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...fight currency manipulation and unfair trade practices by our foreign competitors, work for affordable health-care coverage and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 80% by 2050 because I believe those positions are in the best interests of the people of Michigan. John D. Dingell, U.S. Representative, 15TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT, MICHIGAN...
...continue to fight currency manipulation and unfair trade practices by our foreign competitors, work for affordable health-care coverage and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions 80% by 2050 because I believe those positions are in the best interests of the people of Michigan. John D. Dingell, U.S. Representative, 15th Congressional District, Michigan...
...makes for better video. Republicans, he said, have a "health-care plan for America: 'Don't get sick.'" He then added that they also had a plan for the sick: "Die quickly." It was an instant online sensation, with more YouTube viewers than Grayson got votes in his home district. He offered up more bombast, calling a Federal Reserve Board staffer who is a former lobbyist a "K Street whore" and calling Republicans "foot-dragging, knuckle-dragging Neanderthals" on CNN. The liberal online hub the Huffington Post linked to the caveman remark, and more than 1,500 people wrote comments...
...know whether this sort of fly-by-night notoriety of rhetorical bombast is sustainable or just diverting. In 2008, Bachmann had to battle for her seat after saying on MSNBC's Hardball that Barack Obama "may have anti-American views." And Grayson must defend a Republican-leaning district next to Disney World that he won by just 13,364 votes. Republicans have put his district at the top of their target list for 2010. "I made myself the No. 1 target for the national Republican Party," he admits. "Whatever happens, happens...
...literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among low-income families, especially among African-American men. Tasked with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country (and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School District's Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context of adult continuing education. That is, if you're trying to teach adults something, give them the respect of having it resemble a real class, which meets more than...