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Congratulations Glenn - Keith's Special Comment

Congratulations, Glenn Greenwald.  Glenn Greenwald challenged both Barack Obama and Keith Olbermann over this FISA legislation.  The bottom line, as Glenn pointed out, was that Barack Obama stood...

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The Errington Thompson Show 7-5-08

The Errington Thompson Show is a progressive political talk show that airs on 880 AM (streaming) from the beautiful mountains of Asheville, NC on Saturday's at 9 am EST.  Today, we are talking with...

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Anheuser-Busch and the loss of middle America

This Bud isn't for you. I understand that the board of directors of a corporation is only responsible to it shareholders but it seems to me that there must be more.  Anheuser-Busch was recently sold to...

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Update: Sarah Palin fumbles the ABC News softball

No matter what you think Gov. Sarah Palin, no matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat, you have to say that her overall performance in her exclusive ABC interview with Charlie Gibson, was...

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Supply-side Economics Never made any sense

As we see the collapse of Wall Street, AIG, Bear Stearns, Merrill Lynch, Washington Mutual and Lehman Brothers, we all must wonder what happened.  We have been told that our economy was strong.  Yet...

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Black man begs McCain to bring up Ayers

I thought it was odd that a Black man would stand up in a McCain rally.  This guy is in the front row.  So, was he just lucky?  I doubt it.  This SOB is a radio talk host on the conservative WTMJ 620...

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Your toolkit to exit polls and election fraud (audio)

This is an excellent interview I had with Steven Freeman back in 2006, just before the mid-term elections. Steven Freeman holds a Ph.D. from MIT's Sloan School of Management and is one of the nation's...

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A few thoughts on Plaxico Burress

Plaxico Burress.  Plaxico Burress, star wide receiver for the world champion New York Giants, turned himself in to authorities today after accidentally shooting himself in the leg Friday night at a...

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Hillary, it's time to be great.

Eight years ago, when many in the US thought that it really didn't matter who was president and that the country could run on automatic pilot, George Bush was elected. At the time, he was thought to...

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A little snow and we are stuck in a nightmare of deregulation

I'm sitting at the Asheville Airport, waiting for my 9:45 am flight to leave. Currently the time is 11:15 am. My gripe isn't that snow has caused air traffic on the East Coast to grind to a halt....

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Serious Health Care Reform - Part 1 (updated)

I'm still waiting for the debate to start.  When are we, as Americans, going to get this debate started. Dem From CT has tried. He has posted some thoughtful information and questions on Healthcare....

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Serious Healthcare Reform - Part 2 (Goals)

So, what are the goals of health care reform?  Some believe that the goals are just to rearrange the deck chairs.  In my mind, we're sailing on the Titanic.  Therefore, rearranging the deck chairs is...

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Justice David Souter to Step down - now what?

Reality is completely strange and unpredictable. President Barack Obama is juggling 10 or 15 major crises. Now, there reports that Justice David H. Souter plans on retiring. At age 69, Souter is far...

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Serious Healthcare Reform (Part 3): Single payer? Not really.

(H1N1 flu update - here) Had I written this only a couple of days ago, I would have been arguing for a single-payer system. I like the simplicity of a single-payer system and I like the fact that...

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Serious Healthcare Reform - Starting from Scratch

After getting blasted a month ago, I went back to the drawing board.  I read and read some more on Healthcare Reform.  I watched the Bill Moyer's Journal from a couple of weeks ago. I read and read...

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Serious Healthcare Reform -- Roadblocks (Update)

It's time that everybody realizes that there is a reason that we don't have universal health care already. There are powerful forces that like healthcare just the way it is. Everybody has been talking...

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Serious health-care reform: consumer health cooperatives are not serious...

It seems like if I don't curse in the title nobody reads my posts.  What's up with that? Maybe I've missed something, that's possible I've been working very hard lately (I'm a trauma surgeon). Could it...

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Conservatives cry foul over ABC infomercial

An editorial from Friday's Investor's Business Daily states that, "ABC crosses the line from journalism to advocacy in turning its coverage of health care over to the White House."  The Drudge Report...

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On healthcare -- Riddle me this Batman, why do we need trillions more?

Everyone is talking about throwing trillions of dollars at healthcare.  Look, as a trauma surgeon, I am happy to make more money.  You can throw as much money in me as you would like.  What many people...

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Serious healthcare reform -- 3 Americas and the real reason for reform

I'm a real trauma surgeon though I wish I played one on TV. Over four years ago Sen. John Edwards during a debate with Darth Vader VP Dick Cheney talked about the two Americas. When Sen. Edwards ran...

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