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GOP Gone Wild: Unruly Republicans Silence Women Lawmakers With Screams, Shouts, And Delay Tactics

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Think Progress - By Think Progress - Nov. 07 (Opinion) - This morning, the House began consideration of the rule for debate of the House health care bill. As the Democratic Women’s Caucus took to the microphone on the House floor to offer their arguments for how the bill would benefit women, House Republicans — led by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) — repeatedly talked over, screamed, [...]

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Our Free Market Makes Economic Collapse Inevitable

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Bill Moyers Journal - By Bill Moyers, James Galbraith - Nov. 02 (Interview) - The headlines are trumpeting recovery — some are even proclaiming an end to the recession in the United States (unofficially, that is). The US economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in a year. But there are some caveats — although jobless claims dipped slightly, many analysts still warn of a "jobless recovery." for a number of years to come. And then there's the small print — will this recovery be permanent or is it a function of the stimulus masking bigger problems? The Wall Street Journal warned: "The recovery thus far has been heavily supported by federal money, casting a question mark over the economy's underlying strength as government support dwindles." That unease is echoed by JOURNAL guest James K. Galbraith

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Interview with James Galbraith

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By BillMoyers - Oct. 30 (Interview) - We need to find another path for economic expansion. We need to set a strategic direction. Our problem now, our big social and environmental problem, is energy. It's climate change. It's the greenhouse gas emission issue. If we built a set of institutions that could deal with that problem effectively, you could employ a large part of the labor force for a generation, dealing with that. And you'd then make that profitable for private enterprise to get into in a serious way.

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House Health Bill

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Matthew Yglesias - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - One of the key differences between the early draft of the House health bill and the Senate Finance draft was the different long-term implications of the financing mechanism. The House bill is financed by taxes on rich people. Since health spending is increasing faster than the overall economy, this meant that even though the House bill was deficit neutral in the 10-year CBO window, by the end of that period expenditures are rising faster than revenues. The Senate Finance bill, by contrast, raises revenue by phasing out the tax exclusion of employer-provided health insurance. Initially it does this by taxing only a small number of “Cadillac” plans, but over time the tax’s bite grows and grows. That means you have fiscal sustainability over the long run.

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Rebranding America

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:09:36 -0700

New York Times - Oct. 18 (Opinion) - President Obama reminds us that America is not just a country but an idea, a great idea about opportunity for all and responsibility to your fellow man.

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Welcome to the gilded age of poverty chic

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - By Renée Loth - Oct. 16 (Opinion) - Welcome to the gilded age of poverty chic

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Globalist: The Public Imperative

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Roger Cohen - Oct. 06 (Opinion) - Whatever may be right, something is rotten in American medicine. It should be fixed. But fixing it requires the acknowledgment that, when it comes to health, we’re all in this together. Pooling the risk between everybody is the most efficient way to forge a healthier society.

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G20: The two sides of the global economy

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

GlobalPost - By Thomas Mucha - Sep. 23 (Opinion) - As G20 leaders snake their way to Pittsburgh from all corners, they face very different circumstances from 12 months ago when the possibility of financial and economic catastrophe was all too real.

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For ACORN, Truth Lost Amid the Din

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Harold Meyerson - Sep. 23 (Opinion) - Actual instances of voter fraud were all but nonexistent. Why you might not know that.

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12 Shocking Ideas That Could Change the World

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Warning: The people's ideas expressed here may be dangerous. For this year's list, we walked right past the usual suspects and went looking for trouble.

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Save the Slums

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wired - By Stewart Brand - Sep. 22 (Interview) - People are trying desperately to get out of poverty, so there's a lot of creativity; they collaborate in ways that we've completely forgotten how to do in regular cities. And there's a transition: People come in from the countryside, enter the rickshaw economy, and work for almost nothing. But after a while, they move uptown, into the formal economy. The United Nations did extensive field research and flipped from seeing squatter cities as the world's great problem to realizing these slums are actually the world's great solution to poverty.

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Barack Obama Must See Michael Moore's New Movie

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Arianna Huffington - Sep. 21 (Review) - Michael Moore has always had a remarkable feel for targeting the zeitgeist. He's done it again with his new movie, Capitalism: A Love Story, a withering indictment of the current economic order that brilliantly navigates a cinematic tightrope, alternating between heart-wrenching portraits of the suffering caused by the economic crisis and

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Even Glenn Beck Is Right Twice a Day

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Frank Rich - Sep. 20 (Opinion) - Unlike liberal critics of capitalist inequities, of course, Beck and his claque are driven by an over-the-top detestation of government. Washington is always the enemy, stealing their hard-earned money to redistribute it to the undeserving and shiftless poor (some of whom just happen to be immigrants or black). Though there is nothing Obama can do to stop racists from being racist, he could help stanch the economic piece of this by demonstrating how a reformed government can at times actually make Americans’ lives better. That’s what F.D.R. did, and that’s the promise Obama made, swaying some Republicans and even some racists, during the campaign.

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Kennedy, Modest and Honest

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Jonathan Yardley - Sep. 17 (Review) - The late lion of the Senate sums up his life and times.

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Uninsured like me

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Michael Lind - Sep. 15 (Opinion) - Now and then a moment occurs that clarifies the nature of American politics like a flash of lightning over a prairie landscape. Such a moment occurred on Sept. 9 during President Obama's televised address to a joint session of Congress about healthcare. As the president explained that illegal immigrants would not be eligible for benefits under the plan he supported, Joe Wilson, a conservative Republican member of Congress from South Carolina, shocked the chamber and the television audience by shouting, "You lie!"

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Tell me why

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Information Clearing House - By Declan Galbraith - Sep. 07 (Opinion) - Tell me why (why) does it have to be like this? Tell me why (why) is there something I have missed? Tell me why (why) 'cause I don't understand When so many need somebody We don't give a helping hand

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Bush's Third Term?

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Mother Jones - By David Swanson - Sep. 02 (Opinion) - It sounds like the plot for the latest summer horror movie. Imagine, for a moment, that George W. Bush had been allowed a third term as president, had run and had won or stolen it, and that we were all now living (and dying) through it. With the Democrats in control of Congress but Bush still in the Oval Office, the media would certainly be about a mandate for bipartisanship and the importance of taking into account the concerns of Republicans. Can?t you just picture it? There?s Dubya now, still laws via signing statements. Still creating and destroying laws with executive orders. And still at his whim. Imagine Bush continuing his policy of extraordinary rendition, sending prisoners off to other countries ...

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Afghanistan is now Obama's war

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Financial Times - By Clive Crook - Aug. 31 (Opinion) - Victory will be impossible without greater expense of lives and money, withdrawal involves great dangers and, to complete the president's quandary, his rationale for fighting does not convince

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One third of Afghans at risk of hunger, malnutrition

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - By Shannon Scribner - Aug. 19 (Interview) - The Afghan people are often caught in the crossfire of the war between the Taliban and western troops. There are currently 250,000 internally displaced people due to the conflict. Adding to the violence, Afghanis find now find themselves in a battle with hunger. A new report from the humanitarian organization Oxfam says that one third of the population is now at risk from hunger and malnutrition.

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Obama Addresses Veterans — A Constituency That Benefits From A Public Health Insurance Plan

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Igor - Aug. 18 (Opinion) - Today, President Obama addressed the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix, AZ. In his speech, Obama reassured veterans about his health care plan: “One thing that reform won’t change is veterans health care. No one is going to take away your benefits.” Still, many veterans are reportedly wary of health reform. But ironically, one of [...]

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Obama’s Pre-emptive Health Care Surrender

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

trueslant.com - By Matt Taibbi - Aug. 17 (Opinion) - the notion that our president not only does not have any use anymore for a public option, but in fact “will be satisfied” if there is merely “choice and competition” in the market is, well, disgusting. I’ll say this for George Bush: you’d never have caught him frantically negotiating against himself to take the meat out of a signature legislative initiative just because his approval ratings had a bad summer.

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Mass Medical Clinic's Sobering Message

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

National Public Radio - By Howard Berkes - Aug. 10 (Opinion) - For two-and-a-half days, about 800 doctors, nurses, dentists and optometrists treated 2,700 uninsured and underinsured people, most from Appalachia. No one was asked for an insurance card. There were no co-pays. And there were no bills.

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Obama's Health Care Plan Just Expands Status Quo

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Washington Post - By Robert J. Samuelson - Aug. 10 (Opinion) - "The status quo is unsustainable for families, businesses and government." -- President Obama, June 13 One of the bewildering ironies of the health-care debate is that President Obama claims to be attacking the status quo when he's actually embracing it. Ever since Congress created Medicare and Medicaid in 1965, health politics has followed a simple logic: Expand benefits and talk about controlling costs. That's the status quo, and Obama faithfully adheres to it. While denouncing skyrocketing health spending, he would increase it by extending government health insurance to millions more Americans.

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The Destruction of the Black Middle Class

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Barbara Ehrenreich, Dedrick Muhammed - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - Left out of the commentary on race and class over the Gates affair has been talk of the increasing impoverishment -- or, we should say, re-impoverishment -- of African Americans as a group.

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A Scrap of Decency

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Bharati Chaturvedi - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - From India to Brazil to the Philippines, recyclers are experiencing a precipitous drop in income. Trash pickers and scrap dealers in Minas Gerais State in Brazil, for example, saw a decline of as much as 80 percent in the price of old magazines and 81 percent for newspapers, and a 77 percent drop in the price of cardboard from October 2007 to last December.

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