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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Pelosi Says Health Care Is Top Priority
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The BLUEprint for america. Thursday, April 09, 2009. Pelosi Says Health Care Is Top Priority. COLUMNIST SENDS SPEAKER A NICE EASTER CARD. In today's Washington Post. Pelosi told Dionne, "'The priority, of course, is to pass health care,' Pelosi said without blinking." The American Prospect's Ezra Klein notes in his blog this is the first indication Pelosi sees health care reform as a top priority over cap-and-trade. In Politico from last November said the tactic has failed every time it has been utilized...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Souter Leaves The Court
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The BLUEprint for america. Thursday, April 30, 2009. Souter Leaves The Court. JUSTICE IS RETURNING TO HIS NEW HAMPSHIRE FARM. Innocently enough, the Supreme Court press corps simply put two and two together. Justice David Souter was the only jurist not to have hired law clerks. For the court's next session. The Associated Press story speculating on its meaning seemed harmless enough. Souter. In the last three days, conservatives have clearly witnessed the destruction due to eight years of George W. B...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: DHS Says Rightwing Extremism On The Rise
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The BLUEprint for america. Tuesday, April 14, 2009. DHS Says Rightwing Extremism On The Rise. BLACK PRESIDENT, ECONOMY AND VETERANS STOKE FEARS. Click here to read the .PDF from the DHS. The report released last Friday says the same factors that gave rise to extremism in the early 1990s and leading to the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal building are present today. Most shocking is the likelihood that these groups will recruit veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for their valued military experi...
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The leading national forum open to all for the impartial discussion of public issues important to the membership, community and nation. Look at Our Fall Lineup! Sep 3, 2015 @ 9:53 AM. Just to whet your appetite, here’s what we’ve got coming up in this very busy and exciting fall at The Commonwealth Club of California:. North Beach Walking Tour. Dr Ben Carson, Republican Presidential Candidate Book Discussion: The Pope and Mussolini. Let’s Do the Numbers: 10 Years with Marketplace’s Kai Ryssdal. Humanitie...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Pelosi Calls For Commission to Investigate Wall Street Tricks
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The BLUEprint for america. Wednesday, April 15, 2009. Pelosi Calls For Commission to Investigate Wall Street Tricks. SPEAKER ADDS SUPPORTS TO PLAN RECENTLY GAINING MOMENTUM. With an eye towards quelling the populist anger roiling across the nation, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi today called for the creation of a commission to root out the causes of Wall Street's meltdown patterned after an obscure Depression-era committee. Of the committee along with reinstituting the Glass-Steagall Act whi9ch separated com...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Nate Thornton Is Still Fighting The Good War
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The BLUEprint for america. Thursday, October 23, 2008. Nate Thornton Is Still Fighting The Good War. Out of work and without much hope for the future, Nate Thornton was handed a leaflet in San Francisco that would eventually send him halfway across the world to fight a war which history would call the opening act to World War II. A life of heartache and struggle was the price he paid. At 94, he's still fighting the Good War. On a flight to Cuba. Seventy-one years ago, Thornton and 2,800 Americans joined ...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Prophets Of Doom? Meet The Regents Of Reality
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The BLUEprint for america. Thursday, April 16, 2009. Meet The Regents Of Reality. WITHOUT THESE ECONOMISTS THE TOUGH DECISIONS WON'T BE MADE. Salon's Andrew Leonard lays out who he calls the "Cassandras" and Chicken Little's of economic punditry. Read it. Whether the piece is meant as a jab at the perceived bottoming out of the economy or an homage; one thing is clear from Paul Krugman to No. The consistent opinion of most of these men says the bailouts are not big enough, but the political solution must...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Perry, Texas Secessionists Follow Slippery Slope Of Treason
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The BLUEprint for america. Thursday, April 23, 2009. Perry, Texas Secessionists Follow Slippery Slope Of Treason. ARE THEY DANGEROUS OR SORE LOSERS? Of dubious value from the Daily Kos and Research 2000 shows many Texans- especially Republicans- are quite torn over the possibility of leaving the union if President Obama does not quit taxing them (or, should we accurately say, start actually taxing people more of their earnings.). Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Why does he look like Josh Brolin in W. The New York...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Feinstein: No Assault Weapons Ban Yet
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The BLUEprint for america. Thursday, April 09, 2009. Feinstein: No Assault Weapons Ban Yet. DEMS HAVE FLOURISHED IN THE WEST WITHOUT TALKING GUNS. Sen Dianne Feinstein told. 60 Minutes", "The National Rifle Association essentially has a stranglehold on the Congress." And with that don't look for a reinstatement of the assault weapons ban she authored in the early 1990s anytime soon. Can Democrats live with legislators who seemingly ignore the continual rise in gun use in our society? It seems like anythi...
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LUNATIC FRINGE REPORT: Obama Angles For GOP's Small Town Folksy Imagery
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The BLUEprint for america. Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Obama Angles For GOP's Small Town Folksy Imagery. GOP ISN'T LOSING ITS CONSTITUENCY; DEMS ARE TAKING IT BACK. What happens when Kansas figures out "what's the matter" with itself? Conservative columnist David Brooks sees the end of the GOP's dominance on small town issues that use to be soaked in flimsy, folksy concepts of decades past. In the New York Times. Brooks sees the gambit as possibly "the greatest train robbery in American politics." Maybe...
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