Monday, July 6th, 2009
For all you deficit hawks out there, fretting that universal health care coverage would bankrupt the country, Ezra Klein of the Washington Post offers an interesting graph, showing what might happen to our deficit situation, if we adopt european-style health care. The rising line — that's the status quo/GOP + ...
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Thursday, February 5th, 2009
I thought Tom Daschle was a great choice for HHS and for driving Obama's health care agenda, so I was disappointed to hear the news of his tax indiscretions or omissions and his lobbying-by-any-other-name activities, both of which rightfully disqualified him from a position in Obama's administration.
At the same time ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Last Friday Countdown's Keith Olbermann brilliantly cataloged the Real Bush Legacy. The MSNBC crew finally got around to posting the transcript of the Friday (1/16/2009) show - as if they had more important things to do, sheesh!
So print this out and keep it handy when the Republicans skulking around your ...
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Sunday, January 4th, 2009
America's still got it.
Yes we can!
Most people know dumb and fake when they see it.
Interviews in slaughter houses - bad idea.
Separating risk and reward - bad idea.
Self-regulating works equally well with money men and toddlers.
Socializing risk and privatizing profit is government only Republicans could love.
Never entrust government to people who ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Who else could use the phrase “skiviness and predation” on national TV news and still sound both smart as hell and fun to take on a pub crawl?
(H, you're invited!)
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Urban Dictionary definition:
skivey
crooked; inclined to lie and cheat; untrustworthy; suspicious
That ...
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Monday, December 29th, 2008
Just spotted this Wall Street Journal article: U.S. Seeks 147-Year Sentence in Torture Case
U.S. prosecutors want a Miami judge to sentence the son of former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 147 years in prison for torturing people when he was chief of a brutal paramilitary unit during his ...
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Saturday, December 27th, 2008
Just when you thought we'd unwrapped that last gift of the Bush Administration, a former SEC investigator says there are more surprises under the tree.
Matt Renner of truthout.org interviewed former SEC investigator Gary Aguirre. The SEC fired Aguirre and shutdown his 2005 investigation of Pequot Capital Management, when he pushed ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
And now for a little more Bush Legacy Whitewash:
BBC News 12/17/2008
Blackwater should be dropped as the main private security contractor for US diplomats in Iraq, a US State Department panel has recommended. Its report, commissioned by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, says the company's contract should not be renewed when ...
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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
I generally don't have much use for Thomas Friedman's over-generalizing pronouncements in the NYT and elsewhere, but his piece today on the ethical collapse that accompanied - or enabled - the financial collapse is worth a read.
The Madoff affair is the cherry on top of a national breakdown ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
Is it just me, or does Adam Fogle cling to a slightly twisted interpretation of what it means to be American. Here's his comment on "Second Amendment Weekend:"
This honestly might be the most American thing of all time — buying guns and not paying taxes. I’m seriously considering ...
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