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The Ten Worst Nightmares Bush Inflicted on America

Juan Cole, Informed Comment. December 22, 2009. [453 e-mails sent]
Here are my picks for the top ten worst things about the wretched period, which will continue to follow us until citizens stand up to fix them.

10 Greediest People of 2009

Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality. December 22, 2009. [314 e-mails sent]
As ordinary Americans reel from the Great Recession, these gluttonous all-stars continue to claw in absurd amounts of money.

Is Obama's Problem That He Just Doesn't Want to Deal with Conflict?

Drew Westen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [231 e-mails sent]
Somehow Obama has managed to turn a base of new and progressive voters he himself energized in 2008 into the likely stay-at-home voters of 2010.

Moyers, Moore and Maddow are the Most Influential Progressives

Don Hazen, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [207 e-mails sent]
Recently we asked our readers to rank the most influential progressives. Here are the results.

Christian Story of Jesus's Birth Is a Myth Born of Politics

Rev. Howard Bess, Consortium News. December 23, 2009. [174 e-mails sent]
Beautiful as it is, the story of the birth of Jesus is a myth born of the political needs of early Christians.

Al Franken's Anti-Rape Amendment Passes, Infuriating Several (Male) Republicans

Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [147 e-mails sent]
Franken's measure passed, 68 to 30.

Can We Rescue the Republic Before the Dark Politics Take Over?

Kirk Nielsen, Miller-McCune.com. December 25, 2009. [143 e-mails sent]
Books by Chris Hedges, Thom Hartmann and Cass Sunstein suggest that we've nearly lost our sense of self-government. None show the way to get it back.

Glenn Beck's Year of Wild Conspiracies, Paranoid Delusions and Cynical Lies

* Staff, Media Matters for America. December 22, 2009. [138 e-mails sent]
Beck's unbridled ignorance and confidence in his own manipulative half-truths and lies make him the most dangerously effective misinformer of 2009.

The "Slow Money" Movement May Revolutionize the Way You Think About Food

Kari Lydersen, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [114 e-mails sent]
In an economy structured around industrial agriculture, sustaining small farms can be a challenge. 'Slow money' economics could be the answer.

Hordes of Angry Activists and a $27 Billion Court Case Is Making Oil Giant Chevron Pretty Nervous

Peter Asmus, East Bay Express. December 24, 2009. [100 e-mails sent]
A dozen nonprofits are going right after the company's greed, and the outcome will likely have repercussions in the oil industry for years to come.

I Volunteered For Obama in 2008, But His Support of Landmines Is the Last Straw

Clancy Sigal, Comment Is Free. December 24, 2009. [94 e-mails sent]
Obama's cruel and pointless refusal to ban child-killing landmines was my personal breaking point against the candidate I worked hard to elect.

How Wall Street Bought Barney Frank

Kevin Connor, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [92 e-mails sent]
Barney Frank takes pride in being the Left's darling, but he's almost entirely funded by Wall Street and his votes show it.

This Is Your Brain on Kafka

Tom Jacobs, Miller-McCune.com. December 22, 2009. [54 e-mails sent]
Does absurdist literature make you smarter? Giraffe carpet cleaner, it does!

New Year's Resolutions To Help Make Corporate Fat Cats and Our Politicians Human Again

Jim Hightower, AlterNet. December 26, 2009. [50 e-mails sent]
I was working on my list of New Year's resolutions when it occurred to me that some of the people running our country could benefit from my suggestions.

Top 10 Ethics Scandals of 2009

CREW Staff, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. December 24, 2009. [46 e-mails sent]
Madoff, Sanford and Murtha are just a few who made it onto the top 10 list of the nation's most ethically challenged players of the year.

What's Wrong With the Healthcare Bill? Ask a Nurse.

John Nichols, TheNation.comAlterNet: Politics. December 22, 2009. [42 e-mails sent]
"If this bill passes, the industry will become more powerful and could be beyond the reach of reform for generations."

War Vet: I Served 40 Months in Iraq, After Which I Didn't Want to Go Back Home

Anonymous, New America Media. December 24, 2009. [42 e-mails sent]
Veteran with PTSD: "I don't feel comfortable at home anymore. My threat tolerance and response to perceived threats is so finely tuned that I felt safer in Iraq. "

How Real Health Reform Was Killed by Politicians Trying to Look 'Moderate'

James Ridgeway, CounterPunch. December 23, 2009. [40 e-mails sent]
'Moderation' has come to mean weighing the interests of campaign contributors -- Big Pharma vs. the insurance companies -- with little concern for the American people.

3 Reasons Why Progressives Are So Frustrated

Chris Bowers, Open LeftAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [39 e-mails sent]
Really, it's pretty simple.

In (Very Reluctant) "Defense" of the Insurance Mandate

Joshua Holland, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 23, 2009. [37 e-mails sent]
Can we just have a reality-based discussion of the policy?

Hey, Dr. Dean, President Obama: It's Time to Get Real with Progressives

Harold Pollack, AlterNet. December 22, 2009. [34 e-mails sent]
We can all agree that the Senate health care bill is far from perfect. What now?

Why Men Fake Orgasms

Elizabeth Black, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [30 e-mails sent]
Many women would be surprised to learn that men often fake orgasms. But why? Our limited, patriarchal view of sexuality, of course.

Video: New Ad Takes Obama to Task for Ditching Public Option

AlterNet Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: Video. December 23, 2009. [30 e-mails sent]
The Progressive Change Campaign Committee is hitting the president hard -- with his own words -- for backing a health-care bill with a mandate and no public option.

Will Dur$t's Xma$ Gift Wi$h Li$t

Will Durst, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [30 e-mails sent]
These are the presents that folks may not receive wrapped up with bows but certainly deserve: for Joe Lieberman, a diamond-studded collar to befit his position as GOP lap dog.

How Goldman Secretly Bet on the U.S. Housing Crash

Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: Corporate Accountability and WorkPlace. December 25, 2009. [29 e-mails sent]
Only later did investors in $40 billion in securities discover that what Goldman had promoted as triple-A rated investments were closer to junk.

Obama's Af-Pak War is Not Just Deadly and Counterproductive: It's Illegal

Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet. December 23, 2009. [26 e-mails sent]
Some 30 percent of all U.S. deaths in Afghanistan have occurred during Obama's presidency. His escalation of that war is not what the Nobel committee envisioned.

Why Our System Doesn't Work

Steve Benen, Washington MonthlyAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [25 e-mails sent]
The passage of health reform is a revelation of just how desperately change is needed and how difficult it will be to achieve.

Sorry, O'Reilly. Christians started the "War on Christmas"... in the 16th Century

Bruce Wilson, AlterNetAlterNet: Politics. December 25, 2009. [25 e-mails sent]
Protestants banned Christmas in Scotland for 4 centuries.

Will Our 'Green Jobs' Dollars Help a Ritzy Car Company Open a Toxic Manufacturing Plant?

Seth Sandronsky, AlterNet. December 26, 2009. [22 e-mails sent]
Tesla makes a sleek electric roadster at $110,000. A new model's generating buzz, but one possible manufacturing site's haunted by ghosts of the old economy.

If We Don't Fix the Senate's Miserable Health Bill, the Repercussions Could Last for Decades

Arianna Huffington, Huffington Post. December 24, 2009. [21 e-mails sent]
Calling the Senate's health bill a "awesome achievement" like Paul Krugman did is to encourage the preservation of a hideously broken system.

Hey Progressives, the Health Care Fight Is Still On: Time to Push Back

Katrina Vanden Heuvel, TheNation.comAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [20 e-mails sent]
We're in the midst of a defining moment in the health care debate. Now's not the time to let up pressure.

Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" Actually Contains a Powerful Message About Post-Katrina New Orleans

Melissa Harris-Lacewell, TheNation.comAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [20 e-mails sent]
The film, which features Disney's first African-American princess, supplies admirable political allegory.

Rep. Keith Ellison: Public Option Still Possible If We Get Loud

AlterNet Staff, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 25, 2009. [20 e-mails sent]
Ellison still fighting.

Mexico City Becomes the First Latin American City to Approve a Gay Marriage Law

Steven D., Booman TribuneAlterNet: Reproductive Justice and Gender. December 22, 2009. [19 e-mails sent]
Lawmakers approved the bill yesterday by a vote of 39-20.

Powerful House Rep. Slaughter: Senate Went off the Rails and Passed a Weak Health Care Bill

Rep. Louise Slaughter, AlterNet. December 24, 2009. [19 e-mails sent]
Supporters of the weak Senate bill say "just pass it -- any bill is better than no bill." I strongly disagree.

Gay GOP Group Co-Sponsors Conservative Political Conference, But Not Allowed to Speak at It

Matt Corley, Think ProgressAlterNet: PEEK. December 24, 2009. [18 e-mails sent]
Really, why are there still gays in the GOP?

The Media Industry's Whirlwind Transformation in the 2000's: Good-News, Bad-News

Rory O'Connor, MediaChannel.org. December 22, 2009. [17 e-mails sent]
For the media industry, it was a decade of disruption and decay, of death (newspapers) and birth (new forms of journalism.)

Thanks to Dems' Pussyfooting, Health Industry Stocks Shoot Skyward

Byard Duncan, AlterNetAlterNet: PEEK. December 22, 2009. [17 e-mails sent]
The bump does not appear to be indicative of broader economic improvement.

They're Building Nuclear Missile Parts in Woodstock? You Can't Escape America's War Economy

CounterPunch. December 22, 2009. [16 e-mails sent]
The New York small town has a worldwide association with peace, yet its largest employer has been making components for nuclear missiles for six decades.

What Does College Football Have to Do With Abortion? Tons, According to Anti-Choice Wingnuts

Amanda Marcotte, RH Reality CheckAlterNet: PEEK. December 23, 2009. [16 e-mails sent]
The brouhaha over Notre Dame is an opportunity for the right to wage war on women, intellectuals and sexual freedom all at once.

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