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ACORN-Flavored Communist Exposed in St. Louis

November 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

It was a good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee when Charles Jaco asked why Tea Partiers call their opponents socialists, writes Jim Durbin in a piece today at the 24th State blog.  The resulting outrage wouldn’t have been good for my carpet or couch.  We call our political opponents socialists and Marxists, because they call [...]

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Welcome, Pajamas Media Readers!

November 17th, 2009 · No Comments

A big welcome to those of you who found this site via my just-published piece, Health Care Confab Plots Single-Payer Strategy, at PAJAMAS MEDIA.
To read more about my weekend in the “belly of the liberal beast (i.e., the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis),” click here.  You’ll find several posts that [...]

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NOW President O’Neill Slams Catholic Bishops

November 16th, 2009 · 2 Comments

Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, accused Catholic bishops of “smelling blood” and deciding to get involved as backers of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment.  She added that their actions to remove abortion coverage from health care legislation recently approved by the U.S. House of Representatives equates to overturning Roe v. Wade.
Of course, O’Neill [...]

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Single-Payer Advocate Says White House Lost Debate on Government-Run Health Care

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Michael Lighty, the former national director of the Democratic Socialists of America who now serves as public policy director of the ultra-liberal California Nurses Association, spent 10 minutes Saturday afternoon addressing a group of roughly 100 single-payer health care advocates in St. Louis for the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference.
In addition to talking strategy, tactics [...]

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Single-Payer Advocates Told to ‘Get Arrested’

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

Sometimes experience speaks volumes.  Such is the case when it comes to Tim Carpenter.
The fifth of six speakers who addressed the 2009 Healthcare-Now.org National Strategy Conference Saturday afternoon in St. Louis, Carpenter’s resume includes having served on the team that managed the unsuccessful 2008 presidential campaign of Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio).  Today, he’s known as [...]

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