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  • Not McSame. McFarWorse.

    There’s no healthcare crisis.  It’s just a vocabulary problem:
    [T]he numbers are misleading, said John Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis, a right-leaning Dallas-based think tank. Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain’s health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as [...]

  • And “Hope” ain’t gonna cut it there.

    Chris Hedges lays it out:
    We are in trouble in Afghanistan. Sending more soldiers and Marines to fight the Taliban is only dumping gasoline on the bonfire. The Taliban assaults, funded largely by the expanded opium trade, are increasingly sophisticated and well coordinated. And the Taliban is exacting a rising toll on coalition troops. Soldiers and [...]

  • By popular demand, John Edwards takes first steps to erase any evidence he ever existed.

    newsobserver.com | Fire hits mill used by Edwards to launch campaign
    ROBBINS - Firefighters from five counties responded to a fire at an abandoned textile plant in Moore County that John Edwards used as a backdrop to announce his first presidential bid in 2003.

  • Family values.

    [Upper Arlington is an upscale suburb of Columbus.]
    The Columbus Dispatch : Orphan must pay to stay in UA schools
    Upper Arlington’s superintendent has stood by his decision not to let Meagan Haught stay in the school district, but the teen and her guardians haven’t given up.
    Meagan, who will be 14 next Friday, will be a freshman [...]

  • The point.

    Josh Marshall on the bit of the Edwards mess that is actually relevant to the American public:
    Talking Points Memo
      … I don’t think I have anything to add to the obvious. Fundamentally, it’s between him and his wife and their family. And I wish them the best.
    But this decision on his part involved several overlapping [...]

  • Dani

    The girl in the window - St. Petersburg Times
    PLANT CITY — The family had lived in the rundown rental house for almost three years when someone first saw a child’s face in the window.
    A little girl, pale, with dark eyes, lifted a dirty blanket above the broken glass and peered out, one neighbor remembered.
    Everyone [...]

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