The whole enchilada — health care, climate change and the economy

So packaging it all into one massive vote: Taking on energy, climate change, health care and the economy. Why does it seem to elude so many people that these issues are interconnected? Working-class Americans have been increasingly taking on the burden of insurance premiums. And premiums have been rising...

This Is Why We Need the Employee Free Choice Act

Robert Eshelman at Alternet reports that some employers are using the dire and worsening unemployment situation as a weapon against workers who are terrified of losing their jobs: The mainstream media has generally sketched a picture of a labor market in which, under the pressure of an economic meltdown,...

Gov. Sanford, You Are Not South Carolina

“South Carolina does not want ‘stimulus,’ ” Mark Sanford tells us. But Mark Sanford is not South Carolina. He is a right-wing Republican with a $3.5 million home who’s got his eye on the next presidential election in 2012. Meanwhile, the other 4.5 million South Carolinians are...

The “Middle Eastern Mentality” and Nazism

These two articles are both linked from Memeorandum at the moment. In the “More Items” section, Think Progress reports that on the G. Gordon Liddy radio show yesterday,  Liddy compared prisoners at Guantanamo to Nazis, and Republican Sen. James Inhofe, from Oklahoma, answered that they are worse...

More on IDF Soldiers’ Accounts of Civilian Killing in Gaza

Amos Harel has another piece in Haaretz about the revelations, by IDF soldiers who graduated from a pre-military training program in Israel, of massive disregard for civilian life in Gaza. The article quotes extensively from the transcript of the meeting where the soldiers talked about what they had...