About That Family Planning Provision

First, it’s not dead: Women’s health advocates were dismayed this week to see the removal of family-planning aid from Congress’ economic recovery bill after a push by Republicans to politicize a generally cut-and-dry issue of Medicaid waivers. (Time has some good background here.) But the...

Is Obama playing chess with bankers, too?

And who’s winning? Let’s get straight to the point: instead of using TARP/bailout money to make loans and get the economy humming again, Banks are reportedly hoarding money to beef up their balance sheets, using TARP funds to pay out dividends and bonuses, or buying up smaller, sicker...

Army Suicide Rate At a New High

From the Associated Press: Stressed by war and long overseas tours, U.S. soldiers killed themselves last year at the highest rate on record, the toll rising for a fourth straight year and even surpassing the suicide rate among comparable civilians. Army leaders said they were doing everything they could...

Yank the Tax Cuts; Put Back the Family Planning

So here is the question: If an economic stimulus bill that has both tax cuts and job-creating government spending is unacceptable to the entire Republican House membership, then why keep the tax cuts in there? And if the family planning provision was pulled at the last minute because House Republicans...

Blagoneivich!

I just wanted to be the first to use that headline — the news itself is pretty predictable.  Poor Geraldo and his enormous porn ‘stache must be bummed. The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Scumdog Million-Hairs – Geraldo Interview Daily Show Full Episodes Funny...