendment to the health care bill that would bring pro-choice and pro-life Democrats together and ensure its passage.

To the Editor Voters in other parts of Virginia and the nation, as well as those Independents and Republicans in Alexandria, would no doubt be amused by Alexandria Mayor Bill Euille's trenchant political observation at a Democratic "victory" party on election night that his party maintains its stranglehold on local politics because Alexandrians, in ...

November 12, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- - It did not take the Israel Lobby long to make mincemeat out of the Obama administrationa s a oeno new settlementsa position.

Don't look for the Senate to quickly follow the House on health care overhaul. A government health insurance plan included in the House bill is unacceptable to a few Democratic moderates who hold the balance of power in the Senate.

In exactly one month, San Francisco's proud, illustrious Palace Hotel will celebrate the centennial anniversary of its 1909 reconstruction after the city's devastating earthquake three years earlier.

As he seeks 60 votes to reform the nation's health care system amid a growing fight over abortion, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid , D-Nev., can take one lesson from the House vote: Despite heated threats, liberals stuck with their leader.

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives voted 220-215 Saturday to pass a $1.1 trillion health care reform bill that Democrats praised as 'historic' and Republicans decried as a 'job killer.' Ohio lawmakers split largely along party lines, with all but two of Ohio's Democrats voting for the measure and state Republicans voting against it.

But that does not mean that informed and engaged progressives are entirely enthusiastic about the measure.

A A Nov. 9: Morning Meeting's Dylan Ratigan speaks with Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., about the amendments in the House health reform bill which may prevent it from being passed in the Senate.

How tough a vote was the Democrat-authored health care bill for Ohio Democrats? Only two of 10 Democrats in the Ohio congressional delegation voted against the bill late Saturday night.

Thirty-nine Democrats voted against the House version of health-care overhaul that passed on Saturday.

Even as the Senate comes back for a brief session this week before Wednesday's Veterans Day holiday, the stage is largely set for the rest of the year's legislative agenda in the wake of House passage of a landmark healthcare overhaul bill late Saturday night.

Former Cleveland Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich , pictured above on Meet the Press, bolted Democrats by joining Ohio Republicans on no vote on healthcare bill.

The lights burn inside of the House of Representatives side of the U.S. Capitol late Saturday night as the health care bill is debated.

There were plenty of cowardly votes in the House last night but there was only one truly brave one.

Why is Republican Leadership Embracing Nutjobs? Posted by Joe Rivett on 11.07.2009 Even Obama was smart enough to dump Jeremiah Wright... "It was Thomas Jefferson who said a revolution every now and then is a good thing." That is what Michelle Bachman stated at the "Kill the Bill" rally.

I mentioned yesterday that Mary Landrieu had been dumped by the Palm Beach County Democrats for her refusal to promise to vote for cloture on health care.

Finally, Gen. Casimir Pulaski became an American on Friday, 230 years after the Polish nobleman died fighting for what became the United States.

Congressman Dennis Kucinich says he has been informed that efforts to keep 1,200 jobs at Alcoa in Cleveland have been successful.