3 days ago

Submitted by Kbondelli from Google Reader: Insane Arizona Rep. John Shadegg has some experience with kidnapping children, so he knows what these Muzzies are thinking: “I saw the mayor of New York said today, ‘We’re tough. We can do it.’ Well, Mayor, how are you going to feel when it’s your daughter that’s kidnapped at school by a terrorist?” We love the choice of “w (Read More)

4 days ago

Future Majority - - blogging progressive youth politics The Consequence Campaign has launched a new video and online organizing challenge where top organizers can win a trip to D.C. as representatives to leaders in Washington.When you sign up for the campaign, you begin by sending an email to your Senators. After that first action, you can earn points by recruiting more people t (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

Huffington Post On Sept. 12, 1960, presidential candidate John F. Kennedy gave a major speech to the Greater Houston Ministerial Association, a group of Protestant ministers, on the issue of religion. At the time, many Americans questioned whether Kennedy's Roman Catholic faith would allow him to make important national decisions as presid (Read More)

5 days ago

CNN Political Ticker (CNN) – As Democrats on Capitol Hill are trying to avoid a brewing intra-party battle over treatment of abortion in health care reform legislation, a top presidential adviser is reiterating that President Obama remains opposed to legislation that contains language preferred by more conservative Democrats in Congress.In an e (Read More)

6 days ago

Kevin Bondelli's YD Blog The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. is threatening to stop helping the city’s homeless population if the City Council legalizes same-sex marriage:Catholic Charities, one of dozens of nonprofits that partner with D.C. government, manages city-owned shelters that serve about one-third of Washington’s homeless populat (Read More)

7 days ago

Huffington Post Dear Senator Reid,I know you're in a tough spot. It would be bad enough if you only had to get Ben Nelson, Evan Bayh, Mary Landrieu, and Blanche Lincoln on board, but anyone who has to kiss Joe Lieberman's derriere deserves a congressional medal of honor.But Harry, you really need to take on future health-care costs. The Ho (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Submitted by Kbondelli from Google Reader: The following news may be depressing to those dreaming of working at at Apple’s new Upper West Side store in New York. You have been warned. At a press event today, Apple mentioned that 10,000 people submitted applications to work at the store, and a little over 200 actually ended up getting jobs. That’s an [...]. (Read More)

Nov 12, 2009

Daily Kos While Tom Coburn plays his procedural games, veterans are dying at the rate of six per day, according to a research team from Harvard Medical School. [A]n estimated 2,266 veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they did not have health insurance. That "translates to six preventable deaths per day" and more tha (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Kevin Bondelli's YD Blog The League of Young Voters has launched a new online action that enables young Americans who support reproductive rights to contact their Senators in opposition to anti-choice clauses in the final bill.“It was extremely painful for me to feel compelled to vote for a bill that contained that kind of restriction on a woman’s (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

The Hill Blog The Senate Finance Committee yesterday convened a hearing to consider the impacts to jobs in the United States that would result from approval of pending Read more... (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Huffington Post A correction was made to this article at 1:23 pm on Monday, November 9th. An earlier version contained an error in the name of Congressman Brad Ellsworth, (D-IN). Tonight, with the aid of some 60 Democrats, women's rights were effectively negated by the US Congress as the House passed the Stupak amendment to HR 3962, th (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

The Daily Dish Barney Frank sets one:Repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell” will likely be included as part ofnext year’s Department of Defense authorization bill in both chambersof Congress, Congressman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) said Wednesday.“Military issues are always done as part of the overall authorizationbill,” Frank said, insisting that (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Kbondelli from Google Reader: Chuck DeVore penned the most brilliant single paragraph for a campaign e-mail ever. It reads:Unlike many veterans, I have been fortunate not to see combat.  I was “officially” shot at only once; during the Los Angeles riots in 1992 (well, there was that time in Lebanon, but that wasn’t official; and I was carjacked in 1988 (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

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Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Kbondelli from Google Reader: It’s no secret massive waste pervades the health-care industry. Some of that waste stems from unnecessarily complex interactions between doctors, patients, and insurance companies. By making the entire process hospital care more efficient, we could help limit that waste. By using electronic medical records and streamlining (Read More)

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