Health care

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div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images2.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/Palin_-_Brendan_McDermid_-_Reuters_2.jpg” alt=”Sarah Palin” height=”382″ width=”255″ title=”Sarah Palin” / div class=”dkimg-cap”Yes, I’m still here serving up the crazybr / (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)/div /div Have you been jonesing for some good old fashioned Sarah Palin stupid? Of course you have! And you’re in luck.

div class=”dkimg-r”img src=”http://images1.dailykos.com/i/user/151025/bishop275.jpg” alt=”" height=”275″ width=”275″ / div class=”dkimg-cap”Actually, the Bible doesn’t say anythingbr / about clergy writing health care policy./div /div br / pEver since the Obama administration announced that the Affordable Care Act will require health insurers to cover contraception without co-pays, a tiny handful of very angry men have been shrieking that Obama is waging a war on religion, and especially the Catholic Church, and it will

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The SPM takes a broader, far more illuminating view of poverty than the traditional poverty measure does. But at the end of the day, a broader definition of poverty is still needed.

By Sarah Audelo and Gregory Cendana We were surprised to learn from Gary Bauer (” Obama’s Anti-Youth Agenda ,” Politico, July 9) that Obama’s agenda has thus far failed young people in America. We were more surprised that Mr. Bauer, at age 63, considers himself a viable spokesperson for the millennial generation. Obama’s record on youth issues certainly worthy of examination, but it’s hardly the disaster portrayed by Mr. Bauer, who seems intent on cramming every conceivable right wing talking point into his critique.

Tea Partiers & Birthers continue to claim their Tea Party movement is not based on racism, dispute all the evidence to the contrary.

I’ve been doing a fair amount of writing lately that gets at the point that Americans are poorly informed about substantive issues in politics and that further laments the lameness of our political institutions. I don’t like to write too much about such negative things, because it tends to bring me down and piss me off at the same time. So I’m not writing anything more on it for a bit, but I am giving you a few fun–and well-written–things to read. Is it an echo chamber? Perhaps. But I like the sound my thoughts make when they bounce off of smart people.

Politifact already named Sarah Palin’s “death panels” claim its lie of the year — prompting an indignant response from the former Alaska governor. Now Factcheck.org has followed suit, calling the claim that health care reform would lead to euthanasia for the elderly and disabled a “whopper of 2009.” The non-partisan group, however, pinned most of the blame on longtime reform foe Betsy McCaughey .

Of all the falsehoods and distortions in the political discourse this year, one stood out from the rest. “Death panels.” The claim set political debate afire when it was made in August, raising issues from the role of government in health care to the bounds of acceptable political discussion. In a nod to the way technology has transformed politics, the statement wasn’t made in an interview or a television ad. Sarah Palin posted it on her Facebook page. More on Sarah Palin