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As Portugal Goes...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:29:31 -0500

Heartbreakingly, Maine failed last week to legalize same-sex marriage, but it sounds like Portugal will succeed. Its new socialist Prime Minister, working with the Left Bloc and Communist Party, are reportedly set to approve gay marriage as one of its first bills.

Pro-Choice Forces Gather

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:39:55 -0500

While this weekend's House health reform vote included an amendment sharply restricting women's access to abortion coverage, pro-choice forces are vowing to strip the amendment. Colorado Rep. Diana Degette says she has collected over 40 signatures, enough to block passage, opposing any final bill that includes the amendment.

Quite Frankly My Dear

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:46:43 -0500

Forget the rumored financial crisis, layoffs and foreclosures: The three biggest Wall Street banks to get bailed out are set to pay record bonuses of almost $30 billion this year, up 60 percent from last year. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase will hand out $29.7 billion, paying each lucky employee almost five times the U.S. median household income.

The 65th Killed Him

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:27:06 -0500

A poignant portrait of one more death in Afghanistan: British staff sargeant Olaf 'Oz' Schmid, a former cook who "didn't believe in the gung-ho stuff" but volunteered to learn bomb disposal skills. Over five months, he defused 64 bombs. The 65th killed him.

"I am just looking at getting home with my legs."
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Single Payer Advocates Starting to Break Against Obama

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:39:04 -0500

Single payer activists are starting to break against President Obama on health care reform.

On Thursday, Physicians for a National Health Program, in an e-mail message to its members, endorsed the view that "no bill is better than a bad bill."

"Even the public option in the House is a sham," the group said on Thursday.

PNHP's John Geyman called on the House to shelve Obamacare.

Lots Coal We Of Have!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:46:33 -0500

Patriots Unbound

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:02:04 -0500

Trying To Stem the Tide

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:18:50 -0500

Entirely understandably, Arab-Americans are already on the defensive in the wake of the Fort Hood shootings by a devout Muslim. Expecting a racist backlash that no doubt is zealously forming all across the right fringes of the country, the Association of Patriotic Arab Americans in the Military, formed after 9/11, has issued a statement. It states the obvious. It probably won't help.

Walls Still Standing

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:49:07 -0500

On the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, a special report from the BBC on the walls that still divide the world. A dozen countries tend walls - of concrete, wire, sand, guns - that keep out migrants, poor people, the fearful Other.

GOP: Pre-Existing Condition

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:13:58 -0500

The Congressional Budget Office has concluded that under the GOP amendment to the House health care bill, the number of uninsured Americans would increase, as would premiums. In fact, if taxpayers weren't paying the bill, GOP leaders would probably not be able to afford insurance under their own proposal.

Army Psychiatrist Shoots 12 Dead at US Army Base, In Stable Condition

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:51:15 -0500

Contrary to earlier reports, the suspected shooter at Fort Hood, Army Major Malik Nidal Hasan, 39, is alive and in stable condition. Hasan was a psychiatrist specializing in traumatic stress syndrome who was said to be unhappy about possibly being deployed to Iraq.

Taxpayers for Christ

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:37:04 -0500

Health Care For All

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:06:57 -0500

Flu Shots for Fat Cats: No Lines for H1N1 Vaccine for Wall Street Swine

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:55:03 -0500

While people across the U.S. wait in long lines for swine flu vaccine, the shots arrive on Wall Street. CNBC's Trish Regan reports and NBC's chief medical editor, Dr. Nancy Snyderman, weighs in. (Today Show/ November 5, 2009)

Not Your Own People

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:31:35 -0500

Rep. Ellison Blasts Goldstone Vote -- Plus How Your Representative Voted

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:11:20 -0500

By a 344-36 vote (22 voting "present"), the House of Representatives condemned the so-called Goldstone report, which found that both Israel and Hamas committed war crimes in Gaza. (See how your representative voted here)

Lying Down With Dogs

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:16:33 -0500

John Garamendi

Authorities Uncover Socialist Plot Against Tire

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:31:10 -0500

Next Time, She Said...

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:06:54 -0500

Chamber: Caught Between A Rock and a Yes Man

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:14:07 -0500

At the Yes Men's Halloween event in San Francisco, Survivaball-ensconced Chevron executives are attacked by climate-change walking dead. Organizers note that the Chamber of Commerce, under ordinary circumstances defenders of Chevron, are "nowhere to be found."

Follow the Money

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:54:55 -0500

Balloon Boy Meets the Chorus of No's

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:39:45 -0500

The Cops Don't Need You

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:38:20 -0500

Ernestina Valdez Mondragon. AP Photo

Actions Have Consequences

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:16:03 -0500

Arguing that this creep doesn't deserve the perks of leadership, CREDO and others are sending a petition to Congressional Democrats Wednesday calling on them to strip Lieberman, and any other senator who filibusters the public option, of his or her chairmanship. To help them reach 125,000 signatures, go here.

Amnesia Central: And We Can't Remember Why This Man Is Not in Jail

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:22:12 -0500

Just Say No

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:18:48 -0500

Your Inner Commando

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:10:59 -0500

Peace Is With Enemies

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:22:56 -0400

Truth-telling stickers from Israeli peace blog Gush Shalom. Actions and more here.

Demon Chocolate

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:49:20 -0400

"Everybody Is Supposed to be Equal In This Country"

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:07:25 -0400

Philip Spooner at the legislative hearing