Don’t Let the Good be the Victim of Good Intentions

By: Friday December 18, 2009 12:18 pm

Endless compromise splits progressives and weakens the left.

A Tiger and his Woods

By: Monday December 14, 2009 6:40 am

Which is more disappointing, Tiger Woods’ infidelities or Barack Obama’s compromises?

The grassroots responds to the public option “compromise”

By: Wednesday December 9, 2009 9:00 am

At 4:45 pm last night, Health Care for America Now sent out an email asking our supporters to oppose the so-called compromise being negotiated in the Senate. Four hours later, over 30,000 people had signed on. This morning, we’re up well over 40,000.

The response has been tremendous. Here’s what people are saying opposing this so-called compromise.

Senator Carper, triggers and state-based public options are not acceptable

By: Wednesday November 11, 2009 12:00 pm

There is a new public health insurance option “compromise” brewing from Senate Carper. This proposal, undeveloped as it is, will not meet the principles for a real public health insurance option: It won’t be national or available everywhere on day one.

We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight

By: Tuesday February 10, 2009 12:48 pm

In electing Obama, we have not won, we have just begun to fight.

I Found April Wheeler This Morning

By: Friday January 9, 2009 1:40 pm

I went looking for April Wheeler sometime after 1961. I’d known of her back then, but I put her down and moved away. Some plenty of events since have reminded me of her, so I’d search. Not avidly, but casually, as the opportunity came up. Then, without warning or even without looking, I found her for the first time just this morning.

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