Media Matters has noticed that prominent members of the conservative media sure love using "rape" as a metaphor (note the number of times it's used to accuse progressives of "raping" their fellow Americans): [VIDEO "Why Are So Many Media Conservatives Obsessed With Rape?"]
The main reason we can't get a health reform bill enacted is because the pharmaceutical and insurance industries aren't happy with their piece of the action.
Hurry, hurry. There's no time for thinking; it's time to act. Washington's permanent war lobby has worked itself into a veritable lather. The proper Pentagon press leaks have been made, Op-Eds written, talk show commandos deployed.
What we're looking at right now is two things going on. We see the evangelical groups that I talk about in my new book, "Patience with God," enthralled by an apocalyptic vision that I go into in some detail there.
With Palin, what you see is what you get, and what you see in Going Rogue is a woman who is charming, passionate, loyal and patriotic. She is also self-absorbed beyond political norms, prickly, thin-skinned and just plain whiny. This is what stands out for me.
The New York Court of Appeals ruled today that government benefits may be provided to same-sex couples who are legally married elsewhere and residing in New York. The 4-3 decision, by the state's highest court, held that public officials have the authority to grant public emp …
Our government runs on budgets and this requires good forecasts about how much a federal program will cost over time. The Senate's health care reform bill passed last night and the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) forecasts a savings of $130 billion over ten years.
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Critics storm that health care reform is "a cruel hoax and a delusion." Ads in 100 newspapers thunder that reform would mean "the beginning of socialized medicine."
Most tea party protests against health care reform feature a standard cast of characters.
The weirdest children's book ever? It's a close run thing, between Katharine DeBrecht's first book – Help! Mom! There Are Liberals Under My Bed! – and her second: Help! Mom! Radicals Are Ruining My Country!
Democrats has not initiated any private discussions.