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I Want My Country Back! The Country That Elected Barack Obama

Linda Bergthold | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: What-Would-Jesus-Do, Health Care Reform, Health Care Town Halls, 538.Com, Republicans Health Care Reform, Health Reform, President Barack Obama, Politics News
Linda Bergthold

I want the focused, goal-oriented, real grass-roots supported, campaign mode for health reform.

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D.C. Delegate Calls For Ban On Guns Near Obama

The Hill | Jordy Yager | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Amendment, Eleanor Holmes Norton, President Barack Obama, Homeland Security, Secret Service, Politics News

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) called on the Homeland Security Department and the U.S. Secret Service on Wednesday to provide tighter restriction...

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Obama Protester With Semi-Automatic Rifle Part Of 'Publicity Stunt'

HuffPost's Eyes & Ears | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Ar-15, Semi-Automatic Rifle, Rife, Town Hall Health Care, Phoenix, President Barack Obama, Obama Rally, Libertarian, Ernest Hancock, Ar-15 Obama, Obama Assault Weapons Ban, Obama Ar-15, Gun Arizona, Ar-15 Semi-Automatic Rifle, Politics News

A number of YouTube videos have shown a man carrying an AR-15 rifle to a pro-Obama health care reform rally outside the president's speech in Phoenix ...

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Obama Advisor Pete Rouse Improperly Claimed Property Tax Deduction

Lee Stranahan | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Peter Rouse, President Barack Obama, Pete Rouse, Politics News
Lee Stranahan

There's a surprising result of the work of investigator Joseph Culligan that I reported a few days ago about what appeared to be irregularities in the...

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I'll Say What Most Democrats Won't: Obama Needs to Grow Some Balls Quickly or His Administration Will Implode

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Kathleen Sebelius, Health Care Reform, President Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

Obama seems more concerned with peacemaking than reform-making. He seems more preoccupied with staying popular, despite his tanking approval ratings, than with pursuing an aggressive agenda of change.

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Gimme Some Sugar, Mr. President

Leighann Lord | Posted 09.18.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Ethanol, Sugar Shortage, Wall Street Journal, President Barack Obama, Sugar, Comedy News
Leighann Lord

President Obama, I know you're busy with Iran, North Korea, Health Care, Blue Dog Democrats, and The Economy, but this is serious. I can't do without sugar.

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Sarah Palin's "Death Panel" Mantra: Like it or Not, this Woman's Influence on the National Stage is Now Crystal Clear

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Alaska, Death Panel, President Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Wasilla, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

It took Palin just three weeks into 'retirement' to prove that when it comes to major domestic policy, she is going to be right smack in the middle of it all.

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Gavin Newsom's Impressive Town Hall in Sacramento

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Obama, Newsom Town Hall, Proposition 8, President Barack Obama, George Deukmejian, California Democratic Party, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Pete Wilson, Democratic Party, Arnold Schwarzenegger, California Democrats, Democrats, Gay Marriage Ban, California Governor's Race, California Politics, Newsom for Governor, Newsom Town Hall Meeting, Gavin Newsom, California State Government, Gay Marriage, California Governor, Sacramento, Newsom's Gubernatorial Bid, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Mayor Newsom is the most exciting thing to happen to California politics in years. He promises to lift California out of the morass that the deadening hands of the GOP have submerged us in.

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Hechler's Wake Up Call to Greens and Liberals: Big Coal Denial Calls for Hellraisers

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Ken Hechler, Dirty Coal, Cilv Disobedience, Clean Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, Renewable Energy, Social Movements, Mountaintop Removal, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Direct Action, Green Energy, Black Lung, Coal, Green News
Jeff Biggers

Tragic lessons in history remind us that the coal crisis and its deniers call for more hellraisers, not compromise.

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Health Care Debate Sizzles in Summer Recess

Mike Smith | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: President Barack Obama, Comscore, Cdc, Nih, Healthcare Reform, Obama Health Care, Pharma, Nacds, Politics News
Mike Smith

Now Americans can leverage the Internet, electronic medical records and telemedicine to support patient care. Now is the time to use technology!

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The Politics of Empowerment

Jennifer Brunner | Posted 09.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Politics of Empowerment, Politics, U.S. Senate, President Barack Obama, US Senate, Senate Races, Jennifer Brunner, Oh-Sen, Town Hall Debate, Ohio, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Jennifer Brunner

Fighting for the dignity of humanity is at the core of the politics of empowerment. It is exercised by protecting the right of every eligible person to vote with fairness, equality and respect.

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Health-Care Reform was the Key Issue in the 2008 Campaign...What Happened?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: 2008 Campaign, Medicare Prescription Drug Bill, Corporate Media, Hmos, Health Care Debate, President Barack Obama, Health Care Town Hall Meetings, George W. Bush, Tea Baggers, Health Care Elites, Single Payer, Big Pharma, Health Insurance Industry, Health Insurance Corporations, Paul Baran, Elites, Tom Delay, Billy Tauzin, The Wealth of Nations, Health Care, Public Option, Health Care Reform, Pharmaceutical Corporations, Pharmaceutical Industry, Thomas Scully, Adam Smith, Town Halls, John McCain, Democrats, Sarah Palin, Republican Party, Health, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

For some, the system works best when elites make the most fundamental decisions for our society, unencumbered by the trappings of "democracy", and when the population is depoliticized, misinformed, or both.

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Orly Taitz Believes Obama Planning Labor Camps, Bloody Revolution

Esquire | Posted 09.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Esquire, Birthers, Orly Taitz, Obama Birth Certificate, Birth Certificate, President Barack Obama, Obama, Taitz, Politics News

What Really Happens When You Demand the President Produce His Birth Certificate? You get a bunch of outrageous people -- very nice people, mind you, ...

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Too Cute by Half on Honduras, Mr. President

Al Giordano | Posted 09.11.2009 | World

Read More: Millenium-Challenge-Corporation, Coup D'etat, Honduras, Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama, World News
Al Giordano

Less than seven months into the Obama administration, promise of progress in U.S.-Latin American relations is now at risk because of a ham-handed response to the June 28 military coup in Honduras.

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VIDEO UPDATE: Coalfield Uprising Grows: Will Feds Take Down WVA's Embarrassing DEP?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Mountaintop Premoval, Dirty Coal, President Barack Obama, Big Coal, West Virginia, Renewable Energy, Department of Interior, Coal, Osm, Wvdep, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The failed West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is emerging as an embarrassingly pro-coal anti-mountain public relations nightmare.

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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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The Health-Scare Mobs: We're Missing the Main Point Here

Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Birthers, Brooks Brothers Mob, Sean Hannity, Town Hall, Sen. John McCain, Sarah Palin, President Barack Obama, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

I don't care whether Karl Rove himself packs town hall protesters on a bus, provides them scripts and hands them lunch. What is of concern is when they act in a bullying and violent manner.

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Are Baby Boomers Senile, Uneducated or Just Babies?

Ray Hanania | Posted 09.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: R Ightwing Extremists, Baby Boomers, Rush Limbaugh, Public Option, Ann Coulter, Civil Rights, President Barack Obama, Lou Dobbs, Michelle Malkin, Senior Citizens, Uninsured, Sean Hannity, Hate Mongering, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Glenn Beck, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Instead of acting like intelligent people, today's seniors, the Baby Boomers, are acting like crybabies who have set aside everything they once held sacred in order to insure that their selfish interests and their comfortable healthcare options are protected.

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Why Liberals May Be More to Blame for the Birthers

Dan Pashman | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birth, Birthers, Obama Birth Certificate, Orly Taitz, Obama Birthers, Birther-Movement, President Barack Obama, Obama, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dan Pashman

The level of press attention devoted to the birthers -- far more than left wing crackpots ever get -- seems to be a sign of liberal media bias.

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Let Them Eat Coal Ash: OSM Nominee Pizarchik Must Be Stopped Now

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Epa, Dirty Coal, Senate Hearing, Mountaintop Removal, President Barack Obama, Clean Energy, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Coal, Osm, Green News
Jeff Biggers

The Obama's administration's OSM nomination of Pizarchik, the seemingly good-natured and well-meaning Pennsylvania Director of the Bureau of Mining and Reclamation, is a colossal error.

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More Orly Taitz!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

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Joseph A. Palermo

Finally, we have an extreme right-wing personality making the rounds in the corporate media who tears down the facade of "legitimacy" the Far Right bestows upon its craziest enthusiasts.

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Obama Says He's Angry -- But Won't Name Names

Politics Daily | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

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If President Obama is mad, who's he so mad at? Let me explain. On Friday afternoon, at the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Robert G...

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This Little (Coal-Fired) Light of Mine: Will President Heed 45 Million Prayers?

Jeff Biggers | Posted 09.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Catholics, Jews, Christians, President Barack Obama, Dirty Coal, Big Coal, Mountaintop Removal, National Council of Churches, Coal, Protestants, Eco-Justice, Mountaintop Coal Removal, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, O, Green News
Jeff Biggers

August 3rd should be a national day of atonement for our sins against the American mountains and mountaineers.

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Warfare Over Health Care

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Bill, Iraq War, Warfare, Health Care Debate, F-22 Jet Fighter, Senate Finance Committee, Afghanistan, President Barack Obama, Military Spending, Imperialism, Pentagon Budget, Empire, Health Care, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

Senators are wrestling with saving a penny here and a penny there when they're aimed at bolstering people's health, but they believe the sky is the limit so long as the money is being funneled into foreign occupations.

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End-of-Life Decisions: Medicare Is Already in the Room

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 08.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Hr-3200, President Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Medicare, Robert Gibbs, End of Life, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Government Euthanasia, Politics News
Mayhill Fowler

The big irony, one that encapsulates our national innocence of death, is the assumption behind the Medicare rumor -- that people can indeed decide how they wish to die. If only that were true.

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