All right, no more good speeches for a month.
Hardly did any work today. Instead spent the day reading dozens of diaries and hundreds of comments on DK, and following links (even the press seems to have recognized gold this time around, with the...
View ArticleBush vetoes farm bill
Bush has vetoed the farm bill, which also contained some modest help for middle- and low-income Americans. Here is the link to the the NYT articleThe reason he gave is that "the legislation is...
View Articlemy first experience with push-polling
Last night someone called to survey my opinion about politics. The man, who had an African-American accent (and who occasionally had difficulty reading the questions -- whether this reflected...
View ArticleRichard Cohen the tool
Somewhere in the bowels of a diary enthusing over the (very ambiguous) WaPo piece about "lack of evidence" for McCain's charges against Obama, there was a comment with a link to today's Richard Cohen...
View ArticleWhy this isn't 1993
I have read many diaries and comments to the tune ofKilling this bill takes health care reform off the table for at least another 15-20 years. andWatch when this bill fails. Then you will see a death...
View ArticleHelp make Medicare buy-in a reality
The sole purpose of this diary is to call attention to another diary - please go there and recommend it, and then pick up the phone and call your Congressional Rep and the Ways and Means Committe...
View ArticleSupport the Federal Research Public Access Act
A few weeks ago, the Research Works Act (RWA) was introduced in Congress. This legislation would forbid federal agencies from insisting that publications arising from research supported by their grants...
View ArticleHow Chase cheats ex-customers
Quick diary here as I'm on a deadline. I just came back from Chase where they reverted, with apologies, an incorrect (but hardly innocent) $10 finance charge they applied to an account I closed last...
View ArticleAn alternative to the Ryan budget
So I was browsing through the comment section of intrade's page on Obama's reelection, partly for amusement. There is a very intelligent commenter, supak, who schools the assorted wingnuts and Gary...
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