Bill Clinton pitches health bill to Dems
WASHINGTON Former President Bill Clinton knows just how high the political stakes are in the fight to overhaul America s health care system. His failed attempt to revamp the delivery of medical care contributed to the Republican takeover of the Hou...
 3.8K - Nov. 10, 2009; scored 247.0 What's next for health care?
WASHINGTON 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. They ...
5.2K - Nov. 9, 2009; scored 126.0 Tough road ahead in Senate for health care bill
WASHINGTON (AP) The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passed far-reaching health care legislation, handing President Barack Obama a hard-won victory on his chief domestic priority though the road ahead in the Senate promises to be rocky. The 220...
4.3K - Nov. 8, 2009; scored 63.0 Dems push for health care votes
WASHINGTON House Democrats are scrambling to secure enough support to pass President Barack Obama s historic health overhaul initiative, working to soothe last-minute concerns from rank-and-file Democrats ahead of a make-or-break vote. Voting is se...
3.7K - Nov. 6, 2009; scored 126.0 Hurdles remain for health care bill
WASHINGTON Just a few unsolved problems and one final sales job stand between House Democratic leaders and a landmark vote on a remake of the nation s health care system. Unfortunately for the Democrats, the unresolved issues are among the most...
4.4K - Nov. 3, 2009; scored 163.0 Liberals likely to accept compromise on health care
WASHINGTON (AP) They may not like it, but many House liberals look ready to accept a compromise health care bill, putting Democratic leaders well on the way to delivering on President Barack Obama s call for overhaul. After claiming for months they...
5.1K - Oct. 31, 2009; scored 63.0 House unveils health reform
WASHINGTON After months of struggle, House Democrats unveiled sweeping legislation today to extend health care coverage to millions who lack it and create a new option of government-run insurance. A vote is likely next week on the plan patterned cl...
6.0K - Oct. 29, 2009; scored 63.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 25, 2009; scored 608.0 Strict Oklahoma abortion laws spark court battles
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Two new laws being challenged in the Oklahoma courts would give the state some of the strictest abortion laws in the country by forcing women to answer questions about race and their relationships, and to listen to a doctor talk ...
5.1K - Oct. 24, 2009; scored 608.0 Who will save the GOP?
Can South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, former Congressman Joe Scarborough or former Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole save the GOP from itself? The Republican Party leadership handed the torch to those with the largest microphone right-wing conse...
3.2K - Oct. 20, 2009; scored 63.0 Team O takes on the Fox
In theory, the national news media function in a free market of ideas: a self-regulating, relentless quest for what the old Superman comics called Truth, Justice, and the American way. In practice, Washington political journalism has become a subdiv...
3.2K - Oct. 19, 2009; scored 63.0 Abortion lies are no surprise
Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina was wrong to blurt out You lie! during a presidential health care pitch before a joint session of Congress in September. That is: civility and propriety required a different approach, at a different time. But the f...
3.1K - Oct. 12, 2009; scored 505.0 Morality, self-interest and your health
I can t tell you how many foreign leaders who are heads of center-right governments say to me, I don t understand why people would call you socialist. In my country, you d be considered a conservative. President Barack Obama, Sept. 20, 2009 There ...
4.3K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 63.0 African bishops speak of Obama as divine plan
VATICAN CITY (AP) African bishops attending a Vatican meeting are speaking about the election of Barack Obama in divine terms putting them very much at odds with many of their U.S. counterparts. Archbishop Gabriel Charles Palmer-Buckle of Accra, ...
2.6K - Oct. 7, 2009; scored 63.0 Supreme Court begins new term
WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court began its new term trying to decide how long a suspect s request for a lawyer is valid. The justices heard their first arguments of the 2009 term this morning. The court will have to decide whether to throw out a p...
2.5K - Oct. 5, 2009; scored 99.0 Reform saboteurs may rue their actions
Since March, $133 million has been spent by the health insurance industry, and the pharmaceutical corporations have spent $162 million in lobbying to defeat health care reform legislation. The public relations firm that created the ...
2.6K - Oct. 3, 2009; scored 63.0 Senators reject stronger anti-abortion language
WASHINGTON (AP) In a vote with far-reaching political implications, senators writing a health care overhaul Wednesday rejected a bid to strengthen anti-abortion provisions in the legislation which could reach the Senate floor in the next two week...
4.1K - Sep. 30, 2009; scored 1000.0 Fame entertains chastely
The reinvention of the 1980 high school musical Fame please, people, don t call it a remake stays faithful to the spirit and structure of Alan Parker s original while sucking out all the raciness. There s no nudity in this PG-rated version, n...
3.6K - Sep. 25, 2009; scored 63.0 Complaint suggests NYPD misstepped in terror probe
NEW YORK (AP) Police acting without the FBI s knowledge might have inadvertently helped blow the surveillance of a terrorism suspect and compromised a bomb plot investigation at a sensitive stage by questioning an imam about him, a criminal complai...
5.1K - Sep. 23, 2009; scored 63.0 Free speech gives GOP a license to rant
Various letters have been printed in The World lately regarding two subjects. First, a government-run public option of health care for those who cannot afford to purchase private insurance or who cannot get insurance because of a pre-existing conditi...
1.9K - Sep. 19, 2009; scored 163.0 | 
