Articles Posted by dodger
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Democratic Arizona gubernatorial candidate and current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs’ campaign office was broken into earlier this week and police are investigating the matter, her campaign manager said on Wednesday.
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See also: https://icmr.nic.in/sites/default/files/upload_documents/HCQ_Recommendation_22March_final_MM_V2.pdf The Indian Council for Medical Research via its National Taskforce for COVID-19 recommends the use of hydroxychloroquine for prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2 infection for selected individuals as follows: Eligible individuals: ï‚· Asymptomatic healthcare workers involved in the care of suspected or confirmed cases of COVID-19 ï‚· Asymptomatic household contacts of laboratory confirmed cases
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I am not familiar with the author or the site but this came from a family member who is a high level academic physician. It is the most compelling assessment I have yet seen. We are about a week behind Italy. Public Health Authorities are dithering behind platitudes. President Trump should lock the country down now.
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TRUMPENCE A compound word of matrix meaning as derived from: TRUMP noun 1. Of cards, any of a suit that outranks other suits. 2. Informal. a fine person. verb (used with object) 3. Of cards, to take with a trump. 4. to excel; surpass; outdo. verb (used without object) 5. to blow a trumpet. Origin 1250-1300; (noun) Middle English trompe < Old French < Old High German trumpa, variant of trumba trumpet; (v.) Middle English trompen < Old French tromper, derivative of trompe PENCE noun 1. a plural of penny; a sum of money rather than to the coins themselves;...
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University of Maryland professor reprimanded for apparent conflict of interest.He wrote legal opinion on university letterhead, did not disclose fees from union. By Childs Walker A professor at the University of Maryland, College Park is facing conflict-of- interest questions after he used university letterhead to deliver a legal opinion in his role as a consultant to a labor union. Fred Feinstein, an adjunct professor at the School of Public Policy, wrote a letter saying that California health care employees could jeopardize their contract benefits if they left Service Employees International for a competing union. Feinstein received $240,000 in consulting fees...
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WASHINGTON — Senator Christopher J. Dodd, the embattled Connecticut Democrat who was facing an increasingly tough bid for a sixth term in the United States Senate, has decided not to seek re-election this year, Democrats familiar with his plans said Wednesday.
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By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON - With the White House's reluctant embrace on Sunday of Hamid Karzai as the winner of Afghanistan's suddenly ... With Karzai, US Faces Weak Partner in Time of War New York Times. Abdullah Abdullah was at times emotional on Sunday in announcing in Kabul that he was dropping out of a runoff.
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WASHINGTON — U.S. officials expect Afghan President Hamid Karzai to concede on Tuesday that he fell short of the 50 percent vote share in August's election that he needed to win outright, but it was unclear Monday whether that would lead quickly to a runoff election with his nearest challenger, a U.S. government official said. Karzai could opt to embrace a runoff, which Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday was logistically feasible within weeks, or he could attempt to negotiate a power-sharing arrangement with former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah, who finished second in the August balloting.
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One of President Obama's top advisers said Sunday the Bush administration failed to ask critical questions about the war in Afghanistan, leaving the Obama administration starting from scratch -- and leaving the war "adrift." "The president is asking the questions that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side," White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel told CNN's "State of the Union."
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Hard to believe, but Obama has devalued the Nobel Prizes at a more rapid rate than he has debased the US Dollar.
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Senator Harry Reid has said they will do anything to pass health care. “We will pass health care with any means possible”, even against the will of the American people.”
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ERIC BOLLING, GUEST HOST: The health care debate is raging across the country, facing massive GOP opposition. Now, you hear people talk a lot about reconciliation and the nuclear option when it comes to getting a bill passed. But beware of politicians speaking jargon, some of the words become more confusing. What does it really mean? Joining me now is our guest, Ann Coulter, syndicated columnist and author of the best-selling book, "Guilty." Ann, thanks for coming on the program. You know, we've been watching this thing and it goes from — I don't know — a single-payer system to...
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GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: All right, is the plan to go nuclear? Are the Senate Democrats fed up and fired up, and are they going to invoke the nuclear option and push through health care reform? Democrats might use the nuclear option, which is slang for a parliamentary procedure called "reconciliation" to get health care reform passed.
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Sarah Palin will be elected President in 2012, no matter what happens two weeks from now. She will, most likely, rise up when John McCain declines to run for re-election or, failing that, on her own as a direct candidate. PALIN 2012, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST .... As endorsed by the Dodger!
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Catholic and other religious social service groups must provide contraceptive coverage through their workplace-sponsored medical insurance programs even if they consider contraception a sin, according to Thursday's ruling by New York state's highest court.
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Prominent British Muslims, including three members of Parliament, said in an open letter Saturday that "current British government policy risks putting civilians at increased risk both in the U.K. and abroad." The letter, printed in several British papers, said Britain's intervention in Iraq and the failure to secure an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah militants in Lebanon were providing "ammunition to extremists who threaten us all." "The debacle of Iraq and now the failure to do more to secure an immediate end to the attacks on civilians in the Middle East not only increases the risk to ordinary people...
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HALAT, Lebanon, Aug. 4 — Israeli airstrikes destroyed four bridges along Lebanon’s main north-south highway in the Christian heartland north of Beirut on Friday, and killed more than 30 people in other areas far from Hezbollah-controlled territory. With the Beirut-Damascus road already cut at several points, the attacks seemed aimed at arms routes from Syria. But because those same routes bring supplies and aid into the country, they tightened Lebanon’s sense of siege.
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Israel's military adventurism and the US reprehensible backing of Israel's endless quest for regional domination has so far seen the death and wounding of thousands of innocent Lebanese civilians, and the destruction of a nation that has barely recovered from past Israeli wars, to once again collapse under the rubble of a new one. Ramzy Baroud is a US journalist. He is the author of The Second Palestinian Uprising: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle, published by Pluto Press in London, available in the US from the University of Michigan Press, and everywhere from Amazon.com. He is also the editor...
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What was the best line in this all-round peppier debate????
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