Jimmy Kimmel | (ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live) | (Video Clip) | – – “Jimmy and his wife Molly welcomed their second child together, William “Billy” Kimmel. At three days old, Billy had successful open heart surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and is now home with his family. Jimmy opens up about his son’s birth […]
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Health Care
Obama Mic Drop: Obamacare more Popular than Trump
Wochit News | (Video Clip) | – – “Former President Barack Obama hailed the political resilience of his signature health care law at a private event Thursday, pointing out that Obamacare is now more popular than his successor trying to repeal it: President Donald Trump. As Republicans in Washington sputtered again this week in their […]
AG Jeff Sessions implies Asian-Americans in Hawaii not Real Americans
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – Attorney-General Jeff Sessions was caught on tape saying the following: ““We are confident that the President will prevail on appeal and particularly in the Supreme Court, if not the Ninth Circuit. So this is a huge matter. I really am amazed that a judge sitting on […]
It’s Class Warfare, Stupid. The GOP crusade against Health Care
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | – – The struggle over health care in the United States is a form of class warfare, complicated by racism. The Republican proposal for the “American Health Care Act,” as they called it, made this warfare clear. The bill was not so much a health care act as […]
Grassroots Resistance forces Republicans to Postpone Health Care Vote
By Lauren McCauley, staff writer | ( Commondreams.org ) | House vote moved to Friday, but with Republicans across the political spectrum unhappy with details of the AHCA, and mounting public opposition, the bill’s passage seems tenuous. Republican lawmakers on Thursday were met with a deluge of outrage and calls to stand against the American […]
What’s Cuba *Really* Like?
H. Patricia Hynes | (Informed Comment) | – – What is Cuba like? Since visiting there recently, I have been asked this question hundreds of times and learned that every third person harbors a desire to visit there. Yes, there are iconic ‘57 Chevrolets, some in mint condition for taking tourists around Havana. But most […]
Let them eat iPhones: Jason Chaffetz on Health Care & the Poor (Young Turks)
Cenk Uygur | (The Young Turks Video Clip) | – – TYT metadata: “Poor people don’t fund Jason Chaffetz’s campaigns, so they can take a long walk off a short pier. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. . . “Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is proposing a quick fix for low-income Americans […]
How Trump’s ‘Alternative Facts’ Will bite his own Supporters on the Ass
By Peter Certo | ( Otherwords.org ) | – – If Trump can sell a plain-as-day lie about his inauguration crowd, he can lie about anything — including things that hurt his own supporters. About an hour after Donald Trump was sworn in, I was having lunch with my wife and our five-month-old. As we […]
US Iraq-Afghanistan ‘Burn Pits’ – Poisoning America’s Soldiers
Reviewed by H. Patricia Hynes | (Truthdig) | – – “The Burn Pits: The Poisoning of America’s Soldiers” A book by Joseph Hickman They are called “this generation’s Agent Orange”—the open fire pits operated on over 230 US military bases across Iraq and Afghanistan during our wars there. Every kind of waste—plastics, batteries, old ordnance, […]
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