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Dawn Teo

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John McCain Could Lose Senate Primary To Tea Party Supporter

Dawn Teo | Posted November 21, 2009 | Politics


PHOENIX, AZ -- Rasmussen announced a new poll on Friday showing Senator John McCain may be in trouble at home where a polarized electorate has him facing constant criticism from both the left and the right.

The poll shows McCain tied with former Congressman and current talk radio host...

Dawn Teo

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce Besieged by Critics

Dawn Teo | Posted November 20, 2009 | Politics


Unions and other left-leaning organizations typically oppose the big-business policies hawked in the halls of Congress by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. However, the U.S. Chamber is now being harshly criticized on the record by some unlikely sources: small businesses, medical professionals, and several of their own local chambers of...

Miles J. Zaremski

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The Public Option: Why Not Allow 80 Million Americans to Join?

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted November 19, 2009 | Politics


With the introduction of the Senate's health care reform bill, we have two legislative packages, one (from the House) that has a weak version of the public option, and one from the Senate that provides an opt-out option for states. According to the CBO scoring of the House version, 30...

M.S. Bellows, Jr.

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Twitterers, Comedians "Punk" Teaparty Organizer Conference Call

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted November 18, 2009 | Media


On Tuesday evening, several organizers of the Teaparty Movement and of the ultraconservative website 73wire.com, including healthcare executive and conservative activist Michael Johns and Eric Odom, founder of the American Liberty Alliance, hosted a telephone conference call for Teaparty activists. Twitter user @Strwbrry_Blonde learned of the call and...

Dawn Teo

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"Teabagger" Oxford Dictionary Word-of-the-Year Finalist

Dawn Teo | Posted November 18, 2009 | Politics


Lexicographers at the New Oxford American Dictionary have selected teabagger as one of the runner-ups to unfriend for 2009 Word of the Year.

The definition of teabagging, according to Oxford, is "a person who protests President Obama's tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known...

Dawn Teo

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Tea Partiers Punked, Prankster Calls For Ousting Of "European Immigrants" (VIDEO)

Dawn Teo | Posted November 17, 2009 | Politics


Saturday, anti-immigration Tea Parties were held in cities across the country to protest the upcoming comprehensive immigration reform bill. In Minnesota, Tea Partiers were punked by one speaker who got the crowd cheering about evicting European immigrants who "stole" this country.

Robert Erickson (reportedly an alias) used language...

Miles J. Zaremski

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Americans Overwhelmingly Want A Public Option

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted November 19, 2009 | Politics


The results of a little-publicized survey were released this week by Senator Richard Durbin, the Senate Majority Whip. The survey asked 83,954 participants which form of the public option they preferred: a 50-state public option, an opt-out public option, an opt-in public option, an option with a "trigger"...

Dawn Teo

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Tea Party Protest Turns Violent (VIDEO)

Dawn Teo | Posted November 18, 2009 | Politics


Tea Partiers tussled with counter protesters during at least two of the nationwide anti-immigration Tea Party rallies on Saturday.

In Ft. Lauderdale, several Tea Partiers brawled in the street with counter protesters from the Florida Chapter of Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER).

The video, which was...

Mary Ann West

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Candlelight Vigil for Health Care Reform at Senator Lieberman's Front Door

Mary Ann West | Posted November 16, 2009 | Politics


Stamford, CT -- More than 400 Connecticut residents, health care reform advocates, and clergy attended an evening prayer vigil that began at Senator Joe Lieberman's Alma Mater, Stamford High School. The vigil transformed into a candlelight march to the senator's condo building, where participants sang "This Little Light of Mine."...

Chris Savage

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Rep. Schauer Challenged from Left and Right at Town Hall

Chris Savage | Posted November 17, 2009 | Politics


Freshman representative Mark Schauer (D-MI) had a grueling schedule last week. He held four town hall meetings in two days to discuss the House's health care reform bill and to answer questions from his constituents. Schauer, who narrowly defeated the very conservative...

Dawn Teo

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Making Tea for 2010: Tea Partiers Fight For The Right to Robocall

Dawn Teo | Posted November 16, 2009 | Politics


By Alex Brant-Zawadzki and Dawn Teo

If you thought the Tea Partiers screaming on your television set over the summer were obnoxious, wait until they're screaming into your phone in 2010 via robocalls -- that is, if the Federal Election Commission sides with Tea Partiers' bigwig beltway lawyers. Conservative operatives...

Ellen Gill

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Northbrook Police's Gun Giveaway Program Under Fire

Ellen Gill | Posted November 16, 2009 | Chicago


On October 27, 2009, the Village Board of the Village of Northbrook approved an ordinance providing for the disposal of surplus police department duty weapons--seventy seventeen-year-old Beretta Centurion 92FS'. They decided to give them away to officers for unrestricted personal use. Under the ordinance, if an officer doesn't want...

Henryk A. Kowalczyk

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Will Republicans Ever Have a Viable Alternative to the Public Option?

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted November 13, 2009 | Politics


The House health care overhaul bill passed not because Democrats prepared a good proposal but because Republicans showed an amazing inability to present a viable alternative.

In particular, young and healthy people tend to not buy health insurance. However, without their contributions, any health insurance system cannot work. Democrats...

Dawn Teo

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Tempest in a Teabag: Tea Party Founder Announces He's (Re)Joining GOP

Dawn Teo | Posted November 12, 2009 | Politics


By Alex Brant-Zawadzki and Dawn Teo

After years of a love-hate relationship with the Republican Party, the man most often regarded as the founder of the Tea Parties, Eric Odom, announced Tuesday that he is re-joining the Republican Party. This after he posted an open letter to the Republican Party...

Miles J. Zaremski

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Tort Reform Does Not Reduce Health Care Costs--Never Has, Never Will

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted November 13, 2009 | Politics


On October 9, 2009, the Congressional Budget Office's (CBO) Doug Elmendorf wrote a letter to Senator Hatch (R-UT) on the "effects of proposals to limit costs related to medical malpractice ('tort reform')", and concluded that tort reform could decrease health care costs. Elmendorf went on to say, "Tort reform could...

Marlene H. Phillips

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Astonishing news: Arizona and DC actually agree

Marlene H. Phillips | Posted November 10, 2009 | Politics


Here are a few words you rarely see in the same article: "Arizona." "Federal government." "Agreement."

At the request of the United States federal government, a massive 85-foot-tall blue spruce was felled near Alpine, Ariz. this past Sunday and began a 4000 mile journey to Washington, DC, where it...

Jerry Waxman

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Rep. Kosmas's Health Care Position Draws Unions' Ire

Jerry Waxman | Posted November 11, 2009 | Politics


It was a weather-perfect Friday afternoon when Rep. Suzanne Kosmas's entire office staff decided to take the afternoon off. They knew what was coming: a 4:30 protest of her position on the Health Care bill. The rally, organized by Tony Scelzo of AFSCME and Jennifer Kenny of FLARA, focused on...

Jerry Waxman

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No, I'm Not Bitter...Really: A Phillies Fan Laments

Jerry Waxman | Posted November 9, 2009 | Sports


About the only thing that George Will and I do agree on is our undying, unyielding, unrequited love of baseball. We're also both at an age where the names in Dave Frishberg's hauntingly beautiful ode to the game, "Van Lingle Mungo," were instantly recognizable and, in some cases, still playing...

Ellen Gill

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Howard Dean Stresses Importance of Grassroots Pressure on Public Option

Ellen Gill | Posted November 9, 2009 | Politics


Howard Dean came to Deerfield, Illinois on Halloween night to speak with the Illinois Tenth Congressional District Democrats or "Tenth Dems." Tenth Dems is a large volunteer organization that was started in 2003 in a Highland Park living room by seven people including former state representative Lauren Beth Gash. The...

Adam Clark Estes

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The Good News From Our Citizen Journalism Project

Adam Clark Estes | Posted November 5, 2009 | Eyes & Ears


One of the big questions in the debate over the future of journalism is whether the Internet can foster a new alliance between professional reporters and citizens who have a high interest or expertise in a particular topic.

Here at the Huffington Post Investigative Fund, we're seeing signs that the...

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