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In Memoriam: Send Donations To The Basic Rights Of All Americans

Beau Friedlander | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Edward Kennedy, Drug Companies, Single-Payer, Health Insurance, Health Care Reform, Ted Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bipartisanship, Politics News
Beau Friedlander

Bipartisan health care reform is an absurdity. Demand that your elected officials pass a strong public option that rivals Ted Kennedy's vision of a single-payer system.

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Ted Kennedy's Life is a Parable

Karen Ocamb | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rfk, Edward Kennedy, Jfk, Ronald Reagan, David Mixner, Ted Kennedy, Lgbt, Gay Rights, Civil Rights, Politics News
Karen Ocamb

The real colorful dream of this country is not about a mythical Camelot but a real land of second-chances, a land of reinvention and fresh opportunity.

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Ted Kennedy: The Last Progressive

Dennis Perrin | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: Ted Kennedy Chappaquiddick, Ronald Reagan, Obama Ted Kennedy, Chappaquiddick, Ted Kennedy Dies, Nixon, Teddy Kennedy, Jimmy Carter, Mary Jo Kopechne, Ted Kennedy, Media News
Dennis Perrin

Kennedy was as much of a progressive force as this rotten system allows. With his wealth, he could've easily been a Republican and pushed for perks for the rich. Instead, he championed the powerless.

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Camelot Ends, Again: The Passing of Senator Ted Kennedy

William Bradley | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, United States Senate, Barack Obama, Joe Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Ted Kennedy, Caroline Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton, Politics News
William Bradley

Though a most imperfect man, Ted Kennedy made his choice over a life of ease, and America is much the better for it.

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Greatest Tribute to Kennedy: Pass Health Care for All

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Universal Health Care, Medicare, State Children's Health Care Program, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, Limbaugh, Health Care for All, Senator Ted Kennedy, Politics News
Robert Creamer

It would be fitting if Sen. Kennedy's passing itself served to refocus the health care debate on the moral principle that lies at its center.

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This Democrat Is Disappointed With His President and His Party

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Florida Recount, Bill Clinton, Illegal Torture, President Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, Joe Wilson, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, CIA Torture, Valerie Plame, Pan Am Flight 103, Abdel Baset Ali Al-Megrahi, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Democrats not only own the White House, but also have an overwhelming majority in the House and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Yet oddly they're still acting as if they're on the outside looking in.

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A Public Conundrum

Stephen Herrington | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Congress, Congress, Ronald Reagan, Health, Obama, Democrats, Health Care, Republican Party, Public Option, Politics News
Stephen Herrington

To win the health care debate with the public, the prejudices of thirty years of conditioning must be undone.

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Friday Talking Points [90] -- Obama To Switch Parties

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Daisy Dukes, White House, Table, Medicare for All, Legalize, Barney Frank, Progressives, Fiction, Reform, Catnip, Rube Goldberg, Blackwater, Midotw, Nancy Pelosi, Assassination, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Health Care, Budget Reconciliation, Reid, Nancy Reagan, Reconciliation, Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Terrorism, Mexico, Shorts, Terrorist, Massachusetts, Democrat, Kathleen Sebelius, Congress, Planet, Democrats, Lie, Ted Kennedy, Barack Obama, Decriminalize, Mddotw, Health, Blue Dogs, Harry Reid, Vacation, Falsehood, Healthcare, Senate, George Bush, President Obama, Central Intelligence Agency, Ronald Reagan, Senator, Tom Ridge, Cia, Kennedy, Cat's Cradle, Drugs, Decriminalization, Iraq, Obama, Democratic, Dining Room Table, Media, Truth to Crazy, Media Catnip, Friday Talking Points, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Edward Kennedy, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Obama Switches Parties, Speaker, Sebelius, Ridge, Two Bills, Michelle Obama, House, Aides, What Planet, Terror Alert, Obama to Switch Parties, Teddy Kennedy, Mainstream Media, Progressive, Grand Canyon, Chris Weigant, Naked Guy on a Plane, Senator Kennedy, Afghanistan, George W Bush, Healthcare Reform, Nazi, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Ted Kennedy is putting both his legacy and his sense of entitlement to his office before the interests of his constituents.

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When Racism Stands in the Way of Universal Healthcare

Alex Higgins | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Welfare, Ronald Reagan, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Racism, Glenn Beck, Paul Krugman, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Politics News
Alex Higgins

Opposition to health care reform is just the latest iteration of the usually unstated idea that public welfare itself is a devious system for taking money from whites and giving it to blacks.

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Did the Inglorious N.O.P. Bust a Cap in Health Care Reform?

Kimberly Krautter | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nazi Germany, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, G.O.P., Eisenhower Era, Civil Rights, Evangelicals, Chuck Grassley, Hate Mongering, Abraham Lincoln, Republican Hypocrisy, Hate Speech, Medicare, Republican Party, Caribou Barbie, Right-Wing-Echo-Chamber, Big Tent, Senator Charles Grassley, Rush Limbaugh Republicans, Rush Limbaugh, Chuck Grassley Death Panels, D.W. Griffith, Democrats, Barack Obama, Equal Rights Amendment, The-Birth-of-a-Nation, Soviet Russia, Sarah Palin, Health Care Reform, Iraq War, Glenn Beck, Bush Cheney, Grand Old Party, Barry Goldwater, Jim DeMint Waterloo, Ghw-Bush, Steven Colbert, Jon Stewart, Politics News
Kimberly Krautter

From a branding perspective, is this really how the Republican Party wants to be defined? Hate speech -- true hate speech -- should never be tolerated in any form.

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Earth Days: Dare To Care

Kerry Trueman | Posted 09.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Days, Ronald Reagan, Stewart Brand, Climate Change, Rachel Carson, Environmental Movement, Jimmy Carter, Conservation, Robert Stone, Green Living, Green News
Kerry Trueman

Earth Days, the new film that opens this weekend from acclaimed documentarian Robert Stone, is being promoted as a history of the environmental movement in the United States. But it's more of a road trip, really.

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President Hu, Tear Down This Firewall

Gilbert B. Kaplan | Posted 09.14.2009 | World

Read More: Manufacturing, Trade, G-20, China, Internet Censorship, President Obama, Mr. Gorbachev, US China Relations, Ronald Reagan Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, Ronald Reagan, US China Trade, Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall, Wto, World News
Gilbert B. Kaplan

When Obama meets with President Hu next month, he should emulate one of his predecessors -- in fact one he has spoken of admiringly before -- and say something that could change history.

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New Economic Data Shows that Right Wing Economic Theory Is Simply Wrong.

Robert Creamer | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gross Domestic Product, Private Sector Job Creation, Job Creation, Obama Health Care Plan, Public Sector Job Creation, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Supply Side Economics, Economic Crisis, Obama Economic Stimulous, Economic Stimulous Package, Right Wing Economic Thought, Conservative Economic Orthodoxy, Bush Tax Cuts, Economy, Politics News
Robert Creamer

The Republicans and the Right Wing establishment will continue to ignore reality, to repeat their slogans, to pander to fear, and stand up for wealthy special interests. But history has rendered its verdict.

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Chris Matthews' Race Problem

Mark Joseph | Posted 09.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Baseball, President Obama, Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, Hardball, Health Care Protesters, Canada, Chris Matthews, Alan Keyes, Msnbc, Apple Pie, Panama Canal, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter, Birthers, Racism, Mom, Hawaii, Chester Arthur, John McCain, Media News
Mark Joseph

Every night, Chris Matthews raises race as the reason President Obama is encountering so much opposition. But he's wrong. And though he may not intend it, he's the one who is injecting race into these debates.

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Why Can't the Boomers Just Shut Up About Woodstock?

Nathan Hegedus | Posted 09.12.2009 | Living

Read More: 1960s, Bill Clinton, Barry Lewis, Civil Rights Movement, Baby Boomers, Ronald Reagan, Andrew Sullivan, George W. Bush, Led Zeppelin, Generation X, Iraq, Cadillac, Wall Street Journal, Woodstock Museum, Janis Joplin, Gay Rights, Times Herald-Record, The Atlantic, Jimmy Carter, Woodstock, Exurbs, Jimi Hendrix, Bethel, Women's Liberation, Milennials, Taking Woodstock, Living News
Nathan Hegedus

Unless you were backing up Janis Joplin in a secret jam session, or at least at, you know, actually at Woodstock, please, shut up.

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The Truth About Socialized Medicine

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Medicare, Socialized Medicine, Ronald Reagan, Madeleine M. Kunin, Socialized Healthcare, American Medical Association, Health Care, Politics News
Madeleine M. Kunin

Ronald Reagan turned out to be wrong. Most of us are so happy, in our sunset years, to have access to Medicare, and yes, we are still free.

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Ron Reagan: My Dad Showed Me What the Real Nazis Did

Bill Mann | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Rush Limbaugh Obama, Air America, Nazis, Auschwitz, Ronald Reagan, Ron Reagan, Media News
Bill Mann

Reagan is among those disgusted and appalled with Limbaugh and other poisonous talk-show ideologues referring to President Obama as a "modern-day Hitler."

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Sonia and the Supremes

Shawn Healy | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Ronald Reagan, Robert Bork, Mel Martinez, President Barack Obama, Sonia Sotomayor, Senator Kennedy, Filibuster, David Souter, Samuel Alito, Lindsey Graham, C. Harrold Carswell, Clement Haynsworth, Clarence Thomas, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Sotomayor Confirmation, Obama-Sotomayor-Pick, Sonia Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings, Obama Sotomayor, Politics News
Shawn Healy

Given the alignment of stars in Sotomayor's strive for the Supremes, her sterling resume made confirmation all but inevitable.

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Bill O'Reilly-Keith Olbermann Feud Ends with a Corporate Handshake?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.10.2009 | Media

Read More: Countdown, General Electric, Ge, Ronald Reagan, Phil Donahue, Countdown With Keith Olbermann, Hudson River, Pcbs, Keith Olbermann, Roger Ailes, Propaganda, Jeffrey Immelt, Willie Horton, Msnbc, Fox News, O'Reilly-Olbermann Rivalry, O'Reilly-Olbermann Feud, Journalism, George H.W. Bush, Rupert Murdoch, Republican Talking Points, News Corporation, Republican Party, Republican Strategist Ailes, Bill O'Reilly, Fox, GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Corporate honchos at GE and News Corp making back-room editorial decisions for the "news" subsidiaries they control? I can't help but think it might not be the best thing for the integrity of journalism.

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Sarah Palin: What the British Might Think...

Cedric Perrier | Posted 09.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gordon Brown, Britain, Susan Boyle, Conservatives, Cedric Perrier, David Axelrod, Ronald Reagan, Elliot Spitzer, Sarah Palin, British Politics, Labour Party, Lew Wasserman, Alaska, Palin 2012, Politics News
Cedric Perrier

Perhaps what America is observing is political opportunism in its freshest form. We see this a great deal in the new order of the entertainment industry: fame without responsibility.

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Fixing California

Bob Burnett | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Term Limits, California, California Budget Crisis, Legalize Marijuana, Ronald Reagan, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Politics News
Bob Burnett

California's problems are not insurmountable, but their resolution will require concerted action: new leadership, likely a new constitution, and the willingness to consider alternative revenue sources.

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Obama Sends the Wrong Message to Our Children

Bruce Tenenbaum | Posted 08.31.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Obama Racism, Ronald Reagan, Economy, George W. Bush, Beer, Joe Biden, Obesity, Barack Obama, Childhood Obesity, Politics, Richard Nixon, Alcoholism, James Crowley, Racism, Breaking Politics News, Henry Gates, Glenn Beck, Children, Comedy News
Bruce Tenenbaum

Obama and Gates drank purely foreign libations while Crowley's choice, Blue Moon, is, like Obama, only half American. Is this really the message we need to convey as our economy struggles to climb out of recession?

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Palin's Last Shot On Wolves & Ashley Judd; Congress Shoots Back

Shannyn Moore | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Ashley Judd, Congressman George Miller, Quitstock, Aerial Hunting, Ronald Reagan, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Sarah Palin, Charlton Heston, Sarah Palin Aerial Wolf Hunting, Aerial Wolf Hunting, George Miller, Defenders of Wildlife, Politics News
Shannyn Moore

As an Alaskan who has trapped and hunted, the aerial killing of animals is to hunting what hiring a hooker is to dating. A sure thing, with no work. No wonder it appealed to former governor Palin.

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Helping Women: Eliminating Obstetric Fistula in Developing World

Jim Luce | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Facebook, Mexican National Institute of Health, Ronald Reagan, Myspace, “Global Gag Rule”, Women’s Health, Pregnancy, Thought Leaders, Vaginal Fistula, Global Citizens, South Africa, Clinton Global Initiative, Roe v. Wade, Argentina, World Health Organization, Abortion, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Developing World, M.D., Roman Catholic Church, EngenderHealth., Mexico, Twitter, AIDS Prevention, Barack Obama, Ana Langer, Women, Population Control, Reproductive Health, Smith Barney, India, Obstetric Fistula, Orphans International Worldwide, Frances D. Alleman-Luce, Usaid, Pep Far, Engenderhealth, World News
Jim Luce

EngenderHealth focuses on far more than fistula repair and prevention. They are dedicated to improving the overall health and well-being of people in the countries where they work.

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Walter and Me

Jon Bowermaster | Posted 08.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Walter Cronkite, George H.W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole, John Chancellor, Walter Cronkite Dead, Iowa Caucuses, Jimmy Carter, Des Moines, Cbs, Ted-Kennedy-1980, Ted Kennedy, 1980 Presidential Caucuses, Media News
Jon Bowermaster

People suggested to Walter that he should run for President himself. "I think we'll wait and see how many uncommitteds there are after New Hampshire," he said. "And then maybe we'll go after them."

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