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Darrell Issa Proves Republicans Do Have Ideas For Healthcare Reformnew
Not long ago, Congress member Darrell Issa ran into Sen. John McCain. The two Republicans got on the subject of healthcare reform and Issa argued that businesses that don’t provide health insurance to their employees simply are shifting the burden to taxpayers.
San Diego CityBeat |
Dave Maass |
02-17-2010 |
Commentary
Capitalism Has Failed -- the Time Is Right for Communismnew
We believe Americans have finally reached a gaping capitalist-imperialist abyss and have no choice but to get a good running start and take a leap to communism.
San Diego CityBeat |
San Diego CityBeat |
04-01-2009 |
Commentary
We Want a Single-Payer Healthcare System, But Obama's Baby Steps Are a Good Startnew
What we know about healthcare is that the system we have doesn’t work, that costs are rising far faster than incomes, that it makes no sense to burden private business with having to provide care for the workforce and that a for-profit insurance model encourages the denial of treatment.
San Diego CityBeat |
San Diego CityBeat |
03-04-2009 |
Commentary
Tags: Healthcare, commentary
Forget Lieberman -- The Dems Should Boot John Dingellnew
The octogenarian Democratic Congress member from Michigan whom the netroots should really be after; he's the guy who should be ousted from his post chair of the powerful House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
San Diego CityBeat |
Editorial |
11-19-2008 |
Commentary
I've Got No Love for Seven Out of 10 Black Voters in Californianew
Yes, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008, was a day when you truly felt proud to be an American. But then, on Nov. 5, I read something that changed all that. I read that California's black voters favored Proposition 8 by a margin of 70 percent to 30 percent, which means seven out of 10 black voters voted against gay marriage.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
11-12-2008 |
Commentary
November 4, 2008new
We progressives should celebrate a historic day, but we shouldn't get too carried away.
San Diego CityBeat |
Editorial |
11-05-2008 |
Commentary
We Shall Overcome, but We Must Have Real Leadership to Do Sonew
The next four years will hold many opportunities for leadership, one of them being bridging the chasm between Real and Fake America. The choice couldn't be more obvious. To paraphrase the conservative writer Andrew Sullivan, Obama is the future and we must decide if the future will begin Nov. 5.
San Diego CityBeat |
Aaryn Belfer |
10-29-2008 |
Commentary
Talking with Two Joe the Plumbers from San Diegonew
I found five Joe the Plumbers listed in San Diego. One's phone was disconnected and two didn't call me back. The two remaining Joe the Plumbers responded to my cold calls the day after the debate
San Diego CityBeat |
D.A. Kolodenko |
10-22-2008 |
Commentary
What if Everybody Answered Questions Like Sarah Palin?new
The unabashed balderdash that spews from this particular pig's painted lips makes Dan Quayle look like a thousand Mensa men conflated their sperm in a lab, injected it into the cryogenically preserved uterus of Madame Curie and gave birth to a disembodied brain.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
10-15-2008 |
Commentary
Another American Institution Fails, and We Lose Faith in Ourselvesnew
Now that Wall Street has failed -- a victim of its own greed -- you can add it to the list of institutions in which we have lost our collective trust.
San Diego CityBeat |
Editorial |
10-01-2008 |
Commentary
Obama Needs to Talk Tougher on Abortionnew
It's not that Obama doesn’t have sound bites. It's that he's got to lead with the right ones before he delves into the complexity of framing an issue -- and he needs better ones on abortion.
San Diego CityBeat |
D.A. Kolodenko |
08-27-2008 |
Commentary
Six Reasons Why the HANG UP Act is Wacknew
Recently, the House of Representatives' Transportation and Infrastructure Committee advanced a bill that will permanently ban cell-phone use on planes. The bill will now move to the full House and potentially become law. There are so many things that are wack about this bill, let's examine them one at a time.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
08-20-2008 |
Commentary
US Presidential Candidates Oversimplify the Georgia Crisisnew
Both Obama and McCain failed to take advantage of the crisis as an opportunity to comment on the complex nature of the territorial dispute in Georgia. Yes, we know that one of the first rules of campaigning is that messages should be kept simple, but we don’t have to like it. And when the subject matter is dicey foreign policy with potentially grave consequences, over-simplicity is dangerous business.
San Diego CityBeat |
Editorial |
08-13-2008 |
Commentary
Radovan Karadzic Arrest Recalls a Visit to Croatia and the Horrors of Warnew
I thought immediately of Novoselic and my time in Croatia when I heard the news that Radovan Karadzic had been arrested. I'd become intensely interested in the origins of the strife while abroad and picked up a copy of Misha Glenny's The Fall of Yugoslavia, which is how I learned about Karadzic's evildoings.
San Diego CityBeat |
David Rolland |
07-30-2008 |
Commentary
Americans Aren't the Only People Who are Due Due Processnew
I really hadn't planned on writing about this decision. It seems so utterly obvious why Guantanamo Bay detainees deserve due process; I just figured it would be argued, re-argued and over-argued a million times in the opinionsphere before I could ever publish a single word about it. Instead, I watched and listened as the right-wing blubbermongers blubbered on about how the court's decision puts the rights of foreign terrorists above the safety of Americans.
San Diego CityBeat |
Edwin Decker |
06-26-2008 |
Commentary
