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Bloggers Left and Right Agree to Hate Health Care Reform (TIME)
In the snarkier precincts of the left-wing blogosphere, mainstream journalists like me are often called villagers. The reference, so far as I can tell, has to do with isolation: we live in this little village on the Potomac — actually, I don’t, but no matter — constantly intermingling over hors d’oeuvres, deciding who is “serious” [...]
10 Ways to Save Money in 2010 (SmartMoney.com)
After a turbulent economic year, it’s a popular one, too. A December survey from financial service firm Edward Jones found saving more money next year is the top resolution for that a third of consumers.
Try these 10 strategies for significant savings:
1) Pick a friendlier credit?card
“Being on the wrong card can cost people thousands more a [...]
White House Visitors Log Released. Transparent Yes, Bi-partisan No (The Washington Post)
Tens of thousands of people poured through the White House in September, including many who visited as part of organized outreach by the Obama administration to particularly important constituencies, according to visitor logs that were released Wednesday.
The records, made public as part of President Obama’s effort to keep his promise of government transparency, include almost [...]
20 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You (MSNBC)
What would two dozen servers from across the country tell you if they could get away with it? Well, for starters, when to go out, what not to order, what really happens behind the kitchen’s swinging doors, and what they think of you and your tips. Here, from a group that clears a median $8.01 [...]
10 Ways To Dump Your Debt In 2010
A great deal has changed in the past year, and even more has changed over the decade since we ushered in 2000. I recall that the world as we knew it might have ended due to us being unprepared for the dreaded Y2K bug, lurking in our computer networks!
Well, that never materialized and neither did [...]
13 State AGs Threaten Suit Over Health Care Deal (Los Angeles Examiner)
Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska’s political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday.
“We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed,” South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in [...]
Thanks To Obama, Fox News Establishes Ratings High, As CNN Slips To 3rd Place In 2009 (Yahoo!)
Love ‘em or loathe ‘em, and there seems to be little in between, 2009 was a remarkable year for Fox News Channel. Despite being ensnared in seemingly weekly controversies involving accusations that its coverage of the Obama administration was laced with right-wing political bias, the year-end numbers are in, and they show Fox News establishing [...]
STOP FUNDING BIG BANKS; COMMUNITY BANKS NEED YOUR SUPPORT: MOVEYOURMONEY.INFO
JUST BEFORE CHRISTMAS, a few friends were having dinner wondering what personal actions they could take to help limit the power of the big banks and create a more sane, stable financial system. How, they wondered, could they help end the era of Too Big To Fail? The financier at the table recommended that everyone [...]
Bill Boyarsky/Opinion: It’s Not Too Late to Mend the Ailing Health Care Bill (Truthdig)
Overwhelmingly negative comments greeted my recent column blasting Howard Dean and other liberals who opposed the Senate health reform bill. But amid the abuse heaped on my old gray head were a couple of constructive, intelligent comments nailing one of the great weaknesses of the bill: It’s a giveaway to the insurance companies.
One reader, Lesley [...]
Robert Reich/Opinion: The Year Wall Street Bounced Back and Main Street Got Shafted (Huffington Post)
In September 2008, as the worst of the financial crisis engulfed Wall Street, George W. Bush issued a warning: “This sucker could go down.” Around the same time, as Congress hashed out a bailout bill, New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg, the leading Republican negotiator of the bill, warned that “if we do not do this, [...]
