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The truth behind the public option, from Brave New Films

2009-09-14T05:04:41Z

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Still outsourcing the important debates to the comedians (...part 3)

2009-09-06T21:20:55Z

Here's video of Al Franken -- who only recently made the switch to being a politician since spending some 40 years as a comedian, author, and then radio host -- doing what we very rarely get to see our elected representatives doing: talking good, ...

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THIS is what I consider evil -- P.S. ...

2009-08-28T21:44:49Z

As a follow-up to the previous post, I'd like to say that I would be just as angry at the Democrats if they were doing the same thing. Angrier, in fact. But, they're just not capable of being that minipulative. I'm willing to be proven wrong,...

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THIS is what I consider evil.

2009-08-28T18:36:32Z

To me, one very good definition of the word "evil" is the notion of using this kind of voter-manipulation to squash an honest movement to provide better insurance coverage for the sick and the injured: A reporter for the Washington Independent ...

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Five myths about health-care around the world

2009-08-27T18:16:59Z

... or "outsourcing it to the comedians, part 2." The fabulous funny folks over at the Stephanie Miller Show (my morning radio show of choice) read a refreshing piece entitled "Five Myths about Health-Care Around the World" on-air yesterday. It...

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Once again, we've outsourced the most important debate to the comedian

2009-08-24T15:27:12Z

If you haven't yet had the pleasure of watching a Jon Stewart interview, you really should catch his latest one with health-care critic Betsy McCaughey (pronounced "McCoy"). Ms. McCaughey is a chairperson on some board-or-other that opposes the ...

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How the media is helping us lose perspective

2009-08-24T14:57:48Z

Update: I've heard a lot of people complaining that those critical of the heath-care bill are being called "right-wingers". And I agree that this is unfair -- it is certainly not my intention to do make such a blanket statement. What I am sayin...

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Passing this along...

2009-08-22T22:09:04Z

... from the Mahablog, who just posted links to four great pieces on why we need to reform health care in the U.S. These stories, she says, are specifically tailored to those "who think health care reform will erode the quality of health care in...

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Apparently simple-mindedness is some kind of virtue now.

2009-08-21T22:47:02Z

... Or so Peggy Noonan would seem to believe. In this week's Wall Street Journal opinion page, which is typically just political pornography for the super-rich (sorry to be graphic, but it is), her highness Ms. Peggy Noonan, a very famous syndica...

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Fifteen minutes of the Barney Frank town-hall meeting

2009-08-20T21:21:32Z

As a citizen who is often intimidated by the prospect of speaking logic and reason to low-information voters (i.e. the "concerned citizens" that are currently turning these health-care townhall meetings into kindergarten free-for-alls), ... I foun...

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