Noam Chomsky on the current libertarian fashion: "They regard unaccountable private tyranny as fine and dandy"
Fwd this: One of the most important, and least noticed, provisions in the Senate healthcare bill
Call libertarians what they really are: petite capitalists
Fwd this: Who says there's nothing good in the healthcare bill?
It's the profit-motive, stupid.
Libertarianism is a trap created by Fat Cat Republicans to get otherwise, well-meaning intellectuals to support the next big raping of the economy
Isn't the whole "fear of government" just a scare tactic to keep us from being organized? To divide and conquer us until we are under an oligarchy of multinational corporations?
Public education isn't a right either, but it's something we think everybody should have
Healthcare reform represents a 4.5% increase in spending. I wonder how much the unchecked status quo represents?
The same skewed thinking that supports a Saddam-9/11 link explains the power of health-care myths
Are people who receive government money lazy?
What are the odds you'll have your insurance plan rescinded?
If you pay for insurance for 20 years, then get cancer, and your claims are denied; shouldn't you receive a FULL refund for your insurance payments?
There was a time when the phrase "War Profiteer" was the worst thing you could call a person. Perhaps it's time to revive that concept and expand it with "Healthcare Profiteer."
Best response to healthcare town hall "activist"
RT: Health Care Reform isn't about Dem v. Repub - it's about citizens of the USA v. the private insurance industry
Comeback: Empathy? Sir, I don't plan on being a cold-hearted judge.
Re-Tweet-This: Wise Latina this, wise Latina that. Why don't they just call her uppity and get it over with?
Copy-and-Paste: Don't legislate from the bench. Unless it's legislation we approve of.
Quick-Stats: Does economic freedom really mean economic prosperity?
Call-Out: Freedom is the biggest unexamined rage today
Label-Change: Less talk about emissions, more talk about pollution
Quick-Stats: Is the quantity of government our biggest problem?
Re-Tweet-This: There's more bureaucracy in private insurance than in public
Counter-Counter-Argument: How to handle the obesity argument
Last-Word: This should put the nail in the coffin about the costs of fragmented, unregulated, profit-driven capitalist medicine
One-Liner: When is the opposition going to stop making excuses for America's broken healthcare system and start fixing it?
Copy-and-Paste: More on the cost-savings of national health insurance
Quick-Reference: What are the possible health insurance reform ideas on the table?
Copy-and-Paste: The people support a national insurance plan. Who cares what the insurance industry thinks?
Copy-and-Paste: Obamacare is cheaper
Copy-and-Paste: Maybe start pumping the "consumer protection" angle
For-the-record: Obama rejects Canadian healthcare
Copy-and-Paste: A historical perspective on the Freedom argument
Copy-and-Paste: Krugman says economists have known for 45 years that healthcare is a dysfunctional market
Re-Tweet-This: On a question like affirmative action, you can't simply go back and try to ask what the Founders thought
Last-Word: The only sentence you should need to end a global warming discussion
Label-Change: Instead of "skeptics," call them "deniers"
Quick-Rebut: 2,000 Nebraska cattle die in heat wave
Big Picture: Handling the "free market" argument of health insurance reform
Quick-Stats: Californians consume 40% less energy per person. Why?
Copy-and-Paste: Cory Doctorow
Bookmark for Copy-and-Paste: Debunking Canadian Myths
Copy-and-Paste: Roosevelt, Truman, Clinton, and the "Trough"
Re-Tweet-This: If you were creating a country from scratch, which industrialized country's healthcare system would you choose?
Copy-and-Paste: Quality of Canadian healthcare
Five tips on how to change the language of the healthcare debate
RT: Instead of gov't-run, public health insurance, call it National or American health insurance
Copy-and-Paste: What happened to small businesses?
Latest-Obama: Why nobody should get in the way of change
Re-Tweet-This: The best insurance is knowing that your provider doesn't have a profit-motive
Copy-and-Paste: Your healthcare dollars hard at work
Copy-and-Paste: Technological inefficiencies of profit-driven healthcare
Re-Tweet: An appeal to American's love of military
Copy-and-Paste: Quality of VA Hospitals
Once again, Obama speaks to us like adults
Instead of "healthcare reform," maybe start talking about "ending profit-driven health insurance"
Your health insurance provider had three times as many lawsuits last year than the national average
Copy-and-Paste: Stop talking about Europe. Start talking about Australia.
The latest Krugman
Copy-and-Paste: Why is American healthcare so expensive?
Profit-driven medicine means unregulated medicine
Capitalist medicine is inefficient. Socialist medicine is not.
60% of bankruptcies in 2007 were from medical bills. Why this should freak you out.
Fwd this: One of the most important, and least noticed, provisions in the Senate healthcare bill
Call libertarians what they really are: petite capitalists
Fwd this: Who says there's nothing good in the healthcare bill?
It's the profit-motive, stupid.
Libertarianism is a trap created by Fat Cat Republicans to get otherwise, well-meaning intellectuals to support the next big raping of the economy
Isn't the whole "fear of government" just a scare tactic to keep us from being organized? To divide and conquer us until we are under an oligarchy of multinational corporations?
Public education isn't a right either, but it's something we think everybody should have
Healthcare reform represents a 4.5% increase in spending. I wonder how much the unchecked status quo represents?
The same skewed thinking that supports a Saddam-9/11 link explains the power of health-care myths
Are people who receive government money lazy?
What are the odds you'll have your insurance plan rescinded?
If you pay for insurance for 20 years, then get cancer, and your claims are denied; shouldn't you receive a FULL refund for your insurance payments?
There was a time when the phrase "War Profiteer" was the worst thing you could call a person. Perhaps it's time to revive that concept and expand it with "Healthcare Profiteer."
Best response to healthcare town hall "activist"
RT: Health Care Reform isn't about Dem v. Repub - it's about citizens of the USA v. the private insurance industry
Comeback: Empathy? Sir, I don't plan on being a cold-hearted judge.
Re-Tweet-This: Wise Latina this, wise Latina that. Why don't they just call her uppity and get it over with?
Copy-and-Paste: Don't legislate from the bench. Unless it's legislation we approve of.
Quick-Stats: Does economic freedom really mean economic prosperity?
Call-Out: Freedom is the biggest unexamined rage today
Label-Change: Less talk about emissions, more talk about pollution
Quick-Stats: Is the quantity of government our biggest problem?
Re-Tweet-This: There's more bureaucracy in private insurance than in public
Counter-Counter-Argument: How to handle the obesity argument
Last-Word: This should put the nail in the coffin about the costs of fragmented, unregulated, profit-driven capitalist medicine
One-Liner: When is the opposition going to stop making excuses for America's broken healthcare system and start fixing it?
Copy-and-Paste: More on the cost-savings of national health insurance
Quick-Reference: What are the possible health insurance reform ideas on the table?
Copy-and-Paste: The people support a national insurance plan. Who cares what the insurance industry thinks?
Copy-and-Paste: Obamacare is cheaper
Copy-and-Paste: Maybe start pumping the "consumer protection" angle
For-the-record: Obama rejects Canadian healthcare
Copy-and-Paste: A historical perspective on the Freedom argument
Copy-and-Paste: Krugman says economists have known for 45 years that healthcare is a dysfunctional market
Re-Tweet-This: On a question like affirmative action, you can't simply go back and try to ask what the Founders thought
Last-Word: The only sentence you should need to end a global warming discussion
Label-Change: Instead of "skeptics," call them "deniers"
Quick-Rebut: 2,000 Nebraska cattle die in heat wave
Big Picture: Handling the "free market" argument of health insurance reform
Quick-Stats: Californians consume 40% less energy per person. Why?
Copy-and-Paste: Cory Doctorow
Bookmark for Copy-and-Paste: Debunking Canadian Myths
Copy-and-Paste: Roosevelt, Truman, Clinton, and the "Trough"
Re-Tweet-This: If you were creating a country from scratch, which industrialized country's healthcare system would you choose?
Copy-and-Paste: Quality of Canadian healthcare
Five tips on how to change the language of the healthcare debate
RT: Instead of gov't-run, public health insurance, call it National or American health insurance
Copy-and-Paste: What happened to small businesses?
Latest-Obama: Why nobody should get in the way of change
Re-Tweet-This: The best insurance is knowing that your provider doesn't have a profit-motive
Copy-and-Paste: Your healthcare dollars hard at work
Copy-and-Paste: Technological inefficiencies of profit-driven healthcare
Re-Tweet: An appeal to American's love of military
Copy-and-Paste: Quality of VA Hospitals
Once again, Obama speaks to us like adults
Instead of "healthcare reform," maybe start talking about "ending profit-driven health insurance"
Your health insurance provider had three times as many lawsuits last year than the national average
Copy-and-Paste: Stop talking about Europe. Start talking about Australia.
The latest Krugman
Copy-and-Paste: Why is American healthcare so expensive?
Profit-driven medicine means unregulated medicine
Capitalist medicine is inefficient. Socialist medicine is not.
60% of bankruptcies in 2007 were from medical bills. Why this should freak you out.