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Upgrades for 2010!

January 7, 2010

We are in the process of making some changes to this website. We wanted to make it real easy for you to find the latest podcast, and to access our blog posts. My resolution for the New Year is to post here several times a week, in addition to fresh podcasts. Soon, we are launching [...]

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One Small Step for Better Health Care; One Giant Step Backward for Choice

November 10, 2009

I’m not very excited about the health insurance reform that squeaked through the House last Saturday night. There are a few morsels in those 2,000 pages, like striking pre-existing conditions from the list of reasons for denial of coverage. But with coverage mandates, $400 billion in subsidies and a teeny weeny public option (designed to [...]

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A Letter to the Governator

November 4, 2009

Dear Arnold, You sure showed Tom Ammiano how clever a governor can be. Sure, he shouldn’t have called you a liar (even though it’s true) or told you to kiss his gay ass, and you shouldn’t have been at that Democratic fundraiser in San Francisco anyway—but your pal Willie Brown invited you and since you’re [...]

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I talked to Van Jones today

October 8, 2009

So I went to my contact database to look up Van Jones’ phone number. Turns out we last spoke one year ago today. I left a message on his cell, and, as is common, he returned the call before he heard my message. I invited him to do an interview, and he politely declined for [...]

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Fox/Beck Win Dirty as Van Jones is Thrown Under the Bus

September 6, 2009

The resignation of Van Jones is a defining moment, a very negative one, for the Obama administration. Jones is the victim of the corporate-funded media mob that’s constantly convened at Fox News.  My email box was peppered with anti-Jones screeds in the last two weeks, sliming him as a black revolutionary, foul-mouthed, and un-American because [...]

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