Kyle Bell

In the first Christmas Eve session since 1963, the United States Senate today passed a historic overhaul of the nation’s health care system. The final vote was guaranteed days ago as key Democrats cast procedural votes in favor of passage. Today’s 60-39 vote in favor of extending health insurance to 30 million Americans currently without [...]

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The United States has come a long way. It was only a century and a half ago that we still had slaves plowing fields, picking cotton and doing the daily chores of their master. Today, we have an African American president named Barack Obama. I think that it is important to not just understand the [...]

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Yesterday, Houston voters elected city controller Annise Parker as their new mayor. Current mayor Bill White is running for governor of Texas. Usually an election of this nature would not make headlines, but Annise Parker is not your usual female politician. She is an openly gay woman in a state known for its conservative politics. [...]

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The Republican Party is moving far to the right, as was expected following the exit of independent voters in 2006 and 2008. The Tea Party wing of the party is clearly winning out. Two polls confirm the radical thinking of the few remaining members. The polling firm PPP asked respondents whether Barack Obama won last [...]

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Add this to the growing number of crazy right wing conspiracy theories about President Barack Obama. The mayor of a Memphis suburb not only believes that our president is a Muslim, but that he recently gave his Afghanistan troop surge speech in order to – you guessed it – prevent ABC from airing A Charlie [...]

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