Think Progress � Insurance company executive refers to high-cost patients as ‘dogs.’

Think Progress � Insurance company executive refers to high-cost patients as ‘dogs.’: "In an e-mail, one Guardian Life Insurance Co. executive called high-cost patients such as Mr. Pearl “dogs” that the company could “get rid of.”"

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan:

"The amount of taxes the federal government took in from the manufacturers of all firearms and ammunition in the fourth quarter of 2008, the period between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31, increased 31 percent over the same time period reported in 2007."

A Voice for the Poor Is Silenced - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com

A Voice for the Poor Is Silenced - City Room Blog - NYTimes.com: "Rick Wagner, a legal services lawyer, died at home Monday, apparently of a heart attack, bringing to a sudden end a lifetime of service to the poorest New Yorkers."

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

"It's almost hard to remember how big a paradigm shift this is. Before the Internet came along, most Americans never wrote anything, ever, that wasn't a school assignment. Unless they got a job that required producing text ..."

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

9/12 Teabaggers

9/12 Teabaggers
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Part of the two million strong crowd at the 9/12 Tea Party. The place was mobbed.

Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie | Media Matters for America

A long and thorough look at the overblown crowd estimates from the TeaParty march in DC this past saturday.

"According to estimates provided by the Washington, D.C., fire department, Malkin and friends were only off by 1,930,000 people. In other words, Malkin, citing fictitious press accounts, led the charge to falsely inflate the size of the crowd by 30 times. Malkin and company, desperate to dress up the tea party event as a mass movement, saw a relatively modest crowd of 70,000 GOP protesters and imagined it was 2 million strong. (She's a dreamer, I suppose.)"

Michelle Malkin and the anatomy of the 2 million protester lie | Media Matters for America:

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Bush: "“This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for,” he said. “She hasn’t spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let’s wait and see how she looks five days out.” It was a rare dose of reality......

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

Daily Kos: 912 Teabaggers in their own words

Daily Kos: 912 Teabaggers in their own words

912 Tea Party Ugliness

Next time you hear the expression "These colors don't run.", think of this guy. It must have taken some courage to walk through that ugly scene with all the so called free speech advocates. Too bad Obama won't support the Public Option with the same determination.

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan