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Hometown: Northampton, MA
Interests: Energy Independence, Global Security, healthcare, Progressive Message
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Top 10 Follow-Up Questions Not Asked by Brokaw.

By Cynthia Boaz
October 8th, 2008

1) Senator McCain, you do realize that 'prioritize' does not also mean 'doing everything at once', don't you?

2) What in the love of pete is "clean coal"?

3) Senator, with all due respect, can you respond to a question without ending with "my friends"?

4) What exactly did you mean by the term "that one"?

5) So a simple "yes" or "no" please- should health care be a commodity??? more »

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Weekend Watchdog Wrapup

By Terrance Heath
October 6th, 2008

Well, it looks like another 0-for-3 weekend for the watchdog, as most of the questions focused less on the economy and more on the presidential race and campaign tactics. more »

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Weekend Watchdog

By Terrance Heath
October 3rd, 2008

It's been a nail-biter of a week, as the nation's attention rocketed between the bailout wranglings on the Hill (Will there or won't there be a bailout package? There is.) and the vice presidential debate (How will the candidates do? Both survived.). But the real question is: Who will be on the Sunday shows, and what questions will the watchdog ask?

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Biden: 1, Nanobot: 0. My debate response in brief.

By Cynthia Boaz
October 3rd, 2008

Okay, I never took a formal debate class in high school, but I'm pretty sure that a key component of a victorious debate is the ability to effectively convey a somewhat nuanced and in-depth knowledge of the issue at hand. By that criterion, Sarah Palin failed epically. more »

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Mad Money

By Terrance Heath
October 3rd, 2008

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I have a confession to make. I've been trying to grasp the national global economic situation. I even constructed a (popular and recently updated) timeline. But I didn't feel I could make any sense of it, Because, no matter how many times I've had it explained to me, it sounded like a bunch of people playing games with Monopoly Money; or some "worthless" paper (a phrase I've heard a lot in the past week. That is, until I saw this handy video from The Guardian confirmed my worse fears.

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Meltdown Timeline, Updated

By Terrance Heath
October 3rd, 2008

I realized that the Meltdown 2008 timeline needed updating, and when I logged in to add new events I discovered my timeline was featured on the front page, among the most-viewed timelines.

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Welcome to Gilead, Governor Palin

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October 1st, 2008
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truthout.org — My recent piece on Truthout.org which compares Sarah Palin to an "aunt" from Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel, "The Handmaid's Tale."

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The Road to Perdition

By Terrance Heath
September 26th, 2008

My previous post had me asking "How did we get here?" (Actually, I cleaned up my language for this post.) How did we end up on what could be an economic "road to perdition."

per·di·tion – noun
1. a state of final spiritual ruin; loss of the soul; damnation.
2. the future state of the wicked.
3. hell (def. 1).
4. utter destruction or ruin.
5. Obsolete. loss.

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Opportunity "Jacked"

By Terrance Heath
September 24th, 2008

Unless Congress stands up to Henry Paulson and Wall Street, Americans — in the vernacular of the street — are about to get "jacked." more »

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Weekend Watchdog Wrapup

By Terrance Heath
September 22nd, 2008

What a weekend it was for the watchdog, and the rest of the country, as we literally watched history unfold from our respective perches. So much history, that it made it kind of hard to keep score, but we're going to call it 2-for-3 for the watchdog this weekend.

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