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State of the Nation
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Hate Extending Beyond The Grave
How much hate do you have to have in your heart? An opponent of same-sex marriage, Governor Carcieri has vetoed bill that would have added "domestic partners'' to the list of people authorized by law to make funeral arrangements for each other. In his veto message, Republican Carcieri said: "Thi …
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I Will Pray For You -- Send Money
Jesus Christ in a jumped up sidecar -- if you thought having abstinence "education" in a health care reform bill was beyond insane, check this out: The calls come in at all hours: patients reporting broken bones, violent coughs, deep depression. Prue Lewis listens as they explain their symptoms. …
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PPP Polling: Dems Must Pass HCR, and a Public Option Would Help
A new Public Policy Polling report is pretty stark for Democrats and their prospects of hanging on to majorities next year. Here are a couple key takeaways: There is a price to pay with independents if a strong health care bill is passed. Democrats lead 37-30 with them in general on the generic b …
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Whither the Public Option
Progressive observers of the healthcare reform effort aren't too heartened after the continuing recalcitrance of three ConservaDems and Joe Lieberman on healthcare reform, and the newfound willingness in leadership, as expressed by Dick Durbin to find a way to mollify them. The problem is, anything …
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Purity Now, Purity Tomorrow, Purity Forever ...
It's official: the Republican Party has lost its collective mind: Republican leaders are circulating a resolution listing 10 positions Republican candidates should support to demonstrate that they "espouse conservative principles and public policies" that are in opposition to "Obama’s social …
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Foes of Afghan Escalation Step Up Opposition
Add David Obey to the increasingly vocal foes of General Stanley McChrystal's proposed escalation of the U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a group that includes Arlen Specter and the 57 Congresspeople who signed Massachusetts Congressmen James McGovern's letter to the President. "There ain't going to …
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Now this is more like it
Sherrod Brown, Chuck Schumer, and Michael Bennet all took a strong stand for the public option and health care reform yesterday, expressing confidence that health care reform -- with the opt-out public option intact -- will pass the Senate: Transcript: SHERROD BROWN: There are two weeks, three …
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Remarks by the President on STEM
Making good on remarks made last April before the National Academy of Sciences, President Obama officially launched an "Educate to Innovate" campaign to engage and improve the performance of America’s students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Flanked by science and …
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HHS Hosts Online Conference For Bloggers Today 3:30 ET
Got questions about H1N1? Vaccine? New mutations? Go here and get some answers. November 23rd 3:30 PM EST H1N1 Briefing for Bloggers and Their Readers Join the live Webcast to learn detailed information about influenza prevention and treatment, warning signs for parents, anti-viral medications, a …
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Durbin: Public option could change to satisfy Lieberman
Dick Durbin on Joe Lieberman's "concerns": Transcript: DURBIN: I hope we can move to a point where we satisfy Joe Lieberman’s concerns that this does not end up being a government debt, but creates a public option. MR. GREGORY: But let’s get to a b …
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Disaster Unfolding at State Level
As the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday, 29 states saw higher unemployment rates in October, with eight others registering no change. You can see an interactive map on the subject here. There is good reason to believe that November's figures will be similar. That situation, and the economi …
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Lieberman founds the "Excuse a Month" Club
Steve Benen does some cataloguing: In June, Lieberman said, "I don't favor a public option because I think there's plenty of competition in the private insurance market." That didn't make sense, and it was quickly dropped from his talking points. In July, Lieberman said he opposes a public option …
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Playing Chess With Russia: An Update on the New START Agreement
Normally, the New York Post is a publication known for tabloid-style stories with a right-wing slant. However, in January 2009, they published a short but fascinating inauguration story on something that has the feel of a whispered legend... but it's entirely real. The story was about the "football" …
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The Atomic Rulebook: Iran and IAEA Safeguard Violations
A Page From History, And The Atomic Rulebook IAEA Board of Governors meeting. Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA Imagebank On December 8, 1953, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed that there should be an international, independent, nuclear watchdog agency, an organization to monitor "the dread s …
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Strategy Can Be Ideology, But the Party is Not a Movement
Most of us know that politics doesn't only go from left to right. But there's a lot of disagreement about which other axes are most important for understanding political difference or politics more generally. Pragmatist vs. idealist? Grassroots vs. establishment? When we get into arguing strategy, …
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Resistance is Futile
Odds are good that at some point in your life you are going to experience some puzzling symptoms. Twisting intestinal pain that never goes completely away, dry mouth, a painful recurrent eye problem, or stabbing back and neck pain that ranges from annoying to excruciating with no rhyme or reason. In …
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Trick'n
A common exercise in any intro statistic class is to split the students into two groups, one group flips a coin 100 times and records the results, another just makes 100 entries up off the top of their heads. The teacher then comes back, looks at the two lists, and usually identifies which is which …
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On Cancer Screening, Politics, and Communication
There's no way this complex issue can be covered in one post, but thankfully there have been some really thoughtful pieces written by others that we can pull from. For example, my own comments led to this headline on the AtlanticWire: Politics Beats Science in Cancer Screening Debate, featuring a te …
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Sunday Talk - Christmas Come Early
Like a gift from God, Sarah Palin's Rouge-A-Palooza tour (w/special guest) descended on America this week. Over the next few months, hundreds of millions of Palin's Facebook friends will visit book stores many for the first time to meet their idol. And a sexy time will be had by all. Meanwhile, …
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Open Thread & Diary Rescue
Tonight's Diary Rescue was brought to by the fine work of the following Rescue Rangers: shayera, jlms qkw, Yat Pundit, grog, sunspark says, and dadanation who also mimicked being the editor. The Diaries, Rescued Librarian Dem tells the story of an encounter with some patrons in Library users again …
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