BRAZENLY LIBERAL — a fact-based initiative

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I love the guys at Democrats.com because they will not settle for half-baked, warmed over, faux bipartisan, so-far-toward-the-center-it’s-now-on-the-right bullshit being served up by the Blue Dogs and too many others.
Dear Brazenly Liberal,
After months of debate, an overwhelming majority of Americans support a “robust public option” similar to Medicare.
And thanks to the heroic efforts [...]

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During the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee and read the news:  5 dead
Long weekend: 360 dead
Doing the right thing and ensuring universal health care: Priceless

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Here’s the Dishonor Roll of Democrats who betrayed the people:
Committee Chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont.), Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.), Kent Conrad (D-N.D.), Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) and Tom Carper (D-Del.).
Remember them when their Primary opponents need money.
(More info at  Huffpo)

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Teddy Kennedy

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That’s the subject line in an email from David Axelrod.  “Something worth forwarding.”  Jesus!  Talk about a subject line guaranteed to see it’s deleted from many inboxes without reading because it looks like spam!
Axelrod is an alright sort.  It’s just that this White House, so beautifully eloquent in long form communications like speeches, really sucks [...]

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You expect it of the GOP and its pet radio mouths.   But last November, the country said 8 years of Them As Has Gets politics were enough and voted the lapdogs of corporate power out of office.  Unfortunately, some of them managed to squeak through dressed as Democrats.
With health care reform getting less than the [...]

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Life outside the big cities has its charms. The pace is slower, parking is rarely an issue, almost everyone can have a dog, the air is cleaner, the water is…..
Just months after a new standard took effect to limit levels of arsenic in drinking water, Sen. Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho) will introduce a measure [...]

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The mantra for business used to be “create a need and then fill it.” But if you can get customers to ante up for both the problem and the solution, oh baby!
Nestle – the company that’s turning your butt into the 51st state with products like Baby Ruth candy bars, Goobers, Gobstoppers, and Hot [...]

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Choosing dogma over effective health practices Bush Admin. blows $15B on an AIDS Plan that is so blindly adherent to the demands of the Culties and Propagandists on the Religious Right, it undermines prevention efforts in poor countries. They believe in choice – when the choice is “Cross your legs or die”
The Bush administration’s [...]

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I just can’t believe this is as progressive as it appears on the surface. In fact, I predict it will break many more people than anyone’s saying. Health insurance is ridiculously expensive. Being required by law to buy it will mean that month after month, the average person is just that much [...]

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Thirty-five years after the US sprayed the jungles of Vietnam with toxic defoliant, thousands of babies are still being born with horrific defects. But unlike the American veterans, no one in the war-ravaged country has received any compensation. Jeremy Laurance reports from Ho Chi Minh City

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Can we finally put this nonsense to bed? No? No, of course not. Because religion has become a bludgeon. No longer something to comfort believers and inspire them to be better people, it’s now used as a weapon.
Prayers offered by strangers had no effect on the recovery of people who were [...]

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