News and Politics Timeline
- January 22, 2007. Sex-Changing Chemicals Found in Potomac River.
- June 14, 2007. New Action Heroes - Time magazine story - June 25, 2007 issue - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg interested in the environment - Arnold Schwarzenegger interested in fighting disease.
- November 2007. Alzheimer's Association. Alzheimer's disease is a progressive and fatal brain disease. There is no cure. Former President Bush vetoed a bill (Labor/HHS bill - HR 3043) that included $30 billion for the National Institutes of Health, which would have brought a $16 million increase for Alzheimer research.
- November 2007. The Global Warming Survival Guide - An Adelie penguin looks over the edge of an iceberg on Paulet Island, Antarctica from TIME.
- December 19, 2007. New Blood Test Finds Cancer Cells
- February 4, 2008. Photo of Ernie Pyle's death surfaces
- Associated Press article in Albuquerque Tribune
- Photo and caption
- January 20, 2009. Change is good and so is history. Both happened on this day.
- July 13, 2009. Teddy: In His Own Words - good documentary about the life of Edward Kennedy.
- September 9, 2009. Representative Joe Wilson interrupted President Obama's speech with a shout of "You lie!".
- September 15, 2009. House Rebukes Wilson for Shouting "You Lie".
- September 29, 2009. Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Florida) on the Republican Health Care Plan "Don't Get Sick! And if You Do Get Sick, Die Quickly!".
- October 2, 2009. Limbaugh, Beck and Hannity: Do they have real power?
- October 9, 2009. President Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
- February 26, 2010. Cocaine, Spices, Hormones Found in Drinking Water - Some male fish in the U.S. have been growing female parts due to exposure to estrogen in the water.
- March 23, 2010. President Obama signed health reform into law.
- April 10, 2010. Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Michigan, announcing that he will retire from Congress.
- April 21, 2010. McAfee program goes berserk, reboots PCs.
- May 21, 2010. Texas OKs school textbook changes - Critics claim conservatives trying to revise history.
- June 2, 2010. Toxic town's advocate sees victory ahead.
- July 16, 2010. Prozac Pollution Making Shrimp Reckless.
- August 3, 2010. Many dietary supplements are contaminated.
- September 09, 2010. Nissan LEAF: Polar Bear seeing its arctic home melting away.
- September 15, 2010. Nissan LEAF: The Making of Polar Bear.
- October 25, 2010. Assassination of Dr. Tiller (MSNBC documentary), Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
- January 3, 2011. Climate Change Flip-flop.
- January 21, 2011. Keith Olbermann signs off msnbc.
- February 25, 2011. Google Changes How It Searches Web to Get 'Quality' Results.
- June 20, 2011. Countdown With Keith Olbermann returns. This time it's on Current TV.
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- Rick Perry: still does not like federal government involvement in the private sector despite the success of the GM bailout; calls Social Security a ponzi scheme.
This News and Politics page was created 4/13/10. Last updated 6/27/11.
