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Friday, October 9, 2009
Keith Olbermann Makes a Heartfelt Call to Action on Health Care Reform
(1 comments) Every American should watch Keith Olbermann's Special Comment from yesterday and wonder along with your neighbor and your neighbor's neighbor how our country got so horribly off course. I will continue to fight for health care reform for all my fellow citizens and for my friend Doug Johnson may he rest in peace.

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Harkin Says the Votes are There for the Public Option to Pass in the Senate
Democratic Senator Tom Harkin from Iowa, who took over as the chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee from the late Ted Kennedy, made a stunning and confident statement that he can find the votes to pass a public option in the Senate.

Thursday, September 10, 2009
Obama Bites Back
Despite members of his own party all but counting the Public Option dead in the water only 24 hrs earlier, Obama did not back down and took on the lies and propaganda head on and pledged that after 100 years we would finally have regulation and oversight on an unfettered health insurance industry.

Friday, September 4, 2009
AFL-CIO, Dems push new Wall Street tax by Alexander Bolton
(1 comments) AFL-CIO, Dems push new Wall Street tax that would entail a 1/10 of 1 percent transaction tax on every stock trade. I had heard this proposed earlier this year and this brilliant idea appears to be gaining some traction. This article lays out a compelling arguement why this would be a win-win for everyone but the top 1%.

Saturday, June 27, 2009
Health Insurance Money Leads Directly to the Senators Against the Public Option Plan
(1 comments) The following Senators Kent Conrad (D-ND), Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Max Baucus (D-MT), Ben Cardin (D-MD), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Ben Nelson (D-NE) and Blanche Lincoln (D-AR) need to be reminded of who they are working for. And if they cannot listen to the voice of the people and only listen to the voices of lobbyists and big corporate money then they need to be removed from office.

Friday, June 26, 2009
Progressives Convince Arlen Specter to Support Public Option Plan
Since Arlen Specter's switch to the Democratic party it has been unclear where his loyalties truly lie. And progressives and loyal Democrats have certainly not given him a free pass and they are challenging him to prove he wants to be in the Democratic party. It looks like he may be answering that challenge by now saying he will support the Public Option Plan in the upcoming health care reform.

Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Carter says Gaza Palestinians treated like animals
Not that this isn't telling us something we don't already know but when are people going to wake up and realize there will never be peace as long as Palestinians are trapped in basically a concentration camp and being deprived of the basic human necessities of food, water, shelter and the ability to be educated and employed. Until someone finds a way to change this there will NEVER be peace.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009
The GOP Plans to Protect Health Insurance Executives and the Current "For Profit Healthcare" System
(3 comments) Mike Allen at Politico has intercepted a new Republican playbook by strategist Frank Luntz that lays out the Republican talking points to defeat Obama's healthcare reform and maintain the status quo and the enormous profits that are going to the Health Care Insurance CEO's by denying coverage to patients, denying payments to doctors and denying claims.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
BREAKING NEWS: Senator Arlen Specter to Switch Parties and Become a Democrat
Sources on Capital Hill say Senator Arlen Specter from Pennsylvania will switch his party affiliation from Republican to Democrat.

Friday, December 19, 2008
Al Franken Takes His First Official Lead, Up on Norm Coleman by Over 150 Votes
(1 comments) A slew of legal battles have all gone in Franken's favor and it is becoming apparent that the Coleman campaign made many more frivolous ballot challenges than the Franken campaign. This obscured the larger than expected lead that Franken has now achieved on Coleman. It appears, minus an all out election challenge, that Al Franken will be the next U.S. Senator from the great state of Minnesota.

Monday, December 8, 2008
Supreme Court Declines to Take Up Frivolous Obama Citzenship Issue
(3 comments) The Supreme Court has turned down an emergency appeal from a New Jersey man who says President-elect Barack Obama is ineligible to be president because he was a British subject at birth. The Supreme Court flatly rejected the call by Leo Donofrio of East Brunswick, N.J., to intervene in the presidential election.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Ballots go missing in Minneapolis hurting Al Franken's Chances
133 ballots have gone missing in the dinkytown area of Minneapolis, a heavy University of Minnesota student area that went to Al Franken about 2-1. Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight.com has done some interesting analysis on this.

Friday, November 28, 2008
Media Begins the Assault on Instant-Runoff Voting to Minimize 3rd Party Candidate Influence
(3 comments) The Minneapolis Star and Tribune has published a pure propaganda piece in my opinion describing how difficult a hand-recount would be using Instant-Runoff Voting (IRV). Keep in mind the Stribe endorsed Republican Norm Coleman and has been moving to the right for years now. They purposefully leave out the obvious fact that had IRV been used a clear winner would have already been determined.

Friday, October 24, 2008
McCain Communications Director May Have Helped Propagate the Pittsburgh Race-Baiting Hoax
McCain's Communication's director apparently was helping fuel the initial Ashley Todd story and providing additional incendiary information to a local news station in Pittsburgh. John Verrilli, the news director for KDKA in Pittsburgh, told TPM Election Central that McCain's Pennsylvania campaign communications director gave one of his reporters a detailed version of the attack.