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Really want to protect the sanctity of marriage?

What’s the number one threat to marriage? Gays? Hah! Clearly, the biggest threat by far to marriage is divorce. In the USA, 48% of all marriages end in divorce. Not to mention the terrible things that divorce does to children. So if you really want to save marriage (and unless you hate families) the solution […]

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The History of Just Say No

© John Sherffius

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The Gospel According to Blazing Saddles

© Andy Singer

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Government for Sale

© Mike Thompson

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Can’t Say No to Government Healthcare

Yesterday, I reported on the irony of McCain’s former health care advisor, who is losing his health insurance and has a preexisting condition. But the irony keeps coming. Earlier this month, wing-nut Michele Bachmann sponsored a protest against health care reform at the Capitol, with angry protesters holding signs like the one to the right, […]

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Compassionate Conservatism

Doug Holtz-Eakin, the former top health-care-reform advisor to John McCain during the presidential election is in an ironic position. After the election his job vanished, of course, and now his COBRA health coverage — for which he pays around $1000 a month — is about to expire. And an accident in 1990 left him with […]

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If You Voted for the Medicare Drug Benefit, Shut up about Health Care Reform

In Forbes Magazine, Bruce Bartlett (an advisor to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official under Bush I) points out the staggering hypocrisy of any politician who is criticizing the Democratic health care reform bill as socialist or deficit-busting, but who voted for the Republican Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit in 2003 (which the US Comptroller called […]

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Ironically, the Senate Health Care Bill doesn’t totally suck

Harry Reid has released the Senate health care reform bill, and it is scheduled for a cloture vote on Saturday. The vote to cut off a potential filibuster is the critical one, requiring sixty votes to pass. At this point, both the Senate and House bills include a form of public option, but there is […]

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Billionaires for Wealthcare Strike Again

The Billionaires for Wealthcare infiltrated an American Health Insurance Plans’ annual conference in Washington DC, and during a keynote talk from an industry pollster performed a full blown musical number, thanking the industry for killing the public option and protecting their profits. All set to the tune of “Tomorrow, Tomorrow” from Annie: Says the group […]

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Who wants government making health care decisions?

© Joel Pett

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Irony Curtain

© Matt Davies

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Health Care Skunk Works?

© Gary Varvel © Lisa Benson

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Do as we say, not as we do

The Republicans have been making a big stink about the health care bill paying for abortions. But Politico has found that the insurance plan that the Republican National Committee offers to its employees pays for elective abortions. Their health insurance company, Cigna, says that the RNC has the option of not covering abortions, but has […]

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Thank Heavens for Olympia Snowe!

© Steve Sack © Joel Pett

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A Snowe-Ball’s Chance in Hell

© Steve Benson

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