"If the public option is in there, as a matter of conscience, I will not allow this bill to come to a final vote ..." -- Senator Joseph Lieberman

Senator Joseph Lieberman is the rarest of creatures, a political Chimera. Joe calls himself an Independent, caucuses with the Democrats...

Are we out of time? Has the health care reform, promised to us by Barack Obama in last year's campaign, died the death of a thousand paper cuts?

From where I sit, the president started the whole process with the $80 billion give back to Big Pharma. The...

Hundreds of health care reform rallies took place across the country last Tuesday, in a co-ordinated National Day of Action. I attended such an event held at the world headquarters of Aetna in Hartford Connecticut. Judging by the police presence assembled at the entrance of the grand promenade leading up...

"You lie!" An economy of words, but a liberality of message.

Thank you Joseph Wilson. Last evening, your socially inappropriate phonic tic put a fine point on the bare knuckle brawl that has been raging in the public square. The representative from South Carolina acquitted himself in a style that...

Last night I went to a town hall meeting in West Hartford, Connecticut hosted by first district representative the Honorable John Larsen. I planned to sit in on the health care reform debate inside the auditorium, but the real story, from my perspective, was outside on the granite steps of...

The Democrats are in power, leaving the Republicans plenty of discretionary time to make their own special brand of mischief. The Tea Parties of last April, as silly as they seemed, were the first shot across this administration's bow.

The silver haired granny who disrupts your town hall meeting...

Within walking distance of the corporate headquarters of a half dozen of the Titans of the insurance industry, on Monday afternoon the Connecticut State Legislature delivered an override of Governor Jodi Rell's veto of the landmark, comprehensive health care reform legislation, known as the Sustinet Bill.

The most...

There are so many cleverly crafted, sparkly items on offer. The prices, so low they confound my internal "price to value matrix." Then I see the gnat track sized letters MADE IN CHINA and I drop the item as though it might spontaneously combust in my hands.

So it...