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Healthcare Critics Wrong Healthcare Critics Wrong

Without a public option, parties that comprise America’s non-system of health care have little or no incentive to supply high-quality care at lower cost than they do now...
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Curious Extradition Case Curious Extradition Case

Gary McKinnon, was branded a cyber-terrorist for hacking into Pentagon & NASA computers. Now, the rest of the story...
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Again The Right is Wrong Again The Right is Wrong

Don’t conservatives, ConservaDems, Republican Party & the rest of the “climate change is a hoax” crowd ever tire of being wrong?
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No Nonsense Census No Nonsense Census

There’s been another informed and intelligent decision by the Obama administration... sharpen pencils and no giggling please...
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An Open Letter to President Obama and Congress – Help Bring Paula Home

An Open Letter to President Obama and Congress – Help Bring Paula HomeJuly 2, 2009 at 7:08 am - 6 Comments

By Denis Campbell
The healthcare debate rages across Capitol Hill with lobbyists fighting against a ‘single payer’ option as if it were the moral equivalent of the anti-Christ. Before you blindly accept any bill, please examine the very real (and ironic) face this debate has taken on for this journalist.
Paula Persichini-Petitti is a woman to whom [...]

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Business As Usual Bernie

Business As Usual Bernie


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No Nonsense Census

No Nonsense Census

In August, 2008, in an LA Progressive article entitled “Census Nonsense,” which decried the Bush...
June 30, 2009 at 7:57 am - No Comments


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What’s With Cable’s “All Jack-O All The Time” News Coverage?

What’s With Cable’s “All Jack-O All The Time” News Coverage?

Yesterday’s solemn, over-the-top, wall-to-wall, commercial free coverage of Michael Jackson's death...
June 26, 2009 at 4:29 pm - No Comments


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The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time

The Curious Incident of a US Extradition in the Night-Time

Gary McKinnon of Crouch End, North London, was branded a ‘cyber-terrorist’ by the US government....
June 18, 2009 at 1:00 pm - 3 Comments




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Minnesotan Nightmare Ends, Job Openings for Right Wing Hate Headline Writers

July 1, 2009 at 7:53 am - 1 Comment
Minnesotan Nightmare Ends, Job Openings for Right Wing Hate Headline Writers

by Denis Campbell
Yesterday Amy Klobuchar won the over/under wager of before 04 July and the nearly 8-month long nightmare for Minnesota’s voters came to an end. For 237-days she served as Minnesota’s only Senator handling the work of both since the battle to see who won the 04 November 2008 election began with multiple recounts [...]

Why the Critics of a Public Option for Health Care Are Wrong

June 25, 2009 at 5:28 am - No Comments
Why the Critics of a Public Option for Health Care Are Wrong>

by Robert Reich
Without a public option, the other parties that comprise America’s non-system of health care — private insurers, doctors, hospitals, drug companies, and medical suppliers — have little or no incentive to supply high-quality care at a lower cost than they do now.
Which is precisely why the public option has become such a lightening [...]

Yet Again, The Right Is Wrong

June 24, 2009 at 4:54 am - No Comments
Yet Again, The Right Is Wrong

This Time About Cap-And-Trade Costs
by Charley James
Don’t conservatives, ConservaDems, the Republican Party and the rest of the “climate change is a hoax” crowd ever get tired of being wrong?
For several years, business lobbyists along with GOP and other right wing mouthpieces in Congress and on the air have been yowling that the US cannot afford [...]

Media Lets Bald-Faced Lies Grow Under Fair & Balanced Umbrella

June 22, 2009 at 9:52 am - 2 Comments
Media Lets Bald-Faced Lies Grow Under Fair & Balanced Umbrella

By Denis Campbell
We’ve fallen down a media rabbit-hole and there is no way back. Senators, Representatives and UK MPs say whatever they want and are assured their corporate media interviewer mouthpieces will not have the spine to pin them down or ask tough questions about the ridiculous nature of the partisan pronouncements. Why, because of [...]

Let The World Praise Nico Pitney

June 21, 2009 at 2:24 pm - No Comments
Let The World Praise Nico Pitney

by Charley James
More than MSNBC, BBC or CNN; more than The New York Times or The Independent; more than perhaps any other news outlet, the world should be thanking Nico Pitney.
For seven days, his live blogging at Huffing Post of the Iranian election uprising has kept the world informed of what [...]

The GOP Keeps Trash Talking Health Care

June 19, 2009 at 1:32 pm - No Comments
The GOP Keeps Trash Talking Health Care

by Charley James
Like when it rolled out its laughable 18-page “budget” five months ago that forgot to include any numbers, yesterday John “Man Tan” Boehner, Eric “Ralph Wiggums” Cantor and a handful of other Congressional Republicans unveiled a four page health care “plan” Wednesday that not only had no numbers, it had no substance, no ideas – good [...]

Joan Walsh Is Right: Bill O’Reilly Is Vile

June 16, 2009 at 5:08 am - No Comments
Joan Walsh Is Right: Bill O’Reilly Is Vile

by Charley James
The good news about Fox News blubber mouth Bill O’Reilly is that he speaks to only a teeny, tiny percentage of the country; the bad news is part of that small and dwindling group actually thinks he makes sense and then goes out and kills people because they believe his vile, hate-filled rhetoric.
Much [...]

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Bernie and Ruth Have Not-so-Good Weekend

June 28, 2009 at 4:40 pm - No Comments
Bernie and Ruth Have Not-so-Good Weekend

By Denis Campbell
No take out the media trash this Friday. Bernie Madoof knows how much it will cost and now wonders how big a book will be thrown at him Monday. Those swindled by the confessed Ponzi Scheme creator got some measure of revenge or half their pound of flesh yesterday when US District judge [...]

Racially Segregated Proms… in 2009! Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act

June 24, 2009 at 6:13 am - No Comments
Racially Segregated Proms… in 2009! Why We Still Need the Voting Rights Act

By Denis Campbell
It was a Page 11 story. STILL racially segregated proms  exist in the deep USA South. It barely rated a whisper. Perez Hilton getting punched by the Black Eyed Peas manager and the crisis in Iran led the news. All sides said in Georgia said the prom situation was “normal because their parents [...]

Obama’s Upcoming Hush-Hush Damage Control Meeting with LGBTQ Leaders

June 23, 2009 at 6:46 pm - No Comments
Obama’s Upcoming Hush-Hush Damage Control Meeting with LGBTQ Leaders

Rev. Irene Monroe
The President has been an Obama-nation on LGBTQ issues since he’s taken office.
The political carrots Obama dangled before us as campaign promises are now looking like merely empty rhetoric that was used to court our votes and to collect our campaign dollars.
But with a 74 percent disapproval rating the President now has with [...]

The Italian Job: Border Police Seize $134-Billion In US Government Securities

June 21, 2009 at 4:29 pm - No Comments
The Italian Job: Border Police Seize $134-Billion In US Government Securities

by Charley James
Although the story is being widely reported across Europe and Asia, it’s received scant media coverage in the US.
AsiaNews along with other major media outlets outside the US are reporting that Italy’s financial police, the Guardia Italiana di Finanza, seized US government bonds worth US$134.5-billion from two Japanese nationals at Chiasso, located less [...]

Mr. President, Whassup?

June 19, 2009 at 1:47 pm - No Comments
Mr. President, Whassup?

by Carl Matthes
Hey, Mr. President, just to recap: Congratulations on your election!
And, let’s not forget your great election campaign: Skinning the Clintons, skunking the Republicans and skidding into home base with the 6th largest Presidential victory margin (10 million votes) of all time, bringing a gaggle of Democrats along with you: Your coattails aren’t just stylish, they’re long! [...]

Will Obama Save the Mideast from Itself

June 16, 2009 at 5:27 am - 1 Comment
Will Obama Save the Mideast from Itself

David A. Love, JD
Black Commentator Editorial Board
With his speech at Cairo University, President Obama has laid the groundwork, potentially, for a new era of peace in the Mideast.  Israeli officials are now realizing that they will have to accept a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.  Meanwhile, there is an indication that the President’s [...]

The Week+ in Political Limericks

June 16, 2009 at 4:56 am - No Comments
The Week+ in Political Limericks

by Madeleine Begun Kane
Hannity Insanity
Few people are better at creating a Krauthammer-lauded “alternate reality” than Fox’s Sean Hannity. Columnist Dick Polman provides an excellent example:
On his Fox show one week ago, Sean Hannity told his credulous fans that President Obama had made a deliberate effort during his Cairo speech “to give 9/11 sympathizers a voice [...]

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