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Budget Monitor Says G.O.P. Bill Leaves Many Uninsured - Prescriptions Blog - NYTimes.com »
Posted by: deathray 5 days, 11 hours ago in Political News
A Republican alternative to the Democrats' health care plan may have limited impact, a report finds.
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Who Are You Calling a Narcissist, Rush? - Maureen Dowd - NYT »
Posted by: deathray 6 days, 11 hours ago in Political Opinion
Rush Limbaugh is more than just the face of the Republican Party. He’s also the mouth.
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Op-Ed: Help Small Businesses Hire Again - Mark Zandi »
Posted by: deathray 1 week ago in Business & Finance
THE Great Recession is over. The solid 3.5 percent gain in gross domestic product during the third quarter proves that the longest, broadest and ...
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Op-Ed: Too Little of a Good Thing - Paul Krugman »
Posted by: deathray 1 week, 1 day ago in Business & Finance
The good news is that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a k a the Obama stimulus plan, is working just about the way textbook ...
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How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash | McClatchy »
Posted by: deathray 1 week, 2 days ago in Business & Finance
WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but ...
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The G.O.P. Stalinists Invade Upstate New York! - Frank Rich »
Posted by: deathray 1 week, 2 days ago in Political Opinion
BARACK OBAMA’ S most devilish political move since the 2008 campaign was to appoint a Republican congressman from upstate New York as secretary of the ...
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YouTube - Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed) »
Posted by: deathray 1 week, 6 days ago in Arts & Entertainment
A musical tribute to two great men of science. Carl Sagan and his cosmologist companion Stephen Hawking present: A Glorious Dawn - Cosmos remixed. This really ...
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9 Signs of America in Decline - Rick Newman (usnews.com) »
Posted by: deathray 2 weeks ago in Political Opinion
While I don't necessarily believe that America is in decline, it's important to be aware of these issues with regard to making policy ...
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Op-Ed- Safety Nets for the Rich - Bob Herbert - NYT »
Posted by: deathray 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
The headlines that ran side by side on the front page of Saturday’ s New York Times summed up, inadvertently, the terrible fix that we ...
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"The Rock" Obama solves the health care reform issue - SNL »
Posted by: deathray 3 weeks, 1 day ago in Humor
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson made a special guest appearance on "Saturday Night Live" this week to reprise his role as "The Rock Obama."
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Goldman Can Spare You a Dime - Frank Rich - NYT »
Posted by: deathray 3 weeks, 2 days ago in Political Opinion
AT the dawn of the progressive era early in the last century, muckrakers attacked the first billionaire, John D. Rockefeller, for creating capitalism’ s most ...
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YouTube - Heat Fozzy »
Posted by: deathray 1 month ago in Humor
Official trailer for the greatest Muppet action movie EVER! I love Galacticast...
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Influence of Limbaugh, Beck is a Total Myth - Brooks - NYT »
Posted by: deathray 1 month, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Let us take a trip back into history. Not ancient history. Recent history. It is the winter of 2007. The presidential primaries are approaching. The ...
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Swiss Health Care Thrives Without Public Option - NYT »
Posted by: deathray 1 month, 1 week ago in Health & Fitness
ZURICH — Like every other country in Europe, Switzerland guarantees health care for all its citizens. But the system here does not remotely resemble the model ...
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Why Selling Insurance Across State Lines Would Screw Everybody »
Posted by: deathray 1 month, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
In delivering the Republican reply to the President’s recent joint-session speech, Charles Boustany of Louisiana offered the GOP plan, saying "Let's also talk ...
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