How Health Insurance Companies Spread Fear

Wendell Potter, a former CIGNA public relations head, is the master spinmeister, the man who invented most of the arguments against health care reform. Hear his views on the misinformation and outright lies that infect the debate like an unlanced boil.

Why are American lives worth less than the (former) Almighty Dollar?

Racism and Religion Gain Educational Ground in Texas

Two of this country's greatest men of the 20th Century, Chicano labor organizer Cesar Chavez and African-American Supreme Court Judge Thurgood Marshall, may be erased from Texas' approved school textbooks, used in the majority of public schools.

The excuse: neither were important enough to merit a mention in U.S. history. No word on whether the corrupt and immoral Bush Administration will get the boot. Historical revision sadly is now moral revisionism, deep in the heart of bigoted, irrational Texas.

"Patient Capitalism" Avoids Laissez-faire Rapaciousness

Free market capitalism one small step at a time.

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Competing Faiths in Wartime

The Baptist and the Mullah Launch a Faith-Based Attack on the Taliban from the Wall Street Journal grips the reader with the intensity of the cooperation between religious leaders who should by all accounts be sworn enemies.

If Baptist preachers and Muslim mullahs can cooperate in war, can they do so in peace?

Your Tax Dollars Master The Obvious

Cats can bend humans to their will. No kidding.

Another useless study -- screaming profanities relieves pain.

Other studies of note: sky is blue, grass is green, water is wet. How do I get a grant like that?

How To Know If You Hate Freedom

Via Daily Kos.

Surprised?

Why Randy Conservatives Don't Get Called to Task

"Thou shalt not commit adultery."

Simple, right?

Why can't the Christofascist Republican wing follow this rule? After all, they condemn homosexual marriage and supposedly follow the Bible to each letter.

Perhaps it is because progressives don't understand spiritual hypocrisy. Do as I say, not as I do is the new mantra of the most vociferous Bible thumpers the United States has ever seen.

Who Most Gains to Win From Health Care Reform -- Middle-Aged Married Women

Women would no longer have to fear for their health and economic well-being if health care reform is passed. [American Prospect]

Big Money Buys Crappy Health Care

Despite President Obama's pledge for "change," lobbyists funded by anti-consumer health conglomerates invade Washington, D.C. like a Biblical horde of locusts.

Wouldn't Jesus take the money and politics out of the debate? Innocents die while the modern day robber barons desperately cling to their part of the spoils, subsequently used to bribe the next generation of politicians.

Honduras, We pray for you

"More combat planes, missiles and soldiers won't provide additional bread for our families, desks for our schools or medicine for our clinics. All they can do is destabilize a region that continues to view armed forces as the final arbiter of social conflicts." - Oscar Arias Sanchez, president of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize winner,from his Washington Post op-ed on July 9, 2009