In Helena, Montana, educators are trying to implement comprehensive sex education. But the curriculum has spurred furious right-wing opposition, and false claims about the content.

Written by Elizabeth Toledo for RHRealityCheck.org – News, commentary and community for reproductive health and justice.

One of the biggest primary days has finally arrived; Firedoglake’s team will be following the results as polls close in California, Iowa, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia and Arkansas. But what times do the polls close and open in these states, you might wonder? That’s a really good question – we may have the answers.

Jim Messina required staff support to tune a TV to that little know station called ESPN? The “Worldwide Leader in Sports” eluded him? It was a “somehow” moment, requiring a Harry Reid staffer, to watch ESPN?

Don’t get caught fawning over this supposedly progressive governor until you hear what else he’s been up to.

A national health insurance reform bill is on the brink of passing and all is well on Capitol Hill.

But that doesn’t mean too much for the rest of the country. Much of the country still wants more than a public-option-free, far-from-single-payer, band-aid-like bill to fix our broken health care system. One writer states, from the interesting vantage point of Australia, where they do have universal health care:

But Australia has something that America lacks: a universal public system that provides basic medical services for all.

Here, thanks to Medicare, you can be cared for in a public hospital without going broke regardless of your health insurance status…But the political compromise [Barack Obama's] been forced to adopt fails to address the morbidity at the heart of the system.

It’s taking the disease and trying to turn it into the cure.

The solution, the real health care reform that we’ve been asking for since Teddy Roosevelt’s time, lies with the state single payer movement. And, at least here in Pennsylvania, we’re moving full speed ahead. All that this bill means for us is that we’d better move fast if we want real health care reform any time soon.

A bittersweet commentary on gays in the military

Fresh off the wires.

Di and Dave on “The Edge” Talk Radio in Bozeman, Montana interview Matt Taibbi and asks him lots of questions with help from the listeners.

Dr. Paul Hochfeld is back in Corvallis, Oregon working in the Emergency Room. He tells the co-hosts of The Edge Talk Radio about getting into the White House doctors press conference. His talk with the Doctors for Obama and also reveals that the AMA has a secretive committee that decides how doctors get paid.

Tomorrow on our weekly radio show in Bozeman, Montana, Dr. Paul Hochfeld returns to The Edge Talk Radio. Dr. Paul will tell us how the Mad as Hell Doctors tried to get into the White House Rose Garden presidential photo op and how Dr. Paul got in.