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You can faintly hear the horns sounding triumphantly as a deal to end the Minnesota government shutdown appears close.  The newspapers, radios and even Yahoo are reporting “Dayton: Will concede to GOP to end Minn. Shutdown.” (Source)

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I was sitting in my 10^th grade Chemistry class on September 11^th of 2001. I remember my teacher, Mr. Sufka telling us what had happened. We were able to see some images from Yahoo, but the internet was overwhelmed that day and our schools TVs were unfortunately down for repair.  We discussed what happened and what could happen next. We all knew we were going to war. This weighed heavily with Mr. Sufka who was an Army Reservist, as well as one of our best teachers.

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Sen. Franken has faced a daunting challenge in his first year as a US Senator. He barely won a highly contested and much publicized election with Norm Coleman and is part of a party/movement that is losing momentum rather quickly. Franken has also had to overcome a number of other obstacles. Many people (Republicans) have argued that Franken is unfit to be a Senator because of his previous employment in Hollywood and on Air America as a Radio commentator.

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I found two interesting and contradictory articles online recently.One of these is a Politico article by James Hohmann. He says in his byline, “More bad polls. More bad fundraising numbers. More dreary talk on the Sunday shows.” Many of you may see this and say, ‘so what?’

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Joe Miller, the candidate for Senate in Alaska has also gotten some bad press lately. This time it is because his security staff who reportedly roughed up and handcuffed a reporter after it was found out he wanted to ask Miller about his past.

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Meghan McCain, the daughter of Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain has made some interesting and enlightening statements regarding Christine O’Donnell, the Republican candidate for Joe Biden’s senate seat in Delaware.

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