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• Breats Cancer screening: is it health care rationing?

  Breast cancer screening has risks - risks of exposure to unnecssary procedures like biopsies, that have risks of their own. When healthy women get biopsied and the biopsy goes wrong - produces infection and scarring, for example, the risks outweigh the benefits. That is why asymptomatic healthy women with no [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 10:53am EST
  

• Healthcare around the world

  T.R. Reid explains healthcare in five capitalist economies.PBS Frontline Sick Around the World by TR Reid.In Sick Around the World, FRONTLINE teams up with veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent T.R. Reid to find out how five other capitalist democracies -- the United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, Taiwan and Switzerland -- deliver [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 11:50pm EST
  

• Obama in Silver Spring!

  Obama makes an unannounced visit today to Viers Mill Elementary School.Right wing wackos commenting on WaPo hope the diverse group of little children don't grow up to VOTE!' [...]
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  Posted: October 19, 2009, 3:47pm EDT
  

• “VAULT” holds Terps football history

  From UMd Terp magazine (Fall 2009):A new book by a Maryland alumnus, sportswriter and devoted Terps football fan chronicles the team’s history, from the first game in 1892 to its successes under coach Ralph Friedgen today.John McNamara ’83 uses words, historic photos and replicas of rare memorabilia to create a [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2009, 9:09pm EDT
  

• Parade of Liars selling junk: health care, tobacco, and auto billionaires

  They get rich making junk cars, junk bonds and junk insurance policies On April 14, 1994, the executives of America's seven largest tobacco companies came before Congress and each testified that tobacco was not addictive. On November 18, 2008, auto executives flew to Washington on private jets to testify that [...]
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  Posted: September 30, 2009, 11:26am EDT
  

• Public Option: your premium goes to salaries and golden parachutes.

  Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell [...]
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  Posted: September 22, 2009, 2:00pm EDT
  

• Jesus was a public option

  Jesus apparently took some convincing that he should cast his pearls before swine, or in this case, his bread to the dogs, to make health care accessible.“But Lord,” said the lowly Canaanite woman. “Even the dogs eat the crumbs that fall from their master’s table.” Jesus was pleased by her [...]
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  Posted: September 21, 2009, 9:15pm EDT
  

• Insurance company profiteers make US sick

  Obama at College Park on Health care reform. [...]
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  Posted: September 18, 2009, 5:15pm EDT
  

• FDA Commissioner: Six new compliance initiatives

  FDA Commissioner Hamburg today:Compliant industry should support these intitatives that will prevent them from being undercut by firms taking illegal shortcuts:15 days for FDA to issue Warning Letters. Warning letters will no longer be held waiting for firms to respond.No GC reviews unless the case presents a novel legal issue. [...]
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  Posted: August 06, 2009, 12:27pm EDT
  

• FDA Food Safety Changes Round up

  The FDA food safety law is written by Big Commercial Farms to keep FDA out of dirty Food, Inc.Find out what food safety requirements didn't pass here and here, here thanks to the commercial farms that contaminate the animals we eat.Findlaw on Food Safety: In the wake of recent food' [...]
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  Posted: August 04, 2009, 8:47am EDT
  

• Gallup: 38% say FDA is doing a good job, lower than IRS

  It's true the IRS received the highest ratings since 1956, at 40%. However, confidence in FDA is even lower, at 38%. "The Environmental Protection Agency, Internal Revenue Service, and Food and Drug Administration fall a notch lower in the rankings, as close to 40% of Americans give each of them" [...]
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  Posted: July 28, 2009, 9:19am EDT
  

• FDA still needs enforcement reivigoration

  Corrections can't happen overnight, but the facade that self-regulation works continues to crumble...Mylan selling drugs that don't meet manufacturing specifications: Reuters.FDA lets years go by between inspections: Chcago Tribune [...]
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  Posted: July 27, 2009, 9:50am EDT
  

• Washington Post invites the powerful to write their own news - with no editors to check their planted stories

  Washington Post ombudsman Andrew Alexander has failed to connect two serious reader complaints of uncorrected "Pay to Play" journalism.One scandal occurs where Post owner Katharine Weymouth invites politicians and power brokers to an off-the-record party at her home (she called them "Salons" as if it were a bona fide Algonquin [...]
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  Posted: July 11, 2009, 9:10pm EDT
  

• New Legislators - Manno is excellent, Elrich not a "people person"

  In Montgomery County our district is represented by legislators in their first terms, including a state legislator and an at-large councilman. Roger Manno has a 100% pro-environmental rating by the Maryland League of Conservation Voters and Environment Maryland. He received a perfect environmental score for the 2008 Legislative Session. This [...]
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  Posted: July 07, 2009, 7:59pm EDT
  

• The book drops today - Maryland Football history by John McNamara

  John McNamara's second book on the Maryland Terrapins drops today.His first book is Cole Classics!, which sold out.UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND HISTORY DETAILED IN FOOTBALL VAULT®The legends and magic moments of Maryland football down through the years has been uniquely captured in words, historic photographs and replica memorabilia over the 144 [...]
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  Posted: May 15, 2009, 2:51pm EDT
  

• Frontline: Tyson's kills the Chesapeake Bay

  Frontline: Tyson's corner and Tyson's chicken are killing the Chesapeake Bay.So is Purdue Chicken. Standard Purdue contracts say the company owns the chicken, their feed, and their feeding regimen. They won't take ownership of the chickensh*t that is creating "dead zones" killing fish and crabs and other Bay life.Tyson's corner [...]
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  Posted: April 21, 2009, 10:42pm EDT
  

• April is the Cruelest Month

  Today marks the second anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre (32 dead).Slate explains why teddy bears and candles is not a healthy gun policy, and exposes the NRA's fundraising ploy to lie about the existence of President Obama's "10 Point Plan To 'Change' the Second Amendment" in a plan that [...]
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  Posted: April 16, 2009, 1:16pm EDT
  

• Peanut Butter kills if companies don't qualify their vendors

  More information about companies who audited Peanut Corporation of America and looked the other way because cost was more important than their customer's lives.Nestlé's Inspectors Saw Rat Droppings, Rejected PeanutsNestlé USA, considering whether to buy ingredients from Peanut Corporation of America, twice sent its own inspectors to check out the [...]
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  Posted: March 26, 2009, 11:17pm EDT
  

• Financial institutions have been paying bonuses for bad behavior for 5 years

  Compliance officers have noticed. See the article March 20 on Law.com.Chevy Chase Bank passed by the get-rich-quick schemes, just as it did in the 1980s when the Republican Keating Five brought down the American Savings & Loans. The reason? - SnLs were issuing the same kind of "liar loans" that [...]
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  Posted: March 21, 2009, 9:21pm EDT
  

• Industry: "Regulatory Incentives languish" for safety and efficacy

  The gold standard in the regulated product industry, The Gold Sheet (Vol 43, No 1) has some advice for Regulatory and Quality staff. (RAQA are those staffers who told Peanut Corp of America that it would be illegal and dangerous to sell deadly contaminated peanut butter. ) Last month's Gold [...]
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  Posted: March 02, 2009, 11:07pm EST
  

• Peanut Butter and Salmonella, explained

  When a product tests out of its specification, the product must be quarantined. That is why specifications exist.The peanut butter made by the Peanut Butter Corporation of America tested positive for salmonella. It should have been quarantined.That doesn't mean it can never be used. The manufacturer can investigate the cause' [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2009, 11:12pm EST
  

• Senate wants to pay us to shop for junk

  Compare the Senate and House stimulus plans:The Democrats in the House propose to increase spending to help poor, and to save schools and public works projects that have suffered under the tax cuts and silly stimulus packages that have gotten us into this mess. The Senate wants to pay us [...]
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  Posted: February 09, 2009, 12:17pm EST
  

• Our government's War on Dogs

  Nope. That's not a misprint. The Post today covers an incident of police incompetance, ineffectiveness, and lies in todays Magazine. It's just one example. The overuse of paramilitary forces occurs regularly in the US and our own neighborhoods - 16 botched raids in VA, 8 in MD, and 2 in [...]
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  Posted: February 01, 2009, 5:18pm EST
  

• Michael Steele, Criminal, RNC chairman

  Michael Steele was hand-picked as a poster boy for Republican diversity by Karl Rove and Dick Cheney. Rather than admit what were his principles to voters, he lied to Maryland voters when he ran for Senate in 2006.WaPo: "A fuller picture has emerged about how the plan to capture blacks''" [...]
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  Posted: January 30, 2009, 4:43pm EST
  

• Is FDA finally free from politically driven decisions?

  Just days after the inauguration, exciting projects that had been frozen for political reasons - even after researchers answered all safety and efficacy questions - are now underway.One project has the promising goal "to achieve restoration of spinal cord function by the injection of hESC-derived oligodendrocyte progenitor cells directly into" [...]
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  Posted: January 28, 2009, 12:57am EST
  

• Sara Palin can see Virginia from her PAC!

  Sarah Palin is setting down roots in Virginia. She selected the newly battleground state as the one in the Lower 48 to start her bid for the Presidency in 2012.SarahPAC, which submitted its filings in November, chose Virginia as its headquarters. Emily Buchanan of Arlington, an anti-choice volunteer for McCain, [...]
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  Posted: January 27, 2009, 9:43pm EST
  

• "So help me God"

  The oath of office of the President, dictated by the Constitution, is 35 words long and reads: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution" [...]
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  Posted: January 18, 2009, 8:05pm EST
  

• More FDA Changes: New Acting Commissioner, more allegations

  WSJ: The new Acting Commissioner is Food and Drug Administration Chief Scientist Frank Torti.Dr. Frank Torti, the FDA's science chief, is set to become its acting commissioner. President-elect Barack Obama and his transition team could announce a permanentappointee to lead the FDA in the next three weeks, sources said. Wall' [...]
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  Posted: January 13, 2009, 7:01pm EST
  

• Sydney Wolf joins FDA

  WSJ: Now the outsider [from Ralph Nader's Health Research Group] is going inside, mirroring a larger shift in the Washington pendulum toward tougher company regulation. To the consternation of the drug industry, Dr. Wolfe has been appointed to a four-year term on the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Committee, [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2009, 5:49pm EST
  

• Press Unfair to Sarah Palin?

  Sarah Palin says she didn't know Katie Couric would be so mean. And when she was, her handlers still made her answer more questions!Before she was tapped, Sarah said Hillary should have expected tough coverage.Palin: "When I hear a statement like that coming from a woman candidate with any kind'" [...]
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  Posted: January 09, 2009, 2:13pm EST
  

• Christmas Eve in the Bronx - written Dec 1940

  In the interest of historical accuracy, stereotypes not modified:By George WandellTwas Christmas Eve in the Bronx; in the old tenement,Not a family was moving, they'd all paid their rent.The landlord was rubbing his hands gleefully,As he gazed, with delight, at his big Christmas tree.The cop in the corner, ever ready' [...]
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  Posted: January 01, 2009, 4:15pm EST
  

• BeltwayProgressive celebrates the inaugural

  Send your own ElfYourself eCards [...]
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  Posted: December 10, 2008, 11:15pm EST
  

• MS 13 comes to downtown Silver Spring and Montgomery Blair HIgh

  The Tai Lam memorial spot in downtown Silver Spring on Sunday evening.Arrest made in murder of Tai Lam.County police arrest Takoma Park manBy Kiera Zitelman, Online Editor-in-Chief 11/08/2008See also the stories here and here.Around 7 p.m. on Friday, Montgomery County police arrested Hector Mauricio Hernandez, 20, of Takoma Park, for [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2008, 8:56pm EST
  

• VOTE: Provisional ballots and other ways to make sure your vote counts

  Election Day is this Tuesday, November 4. If you have any problems at the polls, call the Maryland ACLU Election Day Hotline: 1-888-496-ACLU (2258).Virginia voter information is here (English and Spanish).You have rights: Every worker who's eligible to vote has the right to be absent from work if your schedule' [...]
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  Posted: October 31, 2008, 7:47pm EDT
  

• Who is Joe the plumber?

  Oops. Joe Wurzelbacher is Charles Keating's brother in law. That's Charles Keating, the man who with McCain's help destroyed Savings and Loans in America. Mr. Keating's son-in-law is Robert Wurzelbacher, a senior vice president of American Continental, Lincoln savings and Loan's parent company, the American Continental Corporation.LATimes: The issue: Probably' [...]
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  Posted: October 16, 2008, 10:05am EDT
  

• Catholics for Obama

  "Despite what some Republicans would like Catholics to believe, the list of what the church calls "intrinsically evil acts" does not begin and end with abortion. In fact, there are many intrinsically evil acts, and a committed Catholic must consider all of them in deciding how to vote."Although much of [...]
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  Posted: October 15, 2008, 1:40pm EDT
  

• "The Party of Stupid"

  The economist who calls today's GOP "The party of stupid" won the Nobel prize in economics Monday. Winner Paul Krugman, Princeton University scholar and New York Times columnist, was recognized for his analysis of how economies of scale can affect international trade patterns.Tore Ellingsen, a member of the prize committee,' [...]
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  Posted: October 13, 2008, 1:11pm EDT
  

• In war, the heroes always outnumber the soldiers 10 to one

  John McCain's War hero/Maverick facade crumbles, thanks to Rolling Stone. Headline quote by HL Mencken.HL Mencken also has a quote for the "W in lipstick":"As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great'" [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2008, 1:20pm EDT
  

• Voting and Taxes are Unpatriotic? If you are a Republican running for office

  Palin defended the government’s $700 billion rescue plan. She defended the surge in Iraq, where her own son is now serving. She defended sending more troops to Afghanistan. And yet, at the same time, she declared that Americans who pay their fair share of taxes to support all those government-led [...]
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  Posted: October 09, 2008, 3:10pm EDT
  

• Campaigns who smear middle school girls: follow them to the Gates of Hell

  WaPo Saturday surprised no one when they admitted that "Sen. John McCain and his Republican allies are readying a newly aggressive assault on Sen. Barack Obama's character, believing that to win in November they must shift the conversation back to questions about the Democrat's judgment, honesty and personal associations, several" [...]
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  Posted: October 05, 2008, 7:49pm EDT
  

• "I may not answer the question the way you or the mainstream media want me to..."

  Gwen Ifill is no debate moderator. The conditions of a debate are that debators agree to answer the questions posed. If they want to answer other questions, they can pay the media, or lock out the people asking pesky questions, or call on hand selected or planted "reporters." Sarah Palin [...]
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  Posted: October 03, 2008, 6:39pm EDT
  

• Sarah Palin avoids Freedom of Information with ANOTHER illegal email account

  WaPo: Quentin Algood, the owner of [email host] ITS Alaska, said a discreet e-mail system was created from an old campaign account, with access confined to "a group of people, her closest confidants and co-workers and advisers and the person she sleeps with."It also raises more questions about Palin's record' [...]
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  Posted: October 01, 2008, 2:21pm EDT
  

• Lee Atwater, Willie Horton and John McCain

  John McCain's fans - rich people who know that McCain's tax plan (but not Obama's) will raise middle-class taxes to pay for the rich - are hiding their real interests behind a race-baiting ad by the Swiftboaters who brought you Willie Horton.I hope they know what they are doing. Lee' [...]
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  Posted: September 24, 2008, 1:40pm EDT
  

• Rich people know McCain will raise your taxes

  Will Barack Obama raise taxes?Rich people, who pay experts - and campaign contributions - to track these things, know what John McCain won't tell you. Barack Obama will lower your taxes, unless you make $230,000 or more a year. John McCain will raise taxes on poor and middle-class Americans. The' [...]
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  Posted: September 19, 2008, 5:21pm EDT
  

• "The View"

  The Press has been giving the lies of McCain Palin a free ride.Tom Toles: McCain had to go on the View before a "reporter" asked him a tough question. Watch! [...]
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  Posted: September 14, 2008, 12:54am EDT
  

• McCain Palin lies coming too fast to count: Lipstick, Rape and McCain

  As McCain/Paliin continues his phoney outrage on "Lipstick on a pig." Meanwhile, few press outlets add substance behind the reports of phoney outrage, and McCain/Palin get free advertising and a free pass to run out the elction clock - more time when they don't have to talk about Iraq. McCain's treatment of [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2008, 9:40pm EDT
  

• Sarah Palin supported the Bridge to NoWhere - and lied about it

  Are you wondering whether Sarah Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska? WAPO says Palin is lying:" Palin did at one time support the Bridge to Nowhere, and the $223 million earmarked for the project was sent to Alaska. Some of it was used for other state projects, about $40 [...]
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  Posted: September 10, 2008, 12:40pm EDT
  

• Community Organizers bristling at Palin's False and Insulting Remarks

  After all, Jesus was a Community Organizer. Pontius Pilot was a governor. The Catholic community who sponsored his work responded this way: Catholic Democrats is expressing surprise and shock that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin's acceptance speech tonight mocked her opponent's work in the 1980s for the Catholic Campaign for Human [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2008, 4:37pm EDT
  

• McCain says Washington is broken. Does he say WHY?

  Political Cartoonist Matt Davies says Republicans broke it. He hit the nail on the head. (click here to view)Matt Davies Journal News Sep 5, 2008 EditorialCartoonists.com [...]
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  Posted: September 07, 2008, 4:27pm EDT
  

• Straight talk express derailed

  In public, John McCain calls his wife a "trollup" and a "c*nt" John McCain admits he's not knowledgable enough to be president, then he denies he says it. Raw story peeks into a new book by Curt Schecter: Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on [...]
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  Posted: September 04, 2008, 9:49pm EDT
  

• Are you ready for President Sarah Palin?

  Sarah Palin, mayor of a town of 6,000, with 20 months experience as Alaska governor, is asking you to make her a heartbeat away from the Presidency. John McCain is 72 years old.His father died at 71.His grandfather (right) died at 61.President Sarah Palin? According to a Harvard study, men born in [...]
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  Posted: September 01, 2008, 10:43pm EDT
  

• Is Sarah Palin more like Dick Cheney or more like Clarence Thomas?

  A week ago, Sarah Palin didn't know what the Vice President does. "What exactly is it that the VP does every day?" Now she is asking for your vote. Meanwhile, Palin's past has some disturbing parallels to Dick Cheney's. * A scapegoating, firing, and influence peddling story that reminds us of the [...]
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  Posted: August 31, 2008, 11:49am EDT
  

• Why Supreme Court Appointments - and Elections - Matter

  From Monica Goodling engaged in criminal activity in appointing the country's lawyers based on why they "want to service George Bush," to Republicans insulting minorities everywhere by suggesting the intellect of Clarence Thomas is the best intellectual heft they have to offer the country, legal appointments in the US have [...]
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  Posted: August 30, 2008, 2:29am EDT
  

• Why do Oil Speculators beg for our Money?

  In 2007, Exxon/Mobil earned $1,300 a second. For the second quarter of 2008, Exxon Mobil reported record quarterly earnings of $11.97 billion on total revenues of $138 billion. That 2Q 2008 profit works out to $1,485.55 a second. [...]
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  Posted: August 26, 2008, 9:14pm EDT
  

• Dirty Tricks on Joe Biden

  We've already seen the attack machine start on Joe Biden, bringing up charges that he committed plagarism when he described his childhood using facts from Neil Kinnick. He had mentioned Kinnick in previous speeches, but this one time he used the first person ("I") and did not credit Kinnick. Biden had [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2008, 10:16pm EDT
  

• Obama experience

  "so his experience is essentially that of a lawyer and a state legislator. There hasn't been this empty a résumé for a presidential candidate since, uh, hmm. Abe Lincoln. Lawyer and state legislator. Whoa, and they're both from Illinois! It's almost as though God Himself is endorsing ..." You might say [...]
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  Posted: August 24, 2008, 9:57pm EDT
  

• First Wives Club: John and Carol McCain

  How much do you know about Carol McCain, the wife of John McCain before Cindy? She now lives in Virginia Beach. "[T]here is another Mrs McCain who casts a ghostly shadow over the Senator's presidential campaign. Had events turned out differently, it would be she, rather than Cindy, who would be [...]
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  Posted: June 11, 2008, 9:41pm EDT
  

• The Things That Carried Him by Chris Jones

  For Memorial Day: The next day, Thursday, May 31, 2007, he sat in the heat on a distant tombstone, waiting until he could finish the rest of his work. Just after twelve o'clock, the first people arrived: a vanload of nine honor-guard soldiers up from Fort Knox, dressed in their green [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
  

• Scott McClellan: ?a decision to turn away from candor and honesty when those qualities were most needed.?

  From AP: In a shocking turnabout, the press secretary most known for defending President Bush on Iraq, Katrina and a host of other controversial issues produced a memoir damning of his old boss on nearly every level — from too much secrecy to a less-than-honest selling of the war to a [...]
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  Posted: May 28, 2008, 9:31pm EDT
  

• Missing evidence in the US presentation

  As it did in the run-up to the first US debacle in the Middle East of this century, the Washington Post is putting the pro-War propaganda on Syria and Iran on the front page. Why? War sells papers! Unlike the past, it does include information that challenges the administration. However [...]
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  Posted: April 26, 2008, 11:32am EDT
  

• Hillary vs. Obama

  STOP IT. I say this as a first-grade student in the year Hillary graduated from college. When everyone said they wanted to be President, I said so too. Even teachers laughed. Imagine the power that gave to the students to deflate the dreams of elementary school girls. Imagine the derision aimed at [...]
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  Posted: April 11, 2008, 8:54pm EDT
  

• One World, One Dream for Hu Jia

  This week, a Beijing court sentenced human rights activist Hu Jia to 3 1/2 years in prison for subverting state authority and to one additional year's loss of his "political rights." He was arrested in part for co-authoring, with Teng Biao, an open letter on human rights. The Washington Post [...]
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  Posted: April 05, 2008, 4:28pm EDT
  

• Qualify your vendors: Heparin from China

  FDA has user fees to review drug applications but this administration has forced budget cuts that have decimated it's ability to inspect manufacturing plants not just for drugs, but for devices, biological products, food, and veterinary medicine. FDA inspectors wait until the agency can bundle up foreign establishment inspections, and [...]
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  Posted: March 20, 2008, 10:14pm EDT
  

• The John Edwards Effect on Clinton, Obama and the DNC

  According to the NY Times, John Edwards' policies are running for President. Ironically, Universal Health Care may be more his legacy than Obama's or even Clinton's. As the architect of these policies, Edwards deserves a place to bring them to reality. He has the ability and courage to do this. [...]
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  Posted: February 24, 2008, 6:31am EST
  

• Sacrificing Science and Consumer Health

  Toxins, Trailers and Unsafe Toys allowed by the administration: Delay Of Report Is Blamed On Politics CHICAGO -- The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industrial contamination throughout the Great Lakes region are charging that the report is being suppressed [...]
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  Posted: February 18, 2008, 10:28pm EST
  

• Hillary and Obama: Just two candidates with equally popular messages?

  The media coronated Hillary early on ("Hillary Looks Like a Winner") when she won New Hampshire and Michigan. Clearly they were hoping for the ratings and circulation that would be created by a Hillary bash-fest, just as William Randolph Hearst hoped when he told his photographers "You furnish the pictures, [...]
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  Posted: February 14, 2008, 10:18pm EST
  

• Beltway Primary Today

  Good stories here on DKos. DKos Maryland here. Sample ballot here. League of Women Voters info here. Montgomery County Dems site here. Voter info here. Where is the DCC sample ballot for our counties? Does anyone know? [...]
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  Posted: February 11, 2008, 7:45pm EST
  

• Compare the Candidates: Edwards, Clinton, Obama

  Any two of these candidates will make a winning Prez-VP ticket, but for those who want to chose their favorite, the NYT election guide 2008 stacks their positions side by side to make a comparison easier than before. Here are the highlights for Edwards, Clinton, and Obama. The NYT analysis [...]
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  Posted: January 05, 2008, 11:52pm EST
  

• Edwards Victory in Iowa

  A round up of reasons for Edwards supporters to celebrate: Charlotte (NC) Observer: Edwards was "heavily outspent by his top rivals... Obama and Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York are each expected to have spent more than $20 million in Iowa. Reports suggest Edwards could end up spending less than $15 [...]
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  Posted: January 05, 2008, 9:58am EST
  

• US, China Gang up for Greenhouse Gases; World Boos

  China, the country that tortures monks, and the US, the country that tortures just about anyone else, joined forces to protect those who pollute and poison the world's residents at the Greehouse Gases Reduction Conference in Bali this week. When unauthorized parallel meetings were held at the Conference of 187 countries, [...]
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  Posted: December 16, 2007, 12:37pm EST
  

• Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) is bad news for Maryland and for troops

  BRAC concentrates traffic, funding headaches while removing our soldiers from communities around the country GAO: Military Base Realignments and Closures: Estimated Costs Have Increased and Estimated Savings Have Decreased, by Brian J. Lepore, director, defense capabilities and management, before the Subcommittee on Readiness, House Committee on Armed Services. GAO-08-341T, December 12. [...]
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  Posted: December 12, 2007, 1:22pm EST
  

• American Lives are at risk

  Congress has enacted 125 statutes giving the FDA new or expanded responsibilities since 1988, without any new funding to cover the extra work. HuffPo has the story. An FDA advisory board concluded the situation is dire. "FDA's inability to keep up with scientific advances means that American lives are at risk," [...]
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  Posted: December 04, 2007, 11:06pm EST
  

• Stem Cell research and cures 20 years behind: millions suffer

  Stem cell research relied on a few donations from fertility clinics that would otherwise be incinerated. Couples undergoing in vitro fertilization have an option when their treatment is finished to donate their embryos to other couples, and many do. But some just can't face the prospect of a genetic child [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2007, 9:26pm EST
  

• Save a pet, a child, a book, and help cure cancer all in one moment

  On the Animal Rescue Site and other related sites in the tab at the top of the page, you can make sure a donation is made every day, for example to abused and neglected animals. It takes less than a minute to go to their site and click on the [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 2:25pm EDT
  

• Immigrants pay your taxes

  Are immigrants paying taxes so you don't have to? Apparently so. Hat Tip to Tom Paine. [Texas] Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn was quick to point out that this was the first time any state agency in the country presented "a comprehensive financial analysis of the impact of undocumented immigrants on a state’s [...]
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  Posted: October 22, 2007, 12:01am EDT
  

• Taxes used to fund STDs for your kids

  Are Administration scientists the only ones who aren't reading the data? Talking to your kids about anything is a great idea, and talking to them about sex is an even better idea. However, telling them to wait until marriage may not only get them to roll their eyes and tune out, [...]
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  Posted: October 10, 2007, 9:34pm EDT
  

• Rep. Tom Davis (R-VA) and his friend George Bush

  Tom Davis: one lonely "Bushie." Now can we get the Washington Post to stop calling him a "moderate"? He has crossed party lines to vote against corruption less than 10% of the time. [...]
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  Posted: September 03, 2007, 9:39pm EDT
  

• FDA in danger of being FEMA-ized

  Burton J. Howard, chief of the Bureau of Chemistry's (now FDA) microchemical laboratory, is shown in the right foreground in this photo from the 1920s. Howard developed a quantitative method to detect mold in ketchup that proved to be indispensable in establishing food adulteration in court. Grover Norquist was realizing [...]
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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 8:28pm EDT
  

• Rep. Tom Davis and his friend George Bush

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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 8:27pm EDT
  

• Rep. Tom Davis on Iraq and his buddy, Bush

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  Posted: August 28, 2007, 8:15pm EDT
  

• Margaritas, Drugs, Devices and Biologics

  RAPS’ Washington/Baltimore Metropolitan Area Chapter is pleased to announce a Summer Happy Hour Network Event. This event provides an opportunity to informally meet other RAPS members in the area in a casual atmosphere. Chapter leaders have asked several local industry representatives and others in the area of drug and device development/regulations [...]
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  Posted: August 17, 2007, 4:03pm EDT
  

• Silver Spring not so Forward: Birchmere in doubt

  Only one side of the street of downtown Silver Spring is renovated, while the other side contains an ugly hulking space of the old JC Penney building. There is a huge outpouring of support for the anticipated arrival in the space for the Birchmere, shown by groups like silverspringforward.org. The latest [...]
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  Posted: July 29, 2007, 12:43am EDT
  

• YouTube: John Edwards on Climate Change

  YouTube - John Edwards on Climate Change here. [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2007, 5:25pm EDT
  

• John Edwards on Science

  Thanks to A Blog Around the Clock, we have an interview with Presidential candidate John Edwards on the science issues we face today, from NASA and climate change to the issues of bio-terrorism. In honor of LiveEarth, here is his clip of how we should turn climate change into economic opportunity, [...]
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  Posted: July 09, 2007, 5:02pm EDT
  

• Giuliani: another one bites the dust?

  This week, Mitt Romney was outed as cruel to animals when he exposed what should have been the beloved family dog to unimaginable stress in a crate on top of his car during a long highway road trip. Today the Post reports more problems for another Republican Presidential hopeful, Rudy Giuliani.Giuliani, [...]
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  Posted: July 08, 2007, 12:47am EDT
  

• In Praise of Mike: Love the Soldier, Hate the war

  The Army has a new ad aimed at parents of young men, telling them to listen to their kids rather than discourage them from enlisting to go to the Middle East. In this diary I challenge them ? and you ? to listen to Mike?s story in honor of vets [...]
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  Posted: July 02, 2007, 10:47pm EDT
  

• Making Rain: Davis and Devolites at ICG Government

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  Posted: June 28, 2007, 2:08pm EDT
  

• NYT on Silver Spring

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  Posted: June 26, 2007, 3:46pm EDT
  

• Tom Davis: 7 easy steps to mistakenly delete incriminating emails...

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  Posted: June 20, 2007, 11:07pm EDT
  

• Tom Davis and Alberto Gonzales

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  Posted: June 17, 2007, 10:39pm EDT
  

• Chapter 5: My Interview with the Vice President

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  Posted: June 17, 2007, 3:11pm EDT
  

• Chapter One: One Bureaucrat’s Washington

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  Posted: June 17, 2007, 2:41pm EDT
  

• Happy Fathers Day

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  Posted: June 17, 2007, 2:00pm EDT
  

• Hillary Clinton: Dare to Compete

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  Posted: June 13, 2007, 11:52pm EDT
  

• Lurita Doan and Tom Davis: "the most pernicious of political activity"

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  Posted: June 12, 2007, 4:26pm EDT
  

• Hard cases make bad law

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  Posted: June 07, 2007, 11:55pm EDT
  

• Scooter Libby sentenced for manipulating news -- and WaPo still doesn't get it

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  Posted: June 05, 2007, 7:11pm EDT
  

• Bill Hubbard's FDA Letter-Wrongly Blaming The FDA

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  Posted: June 01, 2007, 8:01pm EDT
  

• Tom Davis and Lurita Doan

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  Posted: May 25, 2007, 10:17am EDT
  

• WaPo's Community Guide for Montgomery County, MD

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  Posted: May 24, 2007, 2:26pm EDT