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This coming Friday, November 20, starting at noon Eastern Time, Firedoglake's Book Salon will feature Maggie Mahar talking about her book, Money-Driven Medicine, The Real Reason Health Care Costs So Much.

There has been enough information in the last two weeks on the outrageous practices of the major drug manufacturers to warrant extensive investigations by Congress, the FDA, the FTC, and DOJ, not to mention both Congressional ethics committees. Does the WH still stand by it's "drug deal" with PhRMa?

While Obama praises the House for passing its health reform bill, an anonymous senior White Official predictably leaked to reporters why the House bill wasn't as good as the Senate Finance bill.

David Brooks accuses the media of offering politically correct "therapy" to excuse the actions of Major Hasan while ignoring the narrative that the killings justify America's global war against Islam.

Senator Unprincipled Opportunist manages to flip flop on health reform, lie about his concern over the national debt and threated to kill health care reform, while Fox' Chris Wallace never blinked an eye.

As soon as the new unemployment numbers are out, the first question everyone should ask is "where's the Administration's jobs program?"

Responding to an Italian court's conviction in absentia of 23 US officials for kidnapping a cleric in Italy, the Obama Administration further disgraced itself and America's image by calling the results "disappointing." They should have applied the word to themselves.

The GOP that just told the uninsured that it doesn't support health insurance reform just told the unemployed that they can wait for unemployment insurance.

Liberals turned Joe Lieberman into an unprincipled opportunist.

I assume that when the President of the United States lectures the President of Afghanistan about the need to root out political corruption, end drug trafficking, and restore the rule of law by holding law-breakers accountable, he's talking about their country and now ours.