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That's right, folks. Buckle up, stop texting . Sounds simple, eh? It's a safety program a local sports director started in response to a tragedy earlier this month. His name's Pete Christy, and he's a genuinely nice guy. As skipper of the team that covers more than 70 local high schools' ...
Congress
Sherrod Brown
Pete Sessions
Cause an "old school liberal" movement will be outgunned financially. We won't have access to the media. We won't have an infrastructure and decades worth of volunteer and voting lists. We will be ridiculed or called racists. You know, just like a standard day hangin' around this C-list ...
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Sudden spike in hits from a Google search on "overton window." Why? read more
White House
Sarah Palin
Washington City Paper Loose Lips read more
White House
Michelle Malkin
Washington, D.C
General David Petraeus
I don't know if anyone pays attention to the generic ballot for Congress, but things are looking up lately for Republicans. The aggregate on Pollster.com shows a generic Republican polling only two points behind a generic Democrat; at several polling outfits, notably Rasmussen Reports, ...
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Democratic National Committee
Virginia Foxx
Washington, D.C
James Inhofe
Mark Kirk
Oh crap. Yet more women's health "guidelines" from our corporate culture aimed at reducing costs.
Now, you should only get a Pap Smear every few years and not start till you’re in your 20s.
Under the headline “Negative Effects of Fewer Pap Smears Unknown,” the article reads:
Dr. Donnica ...
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Michael Moore
Rally to support 'Medicare for All' planned for Journal Square in Jersey City
Supporters of a national single-payer healthcare system, also known as Medicare for All, will hold a rally in Jersey City's Journal Square at noon Saturday.
While Medicare covers everyone 65 and over, a ...
World
United States
As Cory Doctorow says:
Here's a 20-minute, must-see lecture on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement -- the secret copyright treaty currently being negotiated, which stands to fatally wound all user-generated content sites from mailing lists to YouTube; which stands to criminalize kids for ...
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Youtube
Burlington Free Press
Sanders, an advocate for a more radical, single-payer solution to the nation’s health care problems, said he will offer an amendment calling for a single-payer system even though he knows it has no chance of passage. A single-payer system is one in which the government ...
Congress
Harry Reid
Health care
In a column which oddly, or not, doesn't mention the President by title or by name, Krugman concludes:
The gist of the [TARP inspector general's AIG bailout] report is that government officials made no serious attempt to extract concessions from bankers, even though these bankers received ...
White House
Paul Krugman
Timothy Geithner
General David Petraeus
Ryan Griffin in HuffPo , yeah yeah:
A bloc of African American House Democrats, angry and worried that not enough is being done about high unemployment by the administration, forced the postponement of a much-anticipated vote Thursday on comprehensive financial regulation reform .
And ...
White House
Barney Frank
Timothy Geithner
I sent an email to Eric Massa some time back, thanking him for voting against HR 3962, and specified that I didn't need a reply, as I'm not one of his constituents. I got a 'form letter' response anyway, and thought I would share it.
Dear [hipparchia]:
Because you have previously been in ...
Congress
Eric Massa
House of Representatives
United States
Okay, comment of yesterday I'm a bit behind, by i on the ball patriot at Naked Capitalism in response to tan Edward Harrison post (internal block quote markers are mine) :
Edward Harrison said:
Barack Obama has now come clean about his thinking on why his administration has decided to focus ...
White House
Barack Obama
Bud Day
(x-posted at ePluribus media )
Via The Hill, John Conyers hammers Obama's weak stance in the healthcare battle in a radio interview:
"I'm getting tired of saving Obama's can in the White House," Conyers said on the liberal Bill Press radio show . "He only won by five votes in the ...
White House
Barack Obama
Dennis Kucinich
Dig it: the Stupak amendment and the Palin witch-burning are the same fucking thing . read more
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At Baseline Scenario , James Kwok concludes:
For the CRA to be the problem, the causal factor would have to be availability of credit in low-income communities. But from what I’ve read, it seems like today’s problem is no longer redlining — plenty of lenders were willing to lend to the poor. ...
