AKMuckraker: Alaska Legislature Votes to Accept Palin’s Rejected Stimulus Funds
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 11th, 2009 4:44 am by HL
AKMuckraker: Alaska Legislature Votes to Accept Palin’s Rejected Stimulus Funds
Sarah Palin’s rejection of almost $29 million in federal stimulus money designated for energy efficiency projects was overturned today in a special session of the Alaska State Legislature.
Arianna Huffington: Is Health Care Reform About to Go the Way of No Child Left Behind?
The White House has now shown itself willing to cave on the two essential elements of real health care reform — drug price negotiations and having a public option. Giving us health care reform without those key ingredients is like serving a PBJ sandwich without the peanut butter or the jelly. This white-bread-only reform makes no sense practically — or politically. Health care reform that doesn’t contain costs is destined to fail — arming the GOP with a powerful “I told you so” cudgel to swing in 2010 and 2012. Also destined to fail is health care reform that doesn’t include a serious commitment to prevention, which is why we are delighted to welcome as our Medical Editor Dr. Dean Ornish, a pioneer in preventative medicine.
Kathleen Reardon: The “Death Panel” Already Exists!
When acutely and chronically ill people are unable to purchase medicine because of exorbitant prices, pharmaceutical death panels have spoken.
Charles London: The Congolese Need More Than Moral Outrage and New Technology from Hillary Clinton
It’s an exciting idea for the State Department: give people the tools and they, like the protesters in Iran, will solve our foreign policy dilemmas. But will it work?
Frank Naif: CIA Director Panetta: reform suffers for Bush apparatchiks and spy chiefs
CIA Director Leon Panetta wants the world to know: he is on a mission is to promote the agenda of top-level intelligence chiefs and former…
