The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Bill Moyer interviews Matt Taibbi and Robert Kuttner
Amidst fading hopes for real reform on issues ranging from high finance to health care, economist Robert Kuttner and journalist Matt Taibbi join Bill Moyers to discuss Wall Street’s power over the federal government.
I’m speechless.
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I’ve posted this in a few Health care links:
At the moment the USA pays roughly 15% of its GDP, 5% more than any
other nation, and pays more than DOUBLE the average per
capita for healthcare. How much? DOUBLE This is
extremely wasteful. Universal Health Care makes sense.
The UK enacted health reform in 1948. [...]
Karl Rove Asks Obama Lawyers for Executive Privilege.
Subpoenaed by Rep. John Conyers to testify before Congress, Karl Rove has left the debate over whether or not he is protected from testifying to Barack Obama.
The former Bush strategist had previously refused to appear before the House Judiciary Committee by claiming that executive privileges allowed him to [...]
… Not really a surprise if you ask me …
But the opening paragraph kinda left my head spinning.
Hyperbole is the currency of presidential campaigns, but this year the nation’s future truly hangs in the balance.
The United States is battered and drifting after eight years of President Bush’s failed leadership. He is saddling his successor with [...]
“I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks [...]
I don’t know who said that. Part of me wants to say William Gibson. But I’m not sure.
This evening I’m headed up to NYC to visit my brother for a few days. I decided to take Bolt Bus. They say it has wifi, and the price is very good.
So what the [...]