Archive for February 2nd, 2011

February 3 — Call Beau Biden to Demand Tougher Penalties for Mortgage Fraud (EDIT)

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If you’ve been following the foreclosure mess, you know that last year, with promises by some AGs that people would go to jail. That effort into large scale investigations seems to be dead in the water, while banks remain free to continue their bad practices.

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Earth-like Planets? Yes. Earth-like Life? Almost Certainly

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These days when we have a whole political party that is openly hostile to science, and a decent faction of the nation’s population that is antagonistic to reason and rationality, it is nice when a hard science story breaks through the noise. Especially nice when the story is inherently hopeful and guiless in it’s sci-fi […]

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ACA Repeal Stunt Amendment Fails in Senate Tonight

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The GOP brought up their amendment to repeal the ACA on a bill meant to reauthorize the FAA. It failed pretty spectacularly — largely because the GOP amendment didn’t propose a way to *pay* the $1+ trillion cost of repeal.

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Not Sure What To Make Of This

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Yesterday, my 13 year old daughter told me she had deleted her Facebook account.  When I asked her why, she said… It was taking up too much of her time and, while she’d miss it, Facebook was pretty lame. Needless to say, I was surprised.  I check her FaceBook account several times a week – […]

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Wednesday Open Thread

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The Wednesday edition of your semi-daily open thread.

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The GOP Healthcare Plan – “Race To The Bottom”

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Publius at The Fourth Branch explains the Republican health care plan as “a race to the bottom.”

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Criminal Organization Releases Planned Parenthood Video

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Live Action, who claims to be an anti-abortion group but admitted to running a prostitution ring to at least 12 Planned Parenthood workers, released a video yesterday,

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