Cancer Journal: A happy birthday despite grim news

Seeded on Thu Aug 19, 2010 5:52 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

After undergoing one round of chemotherapy, MSNBC contibutor and writer Mike Celizic found out his remission from cancer has ended; and he received the news on his birthday. Celizic writes an emotional, and rather humorous story about his decision to decline further treatment.

health, birthday, chemotherapy, lymphoma, mike-celizic, remission

Breaking News: Blagojevich is a liar

Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:25 PM EDT

For more than two weeks the jury in the Rod Blagojevich case mulled over the evidence of the government’s 24 count indictment, and when all was said and done Tuesday, they found the former Illinois governor guilty of lying to the FBI, but could not bring forth a conviction …

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fbi, politics, rod-blagojevich, scooter-libby, conviction, perjury, illinois-politics, patrick-fitzgeral

GOP squashes small business recovery and stalls job creation

Mon Aug 2, 2010 8:55 AM EDT

In July the unemployment rate inched up another one tenth of a percentage point, to 9.5 percent, leaving more Americans out of work.

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elections, jobs, gm, politics, unemployment, small-business, outsourcing, senate-republicans, robert-reich, president-obama

Afghanistan is not what we pictured

Tue Jul 27, 2010 7:50 AM EDT

Before we undertake any project, we have a picture in our mind about how it will turn out. When we plan to landscape our yards we have an idea about what to plant, where to plant it, and in our minds eye, we can see a picture of the result.

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afghanistan, pakistan, war, us-news, us-military, afghan-war, wikileaks, innocent-civilians

All the unemployed need is tough love and tough sh-t

Tue Jul 20, 2010 10:03 AM EDT

If you’re an unemployed individual, have ever been unemployed or think you might become unemployed at some future date; you have a target on your back.

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politics, republicans, judd-gregg, filibuster, entitlements, andre-bauer, jim-bunning, orin-hatch, unemployment-benefits, dean-heller

Pakistan change of strategy is business as usual

Sun Jul 18, 2010 7:01 PM EDT

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced Sunday, what is being touted as a new plans for dealing with Pakistan. The plan involves an expansion of development assistance in an effort to keep Pakistan onboard in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban.

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afghanistan, congress, pakistan, middle-east, taliban, al-qaida, world-news, hillary-clinton, richard-holbrooke

FDA Panel votes to keep Avandia on the market

Seeded on Wed Jul 14, 2010 4:07 PM EDT (msnbc.com)

While a majority of an "outside panel" of experts voted to keep GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia on the market, a majority also found the drug may increase the risks of heart attacks. As one panelist put it, "I'm not persuaded by the evidence to implicate the drug.

fda, health, diabetes, heart-disease, avandia

Crazed Paranoia: Obama plans to enslave and euthanize

Tue Jul 13, 2010 8:26 AM EDT

According to Michelle Bachmann Americans are victims who are about to become enslaved by the Federal Government, and like slaves who become worthless, those who are of little use will be done away with.

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politics, obama, us-treasury, cs-lewis, conspiracy, health-care-reform, slaves, jesse-ventura, michelle-bachmann

Time to cut out the steak and serve up the hamburger

Mon Jul 12, 2010 4:24 PM EDT

It's believed that jobless benefits will be passed shortly after W. Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin picks a temporary successor for former Senator Robert Byrd, who recently passed away.

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politics, unemployment, deficit, jon-kyl, harry-reid, jobless, filibuster, marie-antoinette, extended-unemployment-benefits

FDA moves on Pfizer to pull leukemia drug and stop trials on a pain medication

Fri Jul 9, 2010 1:16 PM EDT

The Federal Food & Drug Administration has asked Pfizer Inc. to pull a popular leukemia drug off the market and has suspended clinical trials on a pain medication for osteoarthritis.

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fda, health, pfizer, recall, tylenol, leukemia, johnson-johnson, osteoarthritis, motrin, mylotarg

Deficit apprehension runs rampant while military spending runs free

Thu Jul 8, 2010 6:03 PM EDT

With everyone concerned about the deficit and spending it seems odd to me that no one has blinked an eye at our extraordinary military spending.

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politics, news, deficit, the-poor, barney-frank, budget-deficit, military-spending, unemployment-benefits

Senate Republicans unjustly punishing the unemployed

Tue Jul 6, 2010 9:46 AM EDT

A lesson I learned early in life is you don’t kick someone who is already down. Never, in our nation’s history has unemployment benefits been denied when jobs are so difficult to find. The national unemployment rate stands at 9.7 percent.

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senate, politics, republicans, unemployed, unemployment-benefits

Congress spends millions on goats, SEC spends millions to rearrange offices, none left for unemployed

Thu Jul 1, 2010 5:34 AM EDT

For the third time Congress has failed to come up with the 60 votes needed to fund unemployment benefits for those who have run out. For the third time Congress is politicking with the purse strings of the poor.

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congress, politics, unemployment, republicans, subsidies, government-waste, extended-benefits