Concessions in Egypt before march of a million

CAIRO — Egypt's anti-government protesters, sensing victory after President Hosni Mubarak agreed to discuss sweeping political reforms, rallied support for what they hope can be a million-strong march for democracy on Tuesday.
msnbc.com staff and news service reports

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41347609/ns/world_news-mideastn_africa/?GT1=43001

American Government: Health Care Class Discussion

To be Honest I was a bit nervous about the discussion on Friday. Not so much because I was shy or afraid to speak up, but because this issue always brings controversy and sometimes it is hard to bring out a positive aspect that can bring everyone to agree upon. I felt that I had to be double the careful with the words I chose or the things I said because there is always one person that might take it too personal. I believe that discussions are necessary, it’s also necessary to have people on different sides of an argument because that way there is no biases. One may bring another person to place themselves on someone else’s shoes and understand instead of judge others. Some great points were made about the health care reform, but in the end I know those who stood strong in their word will most likely ignore anything that went against them. This is why I sometimes get frustrated when I try in a civilized way to bring a point across... But I guess the whole point of discussions is no to convince others but just to make one's own convictions a little stronger, to pick a side and avoid the middle ground that will take us nowhere. Out of this discussion I am even more in support of a Health Care Reform.

Emanuel can run for Chicago mayor

CHICAGO — Illinois' highest court put Rahm Emanuel back in the race for Chicago mayor Thursday, three days after a lower court threw the former White House chief of staff off the ballot because he had not lived in the city for a full year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41291795/ns/politics-more_politics

New spirit in Washington, same old divisions

President Barack Obama pushed forward an agenda of government spending and investment that is sure to be met with fierce resistance by an emboldened Republican Party in Congress.

Tom Curry
msnbc.com

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41263357/ns/politics/

Riverside Woman Gives ‘Bread Of Life’ To Homeless

This is a very special article for me because the "woman" they are talking about is my sister, Vanesa Delfino. She's been feeding homeless people for around 8 months and it has been an inspiring experience for us as a family and for the community around. She was awarded a "KNX Hero" for December 23, 2010 and this is how this article appeared at the CBS Los Angeles news.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2010/12/30/riverside-woman-gives-bread-of-life-to-homeless/

The Federal Budget of California

The president's Budget Cuts and investment for the state of California.
New Jobs, Less taxes, better schools, fixed highways and support for college students.
-The White House

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget_factsheet_ca

Fox News Poll: Most Think Obama Policies Have Failed to Help Economy

Almost all American voters think the country's economy is in bad shape, and few see benefits from the Obama administration’s economic policies
By Dana Blanton
Published January 21, 2011

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/21/fox-news-poll-think-obama-policies-failed-help-economy/

Giffords arrives at Houston hospital

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords got a dramatic send-off from her hometown Friday as throngs of sign-carrying well-wishers lined the streets to wave at the ambulance taking the wounded congresswoman from the hospital to the airport, where she was flown to Houston just two weeks after she was shot.

msnbc.com staff and news service reports

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41188722/ns/us_news-life/

Plans being drawn up to let states declare bankruptcy

By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH
Policy makers are working behind the scenes to come up with a way to let states declare bankruptcy and get out from under crushing debts, including the pensions they have promised to retired public workers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41188877/ns/business-the_new_york_times/?GT1=43001

The Art of Poetry

To gaze at a river made of time and water
And remember Time is another river.
To know we stray like a river
and our faces vanish like water.

To feel that waking is another dream
that dreams of not dreaming and that the death
we fear in our bones is the death
that every night we call a dream.

To see in every day and year a symbol
of all the days of man and his years,
and convert the outrage of the years
into a music, a sound, and a symbol.

To see in death a dream, in the sunset
a golden sadness--such is poetry,
humble and immortal, poetry,
returning, like dawn and the sunset.

Sometimes at evening there's a face
that sees us from the deeps of a mirror.
Art must be that sort of mirror,
disclosing to each of us his face.

They say Ulysses, wearied of wonders,
wept with love on seeing Ithaca,
humble and green. Art is that Ithaca,
a green eternity, not wonders.

Art is endless like a river flowing,
passing, yet remaining, a mirror to the same
inconstant Heraclitus, who is the same
and yet another, like the river flowing.

Jorge Luis Borges

2 students shot in L.A. high school; suspect arrested

A 17-year-old boy arrested after a handgun in his backpack accidentally discharged and wounded two other high students Tuesday was able to bring his automatic pistol on campus apparently because the Los Angeles school does only random metal detector checks.

By Michael Martinez, CNNJanuary 18, 2011



http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/01/18/california.high.school.shooting/index.html?hpt=Sbin

Suspect charged in congresswoman's attack

Federal prosecutors brought charges Sunday against the gunman accused of attempting to assassinate U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at a political event in Arizona.