Archive for 'myth busting' Category

Republican to English dictionary

About a week ago, a Right-Wing caller into one of the major Progressive radio-shows I listen to called President Bush “a Liberal”. Saturday, one of my YouTube videos drew the same “accusation”. Of all the things George W. Bush was, “a Liberal” was not one of them. Liberals don’t view government as “evil”, but as a [...]

Putting the “Snowpocalypse” into perspective with maps

Recently, the Right-Wing echo chamber has been in a lather over record snowfall in the American North East, suggesting that it is “proof” of the nonexistence of “Global Warming”. Last week, I noted how famed Conservatives Sen. Jim Inhoff (R-OK), Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC), Sean Hannity and Sarah Palin are all giddy over how foolish [...]

Go ahead and laugh Republicans, but record snowfall IS from Global Warming.

Just a quicky.
The North East is currently suffering its THIRD blizzard in two months. Giddy conservative Global Warming deniers like Jim Inhofe (R-OK) were photographed building an “igloo” in his front yard with his grandchildren, mockingly calling it “Al Gore’s new home.” Sean Hannity of Fox “News” claimed on his show Monday night that the [...]

Myth Busting: “In Search Of…” 1970’s “Global Cooling” hype.

While Washington D.C. and the surrounding area attempts to dig itself out from under “The Snow-pocolypse”, Global Warming deniers are back at it again, pointing to it and the unusually blizzardly (pardon the new word) Winter we’ve been having… mixed in with last Falls “leaked Climate-Gate emails” as PROOF that “Global Warming” is actually a [...]

Debunking 8 Ridiculous Myths Against Healthcare Reform.

Saturday, the Senate passed its own healthcare reform bill, which will now go to Committee for melding with the House Bill into a single healthcare reform bill to be voted on by both houses of Congress. Just getting this far was a monumental task. It was passed in the House with only a single Republican [...]

Once again, Britain leads the way on health care

Special Edition

I‘ve been noticing a disturbing trend in the evolution of Health Care Reform in Congress. It seems to me that… as long as the final bill includes some kind of government run health insurance program, it would be a “victory” for healthcare reform… even if the only people that can sign up are the [...]

Conservative AHIP Says Republican Healthcare Solution Will Do Nothing to Lower Costs.

Back during the 2008 Presidential Campaign, Senator Obama and Senator McCain talked about how they would fix healthcare. While Senator Obama endorsed “the Public Option”, Senator McCain promoted the Republican “free-market” solution: “allowing insurance companies to compete across state lines”, presently restricted by Federal law, which would “increase competition and reduce prices”.
For nearly a year, [...]

Remembering the Bush’s Repeated Criticisms of CBS News

Pity threw a party and nobody came.  Last week, White House Communications Director Anita Dunn called Fox News, “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party”:
 

 
Fox then spent days whining about the “Obama Administrations’ attack upon Fox News.” Fox “News” Sunday spent a good portion of their show last week bemoaning the [...]

The Nobel Peace Prize, War, and The Generals Bush Replaced

Yes, the Nobel Peace Prize. And yes, I know, questions abound as to what was done to deserve it. You don’t have to say it.
Personally, I think the award should be for “accomplishments” not “expectations”, but one thing was mightily clear… the strongest explanation as to why President Obama received the NPP boils down to [...]

Global Warming will mean FEWER mid-Summer hurricanes, not more.

(It appears I need to forewarn new readers that the purpose of this weeks column is to highlight the potential for great damage to the environmental message by arguing a misconception as “fact”, and then having to listen to Conservatives use that assumption against you when it doesn’t come true. To be forewarned is to [...]

Overlooked Savings from Single-Payer Healthcare

Ask any Republican, “If you could pass a tax cut that saved the average American $10-$30,000 a year and the average corporation millions of dollars a year, would you do it?” What do you think their answer would be?
It’s harder to argue against a “Single-Payer” healthcare system when you phrase it in those terms, and [...]

Bush wanted to try Gitmo detainees in U.S. courts (video)

After reading another of Liz Cheney’s ridiculous assertions during her most recent “don’t convict my Daddy” tour, this time denying that President Bush ever suggested putting Gitmo detainees on trial in a U.S. Court of Law, I decided to hunt for video of the comment myself.
Since the stated objective of our YouTube page is “Recording [...]