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Post Apocalyptic Nick: What So Funny Bout Peace, Love and Shotguns?

Nick's grandpa opens up his shelter to him and Annie, but anything can set him off.

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Weekend Gallimaufry - The Sad Anniversary - June 5-6, 1968 | Newstalgia

Forty-Three years ago this weekend, Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles.

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Weekly Pulse: White House Takes Offensive Against Health Care Repeal

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger

This week, House Republicans will hold a vote to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The bill is expected to pass the House, where the GOP holds a majority, but stall in the Democratic-controlled Senate. In the meantime, the symbolic vote is giving both Republicans and Democrats a pretext to publicly rehash their views on the legislation.

At AlterNet, Faiz Shakir and colleagues point out that repealing health care reform would cost the federal government an additional $320 billion over the next decade, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. The authors also note that despite Republican campaign promises to “repeal and replace” the law, their bill contains no replacement plan. Health care reform protects Americans with preexisting conditions from some forms discrimination by insurers. At least half of all Americans under the age of 65 could be construed as having a preexisting condition. No wonder only 1 in 4 Americans support repeal, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll released on Monday.

Perhaps that explains, as Paul Waldman reports at TAPPED, why the White House is vigorously defending health care reform. The Obama administration is making full use of the aforementioned statistics from The Department Health and Human Services on the percentage of Americans who have preexisting conditions:

As the House prepares to vote on the “Repeal the Puppy-Strangling Job-Vivisecting O-Commie-Care Act,” or whatever they’re now calling it, the White House and its allies actually seem to have their act together when it comes to fighting this war for public opinion. The latest is an analysis from the Department of Health and Human Services on just how many people have pre-existing conditions, and thus will be protected from denials of health insurance when the Affordable Care Act goes fully into effect in 2014

Republicans are fuming that Democrats are “politicizing” a policy debate by bringing up the uncomfortable fact that, if the GOP’s repeal plan became law, millions of people could lose their health insurance. As Waldman points out, the high incidence of preexisting conditions is an argument for a universal mandate. It’s impossible to insure people with known health problems at an affordable cost unless they share the risk with healthier policy-holders. Hence the need for a mandate.

Anti-choice at the end of life

In The Nation, Ann Neumann explains how anti-choice leaders fought to re-eliminate free end-of-life counseling for seniors under Medicare. The provision was taken out of the health care reform bill but briefly reinstated by Department of Health and Social Services before being rescinded again by HHS amid false allegations by anti-choice groups, including The Family Research Council, that the government was promulgating euthanasia for the elderly.

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The Kansas-based anti-choice group Operation Rescue is lashing out at the Iowa Board of Medicine for dismissing their complaint against Dr. Linda Haskell, Lynda Waddington reports in The Iowa Independent. Dr. Haskell attracted the ire of anti-choicers for using telemedicine to help doctors provide abortion care. The board investigated Operation Rescue’s allegations, which it cannot discuss or even acknowledge, but found no basis for sanctions against Haskell. Iowa medical authorities said they were still deliberating about the rules for telemedicine in general.

Salon retracts RFK vaccine story

Online news magazine Salon.com has retracted a 2005 article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. alleging a link between childhood vaccines and autism, Kristina Chew reports at Care2. The article leaned heavily on now discredited research by Dr. Andrew Wakefield. His research had been discredited for some time, but only recently did an investigative journalist reveal that Wakefield skewed his data as part of an elaborate scam to profit from a lawsuit against vaccine makers.

This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger This week, House Republicans will... more

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A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File

The Gemstone File was written in many segments over a period of years by an American... more

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RFK: Mindless menace of violence speech still relevant 42 years after his assassination

Forty two years ago a little after midnight on June 5, Robert Kennedy was assassinated... more

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Matt Damon To Star in Robert F Kennedy Biopic His Life

Nikki Finke is reporting that Matt Damon is going to star in a biopic of Robert F... more

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SUPREME COURT ABOUT TO DO THE UNTHINKABLE!

THIS IS NO DRILL ! 100 years of congressional efforts to limit corporate spending... more

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Senator Ted Kennedy dies at 77

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate and haunted bearer of the... more

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RFK, Jr. on “How to end America’s deadly coal addiction … practically overnight” th

Converting rapidly from coal-generated energy to gas is President Barack Obama’s... more

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Part 3: Hoax or History? 'A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File'

The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File (SK) was an underground cultural phenomenon of... more

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Part 2: Hoax or History? 'A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File'

The Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File (SK) was an underground cultural phenomenon of... more

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Hoax or History? 'A Skeleton Key to the Gemstone File'

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Mindless Menace of Violence

by Robert F. Kennedy April 1968. Our Senator has spoken, heed his words and rise... more

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An Open Letter to an Assassin

Your bullet brought down a man. Your bullet ended a life. Your bullet gave birth to a... more

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RFK/Kanye West Remix!

Robert F. Kennedy's historic "Day of Affirmation" speech mixed with... more

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Triborough Bridge Becomes RFK Bridge

Drivers in New York City won't be taking the Triborough Bridge anymore.... more

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RFK predicted a black president by 2008 (40 years ago!)

Tim Russert reports that RFK predicted we would have a black President by 2008.

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The '68 / '08 parallel in demand for change.

We are living in an age that parallels forty years prior. There is an unpopular war,... more

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Campaign Update 05/27/08

Obama stockpiles superdelegates, Libertarians pick a candidate to lead the absence of... more

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Marilyn Monroe sex tape unearthed

A long-buried FBI-classified sex tape of Marilyn Monroe, which appears to have been... more

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