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AP reporter lives in Wingnut World
ecthompsonmd April 20, 2010

An April 15, 2010 front-page headline in the local Gannett newspaper, the Asheville (NC) Citizen-Times, caught my eye: “Obama, other Democrats battered in poll.” The story was by Associated Press reporter Liz Sidoti, who is so biased by her inside-the-beltway mentality that she apparently doesn’t understand the difference between “what people are saying” and “what is demonstrably, empirically true” (i.e., facts). The story begins “WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s national standing has slipped to a new low after his victory on the historic health care overhaul, even in the face of growing signs of economic revival, according to the latest Associated

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Health Care Reform: The Morning After
ecthompsonmd March 26, 2010

I’m extremely pleased to have Barbara O’Brien, who has written on many progressive blogs (Crooks and Liars, Mahablog and AlterNet), offer to post on mine. I’m thrilled. Enjoy – Many politicians and pundits warned us that the health care reform (HCR) legislation that just became law will destroy America. Government bureaucrats will take over health care decisions, we were told. The old and infirm would be hauled away by death panels. Everything about the way we receive our medical care will change, and change drastically, they said. Medicare recipients have been frightened by stories that their benefits will be cut. Middle-age

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Women, please step to the back of the bus. "Thanks," says Ohio state representative!
ecthompsonmd July 23, 2009

I continue to be amazed at how some in our society beleive that women are no more than birthing machines. From TP: State Rep. John Adams (R-OH) has re-introduced radical legislation that would prevent a woman from having an abortion until she gets written consent from the biological father. As proposed, the bill triggers criminal penalties against women for “providing a false biological father.” Adams says the “first-degree misdemeanor” would be punishable with up to “six months” in jail and a “$1,000 fine.” Labeled by Adams as a “father’s right bill,” the lawmaker would give men the final say on abortion

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