Kyle Bell

Democrats scored a major victory on Sunday night as the health care bill, which has been debated for over a year, has finally passed both chambers of Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Barack Obama shortly. The vote was 219 to 212 with zero Republicans voting in favor. It is [...]

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It’s not every day that an author can say that they are #1. Last week I found out that my e-book, Detroit: A City on the Brink, achieved just that. It was the best selling Urban Planning & Development e-book on Amazon.com. Help keep it there by buying your own copy for $1.99. You can [...]

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The Today Show recently aired a piece in which they named the top 10 U.S. cities based on home value. Factoring into their list were things such as cost of living, rising home prices and job growth. My hometown of South Bend, Indiana came in at #1 on the list. Not too shabby, I would [...]

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Representative Mike Ross of Arkansas is in hot water as news of a land deal with a pharmacy company emerges. Along with his wife, Rep. Ross collected $1-$1.6 million from USA Drug for property and assets that were sold for well above their actual worth. As Politico reports: But the $420,000 that USA Drug paid [...]

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I wanted to take the time to promote three of the e-books that I have published online at Amazon.com. All three of these works are adapted from papers that I wrote for my political science classes at IUSB. The first of these that I am going to highlight is an 8 page paper I did [...]

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Embedded video from CNN Video Also, below are the videos of Obama in Elkhart. The first is his speech, the second is the Q & A: var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbS8yMDA5LzAyLzEwL2Vsa2hhcnQtbWF5b3ItcmVhY3RzLXRvLW9iYW1hLXZpc2l0Lzx3cHRiPkVsa2hhcnQgTWF5b3IgUmVhY3RzIHRvIE9iYW1hIFZpc2l0PHdwdGI%2BaHR0cDovL2t5bGViZWxsLmNvbTx3cHRiPkt5bGUgQmVsbA%3D%3D”;

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The (not so) great senator from Oklahoma, James Inhofe, who believes that global warming is a myth, was “honored” by the oil and natural gas industry with an award. The headline from the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment reads “A Tireless Advocate of Efforts to Grow State’s Oil and Natural Gas Economy”. This guy used [...]

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