Fear Mongering

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Reading the Pictures: 100% of Your Weekly Dose of Terrorism Panic

Michael Shaw | Posted 11.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Fort Hood, Ft. Hood, TIME Cover Hasan, Scary Muslim, Time, Fear Mongering, Muslim, Hasan Muslim, Military, Psycho, Hasan, Hasan Fort Hood, Scaremongering, Fort Hood Rampage, Fort Hood Shootings, Fort Hood Murders, Terrorism, Media News

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The Arrogance of Fear and What to Do About It

Karen Luniw | Posted 09.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Neagle, Success, Fear Mongering, Change, Fear, Solutions, Hope, Recession Fears, Business, Luniw, Living News

Whether it's a reformed health care system, a new job, a new place to live or to solve a business problem -- in order to get something new, we have to change.

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Our Insane Summer: Is There a Way Out? Plus an Open Letter to the Secretary of Education [UPDATED]

John Milewski | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Health Care Town Halls, Education, Fear Mongering, Arne Duncan, Charter Schools, Bright Idea, Demagogue, Transformation, Race to the Top, Hugh Osborn, Town Hall Protests, Education Reform, Town Hall Meetings, Public Policy Debate, North Carolina, Politics News

As we enter the back-to-school phase of the calendar, I want to share some good news and offer some unsolicited advice to our nation's education top cop.

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Germs Don't Care If You Are Legal Or Not

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fear, Swine Flue, Mexico, Health Healthcare, Public Health, Flu, Vaccinate, Reform, Germs, Typhoid Mary, Sanitation, Servant, Fear Mongering, Avian Flu, Germ Theory, Illegal Immigrant, Infectious, Hygiene, Chris Weigant, Infect, Disease, Sars, Germ, Vaccine, Mary Mallon, Immigrant, Undocumented Immigrant, Health Care, Influenza, Mallon, Politics News

Do you really want to limit vaccinations only to people who have legal documents, or would you rather everyone get inoculated? Remember, those you exclude will likely have some sort of contact with either you, your kids, or the food you eat at some point.

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We are Mortal - Grow Up and Plan Accordingly

Barbara Coombs Lee | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics News, Kill Granny, Healthcare Debate, Palin Death Panels, Town Hall Meetings, Town Hall Debate, Fear-Mongering, Health Care, Finance Committee, Health Care Reform, Media News, Death Panels, Sarah Palin, Politics News

National leaders deliberately sparked fear and anger over a consultation about death and sensational media threw fuel on the fire.

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The Last Story on Reforming Health Care: We Have Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Fox TV, Fear-Mongering, Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself, Sarah Palin, Town Hall Debate, Obama Healthcare, Ann Coulter, Universal Healthcare, Healthcare Debate, Private Insurance, Sean Hannity, National Health Service, Town Hall Meetings, Private Insurance Industry, Healthcare Costs, Politics News

The debate over health care reform has turned to politics of fear and fear-mongering, instead of focusing on facts and reality.

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Reflections on Health Care Reform: Now or Never

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 09.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fear-Mongering, August Recess, Health-Care-Reform-Now, Politics News

All we want is to be cared for at a price that we can all afford. But if we cannot afford and access our doctors and nurses, then the healthcare system fails us.

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O'Reilly Rages Against Joan Walsh Over Tiller Murder (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.14.2009 | Media

Joan Walsh went on the O'Reilly Factor Friday night having publicly vowed to be well-prepared to defend the reproductive rights of women and the legality of Dr. Tiller's clinical practice, and truly doled out some major ownage.

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Fear You Can Believe In?

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Fear Watch, Fear Mongering, Newt Gingrich, Gay Marriage Fear Mongering, Terrorism, Gay Marriage, Politics News

So life is scary. What ever happened to courage, the prime martial virtue that conservatives were supposed to praise and practice?

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World's Dumbest Talking Point on Gitmo Gets Traction

Cenk Uygur | Posted 06.20.2009 | Politics

The minute Ted Kaczynski makes a run for it out of the Supermax in Colorado is the minute I'll agree that it's unsafe to bring the Gitmo detainees to the US.

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Bad News Bears - Economic Fear-Mongering by the Media

Gloria Duffy | Posted 05.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Fear Mongering, Bailout, Bad News, Economy, Economic Crisis, Fear-Mongering, Media, Crisis-of-Confidence, Media News

We are experiencing a crisis of confidence, and I fear that the media are fanning the flames in an effort to save their own skins.

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Muslims "Off" a Plane

Wajahat Ali | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

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We in the US are currently engaged in a "war on terror," but this does not give a democratic and free country license to be overwhelmed by fear of its own Muslim and Middle Eastern citizens.

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Midnight in the Garden of Reaganomics

Bennet Kelley | Posted 12.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Republican Failed Policies, Barack Obama 2008, Fear Mongering, Tax Cuts for the Wealthy, Obama Landslide, Infrastructure Repair, Reaganomics, Middle Class, Business News

Fear-mongering may only further prove how out of touch the Republican Party has become with mainstream Americans (or even history itself) as the electorate is increasingly aware.

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