How the White House's Deal With Big Pharma Undermines DemocracySource: Common Dreams
Let me remind you: Any bonanza for the drug industry means higher health-care costs for the rest of us, which is one reason why critics of the emerging healthcare plans, including the Congressional Budget Office, are so worried about their failure to adequately stem future health …

I ran across this today.

Chuck Devore is a conservative running for Barbra Boxer's US Senate seat in 2010. Chuck Devore spoke at the Pasadena Tea Party, as some of you may remember. Links below.
Fox coverage of "Tea Partys" critisizedSource: Yahoo! News
Nobody's covering the tea parties quite like Fox — and that's prompting critics and cable news competitors to say that the network is blurring the line between journalism and advocacy.."Fox appears to be promoting these events at the same time it is presenting them in a w …
Samajwadi Party vows action against English language, computersSource: Times of India
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, who unveiled his party's manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls here Saturday, said the party is
against English medium education and the use of computers and will work to ensure that they are curbed if a government is formed with i …

For anyone who is interested in great American Literature Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Is a must. In the midst of his compilation of works is a very interesting short story called Harrison Bergeron.

Life has not been convenient for Bangkokians since the PAD protests began. Streets shut down here and there cause traffic jams and added frustration to the already hectic lives of city dwellers. Thais as a nation don't like inconveniences. We don't like change.
A GOP Dirty Trickster Has Second Thoughts - The Daily BeastSource: Huffington Post
Is there some kind of mandatory community service program that could be implemented, so that the "regretful" GOP operatives can make it up to the rest of us? Their attempt to convey an apology and seek a bit of redemption is appreciated, but it is not enough.
How Obama did it.Source: CNN
A single factor never produces a complex event like the historic election of Barack Obama. But when the final post-mortem on the election of 2008 is someday written, it will no doubt include at least three.
Politically Incorrect? :: Grace to YouSource: www.gty.org
Nothing in the past half century has done more damage to the evangelical cause than the notion that the best way for Christians to influence society is by wielding our collective political clout.
Chamber of Commerce pushing for GOPSource: Wall Street Journal
They know better than to give the Democrats complete control. I'd rather have the endorsement of the Chamber of Commerce than all the Madonnas, Colin Powels, and Alec Baldwins rolled into one.

As of late many of my friends are expressing concern over who to pick in the upcoming presidential election.
'Retreat Is Defeat'Source: FOXNews.com
Getting to hear them all...Share a video of an interveiw with Palin....
Paranoid shiftSource: onlinejournal.org
Just before his death, James Jesus Angleton, the legendary chief of counterintelligence at the Central Intelligence Agency, was a bitter man. He felt betrayed by the people he had worked for all his life.
Wife blasted for keeping Edwards affair secretSource: CNN
Elizabeth Edwards isn't getting the steady sympathy usually afforded to a woman scorned.
Instead, she's faced criticism from dedicated Democrats who think she was too willing to keep the affair a secret to help John Edwards' political ambitions, as well as her own.