Among all the players in the health care debate, doctors may be the least understood about where they stand on some of the key issues around changing the health care system.
The computer/video game industry is peeved at AT&T; for suggesting that real-time gaming isn't a core part of broadband like e-mail and Web browsing, but that it's instead an "aspirational service."
Charles Krauthammer warns that rationing will be inevitable if health care reform passes. Ezra Klein explains that it's too late.
By now you've all probably heard of Shona Holmes, the Canadian woman featured in those TV ads that have been running all over American TV in recent weeks, the ones slamming Canada's healthcare system as some sort of nightmarish system from hell.
Seems that double standards abound in the country these days. Donkeys and Elephants at odds and both talking out both sides of their mouth. Not all of them but enough that it is difficult to filter out the truth.
That's a 17-point gap in support for the Democrats' health care plans when the plan is simply referred to as "Barack Obama's health care plan" versus when a reasonably fair description of the plan is actually provided to the respondents. Whence the source of the discrepancy?
As chairman of the House Republican Health Care Solutions Group, Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, knows a thing or two about health care. But some of what he knows just isn't true.
GOP Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri has promised to stop spreading a health care falsehood that's been widely bandied about on the right after his local paper fact-checked his claim and called him out for fibbing.
Conservatives are calling it their August Revolt, a surprising upsurge of activism against President Obama's proposed health care overhaul.
For a democracy, which depends on an informed citizenry to balance a permanent lobbying class, this is poison. And it's one reason why town hall forums on health care, which should be sharp debates about something that affects all of us, have turned into town mauls.
LIVINGSTON, Montana (CNN) -- Spend a day in this tiny town about 23 miles or so from where President Obama will be holding a town hall meeting on Friday, and it's easy to see why his health-care push is facing big problems in Big Sky country -- even from the people he's trying to …
In a conversation earlier this week about polls showing that large numbers of Republicans don't believe Barack Obama was born in the United States, I wondered how many of those respondents might not know that Hawaii is a state.
The bills, as opposed to what wingnuts say, explained simply.
The answer to almost any question is available within seconds, courtesy of the invention that has altered how we discover knowledge - the search engine. Materializing answers from the air turns out to be the easy part - the part a machine can do.
The Disingenuous Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg has once again celebrated a public epiphany on climate change, bringing him. once again, to the conclusion that the globe is warming, that humans are to blame and that we - especially we rich people - shouldn't do anything about it.
In a blog recently written by Teri M. Owens, a member of the Ohio John Birch Society, on a new website Stoptheconcon alleged FOAVC cannot not be "trusted" in providing information regarding an Article V Convention. In 2008, Ms.
I was privy to reading an editorial by Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, that berated President Obama up one side and down the other for abdicating America's special role in foreign affairs. Well, among other things.
To stop oil, coal and electricity companies inserting their views into the media by stealth, we need to make blog commenters accountable
Yes, amazingly, the History Channel claims that bureaucracy gave birth to our Nation. After all, bureaucratic control is freedom, right? Watch it before it disappears.
Manila, Philippines (6/18/09) – Mass messages had been going around the membership of the Ang Dating Daan (ADD), officially called Members Church of God International (MCGI) calling for the boycott of GMA, one of the greater TV stations in the country.
That's what I'm wondering when I read this NY Times story by Brian Stelter: How '07 ABC Interview Tilted a Torture Debate By BRIAN STELTER Published: April 27, 2009
even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted.
Debating what is best for the country right now is the right thing for us to be doing. Blindly following the ideas of this administration, or any other for that matter, is (while understandable) inadvisable under these circumstances. We need to think for ourselves.
A report by a European human rights watchdog has urged Serbia to start being truthful about its role in the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
During her visit here last week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton chided Israel for the Jerusalem Municipality's plans to demolish some 80 buildings illegally constructed by Arabs in east Jerusalem's Emek Hamelech.