aggregated from: Orange Punch

This pretty much captures the difference in views from the Dems and the GOP on tonight s health care catastrophe: It makes me so happy that, after 100 years, we can finally catch up with the rest of the world, Louise Slaughter, a New York Democrat...

topics: congress, democrat, government, health-care, republican

aggregated from: Orange Punch

A fraction of the alleged 32 million without health care will get coverage after this horrendous bill is approved. Out of a nation of 308 million. Fewer than one in 10. Closer to 1 in 20. To bring coverage to this fraction of the population, health c...

topics: government, health-care

aggregated from: Orange Punch

This health care reform package is certainly going to bring change. The problem is, change alone doesn t explain whether it s for good or ill. This reform is like noticing the boat has sprung a leak and fixing it by leaping overboard into shark-i...

topics: government, health-care

aggregated from: Orange Punch

The entire health care issue boils down to the change that has occurred in Americans character. The nation was founded by independent souls who wanted the government to leave them alone. The nation now is populated with ever-more people who want the...

topics: congress, government, health-care

aggregated from: Orange Punch

We may be at one of those pivotal points where the course of civilization for decades, if not centuries, is determined. Democrats in the nation s capital are negotiating to see how much each can extract from the other before deciding whether to send ...

topics: democrats, government, health-care

aggregated from: The Sausage Factory

A year ago, the Obama administration set out to help 3 million to 4 million homeowners saddled with toxic mortgages. Gregory J. Wilcox in the Daily News.But numbers from the Home Affordable Modification Program suggest that achieving the goal was mor...

topics: development, government, housing, obama

aggregated from: LA Observed

A front-page story today in the L.A. Times on the opening of KPCC's new studios in Pasadena says that next up for the NPR station is a major expansion that its board of trustees hopes will make KPCC the hub of a regional constellation of public radi...

topics: campaign, government

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

A water main ruptured early Saturday morning in the Whitley Heights neighborhood, sending water flowing down the 6600 block of Emmett Trail in the Hollywood Hills. Department of Water and Power officials said there was no property damage from the bre...

aggregated from: Ex-Liberal in Hollywood

Investigative journalist Liam Scheff examines ObamaCare and how it will negatively affect the healthcare of all Americans:Soon every national medical emergency will be a personal emergency. Every government-produced mass vaccination plan will be push...

aggregated from: LA Now Blog

A Los Angeles County judge ordered the Sheriff s Department on Fridayto make public the names of deputies involved in three controversialshootings, concluding that state law generally requires law enforcementagencies to disclose the identities of off...

topics: employment, government, los-angeles