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• Michael Tomasky: Healthcare and Rousseau

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  In all these ins and outs and particulars we discuss in the healthcare debate -- the shape of the public option, the level of subsidy, what have you -- we often forget to talk about the big picture. But its there, and reform proposals raise a point of debate that gets right to the heart of the matter in terms of ...
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• Obeys Afghanistan surtax bill dead on arrival

  
  The Cable — Authority: 673
  As President Obama gets ready to roll out his newAfghanistan-Pakistan strategy, some leading Democrats are focusing on the costof the pending troop escalation. But they are unlikely to apply actuallegislative pressure on the White House to find the money. The debate was heightened by the introduction of abill by ...
  17 hours ago

• Congress May Probe Leaked Global Warming E-Mails

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 168
  A few days after leaked e-mail messages appeared on the Internet, the U.S. Congress may probe whether prominent scientists who are advocates of global warming theories misrepresented the truth about climate change.
  22 hours ago

• George Will Is A Shameless Shill For The Anti-Climate Change Crowd

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 147
  Media Matters has the facts in case anyones interested ~ Will distorted stolen CRU emails to argue against climate change legislation George Will falsely claimed that "one of the emails" reportedly stolen from the U.K.s Climate Research Unit (CRU) said that a climate scientist "wished he could delete, ...
  22 hours ago

• Today in Washington D. C. - Nov 30, 2009 - Public Opposes Dem Health Bills; Dems Dont Seem to be Listening

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 543
  News reports indicate that "President Obama will announce a surge of 34,000 US troops in Afghanistan at the US Military Academy at West Point> on Tuesday, December 1st. General Stanley McChrystal, Americas top general in Afghanistan requested 40,000 additional troops to quell the Taliban insurgency and stabilize ...
  23 hours ago

• Does the public option matter? | Michael Tomasky

  
  Comment is free: Michael Tomasky's blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 100
  Now here was an intelligent op-ed by Paul Starr in yesterdays NYT. He argues that the public option as currently constructed (and in any form thats likely to pass Congress) is so weakened as to be not even worth fighting for, and that liberals should give it up in return for more meaningful reforms. Selected salient ...
  1 day ago

• Amendment 28 Proposed by Citizens of America

  
  ARRA News Service — Authority: 543
  Making the rounds these days is a recommended Constitutional Amendment. While many have reached the point of desiring Congressional Term Limits, the following is an amendment a majority of Americans should be able to quickly promote. Doubt if those rascals in Congress would agree. Thomas Jefferson said, "When the ...
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• CT-3 Peggy Rogers to announce candidacy Thursday in Milford

  
  Connecticut Local Politics — Authority: 534
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• Must Read Daily Kos Today

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 147
  Badabing writes ~ Ben Bernanke Says Hes Sorry, And He Wont Do It Again ~*~
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• Skeptics: CBOs Health Care Reports Include "A Lot Of Blinking Yellow Lights"

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 147
  McClatchy reports: Beltways health care bills will not control costs ~ Is it back to drawing board? Bernie Sanders has said as much . The Senate deliberations will have to strip out the bad and refigure the good. As the health care reform spotlight turns to the Senate, Bernie drove home the case ...
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• Switzerlands Oldest Bank Rejects the US

  
  IRS Tax Problem Solver Blog - IRS Help — Authority: 131
  The IRS UBS settlement may be good for the government coffers but it may be damaging to the US investment fraternity in the long run. Some even call the action of the IRS to demand details of thousands of UBS bank account holders suspected of evading taxes an act of financial apartheid. As a result of disruptive ...
  5 days ago

• The financial media are either corrupt or they are stupid (make that both).

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 156
  Take for instance the news coming out of the FDIC that they now have a negative $8.2B short fall. Hello George Bailey! Where are the red flags? Why isn’t the media saying “hey loyal followers, you should get your money out of the bank before the people who don’t read the newspapers do”, but instead they are ...
  5 days ago

• Harold Ford Jr.: U.S. Senator From New York?

  
  Booker Rising — Authority: 149
  I thought ol boy was trying to become Hollywoods chief lobbyist? Anyway, hat tip to reader Queen for this story. Apparently, a poll is being conducted on Harold Ford Jr.s behalf to gauge his chances of running for a U.S. Senate seat in New York, where he has had a home for three years. The moderate-liberal politico ...
  5 days ago

• US Senators ask White House to make ACTA Text Public

  
  Public Policy Connections — Authority: 411
  On 23 November 2009, two US Senators, Bernie Sanders (I-VI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH), wrote a letter  to the US Trade Representative requesting that the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) be made available, and that the public be allowed to review and comment on substantive proposals in the ...
  5 days ago

• Our sophisticated pundit class | Michael Tomasky

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  If you missed Mark Halperins idea of funny in regard to Mary Landrieu, I urge you to take a look at this .     Halperin is a leading political pundit, a real establisher of conventional wisdom. This is really pretty unbelievable. What is with these guys? Remember Dana Milbanks "hilarious" joke about what kind of ...
  5 days ago

• Fighting Ghosts & Shadow Governments

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 567
  Fighting Ghosts & Shadow Governments Jim Kirwan 11-24-9 Rense Back in the beginning of the First obvious Dictatorship of the Twenty-first Century; when the Shadow Government of Dick Cheney became the new rulers of this nation and the greatest threat to actual world order: A massive new shadow ...
  6 days ago

• US to send 35,000 more troops to Afghanistan

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  US president set to make official announcement on US troop levels early next week Barack Obama said today that he intended to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, as it became clear that he is poised to announce early next week the deployment of up to 35,000 more troops to the troubled region in one of the most crucial ...
  6 days ago

• No tough questions for Galbraith on Capitol Hill

  
  The Cable — Authority: 673
  When PeterGalbraith testified on Capitol Hill Monday, the former U.S. ambassador andU.N. envoy answered questions on the credibility of Hamid Karzai, the elections in Afghanistan, the U.S. mission there,troop levels, and a host of other issues. What lawmakers failed to bring up were theallegations that Galbraith, ...
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  Connecticut Local Politics — Authority: 534
  
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• Senator Kaufman Calls For Immediate SEC Ban On Naked Access High Risk, High Frequency, Highly Unregulated And Unfair Wall Street Trading Practices

  
  Delaware Way — Authority: 147
  (presser) Kaufman Asks Commission to Act Now on High Frequency Trading In letter to SEC Chairman Schapiro, Senator outlines dangers of manipulative algorithms and systemic risk WASHINGTON, DC – Senator Ted Kaufman (D-DE) today urged Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Mary Schapiro to take ...
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