The 2009 Remote Area Medical (RAM) Expedition comes to the Virginia Appalachian mountains as Congress and President Obama wrestle with a health care overhaul. The event graphically illustrates gaps in the existing health care system.
The Hill, a “must read” newspaper for Washington policy makers, this week published a special edition on animal welfare for the first time in its 15 years of publication. It could not have been more timely, as hundreds of animal …
Robot Attacks Aren’t Just for Comedy . Balsta, Sweden (wikimedia)
The liberal-leaning coalition, an alliance of 1000 US congregations, is organizing an aggressive, in-district lobbying effort called No Recess for Reform during the month of August, when Congress is in recess. The Note, authored by ABC …
Tuesday, July 28, 2009. Games Politicians Play [John J. Miller].
As the global warming debate rages, Harry Fuller and Heather Clancy chronicle alternative energy start-ups, green data center projects and other high-tech and political developments shaping the green technology movement.
says that allowing cruelty to animals to continue will lead to the society-wide desensitization of violence and will ultimately have an adverse effect on Americans’ quality of life. Moran was speaking at a rally organized by the Humane …
Every time someone (okay, my oldest childhood friend who, despite years of my positive influence, only watches Fox News with her libertarian hubby) tells me how her insurance is fine and she doesn’t want Obama’s “socialist” healthcare …
This new ad being launched by White House allies, which blasts Republicans in Congress for blocking reform, is probably the most direct effort yet to link current GOP obstructionism to the successful scuttling of reform in the early …
Every day that goes by without a vote in the House or Senate on universal health care makes it less likely that major reform will occur, because (1) opponents have more time to stir up public anxieties about it; (2) Democrats in …