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Iranian lawmaker: Iran Could Leave Nuclear Treaty
A hardline Iranian lawmaker is quoted by the country’s official IRNA news agency as saying Iran’s parliament may consider withdrawing from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.
The threat comes a day after a resolution passed by the board of the U.N. nuclear agency demanding that Tehran immediately stop building its newly revealed nuclear facility and freeze uranium [...]
Healthy Ways To Curb Overindulgence During The Holiday
Stuffed with stuffing, filled with turkey, crammed with cookies, and saturated with alcohol. Now what? Holidays call for celebration, and many of us know the consequences that come from overindulging in alcohol and food. Sometimes, despite out best intentions, we overdo it. This holiday season, detoxify and recover naturally with the tips that follow.
FOOD OVERLOADChinese [...]
Government-Owned Businesses Losing Billions (USA Today)
Government-owned businesses that generate revenue for states and cities have taken a sharp turn downward and now are draining money from many struggling governments, a USA TODAY analysis found.
States and cities operate hundreds of such enterprises — power companies, sewer systems, betting parlors, subways and more — that earned more than $120 billion in profits [...]
Schumer: Dems Ready To Go-It-Alone On Health Care (Yahoo News & AP)
A leading Senate Democrat said Monday his party is determined to push through a health care overhaul bill with or without Republican support because the “system is broken.”
“We prefer to go at it with Republicans if we can reach compromises in some areas,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. “But we’re not going to not pass [...]
THANK YOU MR. HOLDER! 9/11/ Defendants To Plead Not Guilty In Manhattan Court. Will Air Their Criticisms Of America
The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday.
Scott Fenstermaker, the lawyer for accused terrorist Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, said the men would not deny their role in the 2001 [...]
Time To ‘Pay The Piper’ – Wave of Debt Payments Facing U.S. Government (New York Times)
The United States government is financing its more than trillion-dollar-a-year borrowing with i.o.u.’s on terms that seem too good to be true.
But that happy situation, aided by ultralow interest rates, may not last much longer.
Treasury officials now face a trifecta of headaches: a mountain of new debt, a balloon of short-term borrowings that come due [...]
Dems Get Votes To Advance Senate Healthcare Bill In The Senate (L.A. Times)
With the crucial support of a trio of centrists, Democrats seemed assured today of winning a procedural vote to allow debate on a sweeping overhaul of healthcare after Thanksgiving.
Arkansas Sen. Blanche Lincoln said she will vote today to bring her party’s healthcare bill to the floor, following a colleague, Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, to the [...]
Terror Inside The U.S. Why An al Qaeda Attack On U.S. Soil Is Still A Real Threat (Foreign Policy)
Najibullah Zazi, a lanky Afghan-American man in his mid-twenties, walked into the Beauty Supply Warehouse in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of Denver, on July 25, 2009, in a visit that was captured on a store video camera. Wearing a baseball cap and pushing a shopping cart down the aisles of the store, Zazi appeared to [...]
MAN IN THE MIDDLE – UNEDITED: Your Obamacare Preview: Woman Stop Wasting Money On Mammograms!
If you wanted a preview of what life will be like under Obamacare, your dose of reality came this week. A government task force said women in their 40s don’t need annual mammograms, tossing out cancer screening guidelines that have been accepted for decades. Their report didn’t argue that mammograms have saved lives, on the [...]
Phys Ed: Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious (New York Times)
Researchers at Princeton University recently made a remarkable discovery about the brains of rats that exercise. Some of their neurons respond differently to stress than the neurons of slothful rats. Scientists have known for some time that exercise stimulates the creation of new brain cells (neurons) but not how, precisely, these neurons might be functionally [...]
