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Guess they weren't ready for summer vacation to end either. Doma employee Subash Khadka estimates they order roughly double the amount of alcohol during the school year. Imagine their surprise when a slew of students in search of alcohol turned up before Labor Day. You don't have to graph any supply and demand curves to figure out we were hit by an temporary liquor shortage...
...Muslim Americans still enjoy a status less fraught than that of their cousins in Europe, where France is considering banning the wearing of burqas in public and has already outlawed headscarves in schools, and where this summer Muslim women wearing what have been termed "burkinis" were refused entry to pools in France and Italy. But Americans are still divided on whether to embrace the declaration that President Obama made during his speech in Cairo this summer. "Freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice one's religion," said Obama. "That is why the U.S. government has gone...
...Congress returned to Washington on Sept. 8, House Democrats spent much of the day trading war stories and tending to one another's wounds from the bruising town halls that dominated their August recess. And if they weren't unhappy before, few of the survivors of the summer of discontent are now in a mood to deal with the controversial, politically perilous legislation to reform the nation's health-care system...
...garner majority support." Even progressives, more than 50 of whom had signed a pledge before the recess not to vote for any bill that did not include a public plan, have shown some willingness to bend on the issue - an indication of how spooked the caucus is by the summer theatrics. "I'm willing to look at the public plan if it means getting [Maine Republican Senator] Olympia Snowe's support for it to pass the Senate," says Representative Bill Pascrel, a progressive New Jersey Democrat. "But I'm leery about it - there better not be 14 exit signs written...
Republicans would like nothing more than to see the House pass a bill that includes a public plan, since the provision is all but sure to be dropped in the Senate. Republicans have already been celebrating the Democrats' passage of a bill to address global warming earlier this summer. The Senate has yet to act on it, and given the current atmosphere, poisoned by health-care, the environment bill may never see final passage. The GOP calls the climate-change bill a massive new energy tax on consumers and likens it to the doomed BTU energy tax that was passed...