The Connecticut Senator says that President Obama didn't favor a public plan when he ran for president: It’s classic politics of our time that if you look at the campaign last year, presidential, you can’t find a mention of public option,” Lieberman said. “It was added after the election as a part of what we normally consider health insurance reform — insurance market reforms, cover people, cover...

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Payoffs from A to Z.

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Officials in a small Michigan town featured in a new video about Guantanamo by Liz Cheney’s national security group want her to know that they’re not falling for her “fearmongering” — and tell us they want Gitmo detainees in their town. Cheney’s group, Keep America Safe, has released a short documentary starring several residents of [...]

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Philips has unveiled 2 rather interesting new models in its LED HDTV line up, namely the 40PFL9704 and the 46PFL9704. These TVs boast “LED Pro” which is Philips’ next generation LED backlight technology. Aside from that, you’ll find better contrast ratio, 200Hz refresh rate and it’s claimed to be 50 percent more power efficient than your standard LCD TV. There are also a whooping 5 HDMI ports on this...

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Filed under: Gut Reactions , Highbrow Celebrities , TV News With word that Oprah Winfrey will be taking her ridiculously popular daytime talk show elsewhere (see story here), there's a massive void in the broadcast television world to be filled. Winfrey was always the one to score huge exclusive ... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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There are new suspicions about the veracity of the election results in NY's 23rd Congressional District. After the election, a recanvassing of the 11-county district had Owens’ lead narrowing to 3,026 votes over Hoffman, 66,698 to 63,672, with about 10,000 absentee ballots to be counted according to the latest unofficial results from the state Board of Elections. In Hoffman's stronghold, Oswego County,...

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Running back Reggie Bush and defensive tackle Sedrick Ellis are not traveling with the New Orleans Saints for Sunday's game against Tampa Bay....

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WASHINGTON – The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more communications that might have tipped off law enforcement or military officials. Federal investigators say they intercepted the messages between the suspect, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, and Anwar al-Awlaki, a radical American-born cleric....

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The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees has been ruled a suicide.

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The Queen of Talk departs. Who gets helped and who gets harmed?

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CHICAGO (AP) | Holding back tears, Oprah Winfrey told her studio audience Friday that she would end her show in 2011 after a quarter-century on the air, saying prayer and careful thought led her to her decision. Miss Winfrey told the audience that she loved "The Oprah Winfrey Show," that it had been her life and that she knew when it was time to say goodbye. "Twenty-five years feels right in my bones...

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WASHINGTON - The Senate ethics committee admonished Sen. Roland Burris (D., Ill.) yesterday for misleading investigators about his maneuvering to get Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat from the governor who was ousted for trying to sell it.

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