The U.S. House of Representatives has committed to bringing single-payer healthcare to a vote following summer recess. Stranger things have happened, greater obstacles have been overcome, than what would be involved in winning that vote, winning in the Senate, and compelling the president to sign the bill. We have a moral responsibility to put everything [...]
In Japan, fishermen round up and slaughter hundreds and even thousands of dolphins and other small whales each year.
In the small fishing village of Taiji, entire schools of dolphins are driven into a hidden cove after a prolonged chase. Once trapped inside the cove, the fishermen kill the dolphins, slashing their throats with knives or [...]
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Despite Blue-Dog claims that a compromise they engineered Wednesday would trim $100 billion from the cost of health-care legislation, their weakening of the public option for insurance coverage could end up erasing those savings.
via Blue Dog Compromise Removes Billions In Savings From Public Plan.
Apple claims your freedom is just too dangerous. You might be a drug dealer! But it’s greed like Apple’s, which will stoop to the lowest kinds of threats to justify crippling everyone else’s potential with DRM, that we should be worried about.
via Apple says you can’t have freedom because you might be evil.
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Why, Planet O’Reilly — one of the moons of Planet Wingnuttia — of course. It’s a planet made of falafel, festooned with loofah trees, and populated by nubile blonde bimbettes who wanna do threesomes with Bill. And from this planet one can get a clear view of venal liberals who see everyone else as “stupid.”
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Yet if we had to have the “conversation” about the firefighting industry today, we’d have socialism-phobic South Carolina Sen. Jim DeMint on the TV every chance he could get saying things like, “Do you want a government bureaucrat between you and the safety of your home?”
Rep. John Boehner of Ohio would hold press conferences and [...]
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Healthcare-NOW! is an education and advocacy organization that addresses the health insurance crisis in the U.S by advocating for the passage of national, single-payer healthcare legislation. Right now, the National Health Insurance Act (HR 676) is the only legislation that will create a national, single-payer healthcare system. We see healthcare as a human [...]
The nation’s cellphone networks could suffer “potentially catastrophic” cyberattacks by iPhone-wielding hackers at home and abroad if iPhone owners are permitted to legally jailbreak their shiny wireless devices — that’s what Apple claims.
via iPhone Jailbreaking Could Crash Cellphone Towers, Apple Claims | Threat Level | Wired.com.
Millions of Americans are turning to the Internet to look for new jobs. But in many parts of the United States, public libraries are the only free provider of that crucial combo: a computer plus Internet access. This means that low-income job seekers depend on them when searching for employment. Oddly, as library development directors [...]
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Once again, progressives are back where we were with Bill Clinton, on the defensive in supporting issues that benefit a national community.
The selfish are again triumphing and using a wedge of confusion and fear to decrease support for meaningful healthcare reform.
That’s good for the GOP and the Blue Dogs; they can’t afford for Americans to [...]