Fighting the Radical Right
by Stewart Acuff: The August congressional recess has been a bizarre season of rightwing brown shirt tactics of real thuggery led by Dick Armey, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Newt Gingrich.
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 16, 2009
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
The Real Death Panels **By Joe Conason —
The ugly fact is that every year we fail to reform the existing system, that failure condemns tens of thousands of people to die—either because they have no insurance or because their insurance companies deny coverage or benefits when they become ill.
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Republican Death Trip by Paul Krugman
President Obama had campaigned to move beyond divisive politics, but instead he is facing an opposition that eagerly seizes on every wild rumor manufactured by the right-wing media complex.
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Thursday, August 13, 2009
Les Paul Dies
By Jon Pareles Les Paul, the virtuoso guitarist and inventor whose solid-body electric guitar and recording studio innovations changed the course of 20th-century popular music, died Thursday in White Plains. He was 94.
The cause was complications of pneumonia, Gibson Guitar announced.
Mr. Paul was a remarkable musician as well as a tireless tinkerer. He played guitar with leading prewar jazz and pop musicians from Louis Armstrong to Bing Crosby. In the 1930s he began experimenting with guitar amplification, and by 1941 he had built what was probably the first solid-body electric guitar, although there are other claimants. With his electric guitar and the vocals of his wife, Mary Ford, he used overdubbing, multitrack recording and new electronic effects to create a string of hits in the 1950s.
Mr. Paul’s style encompassed the twang of country music, the harmonic richness of jazz and, later, the bite of rock ’n’ roll. For all his technological impact, though, he remained a down-home performer whose main goal, he often said, was to make people happy.
Sunday, August 09, 2009
Republicans Propagating Falsehoods in Attacks on Health-Care Reform
By Steven Pearlstein
As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don't agree. Today, I'm going to step over that line.
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By Steven Pearlstein
As a columnist who regularly dishes out sharp criticism, I try not to question the motives of people with whom I don't agree. Today, I'm going to step over that line.
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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Right Wing Attacks Clinton's Successful Trip To Free American Journalists In North KoreaBut what many conservatives don’t understand is that, as nonproliferation expert and Ploughshares Fund president Joe Cirincione noted yesterday, Clinton was “the right man at the right moment.”
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More GOP crazy: "Town Hells!"
by Joan Walsh
Republicans brag about efforts to mobilize mobs to stop Obama. What are Democrats doing to counter them?
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by Joan Walsh
Republicans brag about efforts to mobilize mobs to stop Obama. What are Democrats doing to counter them?
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"Blue Dogs" or Corporate Shills?
by Thomas Frank
So this is the Blue Dogs’ day, with games of fetch down on K Street that had me reminiscing about the times when Tom DeLay and his pack did their own tricks for industry’s table scraps.
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by Thomas Frank
So this is the Blue Dogs’ day, with games of fetch down on K Street that had me reminiscing about the times when Tom DeLay and his pack did their own tricks for industry’s table scraps.
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Time To Fight
by John Nichols:
There's no need to promote compromises in the healthcare reform debate.
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by John Nichols:
There's no need to promote compromises in the healthcare reform debate.
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
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U.S. Journalists FreedNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Il issued a "special pardon" for two American journalists and ordered their release at former U.S. President Bill Clinton's request, North Korean media reported Wednesday.
If A Republican Votes Against Sotomayor, Does it Make a Sound?
by Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Republicans are so against the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court that even John McCain, an alleged maverick with plenty of Latino constituents, says he will vote against her. Thing is, there just aren’t enough Republicans in the Senate for party unity to make a difference.
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by Julie Hirschfeld Davis
Republicans are so against the nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court that even John McCain, an alleged maverick with plenty of Latino constituents, says he will vote against her. Thing is, there just aren’t enough Republicans in the Senate for party unity to make a difference.
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
A Time, Again, for Bill Clinton By Joe Conason —
Perhaps the time has come, if it isn’t already too late, for President Obama to ask for help from President Clinton.
The Marvel That Is Medicare By Marie Cocco —
Medicare is where political posturing runs headlong into historical truth: It is, along with Social Security, the most successful government program that the United States has ever created.
Let’s End the Score-Settling By E.J. Dionne —
The problem with “teachable moments” is that the term sets up one group of people as teachers while another group is consigned to the role of pupils. In a democracy, that’s troublesome.
Perhaps the time has come, if it isn’t already too late, for President Obama to ask for help from President Clinton.
The Marvel That Is Medicare By Marie Cocco —
Medicare is where political posturing runs headlong into historical truth: It is, along with Social Security, the most successful government program that the United States has ever created.
Let’s End the Score-Settling By E.J. Dionne —
The problem with “teachable moments” is that the term sets up one group of people as teachers while another group is consigned to the role of pupils. In a democracy, that’s troublesome.
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