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Board to Death
Explaining Job-Creation to the Small Business Lobby
Dead Wrong
Mandatory Death Counseling--exposed!
Conservatives keep insisting that Obama and his allies want to force end-of-life planning on the elderly, so that it'll be easier to pull the plug on grandma when she gets sick. And the charge keeps sticking, even though the measure that conservatives are citing--section 1233 of the House health reform bill--does nothing of the sort. READ MORE >>
Kill Health Reform, Save Granny, And Stop The Nazis
Ed Kilgore is managing editor of The Democratic Strategist, a senior fellow at the Progressive Policy Institute, and a frequent contributor to a variety of political journals. READ MORE >>
Prophet Motive
This year, Nouriel Roubini, the economist known to the general public as Dr. Doom, Prophet of the Financial Apocalypse, spent the early hours of Mardi Gras on the floor of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. It was only 11 a.m., but the party was rollicking. Traders careened around the floor, hooting and honking, dressed as dragons and devils and convicts. Rock music roared overhead, and no one seemed to care that, by the bye, the market had tanked. READ MORE >>
Indefinite Detention Center
The Associated Press reported Monday that advisors to President-Elect Barack Obama “are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials.” This likely signals a major policy shift in the detention and trial of “enemy combatants” at Guantanamo Bay. But the AP’s conclusion that the proposal “would make good on [Obama’s] promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison” is premature. READ MORE >>
Objective?
The McCain campaign just sent out an email to supporters excoriating the New York Times for its "scurrilous attack against a great American hero." "Objective observers," the email says, "are viewing this article exactly as they should--as a sleazy smear attack from a liberal newspaper against the conservative Republican frontrunner." Listed among objective observers: "Washington attorney Bob Bennett, who was the Democrat counsel during the Keating investigation." READ MORE >>
Your Classy Bush Administration
Or: How the White House decides who gets jobs--from that great piece on torture in this morning's Times: READ MORE >>
