Three days ago, Senator Jim DeMint was asked whether people have a right to health care. He responded: I think health care is a privilege. I wouldn’t call it a right. Today, RNC Chairman Michael Steele published an opinion piece in the Washington Post, introducing the Republican Party’s new “Seniors’ Health Care Bill of Rights”. […]
A federal judge has ruled that while consumers have a right to make a backup copy of a DVD for their own personal use, nonetheless, software to actually make that backup copy is illegal. According to US District Court Judge Marilyn Hall Patel: The court appreciates Real’s argument that a consumer has a right to […]
There are now 3,300 registered lobbyists working on the current overhaul of the nation’s health care system, which means that the health care lobbyists outnumber members of Congress (including the Senate) by over six to one. These lobbyists represent over 1,500 organizations (with three more organizations joining the fray each and every day). These organizations […]
A county judge in Lubbock, Texas has caused a kerfuffle for posting anti-Obama notices on the courthouse wall. Actually, they are more about Obama T-shirts, but they are pretty offensive nonetheless. One notice is a fake diary entry: Let’s see here. I need to shower, shave, eat some oatmeal (it keeps my cholesterol down), put […]
Most of us know the propaganda technique called “The Big Lie” (which, as Hitler put it, is a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously”.) But I think that the health care debate has gotten to The Even Bigger Lie, which is […]
In a bizarre twist to the ongoing reality inversion, where blacks and latinos are now the ones who are racist, the Boston Police officer who called Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates a “banana-eating jungle monkey” and said he would have sprayed Gates in the face with pepper spray, has filed a lawsuit against the police […]
A woman objecting to health care reform at a democratic congressman’s town hall introduces herself as just a “concerned mom”, and claims she is not affiliated with any political party. Turns out, she was vice-chair of the county GOP until 2008, worked in the campaign for the congressman’s opponent, and on her online resume claims […]
Jon Stewart points out the obvious hypocrisy of Fox News:
In his Congressional testimony, the CEO of a health insurance company said: Rescission is rare. It affects less than one-half of one percent of people we cover. As you probably already have learned, rescission is the insurance company practice of refusing to pay for health care because they found an (even unrelated) mistake on your […]
The Skip Gates arrest story has an interesting new twist. Apparently, a Boston policeman and member of the Massachusetts National Guard was upset enough about the whole situation that he wrote an email to the editor of the Boston Globe. This is what he had to say about Professor Gates: If I was the officer […]
Whether or not you believe the stock market is a zero-sum game, it is frustrating when you see someone being given an unfair advantage. After all, markets are only open and efficient when everyone has the same information — this is the reason that insider trading is illegal. So it is height of hypocrisy that […]
Sarah Palin, a professional politician with a 17 year career, who recently dissed professional politicians, a creature who was largely created by the right-wing media, but likes to blame everything on the media, has resigned. Of course, even though she saw nothing wrong with spending lots of campaign money on clothes, and raising political money […]
Congress is saying that they can’t finish up health care reform before they go on vacation in August. To put this in perspective, what will happen while Congress is on vacation for three weeks? 143,250 people will lose their health insurance coverage. 53,507 people will be forced into bankruptcy because they can’t pay their medical […]
It was bad enough when Goldman Sachs decided to pay out huge bonuses to its top employees, when it wasn’t so long ago that we were bailing them out. But banks are generally now doing well. The exception to this is Morgan Stanley, who just announced their third quarterly loss, and even admitted that it […]
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