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Andrew Reinbach: Living on Social Security and Medicare: The Reality

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Andrew Reinbach - Jan. 16 (Opinion) - Millions of retired Americans are frozen out of the health care system even though they've paid into it all their lives, because most of them rely on Social Security for the bulk of their income and can't afford the 20 percent of every medical bill that Medicare requires them to pay.

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SHOCK: Meet The New Face Of San Francisco's Most Liberal Talk Radio Station

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Jan. 06 (News Report) - When listeners of Bay Area progressive talk radio station Green 960 tuned into to host Stephanie Miller's weekday morning drive-time radio program on Wednesday, they...

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Medicare Madness: Baby Boomers At Center Of Possible Changes

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Richardo AlonsoZaldivar - Jan. 01 (News Analysis) - Baby boomers take note: Medicare as your parents have known it is headed for big changes no matter who wins the White House...

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Politifact Has Decided That A Totally True Thing Is The "Lie Of The Year," For Some Reason

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins - Dec. 20 (News Analysis) - So, you know, go form an organization called WordTweaker and commit yourself to advocating for the most civil sounding adjectives, if that's what you want to do! But let's recall, Politifact, that your lie of the year is "Republicans voted to end Medicare." And end it, they did vote to do! Now, if the Democrats had said, "Republicans take Medicare out behind the Cannon Office Building and horsewhip it," that's a different story. But you've decided -- incorrectly -- that the most vanilla way of the describing what happened is a deception. And "privatizing" Medicare ends Medicare, as Medicare is a public entitlement program.

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Robert Reich: The Defining Issue: Not Government's Size, But Who It's For

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Robert Reich - Dec. 20 (Opinion) - "Big government" isn't the problem. The problem is big money is taking over government.

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Rachel Maddow Hammers Mitt Romney For Being Like Rick Lazio

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Rachael Maddow - Dec. 18 (News Analysis) - Rachel Maddow hammered Mitt Romney on her show Friday night for being like former New York Republican congressman Rick Lazio. Maddow likened Romney to Lazio...

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PolitiFact and the Limits of Fact-Checking

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Dan Kennedy - Dec. 14 (Opinion) - PolitiFact, launched by the St. Petersburg Times four years ago with the aim of separating truth-telling from spin, is taking it from both sides these days. Liberals are upset that the website has identified Democratic claims that Republicans want to abolish Medicare as one of its contenders for "Lie of the Year." Igor Volsky, writing at the left-leaning site ThinkProgress, complains the supposed falsehood is actually "100 percent true!" (Exclamation point most emphatically his.)

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Kathleen Sebelius Pressed On Plan B Decision By 14 Democratic Senators

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel - Dec. 14 (News Report) - Fourteen Democratic senators, led by Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), sent the Obama administration a letter on Tuesday asking for the scientific basis behind its decision to limit access to emergency contraception. Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius rejected the Food and Drug Administration's conclusion that the Plan B One-Step pill was safe enough to be placed on pharmacy shelves without an age limit. The decision raised eyebrows because HHS has never before overruled the FDA on a drug recommendation. Many reproductive rights groups openly questioned whether the Obama administration was putting electoral politics above sound science ahead of next year's election.

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Jon Stewart & Jon Oliver Take On Mitt Romney's $10,000 Bet (VIDEO)

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart, Jon Oliver - Dec. 13 (Comedy News) - video

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Durban: Saving the Planet or Saving Face?

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Tom Zeller Jr. - Dec. 12 (News Report) - Some environmental groups saw the agreement as being far less ambitious than what is needed to curb rising temperatures and prevent the potentially devastating impacts of a substantially warmer planet. "While governments avoided disaster in Durban, they by no means responded adequately to the mounting threat of climate change,"

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Rachel Maddow Hammers Newt Gingrich Over Ethics Violations (VIDEO)

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Rachel Maddow - Dec. 07 (Special Report) - Rachel Maddow observed what she called the anniversary "of the start of Newt Gingrich's collapse in political life" on her show Tuesday night. Maddow was referring to the fact that December 6, 1995 marked the initiation of a preliminary inquiry into the

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SWAT team's shooting of Marine causes outrage

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Amanda Lee Myers - Nov. 27 (News Report) - Jose Guerena Ortiz was sleeping after an exhausting 12-hour night shift at a copper mine. His wife, Vanessa, had begun breakfast. Their 4-year-old son, Joel, asked to watch cartoons.

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Is 'Healthy San Francisco' Unhealthy For The City?

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By The Huffington Post News Team - Nov. 20 (Investigative Report) - This article comes to us courtesy of the San Francisco Public Press. By Barbara Grady Four years ago, San Francisco launched a grand experiment, becoming...

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Sen. Tom Udall: Amend the Constitution and Overturn Citizens United

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sen. Tom Udall - Nov. 14 - Our constitutional amendment will stop the growing corrosive influence of big business on our elections and on our government, but it won't pass unless the American people speak out and demand it.

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Super Committee Democrats Offer To Scrap Bush Tax Cut Debate In Exchange For $650 Billion In Revenues

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Sam Stein - Nov. 11 (News Report) - Under their latest proposal to the deficit reduction super committee, Democrats would agree to undertake comprehensive tax reform that included a pledge to avoid letting Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy expire.

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Scott Campbell Films Police Shooting At Occupy Oakland: Video Sparks National Outrage (VIDEO)

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - Nov. 08 (News Report) - Early Thursday morning after Occupy Oakland's general strike, Campbell filmed police as they surrounded the remaining protesters. According to Campbell, an officer asked him to step back as he approached the police line with a video camera. Campbell obliged, and then began filming about ten feet from the officers. On the video, Campbell can be heard asking "is this OK?" twice. Several seconds later, an officer shoots him with what appears to be a rubber bullet.

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Social Media -- 4 Trends To Watch in 2012

Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - I am on a mission to help Fortune 500 companies answer the question, "What is a social media and how can it help our company?"

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Political Advertisements May Face Disclosure Requirement

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 28 (News) - WASHINGTON -- Everyone is used to seeing a flood of political advertising, whether they are vicious attack ads or saccharine puff pieces, in the months...

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Something More Than Polarization

Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Lawrence Lessig - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - We can't afford to simply indulge the passion of our differences. Not anymore. The challenges we face as a nation are just too great. It is time for us to practice a politics that doesn't fit the business model of Fox v. MSNBC.

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Julian Assange: WikiLeaks Could Shut Down Over Financial Woes

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Oct. 24 (News Report) - WikiLeaks said in a statement Monday that it would stop publishing for the moment in order to focus on making money – explaining that the blockade imposed by financial companies including Visa, MasterCard, Western Union and PayPal left it with no choice.

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The War Against Climate Science Unravels

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Kelly Rigg - Oct. 24 (Opinion) - For those who have ever put the skeptic arguments to the test, it has always been clear their criticisms rarely stand up to even the most basic level of academic rigor. But last week's study delivered a decisive blow to the edifice of climate skepticism.

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Lisa Simeone Under Fire From NPR For Part In D.C. Protests, Remains 'World of Opera' Host

Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jason Linkins, Jason Cherkis, Zach Carter - Oct. 21 (News Report) - the hammer is being lowered, and it's being lowered rather awkwardly. Simeone, as it happens, is not an NPR employee, so what appears to be happening is that they are putting pressure on her employers to get rid of her. Wednesday night, she was fired from "Soundprint," despite the fact that the show isn't produced by NPR. According to reports, Simeone was read the NPR code of ethics at the time of her dismissal. But NPR was pretty hot to get Simeone dismissed from "World of Opera" as well, and until this afternoon,

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Newt Gingrich: Barney Frank And Chris Dodd Should Go To Jail

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Amanda Terkel, Max J. Rosenthal - Oct. 12 (News Report) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said that Occupy Wall Street protesters -- as well as the rest of the American public -- have a rightto be angry about the economic situation in the country, but they shouldn't be mad at Wall Street: They should instead be directing their ire at government officials.

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Jon Stewart Takes On CNN Tea Party Debate

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Stewart - Sep. 14 (Comedy News) - Jon Stewart spent most of Tuesday night's "Daily Show" covering Monday's CNN Republican Presidential debate, including the pre-show grandstanding, the 'beatdown' frontrunner Rick Perry took from his fellow candidates and some of the Tea party audience's shocking reactions. If you watched the debate yourself you might have noticed the unusual level of reality show-style antics at the top of the show, including a montage featuring candidate nicknames, multiple introductions, the singing of the national anthem and a set that looked like "Betsy Ross's vagina," according to Stewart. That's why it blew Stewart's mind when moderator Wolf Blitzer told the candidates to keep their initial mission statements short.

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Gulf Oil Spill: Federal Report Released On BP Spill

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Harry R. Weber, Dina Cappiello - Sep. 14 (News Report) - A key federal report puts ultimate responsibility on BP for the catastrophic failures leading to the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history and the deaths of 11 rig workers, especially regarding the cement seal that was put in place the day before the explosion that triggered the spill.

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