WASHINGTON — A deeply divided House of Representatives on Sunday approved historic legislation aimed at providing Americans with near-universal health care, handing President Barack Obama a huge victory on one of the most polarizing domestic policy issues in the United States.
Following a final day of high stakes political brinkmanship inside [...]

One by one, Democratic fence-sitters began choosing sides Friday, and the long, turbulent struggle over landmark health care legislation tilted unmistakably in President Barack Obama’s direction.
In full campaign mode, his voice rising, the president all but claimed victory, declaring to a cheering audience in Virginia, “We are going to fix [...]

President Obama was in Ohio on Monday to give his third campaign-style, outside-the-Beltway health care overhaul sales pitch in the past half-dozen days.
But back in Washington, the furious action was behind the scenes, as Democratic leaders continued their desperate arm-twisting for health care’s too-close-to-call end game. And interest groups shoveled [...]

s the House gears up for this weekend’s dramatic vote on health reform legislation, Democrats are taking flak from all sides. In southern Ohio, opponents of the bill have created a blowback effect by airing an ad targeting Rep. Steve Driehaus to stand firm as a “no” vote on the [...]

WASHINGTON – China is once again the country Congress loves to hate.
After a lull last year, U.S. politicians jockeying ahead of crucial November elections have stepped up attacks on China as a way to win support from voters worried that the Asian power is taking American jobs.
China-bashing eased during President Barack [...]

WASHINGTON – Two guns used in high-profile shootings this year at the Pentagon and a Las Vegas courthouse both came from the same unlikely place: the police and court system of Memphis, Tenn.
Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press that both guns were once seized in criminal cases in Memphis. The [...]

In a time when our country’s top politicians have become to used to lavishly spending taxpayer money and increasing debt, individual cities need to rise to the occasion and find leaders that know better and allocate funds in the most useful manner. Unfortunately, not many people take the time to analyze what needs to be [...]

WASHINGTON – For all the evidence of a divided GOP, the Democratic Party has its own widening cracks that could make a potentially bleak election year even more dour.
In just the past two weeks, Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln became the latest Democratic incumbent to attract a primary challenger, anti-abortion Democrats fought hard [...]

Lagenda-Lagenda dari Bangsa Native American Indians

Holy Eagle – Elang Suci – Burang elang merupakan simbol bagi bangsa
Lakota dari Native American Indians. Elang adalah burung yang terkuat dan paling berani dari semua burung. Dengan alasan ini, bulu-bulu elang telah dipilih sebagai simbol yang melambangkan sesuatu yang tertinggi, paling berani, paling kuat dan paling suci.
Bulu elang yang [...]

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words “under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance and “In God We Trust” on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments on Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected two legal [...]