Healthcare A Huge Economic Decision or Simply a Fiscal Housekeeping Bill

Harry Reid would lead us all to believe that any health care reform bill is not a huge economic decision but rather just a fiscal housekeeping matter!

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There's more than one option when it comes to the public option.

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Is it possible that the public is warming to the idea of health-care reform? Researchers at the Kaiser Family Foundation say they have measured a shift in attitudes in a new Health Tracking Poll.

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Government involvement in alien-themed movies continues to the present day.

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Why Hospitals go broke! Single payer must happen! OBAMA!!

Without health care reform hospitals will continue to go bankrupt. Hospitals must treat people who show up in their emergency rooms. If it is life or death they must admit and treat until patient is stable. If the individual has no insurance the hospital does not get payed.

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The article is two pages long. If you prefer to view it on one page, with fewer graphics and no pop-up, clcik here.

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No woman has ever been governor of New Mexico, but there's a good chance that will change next year.

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Before you make a speech to the Muslim world.

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It's been eight years since the voting debacle in Florida exposed for everyone how precariously our ballots were counted and how we really could have no idea who had won in a close election.

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remember when Condoleezza Rice, perhaps the most disastrously inept national security adviser in history, snapped at a Stanford that the U.S.

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One of the most popular internet websites is classmates.com. It reconnects people from high school.   One Westside High School graduate has joined as the newest member but someone murdered Mary Cronin 17 years ago.   

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The indigenous people of Alaska have stood firm against some of the most extreme weather conditions on Earth for thousands of years. But now, flooding blamed on climate change is forcing at least one Eskimo village to move to safer ground.

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Rachel Maddow talks to former State Department lawyer under Condoleeza Rice, Philip Zelikow who says that the Bush administration attempted to destroy all copies of an alternative memo on interrogation techniques he wrote in 2005. [...]

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According to a 2009 demographics report created by istrategylabs.com, out of the approximately 42 million US Facebook users 19 million of them are between the ages of 25-55+.

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"There are some issues that simply should not be legitimated in any way, shape or form, and secession is one of them," said Ellis.

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Gordon Brown has played down reports of rifts with the Bank of England and between the EU and the US over the best way to boost the global economy. Speaking in the US, the UK prime minister said there was "far more agreement" than had been claimed.

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The "Tea Parties", of course, started springing up in response to Obama's stimulus package, a package whose largest fiscal component is a tax cut that will largely benefit the people in the income brackets who make up the Tea Party movement. That I find funny.

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A hush fell over the room as the watchmaker halted his work. A partially-dismantled pocket watch that once belonged to President Abraham Lincoln gleamed in his hands.

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Secretary of Transportation Ray Lahood hit back hard on Monday to charges from White House critics that President Barack Obama's economic policies -- focused on leveraging government spending to stimulate demand -- had exacerbated the recession and constituted a form of socialism …

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Dear Republican Leaders: The Republican Party has become the party dedicated to sabotaging the American future. Check out the sermon I just delivered about the Republican Party on CNN when being interviewed by D.L. Hughley -- and/or read on.

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The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people."

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In an interview, she also vividly recalled why, on her second day back on the bench, she attended President Obama's televised speech to a joint session of Congress.

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...marvel at five of the most promising future American leaders.

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I've seen a lot of dumb news reports in my life, but I'm not sure anything can quite match this one from ABC News.

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Limbaugh is the spiritual leader of a Republican party that has basically resigned itself to representing only aging white males. There are enough aging white males to make Rush still a very, very successful broadcast, but there are not enough of them to win the presidency.

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