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The West Virginia Chamber of Commerce is playing dirty with health care reform. It's pressuring its homestate Democratic senators, Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller, to block health care legislation unless the Obama administration ends what the Chamber calls a "war on coal."
The Obama ...
White House
Health care
Barack Obama
President Barack Obama talks alone with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in the Oval Office. (White House photo.) Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid won praise on the left for including a public option in the health care bill that he's bringing to the floor of the Senate. But Reid's coming ...
Congress
Harry Reid
Health care
Olympia J. Snowe
One of the big pieces of news that came out of Eric Holder's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday was Holder's promise that the long-awaited Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility report on torture will be out by the end of the month . In practice, that ...
White House
Eric Holder
Barack Obama
The main reason we can't get a health reform bill enacted is because the pharmaceutical and insurance industries aren’t happy with their piece of the action. This despite the fact that when politicians talk about cutting costs, what they really mean is cutting services ...
World
Health care
Jim Comey and Jack Goldsmith, who both served in the Justice Department during the Bush administration, have an op-ed in Friday's Washington Post defending Eric Holder, Obama's Attorney General. Comey and Goldsmith say Holder's decision to try 9/11 "mastermind" Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ...
Law
Eric Holder
It probably had to happen. The Obama gang is raising money off Sarah Palin—and her "lies."
On Friday morning, Organizing for America , the offshoot of the Obama presidential campaign (which works within the Democratic National Committee), sent out an email to the millions of ...
White House
Barack Obama
Sarah Palin
Health care
The coal industry's major lobby group, the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity , shelled out a stunning $47 million last year on lobbying, advertising and "grassroots outreach" efforts to fight climate legislation and tout the benefits of "clean coal." Its efforts ...
World
Members of the rifle detail perform a 3-volley salute during 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment's memorial service for nine Marines and one sailor killed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Hundreds attended the memorial service Tuesday morning that took place between Hangars 1 and 2 ...
World
Bud Day
Afghanistan
Today's must reads:
Sarah Palin, " Tito the Builder ," and Me (MoJo)
Reid Files for Cloture; Initial Senate Vote on Health Care Set For Saturday Evening (TPM)
Note to Barack Obama: This is What Happens When Your Approval Rating Goes Below 50 Percent (WaPo)
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White House
Sarah Palin
Health care
Barack Obama
ACORN
Washington, D.C
John Kerry gave a barn-burner of a speech at the World Bank on Wednesday, laying into development banks for pouring massive sums into dirty energy projects in poor countries. "Reducing energy poverty and combating climate change cannot be mutually exclusive challenges," said ...
World
Is al Qaeda no longer a profound threat to the United States?
In testimony to a House homeland security subcommittee on Thursday, Peter Bergen, a terrorism analyst, al Qaeda expert, New America Foundation fellow, and Mother Jones contributor, said:
Al Qaeda today no longer poses a ...
World
al-Qaeda
United States
Afghanistan
International Monetary Fund
Democrats in Congress have introduced measures that would provide American workers with five paid sick days in order to help prevent the spread of the H1N1 virus, the virus has made 22 million Americans sick since April and killed an estimated 3,900 people. But the Chamber of Commerce is ...
Congress
Health care
John Kerry gave a barn-burner of a speech at the World Bank on Wednesday, laying into development banks for pouring massive sums into dirty energy projects in poor countries. "Reducing energy poverty and combating climate change cannot be mutually exclusive challenges," said ...
World
A rundown of how terrorism is handled in the US:
--Rudy Giuliani, John Boehner: Wuss!
--American justice system: Tough!
See how these and others fare in satirist Mark Fiore's cartoon below:
World
Rudy Giuliani
John Boehner
9/11
Yesterday, the US Chamber of Commerce came to San Francisco to hold a " government affairs " conference. SF is, of course, Mother Jones ' home turf, but sadly, we weren't sent an invitation—probably because of this , this , or this .
The Chamber's contentious relationship with ...
White House
US Army Capt. Dustin Snare blows the Ghallarhorn, a Nordic war horn, kicking off the game between the Minnesota Vikings and the Detroit Lions during the viewing party on Contingency Operating Base Basra, Iraq, Nov. 15, 2009. Snare is the battle captain for the 34th Infantry Division's ...
World
U.S. Army
Iraq
Bud Day
Today's must reads:
A First Look at the Senate's Health Care Bill (The New Republic)
Rove, Cheney, Gingrich and Kristol Fail To Rally 9/11 Trial Foes (MoJo)
As Many As 75 Detainees Could Remain In Limbo (Marc Ambinder/The Atlantic)
FACT CHECK: Stimulus money to ...
Congress
Health care
9/11
John McCain
The rest of today promises to be big for health care reform. At 5:00 p.m., Sen. Harry Reid plans to explain the Senate's merged health care bill to his Democratic colleagues at a caucus meeting. The bill will probably be unveiled to the public later in the evening, and the crucial ...
Congress
Health care
Harry Reid
World leaders may have failed to lay the necessary groundwork to sign a climate treaty in Copenhagen. But some good news did emerge from President's Obama's trip to China this week. Obama's meeting with Chinese president Hu Jintao on Tuesday provided a few hopeful clues that the world's two ...
World
China
International Monetary Fund
Barack Obama
Wednesday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Justice Department's decision to prosecute Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other accused 9/11 plotters in civilian courts was bound to be contentious. Senate Republicans didn't disappoint, moving quickly to accuse Attorney General Eric ...
