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Rep. Earl Blumenauer

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Another Reason We Will Win!

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


Last night I had planned to leave the office early to read and get a little extra sleep before the big health care day.  I am reading Fighting Bob La Follette’s biography, at the suggestion of Fighting Dave Obey, Chairman of the Appropriations Committee.   

Around 10:30, my phone rings. ...

Geoffrey Dunn

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Palin Usurped "Concession" Speech

Geoffrey Dunn | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


In their new book Sarah From Alaska, Shushannah Walshe and Scott Conroy have provided drafts of two versions of a speech that vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin was to have delivered on Election Night 2008 in Phoenix--if only John McCain and his top brass, including Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter, had...

Jane Hamsher

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NARAL and Planned Parenthood: Ineffectiveness Anti-Choice Democrats Can Rely On

Jane Hamsher | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


Democrats in Congress have just proudly signed a deal with the Catholic bishops which allows a bunch of old men who have spent the better part of the last century avoiding their own sexual issues to dictate access to abortion services in the House health care bill.

No tax...

Trish Kinney

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Politically Correct or Perfectly Crazy

Trish Kinney | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


PC can sometimes stand for perfectly crazy. I'm just sayin' ... what seems to qualify as Politically Correct these days can leave you scratching your head or screaming like a lunatic.

Take for example the brouhaha about our basketball-crazy President who loves to gather his boys (don't even go...

Rep. Patrick Murphy

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Why We Can't Afford to Fail: A Blue Dog for Reform

Rep. Patrick Murphy | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


A woman from Bucks County recently lost her job as a copy editor, and the small business her husband works for is unable to afford coverage for their employees. She tried shopping around on her own for a plan but was turned down by insurance companies because of a pre-existing...

Dennis Danziger

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Demerit Pay

Dennis Danziger | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics



In the spirit of generosity I've been thanking the gods that private school teachers' salaries are not connected to students' standardized test scores. Else Malia Obama's science teacher at the Sidwell Friends School might have lost her job faster than you can say "grade inflation."

On...

Linda Bergthold

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Betsy McCaughey is Wrong About Health Reform -- Again!

Linda Bergthold | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


Saturday in the Wall Street Journal, Betsy McCaughey, well known for her distortion of health reform in 1993 as well as recently, made the following points about the health reform bill, HR 3962, which is being debated and voted on as I write this. As usual,...

Leighann Lord

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You Can't Lend Charisma

Leighann Lord | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


Post Election Analysis:

The day after the election, my Dad was mad. He said, "You know who lost the election for Mayor? Obama!" he said not waiting for an answer. I was worried that senility had come for my Dad in the night. Barack Obama...

Dan Agin

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Armistice Day, the Great War, and Brains: A Tale of Woe

Dan Agin | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


What do we remember? Veteran's Day--November 11th--was once called Armistice Day, the day the mangled soldiers started coming home in 1918.

The problem with war is that the men who declare and manage a war usually don't go to war. Had the politicians of various countries been obligated to live...

Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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Good Reason for Muslims to Fear Ft. Hood Backlash

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


The instant the news broke that a soldier with a Muslim name shot up the base at Ft. Hood the Council on American-Islamic Relations wasted no time and issued a loud and vigorous denunciation of the mass murders. The Council didn't know whether Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the alleged shooter,...

Georgianne Nienaber

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The Campaign: The Audacity of Hope Did Not Die in Maine

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted November 7, 2009 | Media


I am terrible at writing headlines, but in these times of Google searches and social networking, article tags and Twitter hashtags, headlines are important. "Hope springs eternal" won't cut it when referring to what happened in Maine last week regarding gay rights. The linkage of "audacity" and "hope" is a...

Allison Kilkenny

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Focus On The Family Funds Anti-Gay Referendum, Loses

Allison Kilkenny | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


While much of the nation's attention has been focused on the sad story of Prop 1 in Maine, another much happier story has been unfolding in Washington where the gay and lesbian community took another step toward equality with the approval of Referendum 71.

R-71 expands domestic-partnership rights, and has...

Steve Marmel

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First HuffPost Blog: When Wrong, We Need to Own up to It

Steve Marmel | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


Hi.  Welcome to my first blog on HuffPost.  

Me?  I started as a journalist, morphed into a stand up comedian with a right-wing POV, and then - when my politics changed in 2005 - took a long (and currently continuing) break from comedy.  (There's a bio in here for...

Mike Stark

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Cantor & Nazism; H1N1 & Wall Street; Billionaires for Wealthcare

Mike Stark | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


I spent the day on the Hill interviewing Representatives about Wall Street and how they were able to jump the line to get the H1N1 flu vaccine before pregnant women and children.

Yesterday, I spent the day with the Billionaires for Wealthcare and witnessed some truly scary moments.

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Chris Weigant

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Friday Talking Points [100] -- Whigging Out

Chris Weigant | Posted November 6, 2009 | Politics


I will explain that silly subtitle in a moment, but first we've got to delve even deeper into rampant silliness. If such silliness and unseriousness does not appeal to you, then I strongly suggest you skip down and begin reading with this week's Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award....

James Zogby

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Reflections on Fort Hood

James Zogby | Posted November 7, 2009 | Politics


I landed in London at 6:30 am (GMT) and turned on my BlackBerry to find it flooded with emails sent while I had been in the air, flying home from the Middle East. Looking at just the "sender" and "subject" lines, I observed that some were "news alerts," others...

Fred Karger

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Will NOM's Maggie Gallagher Fire Carrie Prejean?

Fred Karger | Posted November 6, 2009 | Politics


Californians Against Hate

November 5, 2009

Ms Maggie Gallagher
President
National Organization for Marriage
1100 H Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005

Dear Maggie:

Are you going to fire Carrie Prejean? Donald Trump did.

I was shocked and dismayed to hear yesterday that...

Barbara Coombs Lee

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The Newest Star of Human Liberty

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted November 6, 2009 | Politics


Human liberty isn't just a single light on our horizon, but more like stars in a constellation. Each freedom achieved, each choice secured, each dignity acknowledged, helps shape the whole, and the light of each emerges in its own time.

Who decides if a dying patient can...

Liz Krueger

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Marriage Equality in New York: The Time Is Now

Liz Krueger | Posted November 6, 2009 | New York


I have recently written to Democratic Conference Leader John Sampson urging him to bring marriage equality legislation to the floor for a vote the next time the legislature is in session. I strongly support marriage equality as a basic civil rights issue. I know that there are a significant number...

G.A. Bradshaw

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Of Pachyderms and Paratroopers

G.A. Bradshaw | Posted November 6, 2009 | Politics


"Last Sunday, a television program showed helicopters shooting down African elephants. When I saw those huge peaceful animals falling, I broke down. It's been forty years since I was a gunner in Vietnam. I did and saw the same thing with people".

We are not so different from elephants....

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