Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Meet the Fockers

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Which part did you like best, that the five Senate DINOs below voted with their puppet-masters, the insurance corps, yesterday on the Rocke...

Never Go in a Room Alone With Rahm Emanuel

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Jane Hamsher sez that Richard Trumka, the new president of the AFL-CIO and heretofore a strong advocate for the public option, has been sum...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

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Abstinence-only "sex education" did not work in Texas schools when we went through them (in the 1880s). And abstinence-only sex ed...

American Corporate Power & the U.S. Supreme Court

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Chief Justice John Marshall wrote in an 1819 Supreme Court decision, “A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible. It posses...
Monday, September 28, 2009

History of Blue-Dog Barking on Health Insurance Reform

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By the only writer we trust on the awful sausage-making in Congress.

HoneyBaked Ain't So Sweet

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The HoneyBaked Ham Co. is a large national corporation and, as such, exemplifies corporate values to a tee. Case in point : Richard Huether,...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

The Company She Keeps

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Some have asked about Madam Virginia Foxx's prominent spot on Stephen Colbert's show Thursday night, in "The Word" sectio...

Republicans Blew Their Wad

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All that August noise from Republicans about socialist Democrats seems now in the cooler shade of September to have done nothing particularl...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Money Buys More Democrats

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The NYTimes reports this a.m. that four New Jersey Democrats (both U.S. senators and two House members) pressured the Food & Drug Admin...