This is the best, most succinct argument I've seen for doing the right thing on healthcare. It's far more honest than any of the garbage coming out of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue or Capitol Hill. It isn't long and it's the truth. ...
Getting prominent play all over the net and all over the nation today is AP's latest contribution to distorting the issues in the healthcare debate. Today's distorted, one-sided and thoroughly misleading insurance industry propaganda piece was written by someone named...
Is it really all that big a surprise that its own greed got the best of the insurance industry causing them to agressively criticize the Baucus Caucus Insurance Subsidy bill? Despite being handed tens of millions of new customers and...
While the media is doing a full court press to aid and abet the Military Industrial Complex's demand for escalating the war in Afghanistan it is increasingly clear that what they are demanding is an excercise in futility. Instead of...
Following up on his one hour Special Comment on Wednesday evening, Keith Olbermann announced on Thursday's edition of Countdown that he will donate $50,000.00 of his own money to the National Association of Free Clinics. An impressive examply of putting one's...
Last night Keith Olbermann used the entire hour of his show Countdown for a special comment on Healthcare. It was an extraordinary thing to do in a number of respects. It was a bit risky and it could easily have...
This afternoon the AP reports that leaving the war we have already lost in Afghanistan is "not an option" according to the headline. Really? Leaving Afghanistan is not an option? Says who? Why? In real terms then, what does this mean...
This is an unusual request but I'm making it on behalf of a friend who I strongly believe in. Russ Patterson is running for the Democratic nomination in Florida's 60th legislative district. The election isn't until next year of course...
Since 1979, when the Shah of Iran finally lost his grip on power and the American CIA that controlled him was run out of Tehran, the elite power structure of our government has been engaged in one long, sustained...
Wednesday night, after Pres. Carter's remarks identifying the racism attendant to the teabagger rally in Washington and the other virulent eruptions of the right, Rachel Maddow interviewed a fellow named Frank Schaeffer about what it all means. She introduced the...
According to Sen. Bernie Sanders, 18,000 Americans die annually because they do not have access to our medical system. A million people declare bankruptcy annually due to their inability to pay medical bills. Medical expenses are now the number one cause of bankruptcy in...
Rep. Wilson is an embarassment to the Congress and to the United States for his unprecedented display of outlandish and unacceptable disrespect for the President of the United States. There has never been such an incident in the history of...
It appears more and more that if the Congress passes something lableled "healthcare reform" this year it will be the legislative equivalent of the infamous fat substitute Olestra. Olestra, you may recall, was a product that provided all the fat...
We all know that the untrustworthy politicians who comprise the bulk of Democratic members of Congress and the key decision makers in the White House are furiously scheming to ditch the "public option" compromise upon which Obama and Co. sold...
For me, this is an easy answer. Here's the honest and best definition of a genuninely robust public option: Single Payer! Single Payer! Single Payer! SINGLE PAYER! If Obama wimps out next Wednesday, the...
That's the essence of the story all the corporate media is running with about this speech by the President to the children. The only people who would make this objection are complete morons and, frankly, asshole right wing, racists. Given...
I am astounded at the news that keeps leaking out in dribs and drabs that the new tack the Obama administration is going to take after the disastrous 7 month search for the mythical bipartisan Shangri-La is to double down on...
The past several days of stories, eulogies, anecdotes, moving images, and information about the great Senator Kennedy has certainly been an emotional torrent for me and my entire family as I know has been the case for many, many others around the...
It's very difficult for us little people to get the attention of our oh so wise and "pragmatic" leaders who believe they must compromise away any benefits for the common man and woman in order to tweak the health insurance...
