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Live-blogging Obama on health care law problems

Live-blogging Obama on health care law problems

President Obama is speaking in the Rose Garden about the problems with the website that allows people to shop for health care under the new health care law.
by Bob Collins

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5 x 8: How sociological factors lead to an ADHD diagnosis

5 x 8: How sociological factors lead to an ADHD diagnosis

The roots of an epidemic, the problem with dead bodies, learning to read at 54, job seekers on stage, and a home for orphan Konny.
by Bob Collins

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Life, death, and baseball

Life, death, and baseball

When the baseball playoffs are down to the final few teams, a baseball game is almost as precious as life itself.
by Bob Collins

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5 x 8: Adrian Peterson and ‘serial fatherhood’

5 x 8: Adrian Peterson and ‘serial fatherhood’

People on a pedestal and the people who put them there, the men who catcall, keeping it wheel, kindness and cancer, and a goodbye to the Beargrease sled dog race.
by Bob Collins

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Why is your kid playing football?

Why is your kid playing football?

Let’s face it. Football fans don’t much care that the constant hitting and brain-smashing action is killing the athletes of the National Football League — a fact that is overwhelmingly proven in Tuesday’s PBS Frontline series, “League of Denial: The NFL’s Concussion Crisis.” So you could probably scroll right past most of the two hours…
by Bob Collins

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Where’s NewsCut?

NewsCut's Bob Collins explains his recent writing absence.
by Bob Collins

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A nice day for a shutdown wedding

It's hard to find anything funny about what's happening in Washington
by Bob Collins

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WWII vets to politicians: ‘Get out of my way’

WWII vets to politicians: ‘Get out of my way’

Leave it to the “Greatest Generation” to put a visual stamp on leadership. Time is running out for World War II vets to visit their memorial in Washington; they don’t have time for the politicians to grow up, act like adults, and govern the nation in a responsible way. The shut down closed the World…
by Bob Collins

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In Washington, pandas and politics mix

In Washington, pandas and politics mix

None of the hand-wringing about the effects of a government shutdown at midnight or the potential default on the government’s obligations later this month have swayed any politicians in Washington. But you have to give the National Zoo credit for a little bit of pluck for trying to make this the face of the shutdown.…
by Bob Collins

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