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john devlin

john devlin

Hometown: conestoga, PA
Interests: The Big Con, Election 2008
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Easy Choices

Whether the Stupak amendment ends up in the final health care reform bill or is replaced by the more moderate compromises in the Senate bill, both the passage of the amendment and the almost immediate response that women and pro-choice progressives should "take one for the team" hold a lesson and a warning for both progressives and Democrats.

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Will Health Care Be Saved at the 11th Hour?

guardian.co.uk — Ahead of the Senate's first major test vote on health care reform, the Democrats who refuse to show their cards face a political paradox.

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Obama’s Home And The Report Is Out: China Takes Us To School

President Obama is home from China and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission today releases its 2009 report to Congress. What have we learned? That we need to pay attention because we’re getting schooled. more »

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The GOP's No-Exit Strategy

washingtonpost.com — Democrats in the Senate — the House is not the problem — need to have a long chat with themselves and decide whether they want to engage in an act of collective suicide. But it's also time to start paying attention to how Republicans, with Machiavellian brilliance, have hit upon what might be called the Beltway-at-Rush-Hour Strategy, aimed at snarling legislative traffic to a standstill so Democrats have no hope of reaching the next exit.

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California: A Civilisation In Decline

latimes.com — "There is no more to cut from our schools," California Teachers Assn. President David Sanchez said Tuesday. "There is no more meat on this bone. . . . The next step is amputation."

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Dramatic Rise in Pesticide Use on GM Crops Due to the new Resistant Weeds

truefoodnow.org — Geneticaly modified nightmare on its way.

Based upon data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), report author Dr. Charles Benbrook presents compelling evidence linking the increase in pesticide use on GE, “herbicide-tolerant” (HT) crops to the emergence and spread of herbicide-resistant weeds.

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Jobs, Jobs, Jobs -- Finally

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi gets it. No wonder she drives the wingnuts batty.

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Welcome home, war

atimes.com — In his approach to National Security Agency surveillance, as well as Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) renditions, drone assassinations, and military detention, President Barack Obama has to a surprising extent embraced the expanded executive powers championed by his conservative predecessor, George W Bush.

This bipartisan affirmation of the imperial executive could "reverberate for generations", warns Jack Balkin, a specialist on First Amendment freedoms at Yale Law School. "...these (are) but some of the early fruits from the hybrid seeds that the "war on terror" has planted on American soil. Yet surprisingly few Americans seem aware of the toll that this already endless war has taken on our civil liberties... "

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The Global Oil Scam: 50 Times Bigger than Madoff

seekingalpha.com — "Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), BP (BP), Total (TOT), Shell (RDS.A), Deutsche Bank (DB) and Societe Generale (SCGLY.PK) founded the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) in 2000. ICE is an online commodities and futures marketplace."

ICE Round trip trades "nothing more than a massive fraud, pure and simple."

Where is the SEC?

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Lining up at Midnight at Wal-Mart to buy Food

mybudget360.com — "On the one hand, you have the financial sector swimming in their bailout-induced profits like a modern day Scrooge Mcduck. In their circles, it appears as if the recession is over. On the other hand, you have average Americans seeing access to credit cards shut down, equity in their homes vanishing"

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