- Note to Wash. Post: Obamacare Is Just Like the Swiss Health System – minus all the good stuff http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2014/09/30/obamacare-is-just-like-the-swiss-health-system-minus-all-the-good-stuff/ 7 comments politics
- Climate Change skepticism has become a defining characteristic for the Conservative voter http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2014/04/22/climate-change-skepticism-is-a-defining-characteristic-for-the-gop/ 3 comments politics
- One Tweet Which Shows Why Obamacare Has Been a Hard Sell http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2014/03/31/one-tweet-which-shows-why-obamacare-has-been-a-hard-sell/ 15 comments politics
- NSA Wiretapping: "If this is one of the best examples that your program is working, it is not working." http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2013/08/09/the-nsas-defense-gets-even-more-pathetic/ 3 comments politics
- How About Lowering Medicare’s Retirement Age? The CBO has previously stated that offering a public option partially based on Medicare rate to everyone in the new Affordable Care Act exchanges would save roughly $15 billion a year http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/11/29/how-about-lowering-medicares-retirement-age/ 4 comments politics
- Obama could legalize medical marijuana "without congressional action:" "One of the biggest things the President can do is instruct his administration to legalize medical marijuana by reclassifying —“rescheduling” —marijuana from schedule I to schedule IV." http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/07/02/the-myth-of-the-toothless-president/ 245 comments politics
- Doing My Taxes Like Paul Ryan Does his “Budget” http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/04/10/doing-my-taxes-like-paul-ryan-does-his-budget/ 4 comments politics
- Obama Has Proven to Be an Adamant Opponent of Marijuana Reform http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2012/01/17/obama-has-proven-to-be-an-adamant-opponent-of-marijuana-reform/ 106 comments politics
- Who Is Footing the Bill For Over 1,400 Police to Raid Occupy LA? http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/11/30/who-is-footing-the-bill-for-over-1400-police-to-raid-occupy-la/ 34 comments politics
- Where Is the money for the raids on occupations coming from? http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/11/16/where-is-the-money-for-these-raids-on-occupations-coming-from/ 4 comments politics
- You have to admire the GOP. In the middle of the worst jobs crisis in 50 years, they've manufactured a "deficit crisis" that will do nothing but destroy jobs. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/06/16/the-federal-deficit-isnt-a-top-concern-for-regular-voters/ 4 comments politics
- Obama on Manning: “He Broke the Law.” So Much for that Trial? http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/04/22/obama-on-manning-he-broke-the-law-so-much-for-that-trial/ 5 comments politics
- President Obama apparently doesn't believe in trial by jury or military tribunals, declares Bradley Manning broke the law... http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/04/22/obama-on-manning-he-broke-the-law-so-much-for-that-trial/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Members of Congress Aren’t Like You and Me – They’re Very Very Rich http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/03/10/members-of-congress-arent-like-you-and-me-theyre-rich/ 13 comments politics
- Dear Poor People, Thank You for Going Without Heat So We Can Buy Another Week of War http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/02/15/dear-poor-people-thank-you-for-going-without-heat-so-we-can-buy-another-week-of-war/ 193 comments politics
- Obama Sends Even More Jobs Overseas with NAFTA-style Korean Agreement http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/12/06/obama-takes-credit-for-bushs-nafta-style-korea-free-trade-deal-he-once-opposed/ 3 comments politics
- Reddit takes a cue from FaceBook. Won't run marijuana legalization ads but will gladly accept revenue from pro-marijuana sub-reddits. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/08/27/reddit-won%E2%80%99t-run-any-display-ads-for-marijuana-legalization/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Hey remember that post I made in which prop 19 was announced and it went to the front page? It came from this website, and they just tried to advertise on Reddit but Conde Nast overruled the site’s operators and finance staff and said fuck off. Conde Nast is turning away money for Reddit. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/08/27/reddit-won%E2%80%99t-run-any-display-ads-for-marijuana-legalization/ 100 comments politics
- Obama Appointed Deficit Commission Co-Chair Alan Simpson: Social Security Is Like “A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits” http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/08/24/obama-appointed-deficit-commission-co-chair-alan-simpson-social-security-is-like-a-milk-cow-with-310-million-tits/ 9 comments politics
- Rolling Stone: “Just Say Now” to Legalize Marijuana http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/08/18/rolling-stone-just-say-now-to-legalize-marijuana/ 13 comments politics
- As Dow Swings, Obama To Come Out Against Audit the Fed Today http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/05/06/as-dow-like-a-rock-obama-to-come-out-against-audit-the-fed-today/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter 5 comments reddit.com
- Family of 4 with income of $66, 370 will be forced to pay $5, 243 per year for health insurance after "reform". http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/19/fact-sheet-the-truth-about-the-health-care-bill/ 34 comments politics
- Health Insurance Industry's $300 Billion Victory Over the Public Option http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/03/health-insurance-industrys-300-billion-victory-over-the-public-option/ 3 comments politics
- List of 51 Senate Democrats Who Support a Public Option: What’s Stopping Them Now? http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/29/list-of-51-senate-democrats-who-support-a-public-option-whats-stopping-them-now/ 11 comments politics
- Only a third of Americans (32%) were actually aware that no Republican senators voted for health care reform (29% thought Republicans in the Senate had voted for the bill). http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/29/only-32-of-americans-know-the-senate-bill-did-not-get-bipartisan-support/ 47 comments politics
- Rahm Emanuel: Liberals Are “Fucking Retarded” http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/26/rahm-emanuel-liberals-are-f-king-retarded/ 12 comments politics
- “60 Votes” — It Was Always Bullshit http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/23/60-votes-it-was-always-bullshit/ 28 comments politics
- North Dakota, do you think Ed Schultz should run to be your next Senator? http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/01/06/hey-north-dakota-what-do-you-think-about-ed-schultz/ 5 comments politics
- Why Is Obama Ditching the Public Option — and You? The media will completely overlooks the fact that this bill is nothing but a corporate giveaway written by sleazy greedy whores willing to hold the nation’s sick hostage in order to pull off the biggest Shock Doctrine scam in world history. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/23/why-is-obama-ditching-the-public-option-and-you/ 8 comments politics
- 35 Ways To Fix The Bad Senate Health Bill http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/21/35-ways-to-fix-the-bad-senate-health-bill/ 3 comments politics
- If you live in a state with strong minimum benefit insurance regulations (California, Minnesota, New York, and Vermont come to mind), you will lose your current health insurance, and your insurance coverage will get worse. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/03/snowe-lincoln-and-landrieu-push-to-eliminate-state-insurance-regulation/ 4 comments reddit.com
- Snowe, Lincoln, And Landrieu Push To Eliminate State Insurance Regulation http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/12/03/snowe-lincoln-and-landrieu-push-to-eliminate-state-insurance-regulation/ 4 comments politics
- Goldman Sachs says that if a bill passes (A) without a public option, they expect insurance company stocks to rise 47%. If it passes (B) with a public option, they expect stock prices to fall by 36%. And if nothing happens (C), they expect them to rise by 59%. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/30/why-continue-to-fight-for-a-public-option/ 10 comments politics
- Help Us Help Alan Grayson Save Federal Reserve Audit Bill http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/20/help-us-help-alan-grayson-save-federal-reserve-audit-bill/ 13 comments politics
- Pretty Bad So Far: Eight Things Wrong With The Senate Health Bill http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/19/pretty-bad-so-far-eight-things-wrong-with-the-senate-health-bill/ 3 comments reddit.com
- Q-Poll: Lieberman’s Opposition to Public Option Not Popular In Connecticut http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/12/q-poll-liebermans-opposition-to-public-option-not-popular-in-connecticut/ 3 comments politics
- Kucinich: “There Weren’t 14 Votes To Force Single Payer Vote, and Nobody Tried to Get Them” http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/09/kucinich-there-werent-14-votes-to-force-single-payer-vote-and-nobody-tried-to-get-them/ 10 comments politics
- Stupak anti-abortion amendment passed (240-194): 64 Democrats voted to put a bureaucrat between you, your insurance provider, and your doctor on the issue of abortion http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/11/07/64-democrats-voted-to-put-a-bureaucrat-between-you-your-insurance-provider-and-your-doctor-on-the-issue-of-abortion/ 8 comments politics
- Lieberman Says He’ll Filibuster Health Bill; What’s Obama Going to Do? http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/27/lieberman-to-filibuster-and-whats-obama-going-to-do/ 14 comments politics
- The Washington Post Makes False Claims About Their Own Public Option Poll http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/20/the-washington-post-makes-false-claims-about-their-own-poll/ 4 comments politics