Journalist and Health Care Advocate Maggie Mahar has a new book and documentary out titled "Money-Driven Medicine: The Real Reason Heal...

As I posted previously, I've been running a contest in honor of this humble but lovable blog's birthday, and now I am happy to anno...

For a woman named Beth, a single mother of two, the so-called Health Care debate is not about politics of the Right or the Left, or the endl...

Here's a brief round-up of new and blog reports which stand out to me - some are stories which should get more attention, and perhaps so...

Separating fact from fiction when it comes to political debate is far more of a massive dredging operation than, say, merely sifting one fr...

While it might seem odd to some to follow-up this weekend's movie post about revisionist history with a story about our real political w...

As Lt. Aldo Raine, Brad Pitt southern-drawls his commands, telling his squad he ain't very happy he had to leave his home in the Smoky M...

You still have time to enter to win a set of six great new movie posters from classic Hollywood courtesy of Turner Classic Movies -- I have ...

Just when I thought I had all I could stomach from the deeply ill-informed lunacy from folks who think changing the way health insurance ope...

Via The Week magazine, this article by Robert Shrum: "Opening an Atlantic front in their summer campaign of lies, conservative opponent...

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” Mark Twain ...

Please read through the two following blog posts on the debate (or lack of it via Our Modern Media, which instead aims their cameras at trai...

Elvis Presley, John Wayne, Gene Hackman, Sidney Poitier, Peter Sellers, Frank Sinatra, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn are all working together ...