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• psycho surgery the future of an illusion

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  I have retreated to yesterdays NYT. Prominently featured on the front page--with color foto--is an article on The Latest in Psychosurgery. Déjà. Like yesterday and tomorrow all over again. Head line: Surgery for mental ills offers both hope and risk. Hm. Hope--this is something like irrational optimism perhaps? ...
  3 hours ago

• Casey Wants Changes to Obama Health Care Overhaul

  
  WDUQNews — Authority: 441
  Pro-life Democrat Bob Casey says he wants to see changes to President Obamas health care overhaul, but hes confident the measure will pass the Senate by years end. Casey says Democrats dont have the votes they need to pass health care legislation yet, but argues the reform movement has gained momentum, and will clear ...
  1 day ago

• Rachel Specter in her Underwear for Bald of the Day

  
  DrunkenStepfather - Celebrity Gossip, Entertainment, Good Times... — Authority: 664
  It is thanksgiving and I give thanks that straight to DVD, shitty written movies always feature aspiring actors who think they have what it takes to be the next big thing, and strips them down and puts them in their place cuz they are eager after they’ve been in Hollywood for 6 months and tired [...] ShareThis
  2 days ago

• Pennsylvania Senate primary

  
  POLITICAL TRUTH-THE BLOG THAT ROCKS — Authority: 133
  Heres some commentary. Joe Sestak the Congressman everyone supported in 2006 and viewed as someone who could have an influential future in the Democratic party is running against Arlen Specter for the Democratic nomination for Senate. Problem is, Sestak is getting nasty, very nasty, to the point of being despicable. ...
  5 days ago

• Toomeys Two-Step

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 151
  Congressional Quarterly s Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for the Democratic Party. Which makes me again wonder whether it was a mistake for Obama to encourage Specters ...
  5 days ago

• Opening Photos: Brooklynite Gallery “Go Get Your Shinebox”

  
  PaperMonster Stencil Graffiti Artist — Authority: 119
  This past Saturday I headed over to the opening of Brooklynite Gallery’s Go Get Your Shinebox group show. The show was fantastic and it was great to see and meet so many people that I have immense respect for including: Meggs ( HERE ), Aiko ( HERE ) , Luna Park ( HERE ), Shai Dahan (from Abztract ) and other ...
  5 days ago

• Specter-Sestak to be ugly

  
  Early Returns — Authority: 544
  Timothy McNulty | November 23, 2009 Heres Politico on what we already know -- that Specter/Toomey is going to be a hard-hitting and personal affair: The most closely watched Senate primary is in Pennsylvania, where Sen.Arlen Specter and Rep. Joe Sestak are slugging it out in unusuallypersonal terms. Specter has ...
  5 days ago

• Joseph Fortes Pyramid of Hell: Who Pays?

  
  justsnarky — Authority: 124
  I am a little confused as to how government receivers are going to be able to get what amounts to "victims" to cough up all that money? Is that like getting victims to pay twice? Where did the money go? Dont they know? Some of the victims are non-profits. Now one victim could I think cough up the money --- the ...
  5 days ago

• Pressure From the Right: GOP Candidates Bet On Obama Fatigue

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 806
  Filed under: Senate , Republicans , Primaries , 2010 Elections , Conservatives John McCain rails against a bipartisan global warming bill two years after sponsoring one himself? He says hes "dear friends" with Sarah Palin and enjoyed her book? The one that trashes his 2008 presidential campaign? Strange, I ...
  6 days ago

• Too Dangerously Stupid To Serve, Or Just Plain LYING?

  
  Logistics Monster — Authority: 481
  Ah, the audacity of the spin that occurs on Sunday news shows that spotlight politicians and their bills. I am absolutely convinced that either the Senate has a completely different version of the health care bill from the one they posted last week, or they are too dangerously stupid to serve because they do not have ...
  6 days ago

• How Toxic Is It?

  
  Let Freedom Ring — Authority: 139
  In 2006, people said that the conditions surrounding GOP candidates were toxic. Four long years later, Charlie Cook is describing President Obama as “beyond radioactive in their districts .” Veteran Washington Post columnist David Broder paints a grim picture , too: It’s simply not true that America ...
  1 week ago

• Email from Arlen Specter on Obamacare vote (VANITY)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 175
  Received this in my inbox tonight... Dear Friends, The Congress is continuing its work to try to get healthcare reform legislation, and I believe the prospects are reasonably good that we will produce a bill. I hope that the bill will have the public option - and a robust public option. We will have a cloture vote ...
  1 week ago

• Pelosi and Specter Question U.S. Presence in Afghanistan

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 433
  Speaking to NPR on Friday, United States House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, questioned the United States’ role in Afghanistan and continued the pattern of Western politicians critical of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. To Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, the United States cannot win in Afghanistan if ...
  1 week ago

• As Microsoft Moves to MinWin, Servers Gain, Desktops May Lose

  
  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 145
  As Microsoft Moves to MinWin, Servers Gain, Desktops May Lose That does not sound quite right, does it? How can a change that makes an operating system lighter be a bad thing for the individual user? However, that certainly is the way it is described in an article on Ars Technica.The article gives us some history ...
  1 week ago

• Oil and gas industry slams Salazar for yanking drilling leases near Utah parks

  
  Colorado Independent — Authority: 653
  A study by an association representing the oil and gas industry – not surprisingly – found Interior Secretary Ken Salazar engaged in political gamesmanship when he pulled back leases on 60 parcels of BLM land sold in a heavily protested and fraud-marred auction last December in Salt Lake City. Salazar, who ...
  1 week ago

• McCain’s Challenge from the Right is Bad for Clean Energy Bill’ Prospects

  
  EnviroKnow — Authority: 565
  Lots of folks have taken note of new polling today showing John McCain potentially in trouble in next year’s Arizona Republican primary for his Senate seat. Matt Yglesias flags an important aspect of this: This seems like pretty much terrible news for the world. The most likely path between Point A and ...
  1 week ago

• Uniting American Families Act Gets New Sponsor – Specter

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee (and formerly that committee’s Republican Chairman), has signed on as a cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). At last June’s Senate Judiciary Committee UAFA hearing, Specter expressed strong support for ...
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• Uniting American Families Act Gets New Sponsor - Specter

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 445
  Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee (and formerly that committee’s Republican Chairman), has signed on as a cosponsor of the Uniting American Families Act (UAFA). At last June’s Senate Judiciary Committee UAFA hearing, Specter expressed strong support for ...
  1 week ago

• Specter and Afghanistan

  
  Early Returns — Authority: 544
  Timothy McNulty | November 20, 2009 Arlen Specter did a conference call with bloggers yesterday to say he does not support sending extra troops to Afghanistan, which puts him at odds with Dem foe Joe Sestak (and perhaps Obama). The take from the conservative American Prospect (via RealClearPolitics ) is hes ...
  1 week ago

• Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 155
  On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “We ought not to add troops in Afghanistan,” Specter said, adding that he questioned “even staying” in Afghanistan unless the administration demonstrates that ...
  1 week ago

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