Share Keith Olbermann simplified the health care debate last night.  There is no more fundamental good than human life.  Since we can extend lives and alleviate pain, it is a moral imperative that we do.  I won’t try to summarize it.  Here are the clips: Tonight, Keith put his money where his mouth (and heart) [...]

Share MAHER, MOORE, SPITZER & KRUGMAN There is no better clip out there explaining the broader outlines of what the conservatives have done with the economy than this: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE STIMULUS The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities published a brilliant report last month on the myths surrounding the stimulus.  Read the full [...]

Share Every few weeks someone on a major national news show makes a comment that the “extremists on both sides” are wrong or equates MSNBC with Fox.  It happened again on Meet the Press this week when David Gregory took a middle-of -the-road view on the tone of our national political debate and Republican strategist [...]

Share THE SAME DICHOTOMY One party has a plan to address a serious threat to American families.  One has no plan, but has shifting reasons for opposition from cost to letting the “free market” work to…well…the fact that elitist, intellectual, socialist, communist, fascist, dictatorial, racist, secular-humanist, foreign-born, atheist, gay, Muslims are trying to make Americans [...]