Friday finds

Written by: Gerry Lykins on Nov 6, 2009 8:38 AM EST

Friday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ November 6th, 2009

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Sen. George McGovern on the Presidency From Lincoln to Obama

George McGovern has been a witness to history, as both a scholar and the first senator to oppose the Vietnam War. At a recent Truthdig event, he shared his insight into past and current events, from Lincoln’s greatest accomplishment to the war in Afghanistan.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091106_sen_george_mcgovern_on_the_presidency_from_lincoln_to_obama/?ln

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Obama Faces His Anzio

By PAUL KRUGMAN

Remember those Republican boasts that they would turn health care into President Obama’s Waterloo? Well, exit polls suggest that to the extent that health care was an issue in Tuesday’s elections, it worked in Democrats’ favor. But while health care won’t be Mr. Obama’s Waterloo, economic policy is starting to look like his Anzio.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/opinion/06krugman.html?hp

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Time to Rally for Financial Reform

by Danny Schechter

To paraphrase Marat-Sade: ‘the Election came,  and the election went, and unrest turned back into discontent.'   

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/05-4

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Keep the Government Out of the News Business

By Bill Boyarsky —

I’ve been thinking of I.F. Stone while reading the growing stack of reports and essays giving recommendations on how to save the declining news business. The outrageous solution increasingly favored by the journalism establishment is one that Stone would have hated—turning to Washington for help.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091105_keep_the_government_out_of_the_news_business/

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Health care bill's supporters, opponents flock to Capitol

By David Lightman | McClatchy Newspapers

Gene Otto left his Olympia, Wash., bakery for a day, flew across the country to the nation's capital and told four members of Congress why it's important that they overhaul America's health care system. » read more

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/226/story/78433.html

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