Congress

As I review the comments over at other "liberal" blogs, I see a pattern of commentary from those that I think of as Puritans. There is a prescriptive trifecta to "cure all our ills" in the body politic: 1) More parties.  ...

The long debate over health care reform has now reached the end game, but there are still some obstacles to overcome before they can get a bill to President Obama's desk. The question now becomes how the two houses...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KkA29CvLzw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcCPlkw6dO0&NR=1 Now, as is often pointed out to me, Mr. Carlin is indeed  "just a comedian".  But so was Samuel Clemens.  His words carried no less weight with the American people than those of the most popular politician.  So forgive...

Terrorism is defined as, ""The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion." So is the GOP.

Rachel Maddow just mentioned and the AP feed here at The Planet also presents the story that the Senate Dems meeting on health care that just ended, the Medicare buy-in and the Public Option will be killed to get...

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  It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ~Thomas Jefferson   So here we are, about a week away from a huge decision.  Of course we've already delayed this "monumental...

Here's the audio for the trailer of the new horror movie (for the GOP), "Night of the Living Reform" NARRATOR: It was hacked into pieces! It was smothered alive! It was buried and left for dead! Now...it's b-a-a-ack!!! HOWARD DEAN: "When...

First, props to SueInCa for her brilliant article,  The Next Credit Bust – 2012? which inspired me to post this as a kind of companion article. For those who have expressed interest in GROW and/or focusing on addressing...