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· Lisa Madigan to skip Senate, guv bids

· Guilty plea for former Blagojevich aide

· Burger King goes after McDonald's with new $1 double cheeseburger

· Fortune foretells Knob Creek shortage

· Citadel funds gain 31% this year but remain below key 2008 levels

· NRG rejects higher Exelon offer

· CME shares fall over CFTC talk of limiting speculator positions

· Midway Games to close San Diego unit

· Hospitals vow $155M in savings to aid reform

· Boeing lags Airbus in aircraft orders

· Discover sets offering at $9.25 a share

· Zebra Tech shares downgraded on cuts 

· Why Madigan is skipping U.S. Senate, guv races: Hinz blog

· Columnist files malpractice suit; Sox owner donates $1M: Taking Names blog

· White Sox's trade and Cubs' non-sale: Biz of Sports

· FeedBurner chief flees Google; biz asking prices slip: Enterprise City

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Perspective: Let's mourn the real American heroes
Flags flew at half-staff this week in California's state Capitol. No, not for Michael Jackson. For Private First Class Justin Casillas.

Soldiers getting an earful of Jesus
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Official: NKorea believed behind cyber attacks
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Health care overhaul racing against the clock
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama is struggling to show progress in a race against the clock to revamp the nation's health care system this year. Problems in

Police: Conn. man gives up after abducting ex-wife
SOUTH WINDSOR, Conn. An advertising executive who vowed he wouldn't be divorced until his ex wife was dead kidnapped her from a parking lot

Capitol religious engravings added to Senate bill
WASHINGTON Senator Jim DeMint's amendment calling for the addition of patriotic religious references to the new Capitol Visitors Center has been added to a key appropriations bill. DeMint's measure was

Democrats Hit the Magic Number in Senate
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Britain Doubles Pregnancy Rates By Teaching Girls to Have Sex
The British government, recognizing that England has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Europe, decided to take a radical approach. See Bookworm Room. Instead of pushing abstinence and encouraging intact families, the government decided to teach teenage girls how

Seventh-Grader's Pro-Life T-Shirt Censored in California
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Palin: Politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it,
Elijah Friedeman| In interviews with the major networks Palin said, "politically speaking, if I die, I die. So be it." She also reiterated that she is a fighter, not a quitter.

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CNN's Ferré advances claim that Obama is "joining Bolivia, Venezuela, and Nicaragua" on Honduras
CNN's Ines Ferré advanced the conservative claim that President Obama is siding with Latin American leaders in opposing Manuel Zelaya's ouster in Honduras, without noting that the European Union and the UN secretary-general have also condemned the ouster. Read More
CQ ignores Sessions' previous call for speedy Supreme Court confirmation process
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Palin, the press, and her "no más" moment
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Wash. Post column cites inapplicable CBO assessment to claim public plan option has "huge cost, minor benefit"
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Scarborough, Bartiromo falsely inflate WH economic growth assumptions
Joe Scarborough and Maria Bartiromo falsely claimed that the Obama administration is predicting that the economy will grow at a rate of 4 percent in 2010 and, Scarborough added, "over the next decade." In fact, the administration predicted a 3.2 percent growth rate in 2010 and 2.6 percent from 2015 through 2019. Read More
REPORT: Cable news largely ignores new CBO health care score
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To New York-centric Hannity, a cool June in Central Park means Gore is wrong about global warming
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CNN.com joins Republican fear-mongering about Canadian-style health care
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After just four months, media figures ignore economists to declare stimulus a failure
Media figures have used a recent comment by Vice President Biden -- that the Obama administration "misread how bad the economy was" -- to suggest that the economic recovery package is a complete failure, rather than noting the assessment by economists then and now that the legislation does not go far enough and that further stimulus spending may be necessary. Read More
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Officials: N. Korea believed behind cyber attacks - Yahoo! News

Officials: N. Korea believed behind cyber attacks - Yahoo! News: "South Korean intelligence officials believe North Korea or pro-Pyongyang forces committed cyber attacks that paralyzed major South Korean and U.S. government Web sites, aides to two lawmakers said Wednesday"

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Obama, summit partners, eye intense global talks - Yahoo! News: "President Barack Obama joined fellow world leaders in Italy Wednesday for talks on threats to global security and stability at a summit where climate change, a continuing global economic crisis, nuclear proliferation and world hunger took top billing"