The Plum LineGreg Sargent’s blog The GOP strategy on Afghanistan has been to frame President Obama’s choice as a decision over whether or not to go along with his commanders’ desire for an expanded counterinsurgency, and the new NBC/WSJ poll suggests it may be bearing some fruit. But first, I wanted to flag some amusing [...]
Archive for October, 2009
31 Oct
8 Reasons Fox Is Not a News Organization
By Adele Stan, AlterNet. Posted October 24, 2009. PR for the GOP? Yes. Platform for right-wing hatemongers? Definitely. But a news organization? Definitely not. Even before Barack Obama was elected to the presidency, Rupert Murdoch had declared war on him via the personalities of Fox News Channel, a subsidiary of Murdoch’s media conglomerate, News Corp. [...]
30 Oct
Preserving The Open Internet
thinkprogress.org TECHNOLOGY With the way the Internet is structured right now, it is just as easy for Americans to visit a tiny website about knitting run by a young mother in Ohio as it is to visit a site run by the federal government or a major corporation. This feature is part of the reason [...]
30 Oct
House of Representatives–HCR Bill
It’s a long, long read… For those such as me, page 366 begins the Medicare aspect of the bill. The full text can be found at the following site: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21804224/House-HCR-Bill
29 Oct
Strongest Public Option Short of 218 House Majority
Strongest Public Option Short of 218 House Majority House health care bill unveiled today. Cuts deficit, but includes weaker version of public option. W. Post: “The House legislation aims to provide health insurance of one form or another to almost all Americans at an expected cost just below $900 billion over 10 years, without increasing [...]
27 Oct
General fallibility
By Richard Cohen Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Years ago, I bought an old Time magazine — the issue with the 1965 Man of the Year on the cover. I stuffed it into an old picture frame and kept it around to remind me of the fallibility of men, and, even, of Time magazine. It was [...]
27 Oct
Bring the troops home
By Eugene Robinson Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Barack Obama didn’t set out to be a “war president,” but that’s what history compels him to be. The nation and the world are fortunate that he doesn’t have the reckless, ready-fire-aim mentality of George W. Bush. But Afghanistan doesn’t present the kind of “false choices” that Obama, [...]
18 Oct
Bending the Health Care Cost Curve
Ask the Expert: Bending the Health Care Cost Curve By Ellen-Marie Whelan | October 5, 2009 What is “bending the cost curve”? What can we do to bend the cost curve? How can health reform legislation help? Bending the Health Care Cost Curve (transcript, mp4, YouTube) For more information, see: Financing Health Care Reform: A [...]
18 Oct
Why Health Reform Is the Right Prescription for Health Professionals and Their Patients
© Center for American Progress Health Care SOURCE: AP/Nick Ut Nurse Allison Tanksley checks Samantha Fierro’s blood pressure during a free medical care clinic. By Ellen-Marie Whelan, Mandy Krauthamer | October 5, 2009 Download this memo (pdf) The health care community will play an important role in the eventual implementation of health care reform legislation, [...]
17 Oct
Bill Moyers: Was the Financial Bailout Just a Slick, Friendly Takeover of the Federal Government?
By Bill Moyers, Bill Moyers Journal. Posted October 12, 2009. Moyers interviews Rep. Marcy Kaptur, a hero of Michael Moore’s latest documentary, and former IMF head Simon Johnson on Wall Street’s purchase of our democracy. The following is excerpted from the transcript of Bill Moyers’ interview with Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur and Simon Johnson, former head of the [...]
17 Oct
Afghanstan – A Plan to Win
OpEdNews Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Afghanstan–A-Plan-to-Win-by-sameh-abdelaziz-091015-794.html October 17, 2009 By sameh abdelaziz Should Americans shoulder the burden of the war in Afghanistan? Is it fair to put forty thousand additional families through the grinder as per General McChrystal’s request? Is the war winnable? These questions come at a time of economic upheaval, with unemployment at twenty-six [...]
15 Oct
Idea Of The Day: A Health Care System That Works For All Americans
Center for American Progress Idea of the Day: A Health Care System that Works for All Americans October 15, 2009 Health professionals see the shortcomings of our health care system firsthand every day: insurance companies denying coverage for the care they prescribe, families losing access to their doctors, and a system that forces them to [...]
