Senate Democrats, President lower figures for Health Care Reform

As the Health Care Debate is heating up, President Obama and Senate Democrats, have touted a lower figure of $611 Billion for Health Care Reform, over the next decade. Health Care Reform is intended to insure every...

NYS OCFS Commissioner Carrion responds to Renee Greco's murder

NYS Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS) Commissioner Gladys Carrion responds to Renee Greco's murder. The 24 year old youth counselor was bludgeoned to death on June 8th while working alone at Avenue...

Barak Obama's Anti-Christian View No Friend to Blacks, Church

     Since taking office, President Barak Obama and his allies in Congress have careened into the headlines and pummelled Republicans still reeling from defeat and dissent within their own...

Senator Eichelberger's comments incense LGBT Activists

Pennsylvania Republican State Senator John Eichelberger's comments incense LGBT activists. Eichelberger, who is sponsoring a Constitutional amendment to redefine marriage as between a man and a woman, made...

Would You Support "Public Option" if it Would Cause Hurricanes?

Voters Pressing Democrats to Pass a "Public Option" Cross-posted at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.The Washington Post reports that liberal voters and organized groups of voters and spending money advertising in the states of Democrats who have expressed public...

Pass Public Option in 2009 or Face Electoral Challenges in 2010

Cross-posted at the Public Option Health Care Now blog.As I read Ruth Marcus' absurd arguments in the Washington Post today against a public option for health care, and as I follow the debate in other articles doubting that a public option is politically feasible, I become...

US Congress Passes Historic Climate Change Bill

The United States Congress has passed the Climate Change Bill in a narrow 219-212 vote.Hailing the bill passage,US President Barack Obama described it as "a bold and necessary step".He looks forward to Senate...

The Politics of Fear

President Franklin D. Roosevelt said during his inauguration speech in 1933: " .... let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror...

Mainstream Media More Transparent, Reliable than DailyKos Blog

The Secret History of DailyKos' Founder and the Shadowy History of a Big Box Blog Cross-posted at the Francis L. Holland Blog and The Truth About Kos (DailyKos).Having written letters to the editor of newspapers, including one published in the Boston Globe, and having...

Supplemental Appropriations Act: Anti-War Democrats Voted No List

When it came to passing the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2009, the vote on June 16 was not even close among Democrats.  The final vote was 226 for, and 202 against, passing the act.The anti-war Democrats, who once touted Iraq and Afghanistan as "Bush's War,"...

Gay Democratic donors boycotting DNC fundraiser

Obama's broken promise has Gay Democratic donors boycotting a Democratic National Committee fundraiser to be held next Thursday, June 25th, because they are outraged by President Obama's legal brief filed last week...

Obama’s Health Care Reform Architect 'Would Not Be Upset’ If...

A health care reform plan developed by Dr. Jacob S. Hacker is, according to this article at The New Republic, widely considered the rough model for the reform plans many Democrats, including President Barack Obama, have embraced. If it winds up putting private insurers out of...

Thom Hartmann on Obama Pt2

Radio show host Thom Hartmann on progressives and the Democratic Party

CIA-Trained Blogger Disbursing Money to "Progressives"

Cross-posted at The Truth About Kos (DailyKos) blog. "Overseas Private Investment Council Press Release (Full Text)"Some of us have wondered what Markos C. Alberto Moulitsas Zúñiga (MAMZ) learned at the CIA during his two year "training" period there. SourceWatch.Org Covers...

Opponents to gay marriage call on NYS Senate and God

"The day will come when the hand of God shall use these people to take him out, out, out," said the Revered Miguel Rivera, president of the National Coalition of Latino Ministers, referring to Paterson's...

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