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by David Anderson| 42 Comments
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If you do, you’re in the same boat as Medicare: Vacuum erection systems — commonly known as “penis pumps” — cost the Medicare program $172 million over a six-year period, roughly double the amount the average American consumer would have paid at the retail level, according to a report released Monday…. The reason for this …
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This post is in: Excellent Links, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Crime Syndicate - aka the Bush Admin.
Too much fun not to share. Matt Taibbi: … The news came in the Wall Street Journal, where the Chamber of Commerce disclosed that it will be teaming up with Republican establishment leaders to spend $50 million in an effort to stem the tide of “fools” who have overwhelmed Republican ballots in recent seasons. Check …
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by Kay| 30 Comments
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I saw a lot of questions on how this might be accomplished in the comments during the Syria debate: The United States and its partners are planning a series of rapid steps to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons program, a strategy that is intended to guard against backsliding by President Bashar al-Assad and limit the time …
I don’t think for one minute that the governments of the US, Britain, France, and the UN inspectors, and Doctors Without Borders are falsifying anything about the use of chemical weapons by the government of Syria against their own civilian population. I think it’s all true. It’s not worth us getting involved in that mess …
by Kay| 75 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Democratic Cowardice, Democratic Stupidity
In 2011 USA Today did an independent analysis of DC test scores under Michelle Rhee. They concluded there was cheating. A couple of months ago, Frontline did a piece on Michelle Rhee. After the piece aired, the reporter received a memo he had been seeking: I first got wind of the Sanford memo while working …
by Imani Gandy (ABL)| 127 Comments
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If you lie down with dogs, you wake up with crazy. Grover Norquist, the guy who smarmily strong-arms almost every Republican into swearing an oath never to raise taxes, may be an Islamo-fascist Muslim sleeper agent — according to conservative hatemonger and Islamophobe David Horowitz. Grover Norquist’s crime? He’s married to a Muslim-American! ::gasp:: Horowitz: …
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by Kay| 46 Comments
This post is in: An Unexamined Scandal, Election 2010, Republican Stupidity, Republican Venality, Bring on the Brawndo!, Clown Shoes, Flash Mob of Hate, Good News For Conservatives
We may get to hear more from Elizabeth Warren here shortly: House Republican lawmakers fired the opening salvo Monday in a war they plan against the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by this year’s overhaul of financial regulations. Republican Reps. Spencer Bachus of Alabama, the leading contender to take the reins of the House Financial …