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‘They Want to Kill You; They Want to Kill Me; They Want to Kill Our Families’

By | 08.21.09 | 12:34 pm

“They want to kill you; they want to kill me; they want to kill our families,” said the chief steward for the union representing workers at Standish Maximum Correctional Facility in Standish, Mich., referring to Guantanamo Bay detainees. The steward, Tom Kerrins, spoke at a “town hall” meeting

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Tort Reform Unlikely to Cut Health Care Costs

By | 08.19.09 | 6:00 am

Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is “socialist” or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice “defensive medicine” that’s costly and More…

McCain Fakes Out Audience, Doesn’t Take Questions

By | 10.13.08 | 4:30 pm

WILMINGTON, N.C. — The sight of a troubling sign on the way to Sen. John McCain’s stop here at Cape Fear Community College didn’t presage an eventful rally — sort of.

The event was much smaller than the morning rally in Virginia Beach, where McCain and Alaska More…