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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

Part Two of Obama and the Stock Market: Democrats caused the Crisis.

Last week, I pointed out how people who were suggesting the continued decline in the Stock Market was somehow due to a lack of confidence in President Obama, had NOTHING to base their theory on. Instead, I pointed to reports of continued banking failures that began under President Bush were responsible for those declines (such as [...]

Myth Busting: Blaming Obama for the Continuing Stock Market Slide.

Hey all, I’m back. Long story short, an innocent mistake literally destroyed my computer (Super Bowl Sunday, I left my TV antenna cable on the ground still connected to my PC, surging raw power through my motherboard for over two hours, frying it, my HDTV card and one of my harddrives). Fortunately, when I’m not [...]

Myth Busting: Debunking the “WWII Ended The Great Depression” myth.

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Debunking the “Obama Recession” myth.

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