CBO thrashes Republican Healthcare Plan

The headline speaks for itself as well as the first line of the story:

A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. is

It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).

GOP Senator Tom Coburn using secret hold to block bill on veterans benefits

We always knew "support the troops" didn't really mean anything to Republicans. It was a slogan, nothing more.

Publishing Articles to Newsvine

From time to time we at Newsvine HQ like to remind the Community of certain rules that, if followed, help ensure that Newsvine remains a fair and equitable place for everyone.

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FACT CHECK: GOP math suspect in stimulus debate

Beware the math. Some Republican lawmakers critical of President Barack Obama's stimulus package are using grade-school arithmetic to size up costs and consequences of all that spending. The math is satisfyingly simple but highly misleading.

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Republican Scozzafava Throws Support to Democrat Owens

Wow, if you are a political junkie, what's going on in the GOP these days is fascinating: Dede Scozzafava, the former Republican congressional candidate just released a statement explaining her decision:

Toward a General Theory of Democratic Disgruntlement, Part 2

Pollster Celinda Lake spoke to first, and perhaps most crucial point in her email reply to me. "It's easier to unify Republicans because mostly they want to stop things.

Penny Arcade! - In The Seventh House

Seems to pretty much sum up a lot of the reviews I've read.

inessential.com: Vaccines

I'm still living with the effects of the chicken pox I had in third grade.

Orly Taitz goes to war against Bill O'Reilly

The Birthers have been somewhat disillusioned with O'Reilly and some of his colleagues before -- there's the lack of investigative journalism done by the network that would prove, once and for all, that President Obama was in fact born in Antarctica, for instance.

NY: GOP Falls to the Ultra-con Fundamentalist National Arm of the Paliban – Breaking News

Dede Scozzafava, a moderate Republican candidate for an open Congressional seat in upstate New York, unexpectedly withdrew from the race on Saturday — just days before the election. Ms.

BREAKING! Scozzafava drops out of NY-23 special election

From her statement: "It is increasingly clear that pressure is mounting on many of my supporters to shift their support. Consequently, I hereby release those individuals who have endorsed and supported my campaign to transfer their support as they see fit to do so."

Ayn Rand's Revenge

A specter is haunting the Republican Party — the specter of John Galt. In Ayn Rand's libertarian epic "Atlas Shrugged," Galt, an inventor disgusted by creeping American collectivism, leads the country's capitalists on a retributive strike.

My Proposal for a Smarter Front Page on Newsvine

My belief that the front page is cluttered with nonsense and crap is no secret. It's also no secret that I'm no stranger to publishing my fair share of nonsense and crap over the years.

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Transcripts of Defeat

"Our soldiers are not to blame. They've fought incredibly bravely in adverse conditions.

GOP Outfoxed by White House in Pay Czar Scuffle?

Pretty much everyone knows the salient points of this story, at this point. Nearly a week ago, the major networks conducted an interview with "pay czar" Ken Feinberg. Various stories exist about the way in which that interview took place.

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Obama honors fallen Americans at Dover

Standing in the pre-dawn darkness, President Barack Obama saw the real cost of the war in Afghanistan: The Americans who return in flag-covered cases while much of the nation sleeps in peace.

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What exactly does DROID do that iDon't? Not much, apparently.

So, Verizon is poised to release their answer to Apple's iPhone: DROID. In an ingenious marketing blitz, Verizon (in partnership with Google and Motorola) is promising "everything that iDon't ... DROID does."

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Thomas Frank: Obama Is Right About Fox News - WSJ.com

I love the martyr apporoach from the the Fox conservatives as of late. Even the seletive memory is endearing.

CHART OF THE DAY: Microsoft's Online Operations Keep Burning Cash

Microsoft keeps burning cash online. Today, for the fifteenth straight quarter, it reported a big operating loss in its Online Services Division.

The problem with iPhone killers?

Here we are again. The hype leading up to a new mobile device is reaching a fever pitch. Motorola's Droid sounds, looks, and by some accounts, is impressive.

Apple skips debate - Commits to health insurance

In the midst of a heated national debate over legislation to provide all Americans with affordable health insurance, Apple will skip the controversy entirely and extend full-benefit medical insurance to part-time employees in January 2010.

12 Steps to a Healthy Republican Party

The Republican Party is sick… but this is a sickness brought about by its own actions. If it is to get better, it has to change its life. Not only the party leadership but its lay members who, in many cases, are its best-of-intentioned enablers.

Man accused of being a zombie, punched twice

Iowa City Police are looking for a man who assaulted another at a restaurant -- claiming the victim was a "zombie."

Podcast: Elinor Ostrom Checks In - Planet Money Blog : NPR

On today's Planet Money: This month, Indiana University professor Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win the Nobel prize for economics.

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