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The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

. On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the lead Obamacare agency, said it was on schedule to sign final agreements with insurers between September 9 and September 11, allowing them to sell specific policies on the exchanges.

"Our timeline remains the same," said CMS in a statement, "and we are working to ensure that any issues are resolved before open enrollment."

Champions for Coverage is one more example of businesses and organizations across the nation pitching in to help consumers understand the coming options for quality, affordable coverage. Champions for Coverage, among others, include: American Medical Association League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) NAACP National Baptist Convention National Partnership for Women and Families

For a list of Navigator awardees or more information about Navigators and other in-person assisters, please visit: http://cciio.cms.gov/programs/exchanges/assistance.html

Click here to learn more about organizations participating in Champions for Coverage: http://marketplace.cms.gov/help-us/champions-for-coverage-list.pdf.

To become a Champion of Coverage, visit: http://marketplace.cms.gov/help-us/champion-apply.html.

“I completely understand senators, governors who think that they’re going to be great presidents taking a position on Syria,” said Marvin Kalb, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution and a former reporter with five decades of experience covering the Middle East. “Those people, like Obama in 2002 on Iraq ... who make a judgment that is then supported by history, they look good.”

Terry McAuliffe (D) now has an edge over Ken Cuccinelli (R) in the Virginia gubernatorial race, and we’re changing our rating in the contest from toss-up to LEANS DEMOCRATIC. Crystal Ball

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

Fast Food Workers demand $15 per hours from coast to coast.

Jerry Pippin and AFLCIO president Richard Trumka(via Cspan) talk about the American Worker and the US Labour movement in 2013.

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

The Jackson Clarion-Ledger, for example, ran a front page headline after the march that read, "Washington is Clean again with Negro Trash Removed."

Newspapers,radio stations and TV stations in the south did not in general cover the March on Washington in 1963.

The southern based Washington Post did not say a word about Dr King's address in the 29 August 1963 edition.

Today the Post is owned by a cut-rate online bookseller.

“We can continue down our current path in which the gears of this great democracy grind to a halt and our children accept a life of lower expectations,” Obama said, “where politics is a zero-sum game, where a few do very well while struggling families of every race fight over a shrinking economic pie. That’s one path.”

Or, he continued, “we can have the courage to change.The March on Washington teaches us that we are not trapped by the mistakes of history, that we are masters of our fate. But it also teaches us that the promise of this nation will only be kept when we work together. We’ll have to reignite the embers of empathy and fellow feeling, the coalition of conscience that found expression in this place 50 years ago.”President Obama