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WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 85,000 veterans were treated last year for injuries or illness stemming from sexual abuse in the military, and 4,000 sought disability benefits, underscoring the staggering long-term impact of a crisis that has roiled the Pentagon and been condemned by President Barack Obama as "''shameful and disgraceful." Tweet This Post
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Philly abortion murder trial has national impact
Posted by admin on May 4th, 2013
For weeks, jurors in Philadelphia heard grim testimony about deaths and squalor at Dr. Kermit Gosnell's inner-city abortion clinic. While they listened, the murder case reverberated far beyond the courtroom, changing — at least for the moment — the tone of the national debate on abortion. Tweet This Post
Polls hint that campaigns against foes of background checks could have an impact with voters
Posted by admin on April 24th, 2013
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No Comments »How Will Texas Explosion Impact Chemical Security Laws?
Posted by admin on April 23rd, 2013
WASHINGTON — The fertilizer plant explosion that leveled homes and killed at least 14 people last week in West, Texas, demonstrates the need for tougher chemical security laws, some Democrats say. Whether such proposals will have any legs on Capitol Hill remains uncertain. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
AP IMPACT: Congress slows military efforts to save
Posted by admin on April 23rd, 2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Parked around the airstrip at Lackland Air Force Base are more than a dozen massive C-5A Galaxy transport planes. There is no money to fly them, repair them or put pilots in the cockpits, but Congress rejected the Air Force's bid to retire them. Tweet This Post
Abbreviated pundit round-up: Boston and the political impact of the bombing
Posted by admin on April 22nd, 2013
E. J. Dionne Jr. at the Washington Post says it’s not over yer in The way forward on guns: Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: 'Boston, Abbreviated, Bombing, Impact, political, Pundit, Roundup No Comments »More See Personal Impact of Sequester
Posted by admin on April 11th, 2013
A new CNN poll finds 42% now say that the $ 85 billion in across-the-board cuts referred to as the sequester are impacting them personally. That’s up from 35% who said the same in March. Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire Tweet This Post
First-time unemployment claims soar to 385,000, possibly reflecting early impact from the sequester
Posted by admin on April 4th, 2013
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Posted in Breaking News Tags: 385000, Claims, Early, Firsttime, From, Impact, possibly, reflecting, sequester, soar, Unemployment No Comments »Open thread for night owls: New study on returning vets shows impact of military sexual assault
Posted by admin on March 27th, 2013
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Short-Term Flexibility Won’t Help Long-Term Impact of Sequestration
Posted by admin on March 27th, 2013
President Obama signed legislation Tuesday to keep the government funded through the end of September and to give greater flexibility to a handful of agencies as they roll out the mandated across-the-board spending cuts known as sequestration. Politics News Headlines – Yahoo! News Tweet This Post
Posted in Breaking News Tags: Flexibility, Help, Impact, longterm, sequestration, shortterm, won't No Comments »
