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Will Republicans Ever Have a Viable Alternative to the Public Option?

Henryk A. Kowalczyk | Posted 11.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Public Option, Life-Cycle Health Insurance, House Health Reform Bill, Republican, Obama, Socialism, Politics News

The House health care overhaul bill passed not because Democrats prepared a good proposal but because Republicans showed an amazing inability to present a viable alternative.

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WSJ: AIG CEO Robert Benmosche Ready To Quit Over Pay Constraints

Huffington Post/AP | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Geithner, Regulation, Credit Default Swaps, Obama, White House, Bailout, Insurance, Treasury, Benmosche, Wall Street, Robert Benmosche, New York, AIG Bailout, House, Kenneth Feinberg, Financial Reform, Aig, Metlife, Capitalism, Tim Geithner, Financial Regulation, Executive Compensation, Liddy, Barack Obama, Banks, Socialism, Bonuses, Ken Feinberg, Executive Pay, Edward Liddy, Senate, Business News

NEW YORK — After just three months as head of battered insurer American International Group, Robert Benmosche has threatened to leave his post a...

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It's Amazing What's Considered Radical These Days

Aaron E. Carroll | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Fascism, Communism, Universal Health Care, Medicare, Socialism, Politics News

The House passed health care reform on Saturday night. I can't believe it's been this hard. How far has the Right (and the Left) moved to the right? Bear with me as I take you into the past.

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Lessons For US Economic Policy From The Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Newsweek | Michael Hirsh | Posted 11.03.2009 | Politics

The abrupt and miserable end of the socialist experiment--it all happened so fast, with East Germany getting absorbed into West Germany on Oct. 3, 199...

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Conservatives/Republicans Have "New Rules" for President Obama

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama School Speech, Olympics, Afghanistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Obama Criticism, Socialism, Health Care, Politics News

New Rule: Don't engage in the outrageous, unethical practice of inviting your friends and donors to use the bowling alley at the White House. Instead give them no-bid contracts like we did for Halliburton.

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"Black Tuesday" and "Happy Days Are Here Again" at 80

Robert S. McElvaine | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Income Distribution, Labor Unions, Black Tuesday, Tax Rates, Happy Days Are Here Again, 1929 Stock Market Crash, Socialism, Capitalism, Free-Market Economics, Barack Obama, Recession, Great Depression, Financial Crisis, Wall Street Crisis Mccain, Business News

In what must rank as one of the most ironic coincidences in history, "Happy Days Are Here Again" was recorded on the day that was to be called "Black Tuesday" and become synonymous with the with the onset of the Great Depression.

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Why Ostrom's Nobel Is Even More Shocking Than Obama's

Randall Amster | Posted 10.14.2009 | Business

Read More: Resources, Tragedy of the Commons, Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Nuclear Weapons, Economics, Conflict, Cooperation, Resource Conflict, War, The Commons, Nobel Peace Prize, Socialism, Mutual Aid, Business News

Make no mistake, despite the somewhat tame Nobel committee description, Ostrom's body of work is inherently radical, demonstrably anti-corporate, and implicitly socialistic.

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What Olympia Snowe's Support Could Mean

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Public Option, Senate Health Committee, Senate Finance Committee, John Boehner, Progressives, Democratic Party, Bipartisan, Sarah Palin, Senate, Joe Wilson, Health Care Reform, Senator Olympia Snowe, Bipartisanship, Socialism, Health Care, Republican Party, Politics News

By supporting a moderate bill in committee, Snowe has made the GOP, or at least part of it, relevant again; succeeding where Michael Steele, John Boehner, Joe Wilson, Rush Limbaugh and others have failed.

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Republican Leaders Join In Honoring New Rotunda Statue Of Radical Socialist Woman

Chris Weigant | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Marx, International Workers of the World, Mitch McConnell, Mcconnell, The Spirit of Lenin, John Boehner, Leninism, Wells, Teacher, Statue, Republican, History, Pelosi, Barbara Bindley, American History, Socialist, Lies My Teacher Taught Me, Nancy Pelosi, Russia, Syndicalist, Handicap, Reid, Radical, Red, Leaders, How I Became a Socialist, Socialism, Alabama, marxists.org, James W Loewen, Childhood, Lenin, Soviet Union, State Quarter, HG Wells, Chris Weigant, Revolutionary, Marxism, Harry Reid, Plutocrat, Why I Became an IWW, Republicans, Boehner, Aclu, Capitol, Brooklyn Eagle, Syndicalism, Rotunda, Loewen, Bindley, Iww, Wobblies, Wobbly, Politics News

A woman whose name we all know was a proud Red, a committed Socialist, and an unapologetic Wobbly. And now she's not only buried in the National Cathedral, she's got her own statue in the Capitol.

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Afraid of Socialist Healthcare in America? It's Already Here

Michael J. O'Neil | Posted 10.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Socialized Medicine, Health, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Socialism, Obama Health Care, Healthcare, Barack Obama, Politics News

Any health care system that does not provide unlimited care to everyone employs rationing.

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Michael Moore Asks: What Would Jesus Do?

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 10.05.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Charles Sheldon, Roman Catholic Church, Jesus, Michael Moore, Michael Moore Capitalism: A Love Story, In His Steps, Blessed Are the Poor, What Would Jesus Do?, Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity, Socialism, Bishop of Chicago, Entertainment News

Roman Catholic Priests are the surprising voices of clarity and conviction in Michael Moore's new film Capitalism: A Love Story. They aren't ambivalent -- they characterize capitalism as evil.

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A Right to Health Care Is a Public Option

Miles J. Zaremski | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Socialism, Public Option, Senate Finance Committee, Maria Cantwell, Max Baucus, Health Insurance, Alan Grayson, Health Care, Politics News

The public option for health care is far from death's door. But it is our job to convince Democrats, that the sine qua non of health care is the public option.

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Michael Moore & Me

Sen. Bernie Sanders | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bernie Sanders, Socialism, Capitalism, Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, Politics News

Capitalism helps create an entrepreneurial spirit. But on the other hand, especially since the Reagan era, what we have seen in this country is an unfettered type of cowboy capitalism.

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My Brother Loves Glenn Beck, But I Still Love My Brother

Suz Redfearn | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

My brother rolled into D.C. from Boston on a chartered bus, arriving in the dark outside a Marriott. I scanned the pack of fairly nondescript folks ...

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Oh, Now You Care

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Socialism, Tea Baggers, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Tea Party, Illegal Immigrants, George W. Bush, Politics News

Shame these outraged citizens weren't taking it to the streets during the Iraq War. We could have used their righteous indignation when Rumsfeld threw millions of Saddam's money at militants.

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The Big Bailout of '08: Hindsight Is Blind

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 09.24.2009 | Business

Read More: Bank of America, Bank Failures, Paulson, Bailouts, Bernanke, Recession, Michael Moore, Socialism, Dick Fuld, Capitalism, Thain, Geithner, Business News

Maybe Michael Moore's anti-capitalist screed is actually an interesting nexus where right and left converge in hatred of the system that rewards failure and lets the bad guys run the next iteration of the machine.

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Documents Radio/TV Diva Gertrude Berg Popular from Great Depression Through McCarthy Era

Penelope Andrew | Posted 11.18.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Chris Milanos Downey, A Majority of One, Ed Asner, African-Americans, Actresses, Aviva Kempner, Catholic-Americans, Emmy Award, Red Channels, Richmond-Virginia, Documentary Film, Tony Award, Gertrude Berg, Jewish-Americans, Rosalind Russell, Aphrodite Palans Andrew, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Communism, The Black List, Screenwriters, Red Scare, Philip Loeb, Huac, Socialism, Susan Stamberg, Yoo-Hoo Mrs. Goldberg, Women Directors, Norman Lear, Radio, The Rise of the Goldbergs, Greek-Americans, The Goldbergs, Entertainment News

Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg underscores a unique moment in our history when the Jewish experience crossed over into households composed of African Americans and Midwesterners, as they all listened to The Rise of the Goldbergs.

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O'Reilly Endorses Public Option, Which He Previously Called "Socialism"

Think Progress | Amanda Terkel | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Option, Middle Class, Federal Reserve, Fox News, Socialism, Healthcare Reform, Bill O'Reilly, Healthcare Costs, Health Insurance Reform, Health Care, Politics News

Last night on Fox News, Bill O'Reilly actually told a Heritage Foundation scholar who was fear-mongering government-backed health care that he favors ...

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Why Government Spending Is the Solution, Not the Problem

Marshall Auerback | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Government Spending, Deficit Spending, Deficit, Joe Wilson, Obama, Socialism, Health Care, Politics News

Markets do not self-regulate in ways that avoid major financial upheavals and activist government is required as a counterbalancing force.

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An Honest Display of Lying

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 11.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Joe Wilson, President Obama, Associated Press, Health Care Reform, Cash for Clunkers, Socialism, Abc, 9/12 March on Washington, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News

What's the point of having a discussion with someone when you already know the outcome? "So, what did you think of your boy Obama's speech the other night?" I was asked on the train.

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Tea Party Protester: "We Think The Muslims Are Moving In And Taking Over" (VIDEO)

Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

UPDATE (8:43 p.m. EST): NBC has replaced this woman's comment about Muslims with a less inflammatory comment: "I'm scared to death for my country. I ...

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9/12 Health Care Protest In Chicago (PICTURES)

Aemilia Scott | Posted 11.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Teabagging, Tea Party Patriots, Glenn Beck, 9/12 Tea Party March, Socialism, Health Care, Death-Pac, Chicago Health Care Protests, Health Care Reform, Chicago News

Ah, death panel posters. Signs like this are the "Don't Stop Believing" of political slogans. Poorly written, fantasy-based, and yet somehow still a huge hit in the Midwest.

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#912DC Tag Fires Up Twitter, Protesters

Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact

Read More: Fox News, Socialism, 912 Project, Obamacare, Health Reform, Health Care, Glenn Beck, Impact News

Conservative protesters are marching on Washington D.C. today against President Obama's policies, most notably his proposed reform of America's health...

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Obama Presses Hard to Unite Dems on Healthcare and Slaps Down Republican "Demagoguery"

Ray Hanania | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Demagoguery, Public Option, Insurance, Death Panels, Social Security, US Senate, President Obama, Government Takeover, Denial of Pre-Existing Conditions, Medicaid, Medicare, Reform, Socialism, Health Care, US House, Ted Kennedy, Joint Session of Congress, Politics News

The President's speech was so powerful it probably sent many of the nation's health insurance industry robber barons into economic cardiac arrest.

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Thanks Glenn Beck -- This 'Socialism' Sounds Great!

Paul Raushenbush | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Housing Market, Amazing Grace, Rush Limbaugh, Carter, Laissez-Faire, Michael Steele, Glenn Beck, Socialism, Jfk, Capitalism, Health Care, Christian, Forclosure, Arianna Huffington, Fdr, Russia, Marx, Rasmussen-Reports, Norway, Sweden, Politics News

Capitalism has been given a pass while Americans struggle. When will capitalism be a word as dirty as socialism?

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