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• A Year After Christmas Eve Senate Vote, Health Reform Celebration Seems Premature (Time.com)
• Biden says gay marriage 'inevitable' (AP)
• New tax law packed with obscure business tax cuts (AP)
• Ground zero workers celebrate political victory (AP)
• Petraeus visits troops in Afghanistan (Politico)
• Top 10 political moments of 2010 (Politico)
• EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases (AP)
• End-of-year high note for Obama on foreign policy, too (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Obama condemns 'outrageous' Pakistan suicide attack (AFP)
• Planned Parenthood plans to expand abortion services nationwide (Daily Caller)

A Year After Christmas Eve Senate Vote, Health Reform Celebration Seems Premature (Time.com) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 03:25 AM PST Time.com - Getting President Obama's health care plan passed ultimately required a more torturous path, and that has a lot to do with why it's not as popular as Democrats had expected

Biden says gay marriage 'inevitable' (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:04 AM PST AP - Vice President Joe Biden is predicting that the evolution in thinking that will permit gays to soon serve openly in the military eventually will bring about a national consensus for same-sex marriage.

New tax law packed with obscure business tax cuts (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:34 AM PST AP - The massive new tax bill signed into law by President Barack Obama is filled with all kinds of holiday stocking stuffers for businesses: tax breaks for producing TV shows, grants for putting up windmills, rum subsidies for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Ground zero workers celebrate political victory (AP) Posted: 23 Dec 2010 04:23 PM PST AP - The politicians who wrangled a last-minute compromise bill giving 9/11 survivors and responders with five more years of health care and billions of dollars in compensation gathered at the World Trade Center site Thursday to declare a patriotic victory, though others disagree over whether the bill goes far enough.

Petraeus visits troops in Afghanistan (Politico) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 03:32 AM PST Politico - The top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan makes a Christmas visit.

Top 10 political moments of 2010 (Politico) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 02:09 AM PST Politico - Even in a memorable election year, certain moments truly stand out.

EPA moving unilaterally to limit greenhouse gases (AP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 12:55 AM PST AP - The Obama administration took separate actions this week to protect clean air and federal wilderness areas, reaffirming that the White House can pursue its goals without depending on help from an increasingly combative Congress.

End-of-year high note for Obama on foreign policy, too (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 24 Dec 2010 01:19 PM PST The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama can play golf and splash in the waves with his family in Hawaii knowing he’s ending the year on a high note in the eyes of some top world leaders.

Obama condemns 'outrageous' Pakistan suicide attack (AFP) Posted: 25 Dec 2010 01:01 PM PST AFP - US President Barack Obama condemned Saturday's "outrageous terrorist attack" in northwestern Pakistan in which a suicide bomber killed dozens of people at a World Food Program project.

Planned Parenthood plans to expand abortion services nationwide (Daily Caller) Posted: 22 Dec 2010 10:43 PM PST Daily Caller - Abortion may soon be more readily available than ever before, thanks to a new requirement from Planned Parenthood that more of its centers nationwide offer the service. At least one local chapter so far has decided to withdraw from the network rather than comply.

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