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• Week in Headlines

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  Texas News
  Texas' Obesity Rate Rises, but Rank Among States Improves
  
  Texas Politics
  Anti-Gay Activist Sends Out Fliers Opposing Parker
  
  Politics
  The Tea Party's Favorite Doctors
  
  War and Peace
  The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won’t)
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  

• Video Lunch: Conversation on Women's Issues with Rosa DeLauro

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  From Campus Progress:
  Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) speaks with Campus Progress about a pressing need to keep women's issues on the national agenda. She has seen sweeping changes in the office demographic she says -- women now make up half of all U.S. workers -- but "the" [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• Local News: SBOE Member Don McLeroy to Will Challenger in Election

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  Ratliff to Vie for District 9 Position
  By Maggie Kiely
  
  From the Bryan-College Station Eagle
  
  A Mount Pleasant businessman will challenge a local incumbent for a State Board of Public Education seat in the upcoming state primary election.
  
  Thomas Ratliff said he decided to run for [...]
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  Posted: November 20, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

• Video Lunch: Napolitano Makes the Case for Immigration Reform

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  From the Center for American Progress:
  Angela Kelley discusses Secretary Janet Napolitano's speech on immigration reform, plus why legalization is critical to effective enforcement, and the key components of reform. [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• Local News: Fred Brown Announces Reelection Candidacy for State House

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  Brown Seeking Seventh Term in Texas House
  By Michelle Casady
  
  From the Bryan-College Station Eagle
  
  More than two weeks after the first candidate announced intentions to run for the District 14 seat in the state House of Representatives, incumbent Fred Brown has decided to seek re-election to [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

• Video Lunch: Daily Kos Sunday Loon Watch

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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 12:00pm EST
  

• Texas Progressive Alliance Roundup - November 16, 2009

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  The Texas Progressive Alliance is starting to feel an odd craving for can-shaped servings of cranberry sauce as it brings you this week's highlights from the blogs.
  
  TXsharon continues to follow the abuses of Aruba Petroleum in a Barnett Shale backyard and Wednesday the Wise County Messenger picked [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

• Conversion of Convenience: The Revealing Truth Behind Why the Director of a Planned Parenthood Joined the Coalition for Life

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  After being involved with Planned Parenthood for eight years, either as a volunteer or as an employee, Abby Johnson suddenly resigned this week and joined the Coalition for Life. So why would someone who had dedicated so much of their life working for reproductive rights suddenly not only change their [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 8:00am EST
  

• Pro-Choice to Pro-Life: An Insider’s Look Into the Conversion of a Planned Parenthood Employee

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  For over a year and a half I have been a volunteer escort at the Planned Parenthood reproductive health care facility in Bryan, Texas; this particular facility is located in a town home to arguably the most conservative public university, Texas A&M, and is known as one of the most [...]
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  Posted: November 04, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

• Reaction to Resignation of Director of Planned Parenthood: Change of Heart?

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  Teddy called me last night when he saw the news story, and I literally thought he was joking. A few weeks ago the clinic director and my friend Abby resigned from PP in Bryan. I was saddened but felt that she was making a personal [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 5:00pm EST
  

• Texas Progressive Alliance Roundup - November 2, 2009

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  The Texas Progressive Alliance reminds you to get out and vote on Tuesday. Here are this week's highlights.
  
  Aruba Petroleum is drilling a Barnett Shale gas well in the backyard of Tim and Christine. Their property was taken, it's value diminished, they were threatened [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 9:00am EST
  

• Video Lunch: The Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex

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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  

• Local News: Organizing for America in Waco Pushes for Health Care Reform

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  Obama Supporters Working Phone Bank in Waco to Push Health Care Reform
  By Michael W. Shapiro (Tribune-Herald staff writer)
  
  From the Waco Tribune-Herald
  
  Almost a year after President Barack Obama’s election, some of the volunteers who worked in Waco to put him in office are regrouping in [...]
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  Posted: October 30, 2009, 9:00am EDT
  

• Young, Conservative, and Intolerant

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  The Texas A&M Chapter of the Young Conservatives of Texas is a group of the most conservatives students on the most conservative college campus in the nation. However, the YCT contends that Texas A&M is not as conservative as it is portrayed. The mission of the YCT, as articulated [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 9:00pm EDT
  

• Video Lunch: When Patients are Denied: The Battle Over Mental Health Benefits

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  Some therapists and patients contend that insurance companies have been routinely denying coverage for sexual assault victims requesting long-term mental health services. Stories of how victims of sexual assault can get tangled in the health insurance system have been one result of the Huffington Post Investigative Fund's citizen' [...]
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  Posted: October 29, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  

• Tonight on Biased Transmission

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  There has been much discussion about the economics of healthcare lately, but this week on Biased Transmission, we will be discussing quality of healthcare -in the form of physician-patient communication. Our guest will be Dr. Barbara Sharf, Professor of Communication at Texas A&M, and [...]
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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
  

• Video Lunch: Rise Of The Conservative Media

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  Posted: October 28, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  

• The Coalition for Life Lies to Women

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  Every day during 40 Days for Life protesters stand in front of the fence at the Planned Parenthood in Bryan, and every day they spread misinformation and lies to the patients that utilize the clinic for reproductive health care. The protesters regularly attempt to pass [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 7:00pm EDT
  

• Video Lunch: Crisis Pregnancy Center Abortion Education LIES

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  This is a multimedia project we worked on that regards the false information and false pretenses of crisis pregnancy centers and abortion-only education. [...]
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  

• Local News: Deployments of Texas Army National Guard to Iraq Continue

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  Texas Army National Guard Unit Prepares for Deployment in Iraq
  By Regina Dennis (Tribune-Herald staff writer)
  
  From the Waco Tribune-Herald
  
  The 36th Infantry Division of the Texas Army National Guard once again will be deployed to Iraq in 2010, and the unit already has jump-started training efforts.
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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 9:00am EDT
  

• Anti-Obama Protest at Texas A&M

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  Posted: October 27, 2009, 11:00pm EDT
  

• Protester Rants at Anti-Obama Protest at Texas A&M

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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:30pm EDT
  

• Interview with Texas A&M Student

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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:00pm EDT
  

• Video Lunch: From Vietnam to Afghanistan

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  As President Obama decides what to do in Afghanistan he must learn the lessons of Vietnam. Daniel Ellsberg is a former US military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  

• Local News: Brazos County Coalition Against Domestic Violence Holds Vigil

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  Candlelight Vigil in Honor of Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  By: Katy Ralston
  
  From the Texas A&M University Battalion
  
  Tuesday night a flicker of light will represent a flicker of hope when candles will burn bright for the victims and survivors of domestic and dating violence.
  
  The [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 10:00am EDT
  

• Texas Progressive Alliance Roundup - October 26, 2009

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  The Texas Progressive Alliance is ready for the start of the World Series, and it presents to you its weekly highlight reel as we await the first pitch.
  
  quizas of South Texas Chisme wonders about the US detaining a Mexican human rights [...]
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  Posted: October 26, 2009, 9:00am EDT
  

• Tim Wise: On White Privilege

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  For years, acclaimed author and speaker Tim Wise has been electrifying audiences on the college lecture circuit with his deeply personal take on whiteness and white privilege. In this spellbinding lecture, the author of White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son offers a unique, inside-out [...]
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  Posted: October 25, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  

• Week in Headlines

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  ActivismTen Years After Seattle
  
  Media
  Congress' CALM Act Aims to Quiet TV Commercials
  
  Foreign Policy
  Getting Out of Afghanistan
  
  War and Peace
  Sorting Out the Facts of Afghanistan
  
  Veterans Issues
  Senators Seek Review of Military's Personality-Disorder [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
  

• Video Lunch: Shopping While Black - Social Experiment

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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
  

• Local News: Thirty Candidates Being Considered for President of Texas A&M

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  30 Considered for A&M Presidency
  By Vimal Patel
  
  From the Bryan-College Station Eagle
  
  Texas A&M has more than 30 candidates for the university's presidency, including nationally recognized names and individuals who have been "highly placed" in federal government, officials said Thursday.
  
  Not on the list are' [...]
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  Posted: October 23, 2009, 9:00am EDT