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The ITT List (Free subscription) | yesterday
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is determined to get a health care bill passed in the Senate by Christmas. This is a momentous time, as John Nichols writes in The Nation: ...Harry Reid has a health-care reform bill, and it is advancing. Indeed, with Saturday night's 60-39 Senate vote to open a historic debate on the measure, the movement humanize America's healthcare system -- which began almost...
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CommonDreams.org Headlines (Free subscription) | yesterday
by John Nichols President Obama plans to formally announce on December 1 his decision with regard to the request from some of his more ambitious generals for a massive troop surge in Afghanistan. But indications are that the president who was elected to set a new course for the nation when it comes to foreign policy will instead "stay the course" set by his quagmire-prone predecessor. read...
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Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Nichols measures Reagan's presidency according to the most recent litmus tests of the Republican party. You know the one -- a ten point "test" for Republicans that includes things like no amnesty for illegal immigrants, the anti-gay Defense of...
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Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
An RNC national committee member from Indiana, Jim Bopp and nine others, have proposed a resolution to not allow the national party to send money to candidates who do not meet eight of the ten party principles. Those principles include opposing abortion rights, opposing same-sex marriage, opposing the stimulus package and cap and trade bills and supporting surges in Iraq and Afghanistan and gun rights,...
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Talking to Myself (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
John Nichols at thenation.com reports that the Senate Health Bill Rejects Anti-Choice Extremes.
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The Star-Ledger (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
VINELAND — A false alarm warning students and staff at Cumberland County College of a “hostile intruder” on campus caused some fear and confusion at the school Tuesday.According to CCC representative John Nichols, a staff member intending to test the...
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Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
"...the bill as it is currently constructed could make a bad situation worse." Six Smart Progressive Complaints About House Health Bill posted by JOHN NICHOLS on 11/09/2009 The Nation The Affordable Health Care for America Act was approved by the U.S. House Saturday night with overwhelming support from progressive Democrats who serve in the chamber and from a president who was nominated and...
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democrats.com (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
David Swanson Book Event: "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union" New York City - December 1, 7:00 p.m. With Mark Crispin Miller. AND With John Nichols, author of the Foreword to "Daybreak". At McNally Jackson books. 52 Prince St. (b/t Lafayette & Mulberry) New York, NY 10012 212-274-1160
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Paul Soglin: Waxing America (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Dan Bice is reporting that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett will run for Governor next year, taking Paul off the hook well before his Thanksgiving deadline. Whew. Not that there wasn't a tidal wave of interest and debate here this last week over the possibility. After comrade John Nichols gave the "Soglin for Governor" campaign some Old Media traction, breathlessly...
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Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
It's not uncommon before presidents go on long trips abroad to try and signal that they haven't forgotten problems at home. So it's no coincidence that the White House announced a jobs summit on the eve of the president's trip to Asia, even before the dates of the summit are announced. Such summits can be gabfests but they can also be useful. Obama's summits on health care and deficit reduction helped...
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Daily Kos (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Given that a vast majority of Americans -- including southern Republicans -- want to see a new federal jobs bill, this is good news: Senate Democrats will take up a new job-creation bill in the wake of the 10.2 percent unemployment rate, Majority Leader Harry Reid told his colleagues Tuesday. Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) told The Hill that Reid (D-Nev.) made the announcement about a new jobs bill at the...
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American Power (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
From Phyllis Chesler, " Talking 'Bout Ft. Hood Terrorism on CNN: Pajamas Media vs. Nation Magazine ": Embedded video from CNN Video Last night I was on the The Lou Dobbs Show on CNN to talk about whether the Fort Hood massacre was or was not a terrorist attack. I’ve been writing about this very subject rather steadily right here . I was “facing off” on CNN with someone who...
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Paul Soglin: Waxing America (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
John Nichols takes the possibility seriously in the Cap Times today. Soglin is, after all, an able administrator with a flair for combining academic theories about public policy with hands-on management. As mayor, he hired exceptional administrators and earned a respect from city employees that meant they gave 110 percent. That equation kept the confidence of taxpayers, who paid in substantial revenues...
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The Rehearsal Studio (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yesterday I used my Chutzpah of the Week award to call attention to the nine Democrats in the House of Representatives who voted against health care reform in betrayal of their representation of a sizable portion of their electorate currently without any form of health insurance. Having done this, I should probably make it clear that, while those Representatives voted against the bill for being "too...
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CJR Daily (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
So The Nation--whose John Nichols, along with journalism professor Robert McChesney, is writing a book on the future of news--is jumping onto the Whence Journalism bandwagon. Through, in particular, convening a group of experts (whom it refers to, with refreshing honesty, as "media insiders")--"insiders" including Nichols, Dan Rather, Jane Mayer, Ana Marie Cox, David Schimke, Nick...
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