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BLITZER’S BLOG: It’s hard not to be cynical about debt talks
(CNN) - It’s hard not to be a bit cynical in watching politics unfold in Washington.
As you know, the Republicans are all lined up resisting any effort to simply pass an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling with a straight up-or-down vote. They insist on large-scale spending cuts.
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Grover Norquist: The man who drew the GOP's 'line in the sand'
Washington (CNN) - At the heart of the contentious talks between the White House and congressional Republicans on whether to raise the debt ceiling is a simple, one-sentence document many conservative lawmakers have signed, pledging not to increase taxes.
Ever.
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'Lost' toad rediscovered in Borneo
(CNN) - A toad which hasn't been observed in the wild for almost a century has been rediscovered by researchers in Malaysian Borneo.
Last seen 87 years ago, the Bornean Rainbow Toad (also called the Sambas Stream Toad) was found in forests in the Gunung Penrissen mountain range in Sarawak State.
The discovery was part of a wider 'lost' amphibian search launched by Conservation International and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last year, which involved 126 researchers working in 21 countries on five continents.
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