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It's Quite Simple: Unfollow Trump Jr. on Twitter & 'Fire' Sons From the Show

Randall | Posted 05.15.2012

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Randall

Donald Trump has to deal with his beyond privileged sons, Eric and Donald Jr. Sponsors are starting to pull themselves from Celebrity Apprentice, and why not? As long as these two "sporty" hunters, continue to co-host the program with "daddy," there's no reason to support the show as long as Don Jr. refuses to apologize and drop his "holier than thou," 1983 elitist attitude.

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The Battle for Vermont's Health -- And Why It Matters for the Rest of the Country

Wendell Potter | Posted 04.08.2012

Read More: Canadian Healthcare, Peter Shumlin, Unitedhealth, Obamacare, Michael Moore, Vermont, Health Care Reform, Sicko, Cigna, Single Payer, Aetna, Canada, Wellpoint, Politics News
Wendell Potter

Despite the ceaseless spin, Vermont lawmakers last May demonstrated they could not be bought nor intimidated when they became the first in the nation to pass a bill that will probably establish a single-payer beachhead in the U.S.

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The Front Group Hall of Shame Gets a New Inductee

Wendell Potter | Posted 06.11.2011

Read More: Congress, Smoking, Freedomworks, Michael Moore, Ahip, Wwwsourcewatchorg, Sicko, Porter-Novelli, Apco Worldwide, Business News
Wendell Potter

The creation of the Choice and Competition Coalition is coming straight from the corporate lobbyist playbook. And it undoubtedly will have some big money behind it.

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I Am Review: Hollywood Director Exlores What's Right with the World

Dan Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thom Hartmann, Charlie Sheen, Tom Shadyac, Super Size Me, Noam Chomsky, Marc Ian Barash, An Inconvenient Truth, Desmond Tutu, Facebook, Sicko, Waiting for Superman, Ace Ventura, Food Inc, Wall Street, Wisconsin, Howard Zinn, Inside Job, Dacher Keltner, I Am, Capitalism: A Love Story, The Nutty Professor, Post Concussion Syndrome, Bruce Almighty, David Suzuki, Entertainment News
Dan Siegel

As the world is transfixed by remarkable change in the Middle East, America's popcorn culture distracts us with another Nicholas Cage road rage movie ...

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'How Everybody Exists' Doesn't Have to Be

Wendell Potter | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lobbying, Lobbyists, Public Opinion, Democracy, Sicko, Health Insurance, Michael Moore, Corporate America, Corporations, Ethics, Public Relations, Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Spin, Universal Health Care, Apco Worldwide, Corporate Greed, Health Care, Business News
Wendell Potter

The surprising gem in an Inquirer piece was that APCO VP Bill Pierce agreed with me. He acknowledged that interest-funded pressure groups "are all over the place" in Washington. "That's how everybody exists here," Pierce said.

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"First Do Much Harm": UK & US Conservatives Stomp on Healthcare in Unison

Martin Lewis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cynically Mis-Named Legislation, Sicko, Conservatives, David Cameron, Health Care Reform, British Politics, Michael Moore, Conservative Party, Hyphens, Health Care, Republicans, Politics News
Martin Lewis

You have to hand it to conservatives. When they want to stomp on regular folks -- they know how to act in unison. On the exact same day that Republi...

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CA Nurses Strike Against Billion-Dollar Felon, HCA

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Milazzo

Registered Nurse Estella Chavez (photo by Linda Milazzo) With support from California Assemblyman Bob Blumenfield and California State Senator Fran...

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Another WikiLeaks Cable From the Bush Administration About My Movies

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fahrenheit 9/11, Sicko, Michael Moore, Wikileaks, Michael Moore Wikileaks, WikiLeaks Cables, Politics News
Michael Moore

Though nowhere near as earth-shattering as the uncovering of misdeeds in Iraq and Afghanistan, these cables provide a bizarre peek into the paranoid minds of the Bush White House when it came to the subject of one Michael Francis Moore.

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¡Viva WikiLeaks! Sicko Was Not Banned in Cuba

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Moore

Yesterday WikiLeaks did an amazing thing and released a classified State Department cable that dealt, in part, with me and my film, Sicko. Here's what they came up with.

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How Corporate America Is Pushing Us All Off a Cliff

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Wendell Potter, Sicko, Cigna, Apco Worldwide, Michael Moore, Apco, Politics News
Michael Moore

APCO, the health insurance industry's PR firm who said it wants to push me off a cliff, has now taken on its biggest challenge yet: leading a giant, multimillion dollar effort to help Wall Street "earn back the trust of the American people."

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Michael Moore's Fundraising Campaign for the "Ground Zero" Mosque

Pearl Korn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Ground Zero Mosque, Wmd, Colin Powell, Liberals, Phil Donahue, HR 676, Sicko, Single Payer, Jeanine Garofalo, Seymour Hersh, Tim Robbins, Farenheit 911, Michael Moore, John Kerry, New York Times, Hillary Clinton, Huffington Post, Muslim, Politics News
Pearl Korn

Michael, while doing important, good works, misses no opportunity to promote himself, yet occasionally he misses the mark in his documentaries or when he appears on TV promoting his films.

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The F Word: Solving a Problem Like Stupak

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Laura Flanders

Retiring House Representative Bart Stupak is the most prominent face of a big problem for progressives within the Democratic party: what to do about the conservadems?

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Step Up to Mike's Challenge

Linda Milazzo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Linda Milazzo

Despite all we've learned from Sicko, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Roger and Me, we continue to take abuse. Our pal Mike is now asking us to act.

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Sleep Loss in America: The Decade That Didn't Sleep and Why It's Complicated

Qanta Ahmed, MD | Posted 11.17.2011

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Qanta Ahmed, MD

We have been on a roller coaster when it comes to how we now sleep and what a ride we have been on.

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Not New Rules, But New Questions

Etan Thomas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rick Pitino, Education, Michael Moore, Health Care Reform, Sicko, Alan Grayson, Health Care, Barack Obama, Nba, Oklahoma City Thunder, Politics News
Etan Thomas

Do Republicans have respect for the position of President of the United States only if it's a Republican in office?

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Our Health Care System Needs More Than Just Fixing

Olivia Rosewood | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: UCLA Medical Center, Dying, Surgery, Children, Children's Health Insurance, Health, Health Care Reform, Sicko, Health Insurance, Health Care, Obama Health Care, Children's Health, Healthcare, Politics News
Olivia Rosewood

Our health care system doesn't need to be fixed, because it wasn't working. Our health care system needs a complete systemic make over.

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Is the Opposite of Capitalism Democracy? A Review of Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anis Shivani

Moore explicitly states that we ought to turn to democracy as the alternative to capitalism. But the opposite of capitalism is not democracy, it is socialism.

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Sicko Reprise, Please

Ellen Snortland | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Sicko, Protests, Viagra, Norway, Michael Moore, Pharmaceuticals, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Healthy Living News
Ellen Snortland

The Norwegian health care system is so pro-active and prevention oriented that it would strain credibility for any American politician to even think about implementing it here.

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This Is It! World Premiere of Capitalism: A Love Story Tonight

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Moore

Tonight, at the Venice Film Festival, I will premiere my new movie, "Capitalism: A Love Story." After 16 months of production, I am proud to present this work of mine to you. It is unlike anything you'll see this year.

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TRAILER: My New Movie Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Moore

It's a crime story. But it's also a war story about class warfare. And a vampire movie, with the upper 1 percent feeding off the rest of us. And, of course, it's also a love story. Only it's about an abusive relationship.

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Former Health Insurance Exec Comes Clean About Industry Efforts To Discredit "Sicko"

Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sicko, Michael Moore, Video, Health Insurnace, Health Care, Bill Moyers, Michael Moore Sicko, Home News

On Friday's edition of "Bill Moyers Journal" the PBS host sat down Wendell Potter, a former Head of Corporate Communications at health insurance giant...

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Health Care Reform to Destruction

Stanton Peele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Sicko, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Michael Moore, Universal Healthcare, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.

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Michael Moore's New Movie Gets a Teaser

Scott Mendelson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Trailer, Teaser, Michael Moore, Bowling for Columbine, Poltiics, Documentary, Sicko, Preview, Scott Mendelson, News, Movies, Entertainment News
Scott Mendelson

Ironically, since his meteoric rise to stardom after Bowling For Columbine in 2002, Michael Moore has become the kind of person liberals use as a measuring stick to distance themselves from what they feel is the 'fringe left-wing'.

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Drive Down Healthcare Costs By Driving Down Obesity

Duncan Quirk | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, Bmi, U.S. Economy, Healthy Living, Personal Health, Obama Press Conference, Sickcare, Economy, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Fat, Sicko, Obama, Health Insurance, Obama Economy, Body Mass Index, Barack Obama, US Economy, Health, President Obama Administration, Universal Health Care, Healthcare Reform, Children's Health, Healthcare, Healthy Living News
Duncan Quirk

While Obama outline ways in which the American people have already made and continue to make sacrifices, he's missed out on the opportunity to ask for a sacrifice of time, energy, and our excess weight.

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Why I'm Not Now and Have Never Been the Democrats' "Rush Limbaugh"

Michael Moore | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Moore

I have watched with mild amusement this week the self-immolation of the Republican Party as it bows before the altar of Rush Limbaugh, begging for mer...

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