New Scientific Studies Make the Case for the Marine Life Protection Act

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here are a few of the stories that are on that web site ...very revealing.more
Obama Will Win Health Care Political Theater: Then What?

By Randy Shaw
It’s a safe bet that President Obama will run intellectual circles around Congressional Republicans at today’s televised health care forum, as nobody does political theater better than Barack Obama. From his acclaimed speech on race




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Does Your Insurance Company Want You To Die?

J.G. Preston
Protect Consumer Justice
“My best guess is that they want me dead as soon as possible….They know that the premiums I pay will never cover how much they’ll spend on me.”

Those were the words of Bob Iritano in a conversation with Los Angeles Times business columnist David Lazarus. Iritano has terminal cancer, and Lazarus went on to write about how Iritano’s health insurer, Health Net, decided not to cover the treatment that could extend his life.







Meg's California

By Robert Cruickshank
Meg Whitman is a master of slick campaigning. Her feel good radio and TV ads are designed to make her seem like a moderate, pragmatic person who will help cure what ails California. Just today she launched her second TV ad, one in which the word "Republican" is never mentioned.
When it comes to the #1 task our next governor will face - solving the budget crisis - she is offering a continuation of Arnold Schwarzenegger's slash-and-burn cuts. But you wouldn't know that from Whitman's ads. She doesn't make reference to her refusal to embrace new revenues to save popular and