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A recent Gallup poll gave Obama a 47% disapproval rating on his handling of the continuing oil spill. An ABC poll gave the federal government a 69% negative rating of the federal government's response--even lower than their Katrina response, but not as low as BP's response to the oil spill...

After the Congressional Budget Office's report of the biggest deficit reduction yet from any of the proposed health care bills, the economic decision on the vote comes down to killing one of two things: The deficit, or the bill. The vote before Congress will be yes-or-no, one-and-only-one of...

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The Democrats have come out in protest of the decision, whereas Republicans have generally supported it. Those in Congress, that is. Which leaves the GOP in an interesting catch-22: Recant their comments and be branded as flip-floppers come election day, or stand against a 76-21 majority that...

Please, man! You're running this country into the ground! Jobs are disappearing by the thousands! We're all going to be beggars on the streets! No jobs except for government bureaucrats! It's going to...wait, what? What was that? Oh. Never mind. Looks like we're on some kind of road to...

Landmark health insurance bill passes House - Health care reform- msnbc.com Final vote was 220-215. The bill goes to the Senate now.

Don't let the youtube clip's title sway you; judge for yourself: Does Bill O'Reilly support the public option?

Poll Finds Most Doctors Support Public Option : NPR

I report, you decide: Source: ThinkProgress (Note: This is not a thread about health care proposals. This is a thread about MEDIA COVERAGE of health care proposals.)

Anyone ever play this game? The goal is to describe a word without using other specific words or parts of those words. For example, the word might be "baseball," and you can say anything you want except "sport," "pastime," "bat, pitcher," or "catcher." And of course, you can't say "baseball"...

I am going to compile a list of claims about the proposed healthcare plans in Congress. They are sorted first by whether the person or source is a Democrat/liberal or a Republican/conservative, and then by the validity of each claim. Flip-flops are not included here, because while they could be...

(Link) I have just about grown to the point where anything a conservative politician says about healthcare is false until proven true. It's simply unbelievable. The misinformation on healthcare is piling up about as fast as rational people can find the lies and refute them. And I don't...

FactCheck.org: Canadian Straw Man Though I, like President Obama, welcome the opportunity for debating what would work and what would not work in a healthcare overhaul, I continue to wonder why its opponents choose to not tell the truth. :scratch:

Let's pretend that it's November 2012, and the presidential candidates are Barack Obama and Sarah Palin. Who would get your vote, and why?

Should the practice of religious snake-handling be illegal?

What is your definition of torture? When is torture, according to your definition, morally acceptable? When is torture, according to the United Nations Convention Against Torture, morally acceptable?

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One of the particular proposals that the recently-passed stimulus package is likely to create, is a MAGLEV high-speed rail line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. MAGLEV stands for "magnetic levitation," which refers to how the train operates: Magnets both suspend the train above the tracks and...

For the sake of this argument, let's assume that the Sixth Commandment reads, "Thou shalt not murder." Besides all the many horrors that war inevitably causes, one that I think gets overlooked is that it creates an environment that condones people murdering humans. I'm not referring to...

I have found it interesting that within such a common faith, such opposing positions exist on political matters. Some Christians believe that we should protect God's creation; others believe that we should exploit it. Some believe that it is our duty to help the poor; others believe that they...