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The Baucus-Hanes Flap: Status Quo in Montana Politics

Melinda Gopher | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: 2012, 2014, Barack Obama Swing Voters, Helth Care Reform, Max Baucus, Montana, Montana Wyoming Tribal Leaders, Native Americans, Politics, President Obama

The latest revelation of Senator Baucus' attempt to gain a political appointment for his girlfriend, Melodee Hanes, is nothing new to Montana politics and the entrenched "Baucus political party machine," that has Montana politics in a strangle hold. Senator Baucus' abuse of power is only now becoming evident because of...

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Year of the Rahm: Get 'Em, Then Gut 'Em

Jeffrey Feldman | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Health Care Reform, Political Strategy, Rahm Emanuel, Wall Street Journal

As frustrated as the base of the Democratic Party may be in this late stage of the health care reform battle, few have reflected on the force behind every legislative battle this year: Rahm Emanuel.

In a blunt remark to the Wall Street Journal, the White House...

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Uganda's Anti-Gay Law: Opposition Grounded in Bipartisan Confluence of Human Rights and Public Health

Dr. Mark Dybul | Posted December 19, 2009 | World

Read More: Africa, Aids, AIDS In Africa, Anti-Gay Laws, Hiv, Obama, Obama Administration, Rick Warren, Uganda, Unaids

There has been appropriate moral condemnation of Uganda's proposed anti-gay law that originally included the death penalty. Evangelical uber Pastor Rick Warren led the way with a moving and powerful video directed to clergy in Uganda, followed by the Holy See, conservative Senator Tom Coburn and the Obama Administration. It...

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Can Your Vows Enrich Your Marriage In 2010?

Anne Naylor | Posted December 19, 2009 | Living

Read More: Appreciation, Communication, Forgiving, Listening, Love, Love Language, Marriage, New Year Resolutions, Partnership, Relationships, Romance, Vows

In a couple of weeks, you may be making New Year's resolutions. The start of a new decade, time to begin again with fresh hope and a chance to better your life. More exercise, better diet, wiser spending, a meditation routine? Resolution sounds very final and definite, and yet have...

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Alert: New Health Bill Limits Abortions in Red States -- Where, Surprise, They Are Common

Greg Mitchell | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Anti-Choice, Ben Nelson, Harry Reid, Hrc, Pro-Choice

No matter how you feel about the pro-choice/anti-choice issue, it's always been difficult to examine data on the number of legal abortions in the U.S. on a state-by-state level. RecentlyThe Guardian newspaper's DataBlog has performed a real service in pulling together the latest numbers (from 2005) on the number...

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10 Ways To Deal With Difficult People

Tara Stiles | Posted December 19, 2009 | Living

Read More: Dealing With Stress, Difficult-Circumstances, Holidays, Kindness, Meditation, Relationships, Yoga

Whether it's family, work, relationships, or friends, we all deal with difficult people in different ways. Holidays often extract the most trying characteristics out of everyone. I recently became "adopted" by my new "yoga/God parents" Ed and Deb Shapiro. (Don't worry paternal family, I still love you guys....

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Diabetes & Obesity: Why Conventional Medicine Makes Things Worse

Mark Hyman, MD | Posted December 19, 2009 | Living

Read More: Blood Sugar, Chronic Illness, Diabetes, Health, Insulin Resistance, Mark Hyman MD, Obesity, Overweight, Type 2 Diabetes, Ultrawellness

If you are diabetic, overweight, or suffer from insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, or any of the other conditions conventional medicine associates with "elevated blood sugar," I want to share a startling new discovery with you: Lowering your blood sugar may increase your risk of death.

These are the findings from...

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History Reveals a Pattern as DPC Hearings Look For Best Job Creation Ideas

Sen. Byron Dorgan | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Dick Durbin, George Bush, Great Recession, Harry Reid, Harry Truman, Jobs, Stimulus, Unemployed, Unemployment, Unemployment Rate

The Obama Administration inherited the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. That crisis has been described as the "Great Recession."

Over the past year, we've made some good progress in digging out from under that mess. We prevented complete economic collapse, and indicators suggest that the economy...

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Tiger Woods IS Tiger Woods

Elayne Boosler | Posted December 19, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: C. Todd McCormick, Elayne Boosler, Joel West, Lorrie Irby Jackson, Screenwriters, Tiger Woods, Tiger Woods Scandal

After Every Scandal There Come the Welcoming Arms of Showbiz. Here are some new movies, shows, and remakes for Tiger Woods to Consider.

Elayne Boosler's new movie: "The Blisterhood of the Unraveling Pants". His mistress' new group movie, "The Dis-terhood of the Cavilling Rants".

Joel West's new buddy...

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What's Your Hobby?

Julia Moulden | Posted December 19, 2009 | Living

Read More: Collecting, Family, Guru, Hobbies, Julia Moulden, New Radicals, Stamps, The Balanced Life

Let me confess up front: I'm a Scots Presbyterian workaholic. I'm not quite Gekko ("Lunch is for wimps" was the immortal line of Michael Douglas' character in the 1980s film, Wall Street). Yet Thoreau's thought is always in the back of my mind, "As if you could kill time without...

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Fair Representation News: Proportional voting in American cities and around the world

Rob Richie | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Cumulative Voting, Iraq, Proportional Representation, United Kingdom

Here's an excerpt from the FairVote Reformer for December 2009 focused on proportional voting and other alternatives to winner-take-all elections.

Fair representation ultimately depends on giving as many voters as possible the power to elect representatives - anything less is dependent on the whims of political elites who...

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Fix or Replace the Dropout Factories

Tom Vander Ark | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Arne Duncan, Charter Schools, Education Reform, Green Dot, High School Dropouts

EdWeek ran a useful commentary by friends from JFF and Johns Hopkins that outlined the range of challenges faced by states in fixing the roughly 2,000 high schools with graduation rates below 60%. Like the authors, I appreciate Secretary Duncan's laser focus on attacking chronic failure--something NCLB attempted to do...

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2009 Economic Year in Review: How Did We Get Here?

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted December 19, 2009 |

Read More: Economy

Because we are approaching the end of the year, it is appropriate to take a look back at the economy for the last year to see how we're doing. This will be a two part series. The first is, "How Did We Get Here?" It will be a retrospective of...

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That Gollum-like Feeling on Health Care

Mike Lux | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Gollum, Health Care Reform, Howard Dean, Lord Of The Rings, Public Option, Reconciliation, Sherrod Brown

I find myself gripped in a bitter argument- with myself- about the fate of health care reform. It's sort of like watching the schizophrenic Gollum in the Lord Of The Rings saga fight angrily with himself over how to deal with Frodo: "the master is so nice to me, he...

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Cope 'en blame 'em today, fight tomorrow

Kevin Grandia | Posted December 19, 2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Cop 15, Copenhagen 2009, Environment, Global Warming, Green, Sustainability

To begin on a lighter note, I am really going to miss the many ways one can manipulate the word Copenhagen.

The most high profile play-on-words here at the climate summit was probably "Hopenhagen," my favorite was "CopenDeniers" and the one I regret not using was "CopenHanging"...

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The NYGMen Podcast: Week 14 - Eagles Drop Giants, Part 2

Dan Weiner | Posted December 19, 2009 | New York

In PART 2 of this episode, we give you what you'be probably been waiting for: a super in-depth post-game analysis of the Giants failure to beat the Eagles at home, in spite of having put 38 points on the board. Also, we touch on some other topics such as Mike...

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No Thrill Up Dylan Ratigan's Leg

Taylor Marsh | Posted December 19, 2009 | Politics

Read More: Barack Obama, Dylan Ratigan, Economy, Health Care, Health Care Reform

That was just painful to watch.

That Rep. Wasserman-Schultz, a progressive dynamo who is among the very best we've got, ducked the obvious implications to the insurance stocks soaring by saying she's not a stock...

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The Mouse That Roared in Copenhagen

Alemayehu G. Mariam | Posted December 19, 2009 | World

The "delegation of African negotiators" rumbled into Copenhagen rubbing their palms and licking their chops to load up tens of billions of dollars in carbon blood money and make a quick exit. They were disappointed. There was no gold at the end of the Copenhagen rainbow. At the end of...

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Christina Aguilera & Keith Richards: Kindred Birthday Spirits

Shawn Amos | Posted December 18, 2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Christina Aguilera, Keith Richards, Rolling Stones

Today marks the birthday of an incongruous pair. Perennial Rolling Stone, Keith Richards, turns 66 while overwrought chanteuse, Christina Aguilera, is the ripe old age of 29.

Who's Sexier: Keith Richards or Christina Aguilera?

They may seem from opposite worlds: Aguilera, the...

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After Copenhagen Chaos, A Bit of Emerson for the Soul

John Wihbey | Posted December 18, 2009 | Green

Read More: Climate Change, Copenhagen 2009, Green, Green Living, Wilderness

For the many millions around the globe who have hoped that deliverance from the evils of an ineffectual Kyoto Protocol would come through a grand Copenhagen climate bargain, there has to be a feeling of deflation.

Yes, there have been steps toward progress on curbing greenhouse gases at Copenhagen....

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