Frank Rich in the Times: If Obama’s first legislative priority had been immigration or financial reform or climate change, we would have seen the same surge of fear. The conjunction of a black president and a female speaker of the House — topped off by a wise Latina on the Supreme Court and a powerful [...]
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Infographic of the Week: Monthly job losses, 2008-2010
The red bars are the accelerating rate of job loss during President Bush’s last year in office; the blue bars are the decelerating rate of job loss during President Obama’s first year of office.
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Lieberman and Nelson craft HCR “compromise”, then announce their opposition to it
Let’s see… one is from a state whose largest city is Omaha, the other is from a state whose largest city is Hartford. What do those two cities have in common? via Balloon Juice Time after time, these scoundrels place the interests of key campaign donors over those of the voters. An endless stream of [...]
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Afghanistan War Victory Science
This war may be a mistake, a blood-soaked blunder, an unholy charnel house mindlessly consuming the bodies and souls of untold thousands, an open sore on the pockmarked face of history and an abomination before the sight of God and men, but it is first and foremost a war, and wars must be won. You [...]
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Perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume.
And I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism, the umm, the uh kinda a spineless, a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and a fact resume that’s based on anything but hard work and private sector, free enterprise principles. via foxnews.com [...]
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Who knew? The nuts and bolts of health care costs in the US
This NPR story is a breath of fresh air. Nearly all of the media coverage of the effort to pass health care reform focuses on the political process: How many votes in committee, timelines, poll numbers, bi-partisanship, ‘oh-snap!’ back-and-forth soundbites, right-wing troll death panel comments, etc etc etc. Meanwhile, little or no effort is made [...]
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