Last Saturday, veteran right wing watcher Adele Stan of AlterNet covered the Tax Payers' March on Washington (aka the 912 March or the DC Tea Party). About 70,000 conservative protesters converged on Washington to air their grievances, including opposition to President Obama's health care reform agenda. Protesters carried signs...

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium Blogger

Yesterday, a long and pathetic spectacle came to an end. Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) released the first draft of the Senate Finance Committee's health care bill.

After months of fruitless negotiation in search of elusive bipartisanship, Baucus delivered a bill with no Republican support....

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), perhaps the only moderate Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, predicted that the committee's forthcoming bill will not include a public option with a trigger. (Note that even if the Finance Committee's bill doesn't include a public option, one could still be added later in the...

Opponents of health care reform are trying to pit the insured against everyone else. Conservative Republicans like Rep. Mike Pence warn that if we get a public option, millions of Americans will lose their private coverage because so many employers will stop offering private insurance. What Pence doesn't say...

Approximately 70,000 right wing protesters converged on Washington, D.C. over the weekend to protest government in general, especially president Obama's health care reform package. The signs they carried offered a glimpse of the unrestrained id of the American right.

Some carried placards that read "Bury Obamacare with Kennedy."
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This week, the president attempted to regain control of the health care reform debate with a speech before a special joint session of Congress. Did he succeed? In the video clip, below, Paul Jay of the Real News Network sits down with whistle blower Wendell Potter, a former health...

Last night, President Obama laid out his vision for health care reform before a special joint session of Congress. The pillars of his plan are: i) Curbing the worst abuses of private insurance, ii) Requiring everyone to have insurance, iii) Insurance exchanges, which are basically government websites where customers can...

Today, President Obama will spell out his vision for health care reform before a special joint session of Congress. The president's speech marks the final phase of health care reform. This is Obama's...

Big news broke over the weekend: Evidently, the president lit a fire under Max Baucus (D-Mont) and the Senate Finance Committee by unexpectedly announcing last week that he'd be laying out his own vision for health care reform this Wednesday. Just weeks ago, committee member Kent Conrad (D-ND) predicted the...

By Lindsay Beyerstein, TMC MediaWire Blogger

Last night, thousands of Americans attended vigils for health care reform sponsored by MoveOn.org. (Photos from the New York vigil here.) The president says that a public option isn't the most important part of health care reform, but it's a make-or-break issue for...

By Lindsay Beyerstein, TMC MediaWire Blogger

Ed. note: The Weekly Pulse is becoming the Daily Pulse for September. Every weekday, we'll bring you highlights from the health care reform debate, including exclusive video interviews with leading experts and independent journalists each Friday. Even better, you can be a part...

A substitute teacher from Connecticut is facing up to 40 years in prison because her malware-riddled computer displayed porno popups in class.

On October 19, 2004, Julie Amero arrived at Kelly Middle School to teach a 7th grade language arts class. Mr. Matthew Nett, the class's regular...