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The New York Times continues its misuse of news articles to signal its disapproval of the public option, characterizing it as the “Next Hurdle in Health Debate,” and then describing it as no “greater obstacle” that is causing “deep divisions” in the Democratic Party. But the White House is telling us again it wants the public option gone.

Meanwhile… In its assaults on a Democratic health care overhaul bill, the insurance industry uses facts selectively and mixes accurate assertions with misleading spin and an embrace of worst-case scenarios. … PricewaterhouseCoopers, the financial analysis firm the insurance industry commissioned to write the report, issued a statement this week noting it had been asked to [...]

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Featuring new videos from Emily Rogers and Dead Man’s Bones with LA Inner City Mass Choir and The Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children’s Choir..

Throughout the history of our Great Nation, great heroes have struggled and suffered greatly against great injustice. Frederick Douglass. Harriet Tubman. Martin Luther King! But let us be honest. Let us be frank. Let us, frankly, be honest. Can it be truly and sincerely honestly frankly stated that any one lone single individual in the [...]

“When history calls . . .” we’d better hope Olympia Snowe is not the only one listening. Snowe was primarily responsible for weaking the stimulus, and now she’s in a position — because that’s where the White House wanted her — to do similar damage to health care reform.

Susan Collins had a malign influence on the stimulus package, demanding $100 billion in cuts arbitrarily, mostly to state fiscal stabilization, which crippled state spending and led to massive losses in government jobs at a time when the private sector isn’t hiring. Fresh off of Olympia Snowe’s vote for health care reform in the Senate [...]

There is a new “study” [PDF] out today, this time paid for by the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. It comes only days after the much talked about “study” from AHIP, and (surprise!) comes to very similar conclusions. The Blue Cross Blue Shield conclusion is that premiums would increase even faster with reform, unless we [...]

Now we know what it takes to scare the top Pentagon brass: photos.