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Yes, they made history
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, March 22, 2010“This Is What Change Looks Like”: Congress Passes Health-Care Reform
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, March 22, 2010Stumbling About In the Graveyard of Empires
"If there was ever a decent justification visible for the American war in Afghanistan, there isn't now."Posted by Michael Butler, Sunday, March 21, 2010
‘Do it for the American people’
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, March 21, 2010The 1990s precedent for a Democratic bounce-back
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, March 21, 2010What White People Fear
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Sunday, March 21, 2010Bernie Sanders (D-VT): Fight Republicans’ hypocrisy
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, March 20, 2010Health reform and the specter of Alf Landon
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, March 20, 2010Let’s Drop the Good Guys vs. Bad Guys Talk, We Need to Grow Up as a Species
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Saturday, March 20, 2010What White People Fear
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Friday, March 19, 2010Why The Facts of 9/11 Must Be Suppressed - ICH [VIDEO]
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 18, 2010Revealed: Ashcroft, Tenet, Rumsfeld warned 9/11 Commission about ‘line’ it ’should not cross’ - ICH
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 18, 2010Victory at Last?
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 18, 2010The Lies of Karl Rove
Posted by Michael Butler, Thursday, March 18, 2010NYT Op-Eds (3)
"Great health care often is about just being in a position to get some" (Kristof); "When it comes to helpful life lessons, there's nothing like a political sex scandal" (Collins); "Construction in Jerusalem is not derailing the peace talks. The problem is the Palestinians’ increasing demands" (Guest Op-Ed)Posted by Ian Alterman, Thursday, March 18, 2010
On health care reform, listen to the nuns
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, March 18, 2010We Stand on the Cusp of one of Humanity’s Most Dangerous Moments
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Thursday, March 18, 2010NYT (6): National News
"STATES RIGHTS" ARE BACK IN A BIG WAY; Vanishing Internet privacy; Poorest in PA socked with huge insurance rate increase; Violence may lead to new policies re medical marijuana; Monserrate soundly defeated - but may run for Assembly (!); and NYC eateries must post cleanliness grades.Posted by Ian Alterman, Wednesday, March 17, 2010
YouTube – Goldman Sucks [Video]
Quite a video - about time - thanks to Judy Lynn-McDowellPosted by Michael Butler, Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Health Care 2010 and 1994, and the Political Lessons of History
Posted by Michael Butler, Tuesday, March 16, 2010NYT Editorial & Op-Eds (5)
"The move by the Texas Board of Education to revise the state’s social studies curriculum is a disturbing intervention into decisions best left to teachers and scholars" (Editorial); "Israel must acknowledge U.S. anger over the plan to build new housing in East Jerusalem if the quest for peace is to advance" (Cohen); "A failure to recognize the magnitude of the task, and a toxic political environment, undermined the effort to achieve health care reform" (Guest Op-Ed); "The use of reconciliation threatens to destroy the humanizing function of the Senate" (Brooks); "It’s time for America to confront China about the undervaluation of its currency, which is adding to the world’s economic problems at a time when those problems are already severe" (Krugman)Posted by Ian Alterman, Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Lead like you mean it: Obama’s happiness deficit
Posted by Bill Swiggard, Monday, March 15, 2010NYT Op-Eds (7)
Frank Rich on the new "Rove-Cheney" ("The revisionist history peddled by Liz Cheney and Karl Rove must be aggressively refuted, and we must remember who really failed to keep America safe"); Mikhail Gorbachev speaks out ("Russia must regain the freedoms lost over the last 25 years to “shock therapy” and the iron grip of Russian leaders who opted for a more radical version of reform"); Tom Friedman on Israel ("The fracas over Israel’s announcement of plans for new housing in East Jerusalem is a distraction from a potentially history-making moment"); Maureen Dowd on progress for Saudi women ("Young women in Riyadh try to balance Islam and modernity as the stunted desert kingdom makes progress in 'Saudi Time.'"); Sean Wilentz on Grant-vs-Reagan ("Ulysses S. Grant deserves his spot on the $50 bill — and among our greatest presidents"); Should Obama be taking on SCOTUS?; and Clark Hoyt on the problem with "labels" ("In the unending battle over ideological labels, some are vague, others are too simplistic, and others can simply seem wrong")Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, March 14, 2010
NYT (5): National News
Are movements like the "tea party" actually GOOD for American democracy?; Will Dems make the same mistake in Indiana that they made in MA?; The magazine profile on Rahm Emanuel; After health care, overhaul of education; and playing political games with the Blagojevich trial.Posted by Ian Alterman, Sunday, March 14, 2010
