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Sen. Sherrod Brown joins Republicans in demanding that Congress go on 'public option,' too
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Whenever Democrats talk about their proposed federally backed insurance plan, or public option, in the ongoing health-care debate, critics pipe up. If you think this public option is so great, they say, why don't you demand that all members of Congress go on it, too? Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown says that's a fine idea. And this morning, he forced his way onto a Republican amendment saying as much, becoming a co-sponsor of a Republican protest measure that would require Congress to go on the public option if it passes. Fact is, Republicans pushing the amendment are using it as a form of rotten eggs to hurl at their opponents. But Brown, a key sponsor of the public option legislation, likes those eggs. Brown has refused to participate in the government's array of health insurance plans for 17 years, saying they are more generous than the coverage choices that many other Americans get. Why should Congress get such sweet coverage? he asks.
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Bank lobby lashes out at credit unions
5 minutes ago · The nation’s biggest bank lobby sent Democratic leaders a letter Friday lashing out at credit unions for seeking to expand their lending authority to improve the economy. In a lengthy letter to Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.), the American Bankers Association (ABA) urged lawmakers not to increase the amount of money credit unions may lend. ABA and 56 state and regional bank lobbying associations said lawmakers should “op
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Adam Schweitzer, father of Montana's governor, dies at age 89
10 minutes ago · Adam Schweitzer, the father of Gov. Brian Schweitzer, died Friday at the age of 89. A lifelong farmer and rancher who kept working into his 80s, Adam Schweitzer died in Helena of natural causes, the governor said. ... The governor described his father as a hardworking businessman with little formal education but a knack for organizing and for modernizing his ranching practices. German was his first language and he learned English only after going to school. Adam Schweitzer finished the
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Baucus Nominated Girlfriend for U.S. Attorney
1 hour ago · Baucus Nominated Girlfriend for U.S. Attorney By John Stanton Roll Call Staff Dec. 4, 2009, 10:32 p.m. Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus’ office confirmed late Friday night that the Montana Democrat was carrying on an affair with his state office director, Melodee Hanes, when he nominated her to be U.S. attorney in Montana. According to a source familiar with their relationship, Hanes and Baucus began their relationship in the summer of 2008 – nearly a year before Baucus and his wife,
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Bin Laden 'seen in Afghanistan in early 2009'
1 hour ago · By Orla Guerin BBC News, Islamabad A Taliban detainee in Pakistan claims to have information about Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts in January or February of this year. His claims cannot be verified, but a leading American expert says his account should be investigated. The detainee claims to have met Osama Bin Laden numerous times before 9/11. He claims that in January or February he met a trusted contact who had seen Bin Laden about 15 to 20 days earlier in Afghanistan.
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Pakistan slams US drone-attack plans
1 hour ago · Pakistan slams US drone-attack plans Friday 04 December 2009 by Tom Mellen Islamabad slammed US plans to expand drone attacks into Baluchistan on Friday, warning that they would serve to further destabilise the country. On Thursday, the New York Times reported that US President Barack Obama, a Nobel peace laureate, has authorised an expansion of remote-controlled air strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas. And the paper cited unnamed officials as saying that US and Pakistani officials
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US-Russian nuclear agreement expires
1 hour ago · The US and Russia have failed to finalise a new agreement to reduce their nuclear weapons arsenal before the existing treaty expired. For months, officials from the US and Russia have been negotiating a new strategic arms reduction treaty. The plan was to have it finished and signed by the two countries' presidents before midnight on December 4, the expiry date of the first START agreement, which had been in place since 1991.
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House Homeland Security Committee faces ethics inquiry
1 hour ago · At a hearing in late March, the nation's credit card companies faced the threat of expensive new rules from an unlikely regulator: the House Homeland Security Committee, chaired by Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.). The committee had never before dealt with credit card issues, but Thompson warned Visa, MasterCard and others that Congress might need to impose tighter security standards costing millions of dollars to protect customers from identity theft. Behind the scenes, some of Thompson's s
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Student fatally stabs Binghamton University professor
2 hours ago · VESTAL -- A longtime Binghamton University anthropology professor was stabbed to death inside a BU science building this afternoon. Campus police have a male suspect in custody, but had not charged him as of 5 p.m. Professor Emeritus Richard T. Antoun, 77, of Vestal died Friday afternoon after being taken to Wilson Hospital in Johnson City, where he was rushed after being attacked inside BU’s Science 1 building. - Snip - Antoun was stabbed four times with a 6-inch kitchen blade inside a
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Excellent! Burns tops write-ins for NYC mayor (25)
2 hours ago · ‘Simpsons’ nuclear power tycoon outpolls Derek Jeter, Sleeping Beauty Excellent! Fictional cartoon millionaire Charles Montgomery Burns scored the most write-in votes for mayor of New York, collecting 25, according to Board of Elections data. Close to 300 votes in last month’s election were write-ins, just a small fraction of the 1.1 million votes cast. Derek Jeter of the New York Yankees was the only athlete on the list, but he declined to comment when the News asked whether he will have
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Obama Says No to Creating Jobs through Legalizing Drugs, Gambling or Prostitution
3 hours ago · ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: As President Obama prepares to formally announce ideas on Tuesday for a new jobs bill, one thing that won't be on the list to spur job growth: legalizing prostitution, gambling, drugs and non-violent crime. Prompted by a rather bizarre question from a Sophomore at Lehigh Carbon Community College who wanted to know – based on his criminology course studies – if the President has considered legalizing prostitution, some drugs, and releasing non-violent offen
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Dec 04 · Before we get to all of that boring political stuff, we tune in to what the mainstream media has decided is the official Thing Everyone Should Be Talking About This Week. I refer, of course, to Tiger Woods. Woods, as we all know by now, had an altercation recently involving, in whatever mix you choose to believe: (1) an SUV, (2) a fire hydrant, (3) a tree, (4) his own driveway, (5) a golf club (how perfectly apropos!), and (6) his wife. Of course, there may have been a (7) or even (8) involve
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Dec 04 · (1)“As I have already told you, if at times we seemed to prefer justice to our country, this is because we simply wanted to love our country in justice, as we wanted to love her in truth and in hope.” – Albert Camus I've found myself reading through “Make Gentle the Life of This World,” which is selections from Robert F. Kennedy's private journal from the 1960s, edited by his son Maxwell. In a curious way, the book details the progression of RFK's thinking, as he evolved from the hard-nosed A
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Dec 04 · Erik Prince points to a not-so-pretty picture. This guy is connected every way to dominionist Sunday, turning his start-up Blackwater into a no-bid billion dollar federal contractor that "somehow" morphed into America's Murder Inc. Of course, DU was on to his mixing patriotism and profits more than two years before Corporate McPravda. The great DUer seafan, for starters, a couple years back, noted: Oliver North vs Erik Prince: Different decade, same attitude. The great
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Dec 04 · One reviewer in the 90s said that "In folksy, friendly style, 'To Train Up a Child' offers techniques that promise to yield happy and obedient children. This promise is a holy grail to tired, frustrated and often isolated parents, who are told that their anger will be eliminated when they follow techniques that produce 'immediately obedient' children. The book also appeals to parents' concern for their reputation -- happy, obedient children will save Mom and Dad the public embarrassment of havin
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Dec 04 · Afghanistan: The Betrayal Garry Wills NYR I did not think he would lose me so soon—sooner than Bill Clinton did. Like many people, I was deeply invested in the success of our first African-American president. I had written op-ed pieces and articles to support him in The New York Times and The New York Review of Books. My wife and I had maxed out in donations for him. Our children had been ardent for his cause. Others I respect have given up on him before now. I can see why. His
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Dec 04 · Not only was the United States inflicted with televised GENOCIDE by the unelected, criminal, negligent Bush/Cheny administration, which used the reconfigured, post 9-11 FEMA under the Homeland Security Department and the predicted levee failure courtesy of the Army Corps of Engineers, to intentionally fail to save the disenfranchised left behind in the flooding, while not notifying local authorities that they knew the levee had already broken, the Blackwater mercenaries were working for the XeIA
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Dec 03 · Our democracy has been greatly injured and continues to be endangered by numerous factors that I and many others have discussed on DU, including the role of , a , , , and that exert their influence out of the view of the public. There is much overlap between these various anti-democratic forces, and they reinforce each other. In this post I discuss another anti-democratic process, which is much less discussed than the others: plurality voting. Plurality voting – the system of voti
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Dec 03 · From the Star Tribune: Minnesota's charter school movement, which sparked a national rethinking of public schooling nearly two decades ago, has been infected by an out-of-control financing system fueled by junk bonds, insider fees and lax oversight. State law prohibits charter schools from owning property, but consultants have found a legal loophole, allowing proponents to use millions of dollars in public money to build schools even though the properties remain in the hands of private
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Dec 03 · In every village of the kingdom the heralds would cry out the news. And always it would be the same news from every herald who wore the purple sash. But other heralds would cry out different news, crazy news, news that wasn't news at all. The royal heralds got their news from the king's palace, which is why they all cried out the same news at the same time. The other heralds told about the inner workings of the palace as well, but it was clear they did not know what they were saying.
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Dec 03 · George's short-lived fantasy of taking over the party and remolding it in his own image had withered and died in the five short months since Miami. Now the old boys were back in charge. Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 Tell me about it. I’ve been a U.S. citizen for 50 years. That is half a century of disillusionment with all our presidents, including the ones who belong(ed) to my party. Jack Kennedy started it back in 1963 by getting killed. It was the
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Dec 03 · This holiday season, DU members can purchase "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring & Activity Book," and have it SIGNED BY THE AUTHORS, Micheal Stinson (Symbolman on DU) and Julie Sigwart (Demobabe)! And as a bonus, a portion of the purchase price goes to support Democratic Underground! A great gift for all the liberals on your holiday list! Also makes a great gag gift for Teabaggers! Articles and reviews of "Going Rouge: The Sarah Palin Rogue Coloring &
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Dec 03 · “What makes a man can also be what breaks a man.” -Anonymous Up until the Wednesday before Thanksgiving of 2009 I had a friend named Jack. Jack is not his real name, but it will suffice to protect his identity out of respect for family and friends who may by happenstance see this essay. It is a shame, if necessary, to do this; he deserves to have his story told with his own name. He was a good man who simply found he couldn’t face another day faced with the poker hand that fate threw his way
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