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Conservatism: Trashing Government on Its Way Out

By Terrance Heath
November 21st, 2008

I'm beginning to wonder if there's a single agency in the United States government that conservatives haven't left in worse shape than they found it. more »

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Tuning Out the Braindead Megaphone on Health Care

By David Sirota
November 21st, 2008

I don't know about you, but to me it feels pretty 1993 of late. more »

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VIDEO: HHS Chief Daschle Says States Will Play Major Role In Health Care Reform

By David Sirota
November 20th, 2008

There's been something of a debate about whether a universal health care system will come only from Washington, D.C., or whether it will involve state governments. more »

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Wash Post Re-Floats Possibility of Lame-Duck NAFTA Expansion

By David Sirota
November 20th, 2008

Glenn Greenwald long ago taught us why we should always look skeptically at the fact-free prognostications of the Washington Post's Steve Pearlstein. more »

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Mandate Watch: "Team of Rivals" Or Rival Team?

By David Sirota
November 19th, 2008

A quick lexicographic note: Seems to me the term "Team of Rivals" is the new euphemism for "bipartisanship," which unto itself has always been a synonym for "buypartisanship" (ie. bipartisan corporatism) and "Broderism" (the principle, championed by Washington Post columnist David Broder, that bipartisanship is an inherent virtue regardless of what it is in pursuit of). more »

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Health Insurance Premiums and the Stock Market

By Monica Sanchez
November 19th, 2008

If you ever wondered what the insurance companies do with our premium dollars other than pay out claims here is one answer: they invest our money in the stock market. When the market is good, these investments generate even bigger profits for them. When it’s not, it means higher premiums for us.

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Free Fall

By Robert Borosage
November 19th, 2008

"The era of big government is over" is over. A major recovery program—featuring substantial public investment—will be inevitably the first initiative of the Obama administration. It should feature more spending than tax cuts—investing in renewable energy and conservation, in rebuilding everything from schools to bridges to a smart electric gird, in helping cities and states avoid crippling cuts of services, in keeping college affordable, providing health care to children, and aiding those most in need.

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Mandate Watch: NAFTA Reform? Psych!

By David Sirota
November 18th, 2008

What do you do after a huge number of new swing-district Democrats win office promising to reform NAFTA? Apparently, if you are D.C. Democrats, you do this: more »

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Were Democrats Elected With a Mandate to Attack "The Left?"

By David Sirota
November 18th, 2008

Seems to me that House and Senate leaders have declared an all-out war on "the Left." In fact, "seems" is the wrong word. It doesn't "seem" like that. They are actually saying it explicitly. more »

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The Big Heist

By David Sirota
November 18th, 2008

In the slapstick classic Funny Farm, Chevy Chase ends up writing a novel called The Big Heist which is so bad - so painfully, terribly awful - that he ends up going insane and burning it in front of his horrified wife. more »

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