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• Profile In Courage: Sen. Michael Bennett (D-CO)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 432
  Freshman Senator Michael Bennett says he’s willing to lose his seat if it means passing health care reform:Honestly, it’s shocking how often people claim that some Democrats just can’t support reform because then they might lose re-election.That’s the justification a lot of conservative Democrats are giving ...
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• Charlotte Essman of East Texas: Dark Prophetess of JFK’s Assassination—and President Barack Obama’s?

  
  Prometheus Unbound — Authority: 143
  The following letter by Charlotte Essman, written to President Lyndon Johnson two days after John Kennedy was assassinated, is part of the LBJ Presidential Library archive in Texas. Charlotte Essman was a common citizen processing her grief over Kennedy’s murder by Lee Harvey Oswald. But what might otherwise be ...
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• >>Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  Senate Democrats at odds over health care bill – Yahoo! News There are four senators who can save our nation if they decide to stick to their moral values and not allow themselves to be bought.   It is the people in these Senators states who must make their voices heard loud and clear over the Thanksgiving ...
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• What Might Have Been; What Still Might Be

  
  All Life Is Problem Solving — Authority: 120
  Many progressives, even though they’ve been working for a PO-based health care reform bill, have 1) never given up Medicare for All as the goal of their activity, and 2) decided, in the first quarter of 2009, that Medicare for All could not pass the new Congress. They then reacted to their realization by concluding ...
  13 hours ago

• Should Strangers I’ve Never Met Get Mammograms And When? My Important Opinion

  
  Rhymes With Cars & Girls — Authority: 422
  People may not remember this, but during the Reagan-Bush years, and indeed during the arguments for the Clinton health care plan(s), whether/how often women should get mammograms was a big political deal. It was considered a hallmark of the Evil Conservative backwardness that Medi[whatever] wouldn’t pay for ...
  16 hours ago

• … a Beer Celebration!

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 131
  Facts Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November in the United States. By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast. Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday ...
  19 hours ago

• Shrouded Shroud…

  
  BuelahMan's Redstate Revolt — Authority: 131
  Over 30 years ago– I had read a small leather-bound book about the Shroud. I enjoyed the starting point that the researcher used . Art. It was amazing and thought provoking. Anyway– since then I have always found the research facinating. Of course I am lost when it comes to why no DNA research– but thats just ...
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• >>Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  Historic health care bill clears Senate hurdle – Yahoo! News The Senate Democrats passed  Reid’s health care bill so the debating could begin.  It is huge, it is nation destroying  taxes and it is full of special provisions to buy the Senator’s votes.    We are being told this is “just the beginning” ...
  20 hours ago

• Berkeley Faculty in Solidarity With Student Protesters: Demand Full Amnesty For Wheeler Hall Occupiers; Misdemeanor Charges, No Handcuffs Upon Release

  
  American Power — Authority: 703
  Im reading Ananya Roys eyewitness report of the Wheeler Hall occupation. Roy is a Professor of City and Regional Planning at Berkeley, as well as a social justice activist and mentor. She went inside Wheeler Hall, and was accompanied by Berkeley Professor of Linguistics George Lakoff (a hardline socialist ...
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• BREAKING: GOP Health Care Filibuster Thwarted (UPDATED)

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 432
  On a 60-39 party-line vote, Senate Democrats overcame the GOP’s filibuster of health care reform.Now the bill will be brought to the floor for consideration. After that, the Democrats will need to marshal another 60 votes to end debate, and then 51 votes for passage.Still trying to figure out who the 1 non-voting ...
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• >>A Thanksgiving Greeting from Our Federal Government

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  This really doesn’t need words except to say it is a Thanksgiving greeting from our Federal Government.  BB R.J. Matson/Post-Dispatch   Posted in Economy/Money, National Politics, Obama admistration, Progressives Movement to Destroy America
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• Berkeleys Wheeler Hall Protest Marks Escalation in Campus Intifada

  
  American Power — Authority: 703
  Theres been a good bit of commentary on the student fee protests at the University of California. For example, regarding this weeks action at Berkeley, CSPT , Michelle Malkin , NRO , and Tiger Hawk all discuss the spoiled brats of the elite university system. And Dan Riehl provides some quotes ...
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• BREAKING: 2 Days Left To Vote For Me

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 432
  Best Blog – Best Liberal Blog – Best Political Blog – Best Large BlogDemocrashield has been nominated for the 2009 Weblog Awards. Please take a moment to second our nominations by clicking on the links above, then clicking on the green plus button next to our name. Voting ends on Sunday, so get your last [...]
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• Barack Obama: Positively Reaganesque

  
  Democrashield.com — Authority: 432
  At least in regards to approval ratings:As Political Wire notes:Putting news of President Obama’s approval rate dipping below 50% in perspective, USA Today runs an excellent interactive chart plotting presidential approval rates since 1945.When comparing various presidents to each other, as of right now, President ...
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• Nominate your top AAPI Progressives 2009

  
  8Asians.com — Authority: 479
  Our friends at Asian Pacific Americans for Progress (APAP) are rolling out with a Top 10 list of the “top Asian Pacific American progressives” of 2009… but they need your help to find them! Nominate community leaders, workers, students, college grads, faculty, staff, government officials, Hollywood, the private ...
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• >>American Thinker: The Obama/Holder Bushwhack. A must read.

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  American Thinker: The Obama/Holder Bushwhack I believe my readers will find this article on American Thinker an excellent essay on the unbelievably stupid and irresponsible action of Attorney General Ben Holder and President Obama wanting to try  Muslim Terrorist in civil court and  thereby giving them the rights ...
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• Borrow, print and tax -- Healthcare Utopia

  
  Libertarian Blog — Authority: 140
  The ability of the government to tax is the only thing backing government spending. We arent producing enough to back our spending. This is like me being laid off, but increasing the amount I spend -- it will eventualy lead to bankruptcy and loss of credit worthiness. When we gave government the ability to tax ...
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• "Republican Deficit Hypocrisy. Remember the Medicare drug benefit?"

  
  A Blue View — Authority: 153
  Bruce Bartlett , a columnist at Forbes, provides a very timely history lesson that reveals how appallingly hypocritical many Republicans are.  Heres his conclusion: The national debt belongs to both parties. But at least the Democratsdont go on Fox News day after day proclaiming how fiscallyconservative they are, ...
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• There is a Progressive Infrastructure (We Just Don’t Know About It)

  
  Mirror On America — Authority: 140
  Most people are not aware that the powerful infrastructure of conservative media, think tanks and advocacy organizations, which dominate the American political and policy-making landscape in 2009, did not always exist. In the 1960s, for example, it was the Left in its varying shades in the political spectrum that had ...
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• Obama Job Approval Down to 49%

  
  A Blue View — Authority: 153
  Gallup: President becomes fourth fastest to slip below the majority approval level. The latest Gallup Daily tracking results show 49% of Americans approving of the job Barack Obama is doing aspresident, putting him below the majority approval level for the firsttime in his presidency. Although the current ...
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