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The Afrikaner Party : GOP vs. Van Jones & Team Obama
Van Jones (top) “should sue the living shit out of Glenn Beck.”The Afrikaner Party draws first blood:Van Jones, Obama and the audacity of capitulation By Tim Wise / The Rag Blog / September 8, 2009 Van Jones, special advisor to … Continue reading
The New McCarthyism : Van Jones Fed to King CONG
Portrait of Van Jones by Robert Shetterly / Americans Who Tell the Truth.Obama has fed his green Jones to King CONG With clarity and verve [Van] Jones finally brought to the mainstream the critical message that what’s good for the … Continue reading
Health Care Blackjack : We Need an Ace from Obama
The Card Player by Pablo Picasso / MoMA Collection.The stakes are high:The President and health care reform I have great concern about whether the President will take a principled stand in favor of a true and unfettered public option. By … Continue reading
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Tagged FDR, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Public Health, Public Option, Universal Health Care
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Guns of August : Why Obama’s Ratings Are Falling
Obama: sweating out ratings drop? Photo from Google Images. Obama’s approval rating tumbles President Obama’s job approval rating is at the lowest point of his presidency — a drop largely caused by erosion in support among the political independents who … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Dog Democrats, Congress, Democratic Party, Economy, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration
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Storming the Bastille : Bidding Bipartisanship Adieu
“Prise de la Bastille,” painting by Jean-Pierre Louis Laurent Houel / Wikimedia Commons.Health care reform:To the barricades By Dr. Stephen R. Keister / The Rag Blog / August 31, 2009 I fear that the average American, including myself, has a … Continue reading
Military Outsourcing: Of Exceptionally Dubious Value
A firearms and tactics instructor at Blackwater demonstrates a weapon in Moyock, N.C. Photo: Gerry Broome/AP. Flushing BlackwaterBy Jeremy Scahill / August 26, 2009 Blackwater, the private mercenary company owned by Erik Prince, has been thrust back into the spotlight … Continue reading
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Tagged Blackwater, Military Contractors, Military Cover-ups, Obama Administration
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Did Obama Make a Deal with Big Pharma?
Internal Memo Confirms Big Giveaways In White House Deal With Big PharmaBy Ryan Grim / August 16, 2009 A memo obtained by the Huffington Post confirms that the White House and the pharmaceutical lobby secretly agreed to precisely the sort … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration, Pharmaceutical Companies
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Killing Yourself with Kindness : Obama’s Bipartisan Kick
Killing Yourself with Kindness Despite the lies, the real insecurity that people feel, and the shameless Republican opportunism, health reform will be a loser for Obama and the Democrats unless this president can shake off his delusion that bipartisanship works. … Continue reading
Congress and Health Care : ‘Ye Love Wealth Better Than Liberty’
Sameul Adams: “Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.” If proposed health care legislation is to be a farce and a sham, [I hope] that the progressives… will vote it down, and deny the insurance and drug companies … Continue reading
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Tagged Congress, Corporate Power, Educational Reform, Health Care Reform, Obama Administration
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Thomas McKelvey Cleaver : Why We Need Obama’s ‘Death Panels’
Death with dignity:Why we need those ‘death panels’ …my father had gone into a coma that afternoon, and it was time for the family to fly to Denver and gather ’round for his final time on earth. By Thomas McKelvey … Continue reading
Monsanto : Those Genetically-Modified Self-Destructing Seed Planting Blues
Image from photobucket.Monsanto : Ripe for the plucking By Steve Russell / The Rag Blog / August 14, 2009 I see in the business news, Midwest version, that Monsanto is raising the price of seed 42%. These jerkwads make genetically … Continue reading
Red-Baiting and Racism : Socialism as the New Black Bogeyman
Obama as Joker: Poster currently being distributed in Los Angeles.Red-baiting and racism:When ‘socialism’ isn’t really about socialism This noise is about race. It is about ‘othering’ a President who is seen as a symbol of white dispossession: dispossession of white … Continue reading
