Alan Grayson’s Public Option
Last Wednesday, Florida Congressman Alan Grayson introduced H.R. 4789—the version of the public option. It would give any American the opportunity to buy into Medicare. Here’s how the West Orlando News...
View ArticleThe Boxer Blimp & the Texas Textbook Turmoil On the Filter
Monday, night I was on KNBC’s The Filter, which has rebooted after hiatus. The two topics were Carly Fiorina’s new political video, and about the conservative revisions to Texas’s text books—changes...
View Article“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true…”
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As most of you likely know by now, on Saturday afternoon, on the eve of the health care reform vote, Obama spoke to the...
View ArticleOf Ethics & WikiLeaks: “The Job of the Media is Not to Protect Power From...
What everyone now knows (or ought to know) is that, on Sunday five newspapers—The New York Times, the Guardian of the U.K., Germany’s Der Spiegel, France’s Le Monde and Spain’s El Pais—began publishing...
View ArticleTo Clueless UC Execs & Tyranical Fillibuster Fanatics: OH, SHUT UP!
REFORMING THE FILIBUSTERER Hendrick Hertzberg at the New Yorker writes about the wild outside chance that the havoc-wreaking filibuster rules might possibly get reformed. (Please, please, please, let...
View ArticleWORDS MATTER: Thoughts on Violent Rhetoric & the Tucson Shooting
Surely we will know more in coming days about what combination of crazy thoughts and imaginings could have caused an obviously disturbed 22-year-old Jared Lee Laughner to reportedly bring a Glock 9mm...
View ArticleWORDS MATTER 2: The Consequences of Eliminationist Rhetoric
There are all kinds of other topics that need discussing, but they will have to wait until Tuesday as, for better or for worse, the Tucson shooting, and the issues that swirl around it, still demand to...
View ArticlePush to Cut CDC’s Vaccine Funds Could Harm CA’s Health
Mother Jones lays it all out. Here’s the deal: In the past year, California has experienced the worst whooping cough outbreak in more than 50 years, an epidemic that has killed 10 infants and resulted...
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