Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 20, 2009, 4:24 pm
Given its relatively low savings rate, the U.S. economy depends heavily on foreign capital inflows from countries with high savings rates (such as China) to help promote growth and to fund the federal...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 20, 2009, 4:23 pm
China’s Holdings of U.S. Securities:Implications for the U.S - SusanThur - Open Salon Given its relatively low savings rate, the U.S. economy depends heavily on foreign capital inflows from countri...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 18, 2009, 10:59 am
Eugene Robinson - Eugene Robinson on Sarah Palin as our rogue Evita - washingtonpost.com It's futile to try to ignore Palin, however noble the effort may be. She's a phenomenon, and it hardly...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 18, 2009, 10:58 am
No force on Earth can stop Sarah Palin from becoming our very own "lite" version of Eva Perón -- a glamorous and tragic legend, minus the tragedy. Eventually, some clever composer will write a blockb...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 18, 2009, 10:55 am
House health bill includes Medicaid relief for states - washingtonpost.com Wedged in the House health-care bill is $23.5 billion that looks a lot more like new federal stimulus spending than anything ...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 18, 2009, 10:45 am
Obama: Aim is to put U.S. on path to end Afghan war - USATODAY.com BEIJING (AP) — President Obama said Wednesday his upcoming strategy in Afghanistan will "put us on a path towards ending the war" ...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 18, 2009, 10:02 am
Although research has not shown that short term cell phone use causes cancer, a large population study from Sweden has shown that people who use cell phones for more than ten years on the same side of...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 13, 2009, 6:32 pm
The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strongly oppose in health overhaul legislation that Democrats are tryin...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 13, 2009, 6:31 pm
The Republican National Committee's health insurance plan covers elective abortions for its employees, an option Republicans strongly oppose in health overhaul legislation that Democrats are tryin...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 13, 2009, 5:59 pm
Increasing Medicare Tax on High-Wage Earners Could Help Pay for Health Reform and Strengthen Medicare’s Finances — Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Increasing the Medicare payroll tax on hig...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 13, 2009, 5:57 pm
Greenwald talks about how American tax dollars are funding both sides of the war . Robert Greenwald opium heroin smack afghanistan alex jones CIA 9/11 FBI black ops inside job al qaeda taliban ...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 13, 2009, 5:19 pm
I hope this column makes you sick. See, we'll be talking about Nazis, something many of us are doing lately. Indeed, just this week a fellow named Joseph emailed me about a caller he heard on a ra...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 13, 2009, 5:18 pm
We need a history lesson about Nazis - Leonard Pitts on Obama - MiamiHerald.com See, we'll be talking about Nazis, something many of us are doing lately. Indeed, just this week a fellow named Jos...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 13, 2009, 4:43 pm
Clergy issues call for civility - NOLA.com Thursday, November 12, 2009 By Bruce NolanStaff writerIt's gotten ugly out there in the pubic square -- on television, at public meetings, on the Intern...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 13, 2009, 4:33 pm
Thursday, November 12, 2009 By Bruce NolanStaff writer It's gotten ugly out there in the pubic square -- on television, at public meetings, on the Internet.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 11, 2009, 10:03 pm
American Atheists Pre Christian Christmas Stories with Other Gods
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 11, 2009, 6:10 pm
SAN FRANCISCO -- U.S. Army veteran Walter Williams was homeless when he returned from tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 11, 2009, 6:07 pm
The Paranoid Style in American Politics 1964 Hofstadter - SusanThur - Open Salon
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Nov 11, 2009, 4:52 pm
Wounded Warrior fellowships help give injured vets a working hand in Congress - washingtonpost.com
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 11, 2009, 4:41 pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Blackwater executives authorized about $1 million in payments to Iraqi officials to buy support and silence criticism of the private security firm after a deadly shooting in...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Nov 9, 2009, 1:38 pm
WASHINGTON--Here's a story you may have missed because it flies in the face of the dreary conventional wisdom: When advocates of public programs take on the right-wing anti-government crowd direct...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 27, 2009, 7:10 pm
The same media whining over criticisms of Fox was happy to be bullied and controlled by the Bush administration.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 22, 2009, 1:21 pm
By Joan Walsh of Salon--- That's why they always win. And they're going to keep winning until somebody tells them the truth, that this administration is killing itself every day to help people...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 21, 2009, 2:13 pm
However you got to this point, you still have a choice: reign in FOX News, fire Beck, speak out to undo some of the lies you have told through your people about our President, our country and the worl...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Oct 21, 2009, 12:56 pm
Janet Ritz: What Is Patriotism? Posted using ShareThis
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 21, 2009, 12:54 pm
Calls for patriotism were used during the Bush Administration with the implication that those who did not support them in wartime were unpatriotic. But what about the summer of 2009 with its town hall...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 20, 2009, 9:59 pm
An irritated House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) on Tuesday fired back at Republicans who have charged President Barack Obama with jeopardizing U.S. troops by deliberating over whether to send a...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 20, 2009, 1:01 pm
As Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman demonstrates in his book, Misquoting Jesus, that passage and others were indeed inserted into the Gospels -- by copyists whose transcriptions were once the primary mean...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 19, 2009, 1:58 pm
With a Senate vote expected soon to expand federal hate crimes laws to include sexual orientation, religious conservatives are ramping up the rhetoric against the bill, which passed the House last wee...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 19, 2009, 1:54 pm
WASHINGTON -- Will the young and hopeful abandon the political playing field to older voters who are angry? That is the quiet crisis confronting President Obama and the Democrats. Left unattended, it ...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 19, 2009, 1:53 pm
Something's amiss when Michael Moore and Larry Kudlow see the same problem.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 19, 2009, 1:45 pm
Billionaire Ted Turner, who founded the Cable News Network in 1980, talks with Bloomberg's Betty Liu about his desire to run CNN again. Turner said if he got his wish, he'd cut "fluffy" news a...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 19, 2009, 1:39 pm
President Obama averages 30 death threats per day, preachers pray publicly for his death, and right-wing pundits speak openly of military coups. Dave Neiwert, author of The Eliminationists, gives some...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Oct 17, 2009, 2:56 pm
Missy the little stuff dog meets President Obama in New Orleans October 2009 for a Town Hall Meeting. She went all the way to Washington D.C. in January to try to see him and here he is in her own bac...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Oct 17, 2009, 2:54 pm
YouTube Video I made when President Obama came to New Orleans for a Town Hall Meeting October 2009. I won the Ticket lottery for two tickets. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTX__7XYSg4
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 17, 2009, 2:53 pm
Home Video on Youtube I made of President Obama's Visit to New Orleans 2009.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 17, 2009, 11:32 am
Missy on YouTube/video Missy meets President Obama in New Orleans at Town Hall Meeting 2009 #p/a/u/0/TtWLB7LzZvA
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 16, 2009, 2:27 pm
Why is New Orleans important to America? The Port of New Orleans is one of the busiest ports in America. The city is the home of major shipbuilding facilities, a naval base, the nation's Marine r...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 16, 2009, 11:48 am

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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 16, 2009, 11:17 am
There is consensus on the problem and general agreement on the solution, but absolutely no sense of how to make it happen.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Oct 14, 2009, 6:12 pm
The White House Called! I GOT TICKETS! Going to Town Hall Meeting to see President Obama Tomorrow/Thursday/10-15-09 in New Orleans. I am so Excited-Going Early to get good seats.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 14, 2009, 5:45 pm
The White House Called! I GOT TICKETS! Going to Town Hall Meeting to see President Obama Tomorrow/Thursday/10-15-09 in New Orleans. I am so Excited-Going Early to get good seats. Susanthur
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 9, 2009, 1:47 pm
Excerpt:Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann maintains one of the largest press operations in Congress.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Oct 8, 2009, 1:55 pm
The Tough-Love Dictator of My Dreams Very funny Article. Social change may happen fast, but no one stops polluting unless an Indian cries on TV. My point isn't that activists and advocates don&#...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 8, 2009, 1:42 pm
But Fox is in a class by itself.
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 7, 2009, 4:01 pm
"We are very grateful to have a president who respects science," said Director Francis Collins this morning, addressing staff and leaders of the National Institutes of Health. Collins was introducing ...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Oct 7, 2009, 3:06 pm
How Moses Shaped America We are in the presence of a lot of Moseses," Barack Obama said on March 4, 2007, three weeks after announcing his candidacy for President. He was speaking in Selma, Ala., surr...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur at Newsvine - Oct 7, 2009, 3:04 pm
The war in Afghanistan is at a crossroads. President Obama will soon decide whether to commit more U.S. troops to a conflict that's already on the verge of becoming the longest military action in ...
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Susan Thur posted an article on SusanThur Blogs - Oct 7, 2009, 3:02 pm
A Window On the War in Afghanistan The war in Afghanistan is at a crossroads. President Obama will soon decide whether to commit more U.S. troops to a conflict that's already on the verge of beco...
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