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Pres. Obama Weekly Address: Healthcare Reform Needed to Stop Rate Hikes

February 20, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

The other week, men and women across California opened up their mailboxes to find a letter from Anthem Blue Cross. The news inside was jaw-dropping. Anthem was alerting almost a million of its customers that it would be raising premiums by an average of 25 percent, with about a quarter of folks likely to see their rates go up by anywhere from 35 to 39 percent. … Over the past year, as families and small business owners have struggled to pay soaring health care costs, and as millions of Americans lost their coverage, the five largest insurers made record profits of over $12 billion.

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Esperanza Spalding plays “Tell Him” (video)

February 14, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Esperanza Spalding, a rising star in the jazz world, and an increasingly recognizable face at high-profile cultural gatherings, performs “Tell Him” at last year’s White House Poetry Jam, in this video. The song is a moody, jazzy blend of love and meditation, an apt message for a weekend on which we celebrate both the virtues [...]

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Sen. Richard Shelby Blocks 70 Nominees, Demands Billions in Earmarks

February 6, 2010 :: J.E. Robertson :: 6 Comments

Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) has been revealed to be placing a “blanket hold” on 70 of Pres. Obama’s nominees, while demanding an estimated $40 billion in earmarks for his state. The revelation, published yesterday in CongressDaily, is being called one of the most flagrant examples of political corruption in recent memory. According to CongressDaily’s reporting, “While holds are frequent, Senate aides said a blanket hold represents a far more aggressive use of the power than is normal.”

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Pres. Obama Answers Republican Questions (video + transcript)

February 2, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

I’ve said this before, but I’m a big believer not just in the value of a loyal opposition, but in its necessity. Having differences of opinion, having a real debate about matters of domestic policy and national security — and that’s not something that’s only good for our country, it’s absolutely essential. It’s only through the process of disagreement and debate that bad ideas get tossed out and good ideas get refined and made better. And that kind of vigorous back and forth — that imperfect but well-founded process, messy as it often is — is at the heart of our democracy. That’s what makes us the greatest nation in the world.

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Obama State of the Union Address (video + transcript)

January 28, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Those of us in public office can respond to this reality by playing it safe and avoid telling hard truths and pointing fingers. We can do what’s necessary to keep our poll numbers high, and get through the next election instead of doing what’s best for the next generation. But I also know this: If people had made that decision 50 years ago, or 100 years ago, or 200 years ago, we wouldn’t be here tonight. The only reason we are here is because generations of Americans were unafraid to do what was hard; to do what was needed even when success was uncertain; to do what it took to keep the dream of this nation alive for their children and their grandchildren.

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‘The Mystical Body of Business’: Dr. Eugene McCarraher on ‘Corporate Personhood’ (video)

January 26, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video is a talk given by Dr. Eugene McCarraher, at Villanova University, on the subject of corporate personhood. He explores the many problems related to the development of the legal principle that corporations can be granted the actual rights that law assigns only to persons. He reveals the stunning historical roots of corporate personhood in the “legal fiction” of the “metaphysical body” of medieval kings.

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CLEAN Campaign Finance Standard Can Oust Special Interests (video)

January 26, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video details the CLEAN campaign finance model, a specific set of principles that allows candidates to receive public funding in exchange for raising a set number of small donations from ordinary people and agreeing not to raise private campaign funds, not to spend more than a fixed amount, and not to spend from their own pocket. This standard has revolutionized the political process in both Maine and Arizona, allowing people not tied to special interests to take control of state and local government.

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Martin Luther King Calls Each to Lead by Serving Others (video + transcript)

January 18, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

[R]ecognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness. And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know Einstein’s theory of relativity to serve. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant.

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Pres. Obama Outlines Massive US Response to Haiti Earthquake (video)

January 14, 2010 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Pres. Obama outlined today a wide array of search and rescue, relief aid and security efforts his administration is sending to Haiti to assist the Haitian people in dealing with the worst recorded earthquake to strike their nation. The US president promised Haiti’s people that the US will not forget the victims of the Haitian quake and that “more search and rescue teams” are on their way. He also said his administration will invest an initial amount of $100 million to support its relief efforts in Haiti, and that this investment will grow.

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Glacial Ice Melt Accelerating Worldwide (video)

December 22, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Glacial melt is one of the key signs of global warming, but the disappearance of glacial ice is a worrying depletion of the basic life-sustaining resource of fresh water. Glacial ice provides the source water for many of the world’s major river systems, and thus affects the food supply and quality of life of billions of people. What’s more, as glaciers are eroded due to accelerated melting, downstream human populations face the twin problems of catastrophic flooding and more arid long-term conditions. Inland precipitation is reduced and sea levels rise, causing a very real threat to coastal communities of all sizes and levels of development.

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Arctic Ice Melt Hit Record in 2007, Continues to Accelerate (video)

December 22, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

With global temperatures warming steadily, and this decade the hottest ever recorded, ice stores are melting around the globe. From the Western Antarctic Ice Sheet to the Greenland Ice Sheet to the ancient glaciers of the Himalayas —which feed river systems that irrigate land that feeds 3 billion people—, we are losing unprecedented amounts of climate-regulating ice. And in 2007, the Arctic Ocean lost more sea ice than at any time on record. It was projected that for the summer of 2008, the coveted Northwest Passage —from Europe to Asia— would finally be open, due to ongoing compounded melting of the polar ice cap.

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Obama Weekly Address: Healthcare Reform & Patients’ Rights

December 19, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

The last time a Patient’s Bill of Rights was within reach was roughly a decade ago, and it was supported by Democrats and Republicans alike, from Ted Kennedy to John McCain. It included the right to an appeals process so you could challenge an unfair decision by an insurance company before a third party. It included the right to choose your own doctor. It included the right to access information about what your health insurance plan means for you. And it called for a new level of transparency so that patients would know if their doctors had a conflict of interest when providing services.

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Philippine Pres. Macapagal Arroyo’s Address at Copenhagen (video + transcript)

December 19, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

The Philippines looks upon these negotiations in Copenhagen with a critical sense of urgency. The average world per capita CO2 equivalent emission is 6 tons and must be brought down to 3 tons to stabilize at 450 ppm in 2050. The Philippines is already doing better than that. Our emissions are only 1.6 tons per capita and we are committed to further deviate from our business-as-usual growth path.

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Danish City of Frederikshavn Working to be 100% CO2-neutral by 2015 (video)

December 18, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

The above video highlights the Danish city of Frederikshavn’s ongoing comprehensive plan to achieve 100% carbon neutral status by 2015, by focusing on wind and other renewable resources to produce its entire municipal energy supply. Mikael Kau, the director of the Frederikshavn energy project explains that other, larger cities in Denmark could adopt similar plans and from the local level help Denmark achieve 100% energy independence and carbon neutrality by 2015.

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Video Explains Cap & Trade

December 14, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video from Congress.org uses animation to illustrate the way “cap and trade” proposals to limit greenhouse gas emissions —and slow or reverse climate change— would work. The video is a simplified explanation of the very complex array of regulatory reforms that will need to be implemented in order to achieve the goals laid out, but it is accurate in its description of the logic of cap and trade.

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Obama Weekly Address: Moving Forward with Financial Regulatory Reform

December 13, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

The difficult steps we’ve taken since January have helped to break our fall, and begin to get us back on our feet. Our economy is growing again. The flood of job loss we saw at the beginning of this year slowed to a relative trickle last month. These are good signs for the future, but little comfort to all of our neighbors who remain out of a job. And my solemn commitment is to work every day, in every way I can, to push this recovery forward and build a new foundation for our lasting growth and prosperity.

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Non-profits Plus Medicare Buy-in May Replace Public Option (video)

December 11, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

PBS’ Newshour with Jim Lehrer covers the new round of Senate negotiations in which Democratic leaders propose foregoing the so-called “public option” in favor of a range of private industry-run non-profit insurance plans regulated by the Office of Personnel Management. Proponents of the public option say the non-profit option may not be able to provide [...]

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Pres. Barack Obama’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (video + transcript)

December 10, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

I believe that peace is unstable where citizens are denied the right to speak freely or worship as they please; choose their own leaders or assemble without fear. Pent-up grievances fester, and the suppression of tribal and religious identity can lead to violence. We also know that the opposite is true. Only when Europe became free did it finally find peace. America has never fought a war against a democracy, and our closest friends are governments that protect the rights of their citizens. No matter how callously defined, neither America’s interests — nor the world’s — are served by the denial of human aspirations.

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Hubble Ultra Deep Field Rendered in 3D, Shows Shape of Universe (video)

December 10, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

The deepest image ever taken of the universe, using the ultra-powerful Hubble Space Telescope, known as the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, shows there to be 100 billion galaxies in the universe, some projecting light from a distance of 47 billion light years. A study of the Doppler redshift of galaxies speeding away from the Hubble’s vantage point has allowed astronomers to create a 3-dimensional projection of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field image, the deepest photograph ever taken of the observable universe.

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Bangladesh Faces Threat from Rising Seas (video)

December 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

With a population of over 150 million people, and much of its land below sea level, Bangladesh is already losing significant amounts of cropland to rising seas related to persistent warming in global average temperatures and polar and glacial ice melt. It is expected that in 10 to 20 years, Bangladesh could lose 20% of its land mass to rising seas or chronic flooding.

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Obama Address on Job Creation & Economic Growth (video + transcript)

December 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

The last third of the Recovery Act is for investments to put Americans to work doing the work that America needs done: doubling our capacity in renewable energy like wind and solar; computerizing medical records to save money and lives; providing the largest boost to medical research in history; renovating classrooms and school laboratories; and upgrading roads and railways as part of the largest investment in infrastructure since the creation of the Interstate Highway System half a century ago.

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White House Job-Creation Forum (video + transcript)

December 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

What I’m interested in is taking action right now to help businesses create jobs right now, in the near term. That’s why we made more credit available to small banks that provide loans to small businesses. That’s why we provided tax relief to help small businesses stay afloat and proposed raising SBA loan limits to help them expand. That’s why we created the Cash for Clunkers program, and made sure the Recovery Act included investments that would start saving and creating jobs this year — as Joe mentioned, as many as 1.6 [million] so far is estimated, according to the most recent analysis. And that’s why I’ve been working continuously with my economic advisors, as well as congressional leaders and others, on new job creation ideas. And I’ll be speaking in greater detail about several ideas that have already surfaced early next week.

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Obama Weekly Address: Focus on Job Creation (video + transcript)

December 5, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Every month since January, when I became your President, I’ve spoken to you about the periodic reports of the Labor Department on the number of jobs created or lost during the previous month; numbers that tell a story about how America’s economy is faring overall. In those first months, the numbers were nothing short of devastating. The worst recession since the 1930s had wreaked havoc on the lives of so many of our fellow Americans. Yesterday, the numbers released by the Labor Department reflected a continuing positive trend of diminishing job loss.

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Obama’s Afghanistan Address at West Point (video + transcript)

December 2, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Afghanistan is not lost, but for several years it has moved backwards. There’s no imminent threat of the government being overthrown, but the Taliban has gained momentum. Al Qaeda has not reemerged in Afghanistan in the same numbers as before 9/11, but they retain their safe havens along the border. And our forces lack the full support they need to effectively train and partner with Afghan security forces and better secure the population. Our new commander in Afghanistan — General McChrystal — has reported that the security situation is more serious than he anticipated. In short: The status quo is not sustainable.

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Lou Dobbs is Leaving CNN

November 11, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Lou Dobbs’ last broadcast on CNN aired tonight. His resignation, which he announced on the air, was effective immediately. He blamed “partisanship and ideology” in the public sphere for undermining public discourse and said the “winds of change” were blowing across the nation and that he would like to pursue “other opportunities” in order to speak as honestly about the problems the nation faces as he can.

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Routine Abuse of Domestic Workers Alleged in Lebanon

November 11, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This report alleges widespread routine abuse of foreign-born domestic workers in Lebanon. Domestic workers are excluded from Lebanese labor regulations and does not monitor treatment in the home. It is reportedly common for employers of foreign domestic workers to illegally seize their passports upon arrival and forbid them to leave the home.

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Doctors Without Borders (MSF) Aid in War-torn Congo: Video Report

November 10, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video is a report from Doctors without Borders (MSF) on their ongoing efforts to deliver much-needed medical aid to civilian populations across the war-torn Democratic Republican of Congo. MSF got into delivering aid to the DR Congo after the ethnic clashes in Rwanda that turned into the brutal Rwandan genocide. The mass exodus of refugees from that human catastrophe caused the violence to spill into DR Congo, and was one of the factors that sparked the brutal civil war there, which took 5.4 million lives between 1998 and 2008.

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ITN Video Montage of Events Surrounding Fall of Berlin Wall

November 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video shows the emotional exuberance of the massive crowds of millions that flooded the streets of Berlin around the places where the wall was being dismantled and the checkpoints where cars were being allowed through. The iconic East German Trebant cars were symbolic of the people’s urge to peek through the barrier and glimpse life on the other side. They brought East Germans into the streets packed with revelers, who welcomed their newly free neighbors. The atmosphere is one of joy and celebration as families and communities are reunited.

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German Report from Night the Wall Fell

November 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

his video is in German, with English subtitles. It shows the convergence of thousands at the Bornholmer Strasse border crossing, as news of the opening of the wall began to spread. The wall is slowly opened as the border guards begin to understand the scope of what is taking place. The political order has shifted so quickly, it takes time for the information to filter through that they are not to use force to stop the tens of thousands seeking to cross into West Germany.

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Raw Video from Fall of Berlin Wall

November 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video shows original video footage from 12 November 1989, taken at various sites both before sunrise and later that morning. The video focuses on Potsdamer Platz and records the tearing down of the Berlin Wall and the jubilation of those who flocked to the historic celebration.

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Report on Fall of Berlin Wall, Collapse of Iron Curtain

November 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video shows an ABC News report on the fall of the Berlin Wall and the process of reform and political change that rapidly swept across eastern Europe in the months surrounding that event. The report cites the efforts of mass movements of ordinary people to overthrow hardline totalitarian regimes through peaceful mass protest.

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Rights Contracts Seek to Control Distribution “Across the Universe” (video)

October 28, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Intellectual property rights are complicating and expanding at an unprecedented rate. Now, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, lawyers are writing contracts that require artists to sign over all potential distribution and marketing rights for their work, “across the universe” and “in perpetuity”.

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CNN’s Lou Dobbs Accused of Sowing Hate, Inciting Violence

October 17, 2009 :: J.E. Robertson :: No Comment Yet

Lou Dobbs, who used to paint himself as a well-to-do, rational and no-nonsense reporter interested in getting to the bottom of economic matters, has morphed into a pundit who nightly champions violent anti-immigrant groups and seeks to fit all Hispanic immigrants with the label “criminal illegal aliens”. He has lied about the number of undocumented immigrants in US jails and has failed to report that undocumented immigrants are responsible for far less violent crime than US citizens.

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Financial Regulatory Reform Cannot Wait

October 16, 2009 :: Eva Scherson :: No Comment Yet

Financial regulatory reform cannot wait. It must be strict, it must be cohesive and responsible. It must help return the American economy to the days when investors could invest in something, and have a fair chance of gauging its value and its prospects for a change in value. Wall Street’s investment banks are reaping all-time record profits and will pay out more money in salary and bonuses this year than most nations’ annual GDP.

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Immigration Reform Subject of National Day of Action & Awareness

October 13, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Today the nation’s capital will be the scene of another round of massive demonstrations, as the National Faith and Family Procession holds a “lobby day and rally for comprehensive immigration reform”. The rally is motivated by the unmanageable, desperate crisis conditions being faced by millions of people in the US —many of them innocent asylum seekers, working families with American-born children or workers whose employers failed to properly update or establish their documentation— affected by immigration laws that allow detention without hearing and other constitutionally questionable abuses.

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Obama Address to Human Rights Campaign Dinner (video + transcript)

October 12, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

For nearly 30 years, you’ve advocated on behalf of those without a voice. That’s not easy. For despite the real gains that we’ve made, there’s still laws to change and there’s still hearts to open. There are still fellow citizens, perhaps neighbors, even loved ones — good and decent people — who hold fast to outworn arguments and old attitudes; who fail to see your families like their families; who would deny you the rights most Americans take for granted. And that’s painful and it’s heartbreaking. (Applause.) And yet you continue, leading by the force of the arguments you make, and by the power of the example that you set in your own lives — as parents and friends, as PTA members and church members, as advocates and leaders in your communities. And you’re making a difference.

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Riot Police Assault Students on Univ. of Pittsburgh University Campus (video)

September 29, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

During the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, riot police were recorded firing tear gas into crowds of students and faculty who were doing nothing more than sitting, standing or walking on their own campus. A group of students reported being forcibly removed from “our own unit”. By PA, the police order all people in the public spaces on campus to “immediately disperse” or risk attack from “less lethal munitions”.

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Obama Weekly Address: on New Era of Engagement, Countering Nuclear Proliferation (video + transcript)

September 26, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

We also took unprecedented steps to secure loose nuclear materials; to stop the spread of nuclear weapons; and to seek a world without them. As the first U.S. president to ever chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council, I was proud that the Council passed an historic and unanimous resolution embracing the comprehensive strategy I outlined this year in Prague.

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Police Hit CNN Reporter, Protesters With Chemical Agent at Pittsburgh Protest

September 24, 2009 :: staff :: 2 Comments

While covering an anti-G20 protest in Pittsburgh, a CNN reporter was hit with a chemical agent. It appears the chemical substance was fired by police at demonstrators in an effort to disperse the crowd. It is unclear from the video what event occurred to prompt the order declaring the demonstration illegal. It appears the demonstrators may have strayed from their assigned, agreed route, in an effort to get closer to the site of the G20 meeting.

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White House Releases “Obama Plan in Four Minutes” (video + transcript)

September 23, 2009 :: staff :: 2 Comments

The President’s plan prohibits insurance companies from rescinding coverage that has already been purchased except in cases of fraud. In most states, insurance companies can cancel a policy if any medical condition was not listed on the application – even one not related to a current illness or one the patient didn’t even know about. A recent Congressional investigation found that over five years, three large insurance companies cancelled coverage for 20,000 people, saving them from paying $300 million in medical claims – $300 million that became either an obligation for the patient’s family or bad debt for doctors and hospitals.

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Will Ferrell Takes on the Insurance Companies

September 22, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell
The healthcare reform debate has been steered so far largely by efforts from conservative political action groups and insurance company lobbying efforts to sow fear and confusion about the nature and the intended effects of reforms being proposed by Pres. Obama and the Democratic leadership in Congress. Now, Will [...]

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Obama Weekly Address: All Americans at Risk of Being Denied Health Coverage if No Reform

September 15, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

And based on a brand-new report from the Treasury Department, we can expect that about half of all Americans under 65 will lose their health coverage at some point over the next ten years. If you’re under the age of 21 today, chances are more than half that you’ll find yourself uninsured at some point in that time. And more than one-third of Americans will go without coverage for longer than one year. I refuse to allow that future to happen. In the United States of America, no one should have to worry that they’ll go without health insurance – not for one year, not for one month, not for one day.

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California AG to Investigate Insurers for Rationing & Refusing Care

September 10, 2009 :: staff :: 2 Comments

A report by the California Nurses Association has found that between 2002 and June 2009, six of the largest private insurers in the state of California rejected fully 22% of all claims filed by doctors and hospitals during that time. The findings demonstrate a systematic and ongoing effort by private insurance companies to ration and deny medical care to patients whose treatment is supposed to be paid through their policies with those companies.

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Obama’s Healthcare Address to Joint Session of Congress (video + transcript)

September 10, 2009 :: staff :: 2 Comments

But the problem that plagues the health care system is not just a problem for the uninsured. Those who do have insurance have never had less security and stability than they do today. More and more Americans worry that if you move, lose your job, or change your job, you’ll lose your health insurance too. More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won’t pay the full cost of care. It happens every day.

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Obama’s ‘Message of Hope & Responsibility for America’s Students’ (video + transcript)

September 9, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

You’ll need the knowledge and problem-solving skills you learn in science and math to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, and to develop new energy technologies and protect our environment. You’ll need the insights and critical-thinking skills you gain in history and social studies to fight poverty and homelessness, crime and discrimination, and make our nation more fair and more free. You’ll need the creativity and ingenuity you develop in all your classes to build new companies that will create new jobs and boost our economy.

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Ted Kennedy Junior’s Eulogy for Sen. Kennedy (video)

August 30, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

At yesterday’s funeral service for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, his son Teddy —Edward, Jr.— gave a stirring eulogy, one of many, in which he lauded his father’s spirit of perseverance and his ability to infuse others, himself included, with that optimistic spirit. He tells of his father’s lessons to him as a boy of besting more talented opponents by superior preparation and by working harder and longer to out-perform and outlast them when the time came.

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Upwards of 20,000 Lining Up to View Ted Kennedy’s Body at Kennedy Library

August 28, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

A crowd of tens of thousands was already gathering by midnight last night at the John F. Kennedy Library to view the body of the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, lying in state. Some mourners had traveled from far away, in the midwest or down the eastern seaboard, as far as Georgia and Florida. Today, a group from the Democratic Republic of Congo entered the library to pay their respects.

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Obama Statement on the Death & Legacy of Sen. Kennedy (video + transcript)

August 27, 2009 :: staff :: One Comment

And that’s one reason he became not only one of the greatest senators of our time, but one of the most accomplished Americans ever to serve our democracy. His extraordinary life on this earth has come to an end. And the extraordinary good that he did lives on. For his family, he was a guardian. For America, he was the defender of a dream.

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Ted Kennedy’s Eulogy for Fallen Brother, Robert (video)

August 27, 2009 :: staff :: One Comment

When his brother Robert was assassinated, in June 1968, in the midst of a celebration for his victory in the California Democratic primary, Ted Kennedy became his family’s patriarch, and young as he was, he delivered an historic eulogy, outlining and elevating the political ideals his brother Robert, and John before him, the fallen president, had so devotedly pursued.

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Ted Kennedy Tribute & Speech from 2008 DNC (video)

August 26, 2009 :: staff :: No Comment Yet

This video shows an emotional introduction by Caroline Kennedy, along with a video tribute to the life and work of Sen. Ted Kennedy, followed by a rousing speech by the senator himself, who spoke before an adoring audience of Democratic delegates.

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Against the Good Nukes / Bad Nukes Fallacy

Cynicism often lends itself to the construction of intellectually convenient, overly facile descriptions of future events, which —bolstered by the impassioned worries and self-promotion of the cynic, the anti-prophet— quickly assume an air of prophetic certainty. Buoyed by the psychological satisfaction of carrying prophetic certainty within, the cynic then commits more and more fully to the proclamation of unshakeable doctrines about the future, based on bad-faith arguments and a passion for the despairing global outlook.

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