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I’ve been doing this all wrong. I have been dutifully showing up roughly every Friday night and delivering this post for months now, and I have asked for nothing in return. Oh, sure, a compliment in the comments, or a link, or maybe even a bit of well-reasoned pushback—those are all good, ...
Congress
Blanche Lincoln
Barack Obama
Bill Nelson
Health care
No one could have anticipated…
After emerging out of nowhere over the summer as a seemingly potent and growing political force, the tea party movement has become embroiled in internal feuding over philosophy, strategy and money and is at risk of losing its momentum.
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White House
news.firedoglake.com - 3 hours ago
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Senators Max Baucus, Ron Wyden and Harry Reid
(Wikimedia) A day before voting on the motion to
proceed in the Senate, Ron Wyden has reached agreement with the leadership to get an amendment into the bill which would allow as many as 1 million ...
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Reid, Wyden, Baucus Reach Agreement on Version of Free ...
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Blue Virginia
found this 3 hours agofound this
photo: bastique via Flickr
Evangelicals like Chuck Colson, Roman Catholics like Archbishop Donald Wuerl, and the other religious leaders who signed the “ Manhattan Declaration ” don’t seem to understand that justifying discrimination in the name of religious freedom is not ...
Congress
news.firedoglake.com - 3 hours ago
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St. Augustine of Hippo from the former Dominican
priory church at Hawkesyard (photo by Lawrence OP) Everyone’s
talking about the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and their imposition into the legislative debate over health care, ...
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Harsh Immigration Provision in Senate Health Care Bill ...
(photo by Marco Vossen)
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told Reuters (via TPM ) today that it will be at least another week — in other words, after Thanksgiving — before President Obama announces his new strategy for Afghanistan (not to be confused, of course, with his ...
World
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Nancy Pelosi
Hamid Karzai
Nouri al-Maliki
Karl Rove
news.firedoglake.com - 7 hours ago
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Bill Clinton told FDL’s Eve Gittelson that it
would be problematic for him to attend a free
medical clinic being held in Little Rock, Arkansas tomorrow because MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann had “politicized” the event.” He ...
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President Clinton to Skip Arkansas Free Clinic, Blames ...
Adenocarcinoma in PAP smear (photo: euthman via Flickr)
Days after a controversial recommendation from the US Preventive Services Task Force on breast cancer screening, a separate organization has recommended less screenings for cervical cancer . Anyone seeing eerie parallels or ready to ...
White House
Health care
The POP art contest made today’s Washington Post :
[I]t was one thing for Fairey to turn an image of Barack Obama into the striking “Hope” poster — he’s a photogenic guy! — another thing to dramatize the argument for government-funded health insurance. ...
White House
Washington Post
Barack Obama
Arianna Huffington
Looks like even the Palinites are getting sick of the ‘Cuda this week. Amidst the BOOOOS one can hear “QUITTIN’ ON THE JOB!”
Stopped clocks, as they say.
Meanwhile, the ‘Cuda’s beloved Facebook page is getting bombarded with angry posts like this . ...
White House
Sarah Palin
FDL’s Book Salon is honored to have Maggie Major, health fellow at The Century Foundation, business journalist, and author of Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much . The book has been made into a film, produced by Alex Gibney (best known for Taxi to the Dark ...
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Health care
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 14 hours ago
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But who's buyin'? (photo by Mike Quick) The
more I look at the merged Senate bill, the
more I’m afraid that Harry Reid might have been laying the ground work to betray progressives on the issue of the public option, and gain the support of ...
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Snowe Job: Was Reid’s Merged Health Bill Written to ...
Alan Grayson has worked tirelessly since becoming a member of Congress to expose the corruption and lack of accountability at the Federal Reserve, and Firedoglake has been proud to support his efforts .
When nobody was really paying attention, Grayson began working to sign Democratic ...
Congress
Federal Reserve
Ron Paul
Appropriations Committee
Barney Frank
Foreclosure Crisis
Wish you were here? (photo by Paul Keller)
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 11/18/09 – Legal proceedings, such as they are, rumbled to life again today at Guantanamo Bay. Pre-trial issues in the case of Mohammed Kamin , an Afghan man who was captured by the U.S. in Afghanistan in 2003, were heard ...
World
Eric Holder
Texas Republicans are truly an entirely separate category of stupid .
“For somebody like me who has put together the logistics of a court trial, you’ve got weak links all along the way from the jailers, the bailiffs, the clerks, the jurors, the judge, everybody in the ...
Congress
Louie Gohmert
Glenn Beck
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I tell ya’ spend a few hours with
Sarah Palin and ya’ just give up and quit
with dispatch . Et tu Oprah, et tu? Oh, and speaking of quitting — Lou Dobbs was on the Daily Show on Wednesday evening. Much of the interview was put on the internet. The last part of which is ...
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The Quitting is Contagious
This is how FireDogLake commenter Kelly Canfield makes Apple Pie . Don’t know what the background music is in the video but it has a great beat and I can dance to it. Time for pie!
What’s on your mind tonight?
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Late Night: Fred Thompson, Defeatist Underminer of US Troops, Says We’ve Lost the War in Afghanistan
Why has Fred Thompson lost faith in our troops in the field ?
Former Sen. Fred Thompson today intensified his party’s criticism of President Obama’s long deliberation over policy in Afghanistan, announcing that Obama’s delay signals that “the war has been ...
World
Fred Thompson
Afghanistan
Barack Obama
Sean Hannity
I. Am. Pissed.
I am a veteran of the United States Air Force, serving from 12/76 to 9/82, reaching the rank of Staff Sergeant (E5). I have copies of my DD214 (Discharge papers) available if anyone wants to check.
So why am I telling y’all this?
In today’s (November 19, ...
World
fdlaction.firedoglake.com - 38 hours ago
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I’ve began my preliminary examination of the new,
merged Senate health care reform bill. So far, my
first impression is pretty negative. There are many bad provisions that I think need to be changed or removed. Here are eight I noticed last night: 1) ...
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Pretty Bad So Far: Eight Things Wrong With The Senate ...
