Bombing an Iraqi Stops a Beating Heart
Originally posted at My Left WingIt occurred to me, while protesting this optional war, that we leftists really aren't that good at these kind of fights. I mean it's all too clear that the Democrats we...
View ArticleWhy does Business Week hate America?
Today, just in time for the release of Michael Moore's spectacular documentary film, SiCKO, Business Week greets us with this headline:Despite spending lots more per capita on health care, the U.S. is...
View ArticleWhat if the government DIDN'T outlaw Drunk Driving?
Mothers Against Drunk Driving are MADD!In 2007, an estimated 12,998 people died in alcohol-impaired traffic crashes involving a driver with an illegal BAC.These deaths constitute 31.7 percent of the...
View ArticleHistory Lesson: Great Depression Style
This diary is worth at least 1000 words.My friends, the last president to raise taxes during tough economic times was Herbert Hoover... -- John McCain Sherman? Where is the WABAC machine?Oh, here it...
View Article(Not) Pooties - Bush's America in Pictures
This diary is worth 3000 words plus however many words a few videos is worth. This is for posting pictures of America. The ones I have selected are a brief snapshot of the ongoing transformation of...
View Article38 years ago TODAY: the road not taken
Today is October 24, 2008. On October 24, 1970, the United Nations General Assembly passed resolution 2626 whereby wealthy countries were encouraged to give a minimum of 0.7 percent of their GNI to...
View ArticleHow Clinton helped create that bleached blonde's "news" interview
Today's top recommended diary features the rantings of the extreme right wing, disguised as questions to Joe Biden.The wingnut's television station, WFTV, is owned by Cox Communications, one of the few...
View ArticleMASSACHUSETTS VOTES OVERWHELMINGLY FOR SINGLE PAYER 72% to 28%
Massachusetts is currently home to the RomneyCare experiment that forces people to buy private (for-profit) health insurance, or they face fines.The Massachusetts plan, which inspired similar proposals...
View ArticleLead-painted toys for every child?
Drs. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein of Physicians for a National Health Program remind us what is wrong with all the health insurance reform proposals now "on the table": Â for-profit health...
View ArticleGuardian UK: Israel offered Nukes to Apartheid South Africa
Revealed: how Israel offered to sell South Africa nuclear weaponsNot that anybody really needed the first "official evidence" of Israeli nukes. But there is plenty of embarrassing stuff to go with it,...
View ArticleCable Television subscribers fleeing?
The vast wasteland that is cable television in the United States (Colbert and Stewart and Rachel Maddow the few exceptions)... seems like it might be shrinking lately.Cable subscribers flee, but is...
View Article50 Years Ago Today: Patrice Lumumba Assassinated
Fifty years ago today, Patrice Lumumba was tortured and gunned down in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The first democratically elected leader of the newly independent country, he was just 35...
View ArticleOne in five in Oregon now getting food stamps
At one point in my lifetime politicians talked about poverty. Not any more. Now we have to help the middle class. Don't get me wrong, the middle class could use a break after decades of stagnating or...
View ArticleIt'll get better in another Friedman Unit
A headline from April 13 2011: Record number of Americans get government helpNEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- One in six Americans is receiving help from the government, just as fiscal austerity threatens to...
View ArticleFantasies of small business employment & universal healthcare
Earlier today I mentioned in a comment that single payer healthcare is pro-entrepreneur. I know people who won't leave a corporate job because to be self-employed or start their own company is to risk...
View ArticleFannie Mae pushing foreclosures after promising to help families stay in...
This looks like an important bit of actual journalism from an American newspaper (Detroit Free Press)Fannie Mae promises to keep families in homes, but instead pressures banks to forecloseThe first of...
View ArticleHOARDERS? Try global millionaires
Everybody by now has probably heard about the television show "Hoarders", a fascinating look inside the lives of two different people whose inability to part with their belongings is so out of control...
View ArticleCalifornia Senate Appropriations Committee approves California Universal...
Good news on the Health Care For All Front! On Thursday, January 19, 2012, the California Senate Appropriations Committee approved the California Universal Health Care Act. Senate Bill 810 guarantees...
View ArticleNo Apology
No Apology: The Case for American Greatness is a book by former Massachusetts Governor and U.S. presidential candidate Mitt Romney... The title makes reference to Romney's contention that President...
View ArticleTourism Supports 1 in 10 jobs in South Carolina. Stop visiting until they...
Tourism Supported 1 in 10 South Carolina jobs with spending totalling more than $18 billion generating over $1.3 billion in state and local tax revenues.Out of state visitors spent $9.6 billion, with...
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