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Amy Siskind

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If Health Care Fails, They'll Blame Women

Amy Siskind | Posted December 8, 2009 | Politics


As if we didn't see this coming.

The ability of the Senate to pass the health care bill could well come down to one issue: abortion.

Let me give you the advance preview of how this will play out. The Senate will reach a compromise on the Public Option. Then,...

Huff TV

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Scott Horton Discusses Guantanamo Wrong-Doing On Countdown With Keith Olbermann (VIDEO)

Huff TV | Posted December 8, 2009 | Politics


The Defense Department's conclusion that three prisoner deaths in Guantanamo Bay were suicide doesn't appear to pass muster after a report issued on Monday by Seton Hall.

Law professor Mark Denbeaux supervised the study and was interviewed for the Huffington Post by Scott Horton, a contributing editor at Harper's...

Mike Lux

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Getting More of What We Want

Mike Lux | Posted December 8, 2009 | Politics


We are getting to that gritty grimy disgusting part of the legislative sausage making on health care where the fight is less about what shining principles we will achieve, and more about the best possible negotiating strategy for getting the best possible details in the bill. On a wide range...

Rev. Tom Davis

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Strong Clerical Support for a Woman's Right to Choose Does Exist

Rev. Tom Davis | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


Anti-abortion clergy are getting plenty of attention in the health care debate, while clergy insisting on access to the full range of reproductive medicine receive little notice. The imbalance is remarkable, given the long history of clergy support for the availability of contraception and abortion care.

As the family planning...

Billy Shore

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Obama and Governors Must Lead on Hunger Crisis

Billy Shore | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


The holiday season is a time when Americans traditionally remember those who are hungry. But news reports of the last few weeks make the plight of many of our fellow citizens particularly unforgettable. With the participation in the food stamp program currently increasing by a shocking 20,000 people a day,...

Lawrence Wittner

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Thinking Outside the Box: What Obama Could Have Said

Lawrence Wittner | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


Much of the American public is skeptical about the value of Obama's plan, announced in his address of December 1, to send another 30,000 U.S. troops to fight an apparently endless war in Afghanistan, and with good reason. If, after eight years of sending U.S. and NATO soldiers to wage...

Miles Mogulescu

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Is Obama Bullshi*tting About 18 Month Afghan Withdrawal to Appease War Critics?

Miles Mogulescu | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


After watching Secretary of Defense Gates and Secretary of State Clinton on Meet The Press on Sunday, and parsing the words of Obama's own speech at West Point, it unfortunately seems that the answer is "yes".

Obama was faced with a political dilemma. He had decided to give the Generals...

Meizhu Lui

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White House Jobs Summit: Digging Out of Unemployment Cycles

Meizhu Lui | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


The way we measure our national economy - by GDP, or the total amount of spending on goods and services - is a lousy way to measure success. When GDP rises, that's not necessarily a good sign. In the run-up to the meltdown, the rising GDP should not have been...

Linda R. Monk, J.D.

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Obama's Peace Prize Presents Protocol Puzzle

Linda R. Monk, J.D. | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


The Nobel Prizes, awarded this week, offer a confusing geography of merit. Named in honor of Alfred Nobel, the Swedish inventor of dynamite, and presented on his birthday, the prizes recognize the most prestigious contributions in several sciences and economics. The Swedes choose the winners, who receive their awards in...

Michael Brenner

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Health Care Reform: The End Is Nigh

Michael Brenner | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


Lost progressive causes don't die -- they just fade away with barely a sigh marking their expiration. Health care reform has been terminally ill ever since Barack Obama exhausted his shallow pool of conviction about a serious recasting of America's patchwork of arrangements that we generously call a 'system.' Discriminatory,...

David Sirota

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Obama Admits We Can't Have Guns and Butter -- Then Chooses Guns

David Sirota | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


Read More: Afghanistan War

During the Vietnam War, it became clear that America could not afford to simultaneously wage war on poverty and wage war in Vietnam. We could not have guns and butter at the same time, as Martin Luther King so eloquently noted in his 1967 speech at Riverside Church:

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Richard Kirsch

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Republicans Champion Government Health Insurance...for Seniors

Richard Kirsch | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


A sense of irony is clearly a luxury that politicians can't afford. So was the irony totally lost on Republican senators that after months and months of relentless attacks on a "government takeover of health care," they spent most of the week stomping their feet "defending" Medicare, our national government...

Zack Cooper

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The Public Option Sideshow

Zack Cooper | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


The public option has taken on a mythical status. For many people, health care reform will be deemed a failure if the President signs legislation without a public option. That's problematic.

The public option was never a coherent, well-defined policy tool. Instead, it was an amorphous concept that stood...

Dr. Peter Breggin

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We Are All Orphans Now

Dr. Peter Breggin | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


All of us realize that when a child is raised without adequate parenting that the results can be devastating. We know the hazards for children who don't have parental role models or whose role models are inadequate, conflicted, abusive, or untrustworthy. We know they will find it difficult as adults...

Cal Cunningham

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All the Way Against Richard Burr

Cal Cunningham | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


I just made one of the most important decisions of my life. Today, I announced that I am entering the race to challenge Richard Burr for the U.S. Senate seat from North Carolina.

I didn't get to this point easily. We have so many strong Democrats and voters eager...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand

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Stopping Stupak in the Senate

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand | Posted December 7, 2009 | New York


As you know, last week the U.S. Senate began debate on our version of the health insurance reform legislation. As I wrote a few weeks ago, the fact that we have gotten this far is monumental but the fight is not over. The debate has already been fierce and...

Rick Horowitz

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No to Afghanistan? But Didn't We Say...?

Rick Horowitz | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


Don't you just hate it when your own words come back to bite you?

You sweat and you squirm -- at least you do if you're being honest with yourself. You try to make what you were saying then line up with what you're saying now, and if you can't,...

Jodie Evans

Thank the President for Waking the Sleeping Giant

Jodie Evans | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


CODEPINK issued an alert on Thursday, December 3, about the President's West Point speech on Afghanistan and his failure to respond to the many voices calling for peace. We asked people to email the White House to voice their concerns.

The alert had been out for three minutes when the...

Dylan Loewe

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Weathering the 2010 Storm

Dylan Loewe | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


There are a number of things the Democrats can do between now and next year to mitigate the losses they are sure to experience in 2010.

1. Pass health care reform before the State of the Union: The biggest no-brainer on the list, the Democrats must pass their...

D. Brad Wright

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The House and the Senate

D. Brad Wright | Posted December 7, 2009 | Politics


Back when I was hemorrhaging cash to get a masters degree from George Washington University, I learned a handy policy analysis skill: the side-by-side table. It is just what you think it would be. Well, assuming you know what a table is, and what it means for something to be...

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