To have or not have – a public option. That is the question still to be determined as Senate negotiators work to formulate one health care reform bill. The more appropriate question might be what type of public option. Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid attempts to merge two vastly different pieces of health care legislation. He must create a product that appeals to 60 Senators in order for it to pass. The devil will be in the details
According to a report published in the British press today, the Italian secret service was paying off Taliban forces not to attack their troops in the Sarobi district of Afghanistan. Ten French soldiers died last year after failing to understand the risk in the area. The French forces thought they were taking control a relatively quiet part of the country. The Times claims this was because Italy’s secret service had been secretly paying local Taliban leaders in order to keep violence down.
After Sunday’s comments from the White House communications director that FOX is the “arm of the Republican party,” the debate of how biased or unbiased journalist should be has been brought back to the spotlight.
The global economic crisis has a devastating effect for the world’s undernourished. The sharp spike in hunger triggered by the global economic crisis has hit the poorest people in developing countries hardest, revealing a fragile world food system in urgent need of reform, according to a report released today by the Food & Agriculture Organization [...]
It should be now increasingly clear for French people that President Nicolas Sarkozy is constantly overreaching at the edge or even outside the legal boundaries of his public office in order to satisfy his insatiable quest for power and financial gains for himself, his political allies, and of course the members of his own family. [...]
